OCZ Agility 3 60Gb SSD Really Slow Boot Up Times!

[madbro]

I have got an ocz agility 3 60Gb SSD, Also I have got an AMD

AMD Phenom II X6 Six Core 1100T Black Edition 3.30GHz + 4GB Ram what will soon be 12Gb when it comes also I have got an ASUS M4A88T-M motherboard.I have install my Windows 7 in AHCI mode and I made sure my 1TB HHD was not plug into my motherboard at the time. From the moment I press the power to turn it on it takes around 40 - 50 seconds to boot into Windows when I come to power off my system it takes around 3 -5 seconds. I have got an Sata 2 Motherboard and when I bench market it I was getting half of what I should be getting. I have included a print screen of the results. >>>> http://www.upload.ee/image/1509793/Untitled.png <<<<

I have install another OS on to my 1TB HHD to update my SSD and now I have got the latest firmware 2.09. I used to OCZ exe update tool. Some people have told me before to do things in the BISO and it has not made any difference.

Can anyone help me out?

 

[S_I_N]

have you tweaked it (the opsys) for ssd yet??? there are a few little things that I tweak every install for win7 and then more for ssd's also what all is in your start up tab in msconfig??? alot of programs set themselves to start when you start windows this slows down performance. check that stuff out I'll find my link to win7 and ssd tweaks I use they may help

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/f...273-*-Windows-7-Ultimate-Tweaks-amp-Utilities

 

[madbro]

The SSD only has Win7 on atm until I'm happy with it then I will install my programs onto my HHD. And yes I have done all the tweaks and still made no difference. Could it because your going from Sata 3 to sata 2?

 

[S_I_N]

that can be an issue you will not see sata 3 performance from a sata 2 port as stated in thier specs this is what you should see

Sustained Sequential Read

up to 525 MB/s (SATA 6Gbps)

up to 280 MB/s (SATA 3Gbps)

Sustained Sequential Write

up to 475 MB/s (SATA 6Gbps)

up to 260 MB/s (SATA 3Gbps)

as you can see its not exactly half the performance but it is significantly less than sata 3

 

[madbro]

So if I got an Sata 3 motherbaord will my Boot time of my systeam be alot quicker?

 

[S_I_N]

you would defiantly see an overall performance increase. But before you go out and do that from what point are you counting your boot time?? from power on?? or just after bios posting??? Speed is considered post bios posting so clock from that point not button push lol aslo run crystal disk mark and see if your getting the rated speed for sata 2 if not it may be a defective ssd. I'd trouble shoot before jumping the gun

 

[madbro]

Hi

I'm timering it from the moment I turn on the PC, After the BISO test it takes around 19 secounds to go to my destop. What would you recommend? mate

 

[S_I_N]

19 secs isnt that bad lol keep this in mind BIOS posting is the first thing the computer does in this process it sees what hdd's ssd's you have installed so in fact the ssd in question here is NOT in use yet. so has no effect on the BOOT TIME. BOOT TIME begins post bios and post raid or other controllers doing their thing. If it was the way ur measuring I'd of gone crazy long before now as my Crosshair Extreme (and formula did as well) has like a 5 second delay before I hear the post beep then its about another 20seconds (seems like haven't timed) before it gets past the raid screen and actually starts loading windows.

also ssd's are not just about loading windows faster hehehe its about overall program speeding up its loading as well And just general overall snappiness to your computer