Why is the Intel 750 Slow to boot?

[RLaBa1]

Howdy Everyone. Just picked up the Intel 750 1.2TB SSD card. Installed it on my X99 Asus Rampage V board and installed Windows 7 X64 without a problem. However, I am seeing a boot performance issue. This drive is taking about 25 seconds to boot, approximately 13 seconds longer than my Samsung 850 EVO. Did a little Googling on this and apparently, I am not the only one. I have read several reviews and the ones that measure boot time / performance will say this is the slowest SSD to boot. I have provided the link below as an example.

http://techreport.com/review/28050/intel-750-series-solid-state-drive-reviewed/5 Intel's 750 Series solid-state drive reviewed - The Tech Report - Page 5

Intel - Is this going to be fixed in a future firmware release? I wont be able to justify keeping this card if first generation SSD's still outperform in terms of booting.

Thanks,

Randman76

X99 Rampage V

I-7 5960X OC to 4.4 ghz

Corsair Vengeance (4x4GB)

980 GTX-SLI

1200W PSU

[jbenavides]

Hello,

We would like to inform that the https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/23931/Intel-Solid-State-Drive-Data-Center-Tool Intel® Solid-State Drive Data Center Tool contains a firmware update for the Intel® SSD 750, the new firmware improves the Boot time of this drive significantly. Please keep in mind that even with the improvements, the boot time of the Intel® SSD 750 series may take longer than SATA drives, primarily due to how long it takes to initialize PCIe* devices. Once the 750 is in operation, it far exceeds the performance of SATA SSD's.

The 750 Series is an NVMe™ device, meaning it is built from the ground up to take advantage of non-volatile memory (the media of all current SSDs). A prerequisite of using NVMe is that the device must attach Via PCI Express* for increased bandwidth. A combination of NVMe and PCIe allow the 750 Series to offer performance up to 4x faster than SATA.

The new firmware release will also be available in upcoming versions of Intel® SSD Toolbox and Intel® Firmware Update Tool.

[KPete5]

Updated to latest firmware with Data Center Tool. Was quite scary because i've never done it before due to this being my first Intel SSD, but it worked out just fine.

Output after update:

C:\isdct>isdct show -intelssd

- IntelSSD CVCQ512500U1400AGN -

DeviceStatus: Healthy

Firmware: 8EV10171

FirmwareUpdateAvailable: The selected Intel SSD contains current firmware as of this tool release.

ModelNumber: INTEL SSDPEDMW400G4

ProductFamily: Intel SSD 750 Series

SerialNumber: CVCQ512500U1400AGN

Index: 0

DevicePath: \\\\.\\PHYSICALDRIVE0

Bootloader: 8B1B0131

It's a whole lot faster now @ startup. Thanks Intel.

[JMazi1]

Matrix Leader what are your IT credentials?

Owning ssd's that you had a bad experience with isn't creditable at all. I am just wondering who are you to tell people not to buy TLC nand or samsung or intel.

Please tell me you are a engineer or at the very least know exactly how nand works and can write a protocol and know how NVMe works in detail.

If you are not a engineer or base everything on boot times you have no business giving any advice. You can have opinions, which is fine, but that's all it is, it's your opinion.

Thank you for the update intel.

Great drive and thank you for NVME protocol.

[MFlin]

How did you get it to work? I have Data Center Tool installed. But am lost. What it the command you type to get it to update the firmware?

[MLead]

You need to go to the folder where you installed isdct, by default it will be c:\isdct

Then follow the pictures to open an admin command prompt.

When you then have the admin command prompt open and in C:\isdtc> you just need to input the correct command to flash it.

This is the command to list the Intel SSD's connected to your system: isdct show -intelssd

To update the firmware of an eligable SSD type: isdct load -intelssd 0

Updating the SSD with controller index "0" replace "0" with the eligible number shown with the "-list" command previously that should have shown that an update is available.

Reboot once the firmware update has been done.