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

[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.

[jbenavides]

Hello,

We are glad to know the upgrade helped improve the boot times. We are committed to delivering the best possible experience to customers and would like to thank you for all your feedback.

Airbrushkid, here are some quick instructions to update the firmware of your Intel® SSD 750 Series using ISDCT in Windows*.

- Download and install the latest version of https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/23931/Intel-Solid-State-Drive-Data-Center-Tool Intel® Solid-State Drive Data Center Tool (currently 2.3.0).

- Open a command prompt with Administrator's privileges (Run as administrator), then navigate to the directory where ISDCT was installed. The default folder is C:\isdct\

- Find the Index number for your SSD with the command: isdct show -intelssd

- Once you identified your SSD, run the load command to update the firmware: isdct load -intelssd X (Where X is the index number of your SSD)

You can find details about ISDCT commands in the https://downloadcenter.intel.com/downloads/eula/23931/Intel-Solid-State-Drive-Data-Center-Tool?httpD... Intel® SSD Data Center Tool 2.3.x User Guide.

Note: The new firmware will also be available in upcoming versions of Intel® SSD Toolbox and Intel® FUT.

[MFlin]

Your Windows looks alot different then mine. What you running 8.1? I'm running 7 ulta.