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

[idata]

Good morning, Jonathan! Still, it's a very interesting question why initializing PCI-E devices takes longer than SATA? Is PCI-E should not be closer to the CPU and activated faster than SATA?

I remember was RAIDR Express PCIe SSD in a release said that uefi mode, it must be initialized on a par with the HDD, perform run faster. It's just a publicity stunt?

https://www.asus.com/ru/Optical-Drives-Storage/RAIDR_Express_PCIe_SSD/ https://www.asus.com/ru/Optical-Drives-Storage/RAIDR_Express_PCIe_SSD/ Or SATA really starts to take place earlier than the initialization of PCI-E devices.

[idata]

But what is most interesting or when Intel does not result in a graph indicates the improvement of))).

[jbenavides]

Hello XORROR,

I am not familiar with the RAIDR Express SSD, so I could not refer to its capabilities and the tests advertised for that drive. However, it makes sense that a system using a PCIe (NVMe or other) would boot faster than a computer using a standard HDD.

The Intel® SSD 750 is designed according to NVMe* standards, which can be found in the website: http://www.nvmexpress.org/ NVM Express

The measured/tested performance of the Intel® SSD 750 is available in page 8 of the http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/product-specifications/ssd-750-spec.pdf Product Specification:

[idata]

Hi Jonathan!

I'm not exactly what I meant, I'm interested in the result of discussion threads about this, as it was time to load, and how much was the new version of the firmware, there must be some kind of standard (PC system) at which the test? And what will get results.

[jbenavides]

Hello XORROR,

We do not handle a specific time to boot, since it depends a lot on other factors and system components, not only on the SSD.

In my opinion, the best source for this type of data would be other users from the community, for example, Matrix_Leader reported a 7 second improvement from the moment the system shows the Windows Loading icon (from 15 seconds to 8 seconds).