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

[EEsca1]

Hi Jonathan. Thanks for the quick reply. I look forward to the updates you mentioned, and to seeing the potential of this drive fully realized in the upcoming months.

As for the ISDCT, I tried your steps but unfortunately the setup installer does not provide an option to customize the installation folder at all. It automatically installs to C:\isdct.

[AP16]

It is safe to move isdct folder, tool will work from different place too.

[jbenavides]

Hello,

Sorry for the confusion, the installer does not allow the selection of a custom folder during installation. As JFFulcrum mentioned, the tool will work if the folder is moved to another location, however, keep in mind that the installer creates an entry in the Windows* installed programs and the files need to be in the default folder in case you want to uninstall it. Intel does not recommend/support moving the ISDCT files to a different location.

Regarding the improvement in boot time, the driver upgrade is meant to provide an overall improvement until the OS is fully loaded. Please take into consideration that Intel does not control the OS booting process and other hardware initialization, so we are not able to provide a specific improvement rate.

We are checking about the Health reporting in Intel® SSD toolbox after the firmware update, in a related thread, other users have been able to get the drive information by clicking and selecting other drives in the tool, then go back and click on C:\

[RPras2]

Hello jonathan

i am unable to use the command isdct command on Ubuntu 14.04 system.i had downloaded data center tool from intel website and installed "isdct-2.3.0.400-13.x86_64.rpm" still it is giving error

testusr@testpc-2:~$ sudo isdct show –intelssd

[sudo] password for testusr:

Syntax Error: Invalid command. Error at or around '–intelssd'.

Did you mean:

show [-help|-h] [-display|-d (Property1,...)] [-all|-a] [-output|-o (text|nvmxml|json)] -system

show [-help|-h] [-display|-d (Property1,...)] [-all|-a] [-output|-o (text|nvmxml|json)] -sensor [-intelssd [(device index)]] [id = (token ID)]

show [-help|-h] [-display|-d (Property1,...)] [-all|-a] [-output|-o (text|nvmxml|json)] -intelssd [(device index)].

what could be the possible reason for failure of commands.

Thanks

Rajnikant

[AP16]

I have no deals with Ubuntu for some years, but how you installed a rpm package? With help of Alien tool? Generally, for Ubuntu you need a .deb format package.