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

[MFlin]

When I run cmd as admin this is the line I get. C:\Windows\system32 . And when I try C:\isdct>isdct show -intelssd. I get is not recognized as an internal or external command. operable program or batch file.

[JAust1]

It seems the 750 firmware has indeed improved boot times, but the drive still has a ways to go to be as fast as regular Samsung's 950 Pro 512GB SSD:

http://techreport.com/review/29221/samsung-950-pro-512gb-ssd-reviewed/4 Samsung's 950 Pro 512GB SSD reviewed - The Tech Report - Page 4

If samsungs 950 Pro drive is a PCIe drive we can get fast boots from those too. And the slowness is all in the 750s design. I hope future firmwares and products from Intel will bring this gap closer, as we see it is definitely possible!

[EEsca1]

Great find Darkultra.

jonathan, any update on this information? Is the difference in boot speed at DarkUltra's link something that can be fixed by firmware, or is it a hardware limitation? Here's hoping it's the former!

[jbenavides]

Hello,

We will check further about your inquiry and will post updates soon.

[jbenavides]

Hello,

We received additional information about this and would like to inform that even though we are continuously working to improve drivers and firmware for our SSD's, we don't expect major changes in boot times with future firmware releases.

The recent firmware versions took advantage of any significant improvements possible in the firmware, and still maintain our standards for data integrity.

I could not refer to the Samsung SSD 950 Pro, since we do not handle the details of 3rd party products.

Please keep in mind that the Intel® SSD 750 Series is designed to be used in Enthusiast PC's and Workstations, but still keeps most of the data and hardware integrity standards of Data Center drives. The Intel® SSD 750 will perform best once it is fully initialized, and on large, multi-threaded workloads.