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 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.

[PHans4]

Airbrushkid as Jonathan said you need to navigate to the folder where isdct is installed, so when you are in C:\Windows\System32 type the following command: cd \isdct

Then you can follow the rest of what has been written above, and yes, those pictures are from Windows 10, where they added the convenient ability of opening a command prompt in a specific folder.

[MFlin]

Thank you for that. I did the update and then rebooted. But windows wouldn't load! I had to do a start up repair from my USB thumb drive. Got computer back and running. I went into Intel SSD Toolbox. It show the firmware was updated. But yes but. Drive Health and Estimated Life Remaining show nothing. Why?

[jbenavides]

Hello Airbrushkid,

It is good to know you were able to update the firmware. Please make sure you are using the current version of https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/18455/Intel-Solid-State-Drive-Toolbox Intel® SSD Toolbox, version 3.3.1 contains corrections for the Health reporting of NVMe* drives.