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

[MLead]

Stay away from anything from Samsung and stay away from any SSD that uses TLC NAND memory as TLC NAND is known to cause trouble (not immediately, but on older files) and doesn't have consistent performance; as in, if you benchmark it today then use it for a few days then benchmark again, you will notice the performance drop down drastically.

My recommendations form owning every SSD out there since 6 years is as follows and in the following order:

1) SanDisk Extreme PRO (not UIltra but PRO only as the PRO is MLC and the Ultra is TLC garbage)

2) OCZ Vector 180 (MLC SSD)

3) OCZ ARC 100 (also MLC but slightly lower performance than the Vector 180)

4) Crucial MX100 (very cheap yet very decent and consistent performance, stay away from the MX200 line as they have their problems too)

[idata]

Many prefer plextor SSD, what do you think about them? Series Pro?

[JJohn62]

Based on their reputation, I bought and used Plextor Pro SSDs in 2 PCs, and had data corruption issues. My suspicion was that the Plextors were the cause, but I was unable to prove this. I swapped them out for Samsung 850 Pros, and have been very happy with the Samsungs. But Matrix_Leader 's experiences are now making me wonder about Samsung!

[MLead]

XORRORI cannot comment on them as I've never owned any of them.

[MLead]

Check your Samsung 850 PRO firmware, if you are on the original firmware you're good, but if you are on the 2nd firmware your SSD's performance is down by 15% unfortunately. I cannot remember the exact firmware versions since I sold every one of them buggy Samsung SSDs but if you tell me your firmware revision it will bump my memory to tell you if that's the original firmware which was still decent or the newer firmware which crippled the device since more than 6 months and Samsung still haven't released a firmware update to fix that. Just like Intel, these 2 companies do not value or respect their customers who spent 100s of dollars to buy their SSDs.