M18x Boot-Up Speed Thread.

Here's my M4 256GB:

 

for the vertex 3 owners, make sure your on 2.11 because there where some slowdowns to the firmwares after 2.02

 

2.11 slowed down my agility 3's to 870mb max read.(raid 0) they use to run 1054mb

 

how many drives do you run on raid? 4?


Anyway final fantasy 11 still has 4 hours to go till its done updating and I am also downloading games on steam so this bench will not be accurate still here it is:

 

those numbers look real nice!

only running two drives in raid 0

 

Thanks and right back at ya, I had 4 agility 2 drives and they did not even touch one vertex 3 max iops drive. So your raid sounds above average!

 

my raid is running slow, if you ask me.

vertex 256gb first gen


vertex3 mi


with 2.11 update
agility 3 raid 0


agility 3 raid 0

 

I went from 2.02 to 2.11 and my speed remained constant.

I do know that pre 2.09 the drives slowed down but if you look up the changes on the ocz site they fixed it.

 

if you have hdtune laying around...would like to see what you top off at.
as you see...i ran mine while i was on here typing since it wasn't going to get any better after the fir 30 gb tested.

yep, been over there looking around.

also, i do like this drive allot better than my m4. gotta love microcenter and price matching!

 

What I am curious is what speed this raid will stabilize at. I am assuming that it will keep on dropping without TRIM but the on board Garbage Collection should help balance it out.

 

you got me there.
it use to top off like that before...but at above 1000+

 

That and getting on the habbit of low level formating once a year is no big deal if we need to....

 

The format once or twice a year does not bother me I just hope that my benches stay at the 1gig/sec mark

Today I copied a 250 gig file and the copy popup screen did not even show up! I am addicted to this speed!

 

I am using microsoft native sata drivers not intel RST maybe that's why is a little slow but I don't want unstability of RST

 

You won't have any issues if you grab the latest version of RST. The version that AW comes with is no good.

 

Thanks oni

 

This is mine, I can probably shave off 1-2 seconds when I remove everything from the startup, but I can't compete with the Vertex 3 MaxIops Raid 0

 

Vertex 3 MaxIops is insane , wonder how much they cost now and sell off my c300.

 

239.99 free shipping and no taxes on newegg

Newegg.com - OCZ Vertex 3 Series – MAX IOPS Edition VTX3MI-25SAT3-120G 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

 

I want the 256gb , but the price is killing me ha!

 

I called Newegg and even know these SATA3 SSD drives are non refundable, they are willing to take them back.... that said, I'm probably going to keep the 510 Raid, I'm very happy with it and although the writes are a good 40% slower than Sandforce, the reads are right up there and we're doing reading mostly.... Also it will be nice to see the performance moving forward to see which drives do a better job with GC.... anyways I have two weeks to react to the RMA.... We'll see, I'd hate to swap them and be one of the ones that have a nightmare experience with Sandforce... Greed always comes back to hunt

 

Yeah your drives rock too so if you cannot return them don't worry about it. They perform great and like you said the reads are whats important.

 

What you think of this?

NCIX.com - Buy OCZ Vertex 3 Max Iops 240GB 2.5IN SATA3 6Gbps Sandforce SF-2281 Solid State Disk Flash Drive SSD - OCZ Technology - VTX3MI-25SAT3-240G - in Canada

 

AAggghhh, what the heck? I tried this boot timer on both my desktop and M18x, it says reboot when I execute it, it shuts down but nothing pops up on my screen when it restarts?? WTH?? I have NO antivirus programs running or anything. What the heck am I doing wrong?

 

When click the program , try un-check "Always ask before open this file"

 

crap, I thought you were onto something. I tried it twice and it still does not come up. It reboots it but thats all it does.

 

With no tweaks at all (no RAID 0 etc...), what could I expect my boot time to be with the Crucial M4 128gb (with or without the new 009 firmware)? I just bought one for $149.99.

 

9-12 seconds is my guess

 

Wow, I was thinking it would be more around 20 seconds. I heard talk of some SSD boot times being around the 20-30 second range, but I'm very inexperienced in this area so I may have just heard wrong.

 

Have you seen the reported times in this thread? Very eye opening. My M4 is also very fast, if you blink it seems you miss the bootup. This is why I want to test mine but its not working for me.

 

The boot times in this thread are very impressive, but I noticed that most of them were either running in Raid 0 or the Vertex. Very glad to hear that the M4 has the same potential.

 

OK, so for me I just got it to work by right clicking the file and run as administrator. Did anyone else have to do that?

My time was a measly 12.77 seconds. lol. I'm running stock dell clone on my M4 and its aligned. I need to do a fresh install lol.

 

Hmm, did again and got 12.620 lol.

 

My fastest:

 

And here are the top 8 so far (yes I'm bored!)

1- Oni222 9.360
2- Getfound 9.828
3- Johnksss 10.296
4- Xeneize 10.920
5- Eryc101 12.324
6- Nigel8600 12.620
7- iPhantomhives 13.306
8- Scrawl 13.618

 

Interesting note to point out.................. ever since I ran the file as an administrator. It does a re test EVERY TIME I boot up now and I don't even ask it to run the test. Its not even in my startup file. I have to delete the file to make it stop running. Any ideas?

On a side note..... yay, 6th fastest. Really?

EDIT:

I feel I need to backup what I claim now.

 

I trusted you

 

lol, thanks. So did you ever have to run as an administrator to use boot timer? I even checked msconfig and its not in there either. I'm really scratching my head as to why this boot timer program now runs every time I reboot when I don't even ask it to?

 

Try running it again... perhaps the command to execute never got checked off.

 

my time M4 120gig fresh install

 

sorry heres my diskmark scores to

 

Ya, I tried that too, it just happily runs. I rebooted at least 20 times and it runs the program everytime I reboot lol. If I recycle bin the file it stops running. After a good nights sleep I got the idea this morning to change the location of the file and see if that stops it from executing everytime I reboot. I'll post what happens.

Dang, 7th now lol.

 

Woo hoo. OK, so I moved the file onto my desktop and now it works only when I ask it to. Odd. Anyway, I changed some settings and I got an awesome boot up time. No aero this time though lol.


Now I'm 4th?

 

You know guys that you can do it in half that time right?

 

How?.....

 

i do. and quite possible faster...

 

Notice his windows install its completely naked and booting with the most minimal reqs.

 

ya, I noticed a bare minimum. That's no good. You have to reboot a second time to actually use anything.

 

some update.

 

How much and what drive?