X220 + 128GB MyDigitalSSD mSATA SSD Boot time

Just got an X220 last week and this week just finished adding mSATA SSD and upgrading the ram to 8gb. I was wondering if my boot time is too slow or not for my system with 128GB MyDigitalSSD. I installed the OS from the recovery media so it has the stuff that came with the laptop originally, except I removed SimpleTap. I also have alot of stuff installed on to it like Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, VirtualBox, Eclipse etc.

Anyways, I have power on with fingerprint and automatic login enabled. I get boot time around 38 seconds +/-1 seconds, I timed it with the stopwatch on my phone and started count as soon as I swipe my finger and the power switch light starts to when the mouse cursor shows up as a cursor and not when its doing the O spinning thing.

Here are my system specs:
Core i5-2520M
8GB DDR3-10600
128gb MyDigitalSSD mSATA SSD
320GB Seagate Momentus "Thin" 5,400 RPM

Also here is my CDM and WEI scores:


Some insight into whether something is fishy with my boot time or if its average boot time would be greatly appreciated.

 

Since you timed that using a stopwatch that seems quite normal to me. It takes 25 seconds for my T420 to boot to desktop from the moment I turn it on but that's without fingerprint authentication so I wouldn't be too concerned about it.

 

Are you doing this test on battery power? Does the result change when plugged in?

 

Disabling the TPM chip in the BIOS shaves about five seconds off the boot time. My X220i comes in just under 20 seconds. If you want it to really fly, run Linux. My R60e boots in about seven seconds.

 

Quontum,

Can you run the Anvil or AS benchmarks instead of the CrystalDiskMark? I'm wondering if you have a SSD alignment error. I would have expected better scores on the 4K and 4K QD32 numbers.

This probably doesn't help, but my X220 boots from power-off into Windows 8 CP in 16 seconds. That's including wireless connection. I clicked on IE and was browsing in 18 seconds...

Need to recheck Windows 7...

 

I may just be tired, but what is the TPM chip?

 

Trusted Platform Module, built-in on Thinkpad motherboards.

 

I check the alignment, using msinfo32 and for the ssd my starting partition offset is 1,048,576 and it divides by 4096 so I believe my alignment isn't an issue here. But yeah my 4K numbers are a tad low and I'm not sure why.

 

Ah alright, thanks. Is that the "Security Chip" in the BIOS or something totally different?

 

That sounds pretty close. I have a higher HD score at 7.7 on the WEI (6.3) and come in around 33-34 seconds. I didn't do a clean install and have basically installed every Lenovo utility, which probably slows things down a bit.

 

Same here, about 30+ sec for my boot time. Using fingerprint login as well.

 

Interested to this thread I want to do exactly the same activity with mine Lenovo X220, might I ask you how is working you MyDigitalSSD since now?

I wanted to order the new MyDigitalSSD Super Cache 2 so to avoid any OS installation if possibile.

Using the recovery disk you needed also to reinstall all the programs?

 

My T420 takes about 35 seconds to boot and load all the programs including a password login.

@davide445 if you use recovery disk it will restore to the factory image which include all the lenovo add-on programs and drivers for your laptop. same state when you just got your laptop. It will erase any personal data you have on there so back up before you do recovery.

 

David if you are going to use it as a cache drive then plug it in run the Hybridisk Cache Software and you are done. Nothing else to do and that is the beauty of it. The system will cache your most used files and programs on the SSD and 64GB should be enough to cover just about everything an average computer user does. Once it is cached the system will open it from the SSD leading to faster load times for programs, files, and apps.

MyDigitalSSD

 

You use MydigitalSSD? I can't find anyone using this Super Cache 2 solution I wanted to know about his reliability.

I'm evaluating also the Crucial m4 mSATA with Dataplex, that it's more widely know but also with some BSOD episodes.

 

I am a representative from MyDigitalSSD and I can tell you our SSD products are highly reliable. We use top quality parts and everything is made at the best FAB in TW. We have a less than .03% defect rate which I believe is the lowest in the industry for SSD.

Hope you choose SC2. Let me know how it works out.

MyDigitalSSD

 

I finally bought Mydigitalssd SC2 64GB and installed yesterday on my laptop.
The SSD work well but I don't activate FNet Hybridrive sw since I want before tho evaluate the performances without anything else, and also wait for more tests on that sw, pretty unknown on the net.
The strange is I have had a bump in performances even without formatting the drive or activating anything specific, I'm wondering how that is possible...