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    VAIO Z-Exceptionally slow boot from hibernate?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Brianho1337, Apr 9, 2011.

  1. Brianho1337

    Brianho1337 Notebook Evangelist

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    Hi all. My dad went for another business trip with his lighter ThinkPad and left the VAIO SB for me to doodle around for some time. The last time I fiddled with his machine I just closed the lid (putting it to sleep) and eventually it hibernated.

    I booted it up just then to check battery status and to update IE9/windows updates for him. What shocks me most is that the machine managed to boot up in like 20 seconds and its fully functional by then.

    I did not believe my eyes and I hibernated and booted the machine again.

    18 seconds. And that's with 3 browsers and 1 word document open. That is just as fast as the Macbook Air which uses flash storage (even faster than quad SSD striped in RAID 0). The SB uses a 7200 rpm......

    In a test which I put the Z and the SB side by side to boot from shutdown, the SB actually manages to finish loading the "Starting Windows" animation when the Z didn't even get to that screen yet. Though after then the SB experiences a short black screen wait and the Z pops into the login screen instantaneously.

    My Z boots from shutdown in 35s and from hibernate in 38s.

    Does anyone have an idea how to fix the sluggish boot speed from the BIOS section? It takes 5 seconds to get the "VAIO" logo to show up on the Z but 1 second on the SB.
     
    Brianho1337, Apr 9, 2011
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  2. xxGenericSNxx

    xxGenericSNxx Z1 Fanboy

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    Raid0 takes longer to post when starting up. That's why it takes longer than your SB not running Raid0.

    On an aside, my Z takes 30 seconds to boot from shutdown into the start screen and 45 seconds to boot from hibernation.
     
    xxGenericSNxx, Apr 9, 2011
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  3. Brianho1337

    Brianho1337 Notebook Evangelist

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    Well then the RAID0 is pointless then! How can it be useful when it fails to handle the most basic task-booting up the machine, better than a 7200rpm drive?
     
    Brianho1337, Apr 9, 2011
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    beaups New Jack Hustler

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    ^Perhaps the advantage is when actually using the machine vs. booting over and over again.
     
    beaups, Apr 9, 2011
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  5. pyr0

    pyr0 100% laptop dynamite

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    YMMD!

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  6. Brianho1337

    Brianho1337 Notebook Evangelist

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    RAID0 is not fault tolerant though. Any failure of the SSD (which may happen anytime, albeit not too soon) will be critical.

    Anyhow, I'm not going through all the mess of hacking the BIOS and stuff to unraid the RAID and bla bla bla. If there isn't really a fix for this, then I'll guess I'll just leave it be.
     
    Brianho1337, Apr 9, 2011
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  7. Achusaysblessyou

    Achusaysblessyou eecs geek ftw :D

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    You can always just break the RAID array and just run it as 2 drives... then it'll have TRIM. In any case, the posting for the RAID drivers is a fault of all RAID arrays and you're sacrificing stability for speed in RAID0. These are things you should've considered before you got the Z...
     
    Achusaysblessyou, Apr 9, 2011
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