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Pitiful boot time with OCZ Vertex 2 SSD HELP!
I recently gave my system the same upgrade I gave to my laptop a while back, which was installing a SSD as the boot drive. My laptop boots in under 20 seconds, so I expected as much with this drive. Unfortunately, I am booting in what seems to be over 1-1.5 minutes. I did a completely new installation of Windows 7 on the drive (only C drive 120GB) and have two separate drives (250GB, 750GB) that house all of my data/documents/media/games/backups/etc.
In detail after going through the post, the Windows black boot screen starts up; however the little animated color windows don't appear until after more than 30 seconds. This happens every time I boot. After it's done booting, everything runs as it should; instant. Booting is the only thing I am not satisfied with.
Before anyone suggests firmware updates and AHCI. Both the firmware is current and AHCI was enabled earlier on. I also have done all the page file, defrag, etc tweaks. Also, the drive is set as the first booted drive in the BIOS. The drive seems to be running at optimal speeds in winsat disk (220MBps+ reads & writes) so I'm not sure what could be the problem. My only hunch is that my two other HDDs are somehow holding it back during the boot. If that is the case, what do I need to do to get this system up to speed?
C:\ 120GB OCZ Vertex 2 SSD SATA
B:\ 250GB Seagate 7200RPM HDD SATA
E:\ F:\ G:\ 750GB Seagate 7200RPM HDD SATA