SSD Boot time question

I own 6 systems with SSDs - the oldest from 2008. I always noticed a certain degradation of the boot and operating times after a certain usage. To get accurate boot time figures, you have to look at event 100 in the Event Viewer. To find that, drill down this chain:

Eventvwr
Applications and Service Logs
Microsoft
Windows
Diagnostics - performance
Operational
Event ID 100

Those timings are not great but they are not out of line. There are many factors that can influence the SSD performance - the SSD itself, the port it is attached to, the number and type of startup programs, the RAM, etc.

Keep watching it from time to time and as long as there are extreme changes, there is nothing to worry about.

It might be useful to inspect the startup programs. In principle you can disable all (except for the AV program). Try various configurations and see whether that yields better times.

Fast start up times are nice. But, that is not why we bought the SSD. How does it perform in every day operation of the OS? That's what we bought it for and I'm willing to bet you can tell no difference. It's sort of like benchmark tests. People like to brag about who has the best benchmark, but in reality there is no difference in the every day performance of the SSD. After all that is what is important and why we bought them, not for a better benchmark. In my opinion, start up times and good benchmark scores are good for only one thing. To let you know if there is something drastically wrong with your SSD. Benchmarks really mean nothing. It can depend on what is running in the background and quite a few other things. I suspect if you ran the same benchmark 3 times in a row, 20 minutes apart, you would get 3 different scores. But, it's the same SSD in the same system and performs as well as it always has.

You're more than welcome. Good luck with your computer.