Why does it take 25 seconds to boot VROC?

[SEric]

When loading Windows, VROC has irregular boot times, minimum 23 seconds, IF it boots.

At times, when hitting shut down, it will reboot instead,

sometimes it will not shut down at all.

With 960 EVO as boot drive, 2 seconds boot time and shut down.

Above is with the 4 Optane drives in software RAID0 for storage.

System configuration:

ASrock X299 Taichi XE motherboard

i9 7900X CPU

64GB DDR4 2666 Crucial memory

EVGA 1080ti SC2 Hybrid graphics

4 x 280GB 900P Optane U.2 to M.2 drives

Asus Hyper M.2 x 16 AIC

Asrock Thunderbolt 3 AIC

Intel VROCISSDMOD key

Corsair 1000W Platinum PS

Corsair 280mm AIO

15 total fans on system

Hottest it gets benchmarking is 72c

I have an open ticket with no resolution.

One time I thought it was Corsair link, but that was not it.

The speed of the system is amazing, on Optane Q1T1 in excess of 200 MBPS.

In software raid as storage, in excess of 300 MBPS.

But it won't boot quickly in VROC on Optane,

the fastest drive on the planet.

Anyone?

[idata]

Hello Steven,

We are sorry for the inconvenience, we will investigate further in order to find the root cause of the issue. We will contact you back as soon we received more information from our engineers.Regards,

[idata]

Hello birdman941,

We hope you are doing well

As you mentioned on your post we have a ticket under your name which is being investigated by our engineering team. We will follow up on the status of your issue using the original case in order to avoid duplicate request for the same issue.

Please allows some time to investigate on the issue you are experiencing

Best Regards

Luis H

[SEric]

Even as a storage device, using VROC in bios and iRSTE program,

bizarre boot and shut down times.

Tried yet another approach last night.

No dice.

[idata]

Hello birdman941,

Thank you for providing us more information about the steps you have attempted to improve the performance during boot times and shut downs. We are still investigating on the issue that you are experiencing.We apologize for the delay in our response, but due to the complexity of the issue you are experiencing we are still working to find a solution. Best Regards

[FHuss2]

This thread was not updated. What was the solution or cause?

[idata]

Hello FidaGillani,

Thank you for contacting Intel Technical Support. During our investigation we have determined that since Intel® VROC was developed as a business/enterprise technology, we don't recommend using end user SSD's such as 900p or 760p because they are not validated, instead we recommend using our professional or data center SSDs which has been validated to work properly with VROC RAID Arrays. We hope you find this information useful. Thank you for your patience and understanding. Best regards, Josh B.Intel Customer Support

[idata]

Hello FidaGillani.

Thank you for having contacted Intel Technical Support. We have not heard from you since our last communication and we would like to know if you need further assistance or if we can close this case? Important note: Should further assistance or clarification be required, we will greatly appreciate if you reply to this post instead of writing a new one unless your inquiry is completely unrelated. This way we will prevent generating a duplicate post and we will not lose the train of thought. We will be looking forward to your reply.Best regards,Josh B.Intel Customer Support.