Why is the Intel 750 Slow to boot?

[RLaBa1]

Howdy Everyone. Just picked up the Intel 750 1.2TB SSD card. Installed it on my X99 Asus Rampage V board and installed Windows 7 X64 without a problem. However, I am seeing a boot performance issue. This drive is taking about 25 seconds to boot, approximately 13 seconds longer than my Samsung 850 EVO. Did a little Googling on this and apparently, I am not the only one. I have read several reviews and the ones that measure boot time / performance will say this is the slowest SSD to boot. I have provided the link below as an example.

http://techreport.com/review/28050/intel-750-series-solid-state-drive-reviewed/5 Intel's 750 Series solid-state drive reviewed - The Tech Report - Page 5

Intel - Is this going to be fixed in a future firmware release? I wont be able to justify keeping this card if first generation SSD's still outperform in terms of booting.

Thanks,

Randman76

X99 Rampage V

I-7 5960X OC to 4.4 ghz

Corsair Vengeance (4x4GB)

980 GTX-SLI

1200W PSU

[EEsca1]

jonathan:

Ok, thank you for the timely reply. Disappointing, alas. I'm gathering from your reply that the reason the drive boots slow is because it has to do extra data integrity checks in order to be reliable for data center use. That's legitimate, but it's a shame for the enthusiast portion of your customer base that doesn't need it. Makes the Samsung and other drives more appealing for them. Since you've stipulated that the Intel 750 is aimed at both enthusiasts and data center use, could I suggest maybe making the extra procedures aimed at Data Center use something that could be disabled via an option, say, in the Toolbox perhaps?

[idata]

Hello jonathan! In this paper, the testing was one comment where the author concluded that the download speed depends on the initial speed with 4K, those other words from Samsung starting speed with such files almost 2 times higher than that of Intel at the start, this and explained loser "with low start" of course then takes its itnetl on iops, hence probably the question whether it is hardware or microcode snag.

[JAust1]

It seems the 750 firmware has indeed improved boot times, but the drive still has a ways to go to be as fast as regular Samsung's 950 Pro 512GB SSD:

http://techreport.com/review/29221/samsung-950-pro-512gb-ssd-reviewed/4 Samsung's 950 Pro 512GB SSD reviewed - The Tech Report - Page 4

If samsungs 950 Pro drive is a PCIe drive we can get fast boots from those too. And the slowness is all in the 750s design. I hope future firmwares and products from Intel will bring this gap closer, as we see it is definitely possible!

[EEsca1]

Great find Darkultra.

jonathan, any update on this information? Is the difference in boot speed at DarkUltra's link something that can be fixed by firmware, or is it a hardware limitation? Here's hoping it's the former!

[jbenavides]

Hello,

We will check further about your inquiry and will post updates soon.