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Replace the SSD already?

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  • Storage
  • Boot
  • Hard Drives
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October 9, 2014 1:36:40 PM

I bought a M550 240GB and installed Win 7. I went to add my second hard drive and got a boot error. The pc had the hard disk in raid by default. I switched the bios to AHCI and reinstalled the OS.

While the HDD was in raid it would boot in 6 seconds tops. Now in AHCI it takes 13+ seconds, but programs still load pretty fast, often 3 seconds or less for software that is 1+ GB.

Should I get a new M550 and do a 1:1 image copy or is the ~13 seconds in AHCI pretty standard?

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October 9, 2014 1:50:45 PM

You shouldn't RAID(0 or 1) a standard HDD with an SSD. 13 seconds for a boot time seems pretty good to me.
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October 9, 2014 4:02:19 PM

Edit: when the ssd was in raid (by itself) it would boot in 6 seconds. The pc wouldnt boot with ssd and hdd on raid, and the only reason it was in raid was from the stock bios setting... i have no need for a raid array.

Now in AHCI it boots in 13 seconds but I miss the 6 second boot time. I was pondering that the drives performance had degraded from writing an os twice within 48 hours.
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October 9, 2014 4:18:45 PM

btrig1990 said:
Edit: when the ssd was in raid (by itself) it would boot in 6 seconds. The pc wouldnt boot with ssd and hdd on raid, and the only reason it was in raid was from the stock bios setting... i have no need for a raid array.

Now in AHCI it boots in 13 seconds but I miss the 6 second boot time. I was pondering that the drives performance had degraded from writing an os twice within 48 hours.


Nah, the write rating on most SSDs are at least 20GB/writes per day and 2 Windows 7 writes are alot smaller than that.
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