RapidBoot with SSD?

[JDay]

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ColonelONeill wrote:
36 seconds on an SSD sounds fairly poor, to be honest. You may want to see what's going on there.

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Yeah it does. My T510 with SSD boots in under 20 seconds.

[Chatbox]

Agree.  Even my 3 years old x200 with and SSD can boot up in 31 seconds (W7Pro)

[orangebuddha]

Thanks guys for your boot up times, lets me know where my machine sits.

One thing is that my laptop is a company machine, so its neither a clean install nor a lenovo image. It has our company image which i'm sure is not optimised for SSDs, as only in the last 6 months have we been getting them in. Also on top of that it has HD encryption, loads VPN, HD backup program and antivirus.

I assume all of that is adding to the boot time...

[ColonelONeill]

Fair enough; 36 seconds is probably adequate, but worse than average. 36 seconds to desktop is quite do-able even without an SSD.

[JDay]

In Control Panel/System make sure that the Windows Experience Index has been run. If it hasn't Windows will not know that it is installed on an SSD (WEI score above 5.9 for the hard drive) and will not optimize the system.

[orangebuddha]

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JDay wrote:

In Control Panel/System make sure that the Windows Experience Index has been run. If it hasn't Windows will not know that it is installed on an SSD (WEI score above 5.9 for the hard drive) and will not optimize the system.

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Yes WEI has been run. Scored 7.3 for the disk. I'm not 100% sure how WEI works, but when i got the machine, WEI said it hadn't been run, but in the WEI data files, there was an initial assessment file with a date stamp on the date the machine was built. I actually didn't run it for a month or so after i got it, but before i ran WEI, Windows 7 had disabled the defrag, and was reporting the drive speed as 0.