Windows 7 start up time

[mikling]

Magician is used to install the special Samsung cache algorithms that use system RAM that enable the SSD to be even faster in certain situations.

 

[stratman]

Magician is used to install the special Samsung cache algorithms that use system RAM that enable the SSD to be even faster in certain situations.

Windows has been doing this - virtual memory or caching - for years.

A nice explanation from Samsung themselves: http://www.samsung.com/global/busin...isite/SSD/global/html/about/whitepaper12.html.

Samsung Magician does a variety of tasks and does them well. The EVO and 840 Pro drives are excellent.

 

[Emulator]

The boot up time has been erratic and the system keeps resetting the boot drive to a HDD and a slower time. I have eventually discovered, with the help of the web and not the manual, that the boot drive is determined by the physical SATA socket order used on the motherboard and not by the BIOS!!

It seemed unlikely but it works. It now boots from the SSD.

 

[PeterBJ]

The boot up time has been erratic and the system keeps resetting the boot drive to a HDD and a slower time. I have eventually discovered, with the help of the web and not the manual, that the boot drive is determined by the physical SATA socket order used on the motherboard and not by the BIOS!!

It seemed unlikely but it works. It now boots from the SSD.

So the MB and SSD manuals had nothing about this?

 

[Emulator]

Not that I can find. Whether it is an ASUS Z87-Pro peculiarity or common practice I don't know, but the manual stops short of boot drive selection under BIOS settings.

The change has also renamed the storage drives letters, the SSD is now C and the HDDs now E and B.

 

[stratman]

@Emulator:

You beat me to the post.

It is the SSD manufacturer, not the motherboard manufacturer, who should inform the consumer about installation of their drive. The motherboard manual should tell you which SATA port is from what manufacturer and of what number (port 0, port 1, etc).

For instance, the owner's manual for the Samsung 840 Pro state:

Insert the SSD, fitted with the bracket, into the location of
the original HDD(usually SATA port #0), and secure it in place.

The HDD is usually mounted in SATA port #0, because booting starts at the lowest-numbered SATA port
and then proceeds sequentially. (Port #0, port #1, port #2, and so on.)
Therefore, you need to mount your new SSD in SATA port #0 (vacated by the existing HDD), which is the
lowest-numbered SATA port.

If you have only one drive - the SSD - in your computer then you can use any Intel SATA port.

One other point is to use an Intel SATA port and not another branded port such as Marvel. Not all SATA ports are equal in function.

 

[mikling]

What happened to boot disk priority? and changing drive letters in administration?

 

[PeterBJ]

What if you temporarily want to boot from a CD/DVD drive, for instance to run memtest86+ ? Will one of the F-keys open a menu to choose boot drive?

I think this is the manual for Emulator's MB, I found nothing about selecting the boot drive (?)

 

[mikling]

page 3-3 has boot device priority. That should fix the issue about HD vs. SSD booting. If the migration was not done properly and the boot device priority was not selected, then the issues described will surface.

 

[Emulator]

@Emulator:

You beat me to the post.

It is the SSD manufacturer, not the motherboard manufacturer, who should inform the consumer about installation of their drive. The motherboard manual should tell you which SATA port is from what manufacturer and of what number (port 0, port 1, etc).

For instance, the owner's manual for the Samsung 840 Pro state:


If you have only one drive - the SSD - in your computer then you can use any Intel SATA port.

One other point is to use an Intel SATA port and not another branded port such as Marvel. Not all SATA ports are equal in function.

It wouldn't do any harm for the motherboard manual to mention this as well!

Looking at it with new eyes after the event, there are 6 Intel Z87 SATA 6.0 Gb/s connectors (7-pin SATA6G_1-6 [yellow]) and 2 ASMedia SATA 6.0 Gb/s connectors (7-pin SATA6G_E12 [dark brown]. I remember looking at them and wondering why they had two different colours. I didn't even notice the Intel and ASMedia.

In the old days it was just two connectors (master and slave) on a ribbon and one was closer to the board than the other!