Macbook Pro SSD slow boot after SSD

soundboy44 wrote:

I know : )

So SSD is faster than Sata?

Boy am I glad I found this. I recently put a Samsung SSD in my Early 2011 MBP. It was doing the exact same thing. Would sit on a white screen and then the Apple would pop up and it would boot extremely fast. I thought I had done something wrong and was disappointed with the boot times 😟 But alas, I selected it as the boot drive and now it boots in around 12 seconds!!! Holy crap that's fast when it was around a minute before. Thanks for pointing this out!

Me too, definitely makes a difference

My Goodness!!!!, i experienced the same problem as u did cause i have the same Crucial model like yours, now my macbook pro starts up faster than ever, MUCH APPRICIATED!!!, you're my life saver!!! LOL

Hi Linc

I have a question for you regarding consol log and "BOOT_TIME".

I have a similar problem with my MacAir which suddenly started booting slow, after some upgrade mid summer 2012 and I have not been able to crack the problem, even though I have tryed all advices like resetting SMC, NVRAM, chosing startup disk, creating a new user etc.

My problem is that everything is working perfectly, but for some trange reason it boots (apple logo and spinning cirkel) for approx. 2 1/2 - 3 min. until login sceen appears.

My question is; why is nothing registered to the log in that period of time, almost like saying everything is perfectly normal, example log:

17/01/13 09.12.05,971 shutdown: reboot by temp:

17/01/13 09.12.05,971 shutdown: SHUTDOWN_TIME: 1358410325 970914

17/01/13 09.12.35,000 bootlog: BOOT_TIME 1358410355 0

17/01/13 09.15.07,000 kernel: PMAP: PCID enabled

17/01/13 09.15.07,000 kernel: PMAP: Supervisor Mode Execute Protection enabled

17/01/13 09.15.07,000 kernel: Darwin Kernel Version 11.4.2: Thu Aug 23 16:25:48 PDT 2012; root:xnu-1699.32.7~1/RELEASE_X86_64

As you can see its blank from 9.12.35 - 9.15.07. I can find several of these, and none shows more?

Hope you can give me some new advice, thanks!

your tipp with the startup-disk was incredible:

http://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=answerlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsupport.apple .com%2Fkb%2FPH10929&answerid=16777219&src=support_site.home.search

thankyou i had the same issue and your post was very helpful

Thanks a lot for your help! I googled and I found your answer! Amazing yet powerful way to solve it! Woohoo! Thanks much, life-saver! 😀

Did you find a solution to your startup issue mate?

I experience same stuff: about 50sec boot time with intel's SSD on my Mac Pro 5.1 and 20 sec on macbook pro 2011 with samsung SSD..

Tried it all: trim enabled, SSD selected as startup disk, disk perm fixed, NVRAM reset, SMC..

Only thing i didnt try is creating a new user.

I noticed that as i installed OS at first few starts it was as fast as it should be, but maybe after an update or something it slowed way down..

Not sure what else to do here. Generally boot time doesn't bother me, not an issue to wait for extra 25 sec, but I'm thinking if something isn't setup right and influences performance in general..

any ideas appreciated.. 🙂

Nurali

Some people have just had back luck with Intel SSDs - the don't seem to play well with MacBook Pros as some other brands.

I don't know if you're in a position to return the drive for a different brand, exchange it or what. Samsung and Crucial drives are, to me, the 'top two' SSD brands that work best with MacBook Pros. If you're not able to return/exchange the drive, I would contact Intel as ask why the drive might be slow - maybe a firmware update?

Good luck,

Clinton

MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011), OS Mavericks 10.9.4, 16GB Crucial RAM, Crucial M500 960GB SSD, 27” Apple Thunderbolt Display

Its my Mac Pro that's with intel's SSD and booting slow.. Macbook pro is flying like a rocket (samsung SSD)...

Not possible to return intel's ssd, its been 2 years since i got it. Just didn't think much about it before compared to my MBP.. 🙂

Good idea contacting support, will try so.

Considering to get OWC PCIe SSD.. i need fast storage for video editing so if i compare it to raid card and 3 SSD drives suddenly OWC make sense..

I Had the same problem thanks this was helpful

Wow...I stumbled on this thread, stuck with it, got to this post and wowzers, it fixed a problem I've been researching for hours. Wish I would have thought of this solution. And since I've upgraded my wife's machine and my buddy's in the last two weeks, I now need to go fix their machines. The intraweb is a beautiful place for stupid people like me.

This has fixed the exact same problem with a macbook pro mid 2012 i7 running 10.11.2 just now!