Installing my SATA storage seemed to increase my startup time.
Installing my SATA storage seemed to increase my startup time.
I recently had my new PC with a new NVME(990PRO 1TB). First install of windows without the three SATA drives, boot was fast af, loading animation couldn't even finish its rotation. Then the moment I plugged my old SATA drives consist of x2HDD and x1SSD it went kinda slow. I'm here scratching my head thinking if there's anyway to make it boot faster or how it was like without the SATA drives.
On certain budget motherboards, some SATA connections overlap with M.2 slots. If this happens, the manufacturer’s guide should clarify it.
Slowed down by a noticeable amount? My Windows boots in under 10 seconds using an NVMe EVO drive (non-pro) paired with three SATA SSDs on a Ryzen 5800X3D... it’s usually faster than expected, but the Windows “energy saving mode” often makes it feel sluggish. So how much slower is it really? Can you share a screenshot of your BIOS time in Task Manager? Regardless, these drives will definitely make loading times longer, even if I have a Pro NVMe option. Everything after that depends on what I choose to do.
Windows needs to mount and index SATA drives, particularly mechanical ones. The best approach is to ensure your NVMe boot drive appears first in the boot priority settings within your BIOS.
It's about 11 seconds now. .- That's why I named it "kind of slow." But it's just that I'm using a new setup and I'm having trouble figuring it out—it feels almost identical to my old PC in terms of startup time. I looked up the board specifications and found that SATA is handled by the chipset, while the main NVME drive is on the CPU lane.
You're using only your NVMe drive as the top priority for booting.