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El Capitan on SSD - strange pauses in boot process
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<blockquote data-quote="Horsa" data-source="post: 1842032" data-attributes="member: 403905"><p>Hi Patrick and thanks for your reply. I'm tempted to agree with you about just carrying on - a slightly longer-than-expected boot time on a machine that otherwise works well is by no means ruining my life! ;D I don't have any 3rd-party security software on board, no. I tried a Safe Boot a while back - no effect.</p><p></p><p>However, in a spirit of "Nothing ventured, nothing gained" (and ever-so-slightly clutching at straws), this morning I tried an experiment. Last night, trawling the web I read various reports of people with 3rd party SSDs having improved boot times after enabling TRIM. I hadn't enabled TRIM yet, because Crucial's info suggested that their own "Garbage collection system" was sufficient in itself, but I figured there was no harm trying, so...</p><p></p><p>Booted into Recovery and disabled SIP.</p><p></p><p>Did a normal restart and enabled TRIMforce. Tried not to fret about Apple's "don't blame us!" warnings of potential armageddon (or their ungrammatical use of the word "momentarily"). </p><p></p><p>Shut down and restarted from cold.</p><p></p><p>Result: boot time INCREASED to 36 seconds! <img src="/images/smilies/rofl.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rofl" title="ROFL :rofl" data-shortname=":rofl" /></p><p></p><p>You win some, you lose some...</p><p></p><p>ADDED LATER: After that initial post-TRIM boot, the boot time has now reverted to 30 seconds.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Horsa, post: 1842032, member: 403905"] Hi Patrick and thanks for your reply. I'm tempted to agree with you about just carrying on - a slightly longer-than-expected boot time on a machine that otherwise works well is by no means ruining my life! ;D I don't have any 3rd-party security software on board, no. I tried a Safe Boot a while back - no effect. However, in a spirit of "Nothing ventured, nothing gained" (and ever-so-slightly clutching at straws), this morning I tried an experiment. Last night, trawling the web I read various reports of people with 3rd party SSDs having improved boot times after enabling TRIM. I hadn't enabled TRIM yet, because Crucial's info suggested that their own "Garbage collection system" was sufficient in itself, but I figured there was no harm trying, so... Booted into Recovery and disabled SIP. Did a normal restart and enabled TRIMforce. Tried not to fret about Apple's "don't blame us!" warnings of potential armageddon (or their ungrammatical use of the word "momentarily"). Shut down and restarted from cold. Result: boot time INCREASED to 36 seconds! :rofl You win some, you lose some... ADDED LATER: After that initial post-TRIM boot, the boot time has now reverted to 30 seconds. [/QUOTE]
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