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Apacer, Zadak Announce World's First PCIe Gen 5 M.2 SSD

If your PC takes 35 seconds to boot then you're probably running the CSM legacy mode

No. I am running Boot mode UEFI as is.
So, your answer is misleading. The problem is in the slow Ryzen and/or the 560 MB/s WD SSD.
 
No. I am running Boot mode UEFI as is.
So, your answer is misleading. The problem is in the slow Ryzen and/or the 560 MB/s WD SSD.
This living-room HTPC is a cheap Gigabyte B550M board with an underclocked Ryzen 5 (passively-cooled). The SSD is a cheap SATA SSD. I did a full shutdown and cold boot just for you and it was about 14 seconds.

This is a dirty Win10 install that's gotta be 5-6 years old.
I also do not have fast boot enabled in the BIOS, as I frequently need to boot off USB devices.
I also disable Win10's fast startup option so that a shutdown is a shutdown, not a deceptively-named hibernate.

This probably isn't the thread to troubleshoot your BIOS/Windows install but many review sites and YT channels that cover SSDs will concur with @W1zzard's results with bootup times that are usually in the 8-12 second range. 35 seconds is how long Windows 2000 took to boot off rotating rust two decades ago, so you definitely have a problem but I'm not sure saving 20 seconds a day is really worth the hassle of troubleshooting it ;)
 
This living-room HTPC is a cheap Gigabyte B550M board with an underclocked Ryzen 5 (passively-cooled). The SSD is a cheap SATA SSD. I did a full shutdown and cold boot just for you and it was about 14 seconds.

This is a dirty Win10 install that's gotta be 5-6 years old.
I also do not have fast boot enabled in the BIOS, as I frequently need to boot off USB devices.
I also disable Win10's fast startup option so that a shutdown is a shutdown, not a deceptively-named hibernate.

This probably isn't the thread to troubleshoot your BIOS/Windows install but many review sites and YT channels that cover SSDs will concur with @W1zzard's results with bootup times that are usually in the 8-12 second range. 35 seconds is how long Windows 2000 took to boot off rotating rust two decades ago, so you definitely have a problem but I'm not sure saving 20 seconds a day is really worth the hassle of troubleshooting it ;)

I really don't know what can cause the delay in the loading.
Maybe the Macrium Software which made a mirror installation from my original HDD to the new SSD...

Page file being disabled?
 
It's cool to see gen5 stuff coming to market but it will be more of a gimmick than anything for a long while. The advantages are very hard to see which already happened with gen4 drives. On the other hand the disadvantages are very clear, higher heat dissipation and further breaking standards and conventions because flash is not keeping pace with these interfaces (for example when the drive says it wrote the file, well it lied, it's still on cache)
 
I wouldn't expect PCIe 6.0 to hit consumer products for at least 3-4 years, as it serves zero purpose in a consumer PC.
Sounds similar to what they said about 5.0... Let's see if your prediction holds up. :toast:
 
This thing is going to throttle very badly IMO. I'll bet we will need liquid cooling with some of these SSD's. Let me guess same crap random read/write performance as all the other non-Optane drives.
 
I’d love to have an SSD with Optane-like random reads and writes but with normal NVMe prices, that’s where R&D should go IMHO, sequential numbers are mostly useless. BTW, I have an SN850, which I bought (together with mobo+RAM+CPU) only because I sold the old hardware for a realllly good price. If I hadn’t, I’d stayed with my old 8200 Pro.
 
I really don't know what can cause the delay in the loading.
Maybe the Macrium Software which made a mirror installation from my original HDD to the new SSD...
I don't know if it's the same for the consumer edition of Macrium Reflect, but My Macrium Deployment Kit license definitely has a WinPE boot environment that manages dual-boot so my office workstation is effectively booting twice, with a GUI in between. Cold boot to Bootloader is 10-15s, and then after choosing Windows it's another 10s.

If you cloned an old pre-UEFI OS install onto a new SSD using Macrium, it's probably far from optimal - especially if it was originally (going back several clones) installed on a mechanical drive.
 
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