Razer Blade Pro SSD v. Samsung 840 Pro SSD

[samuel1]

Howdy all,

I own the Razer Blade Pro (first gen, with a single USB 3.0 port, http://************/k3f55r9) with a 256GB SSD. It boots Windows 7 so fast that it is usually waiting for me to enter the password before I even get a chance to finish plugging it in. It literally cannot complete the Windows boot logo, it is that fast.

So, I recently upgraded my main desktop computer to:

- Intel Core i7 4770 Haswell processor
- Gigabyte Z87-D3HP-CF motherboard (BIOS rev. F4)
- 16GB of DDR3 PC3-10700 (667MHz)
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 (old video card)
- Samsung 840 Pro SSD 256GB (model: MZ-7PD256BW)
- Threw a couple old Raptor X's in a RAID 0 just for fun and extra storage.

and the speed difference -- on boot at least -- is nowhere near as fast as my Razer Blade.

Is there some customization I should be doing to Windows to make it faster on boot somehow? How does Razer do it?

Thanks everyone for all your insights!~ Happy holidays!

 

[Venomous]

Install Sammy magician and enable Rapidmode... Should nearly double the performance

 

[Cerb]

It likely used some kind of Fast Boot, which may have been specific to that machine's firmware. Windows 8 has its own generic version, but OEMs would use their own custom variations for notebooks in older Windows versions, and it was not uncommon with 7 (did you not see the Lenovo ads with the skydiver? That was corny, wasn't it?).