Any tips for improving boot time for Z820?

[mr_projects]

My boot time for the Z820 is really slow.

Any owners kind to share some tips to improve boot time?

[DGroves · Accepted solution]

your question has been asked/answered numerous times, next time please try the forums "SEARCH" feature

In Bios

1 disable network boot

2. disable LSI boot rom (do not disable LSI device!!)

3. disable Intel AMT

Hardware:

 install a SATA SSD

[BambiBoomZ]

Mr_projects,

1. A set of many, complex and/or large  programs can slow boot time if they are all allowed to start at boot. Consider using msconfig  > Startup to  stop selected programs from starting at boot. Modify only one at a time and make sure the results are acceptable. Some services can be stopped at boot, but be extremely careful- do not stop any MS services at boot. Programs may take slightly longer to start when used, but in my experience, it is almost imperceptible.

2. Check for the latest BIOS.

3.  Running a hardware RAID controller can slow the boot time substantially because of the time required for initiation. The office z420_2 has been using an HP/LSI  9212-4i RAID /HBA to have 4X SATAIII and that made the boot time probably doubled. When a particular large project is finished that has a special 4TB drive, it will be taken out.

4. An M.2 boot drive can be very quick to boot; power button to use in about 25 seconds. The Samsung 950 Pro M.2 NVMe may be used in zX20 with the special Samsung boot module it uses and that will be probably the fastest plug-in option . Still quite fast - 2200 MB/s read- is the Samsung SM951 M.2 AHCI (256GB and 512GB) which is the drive in the HP Z Turbo Drive for the z820. The office z620_2 uses a 256GB Z Turbo Drive and when changed to W10 will be running on a SM951 512GB AHCI mounted on a Lycom DT-120 PCIe to M.2 adapter. The z620_2 also uses a Samsung 970 EVO M.2 NVMe 500GB for the current projects drive. The zX20 systems can use NVMe for data drives without special measures.

 There are a number of users that have managed to use M.2 NVMe e.g. Samsung 970 EVO with a boot loader.e.g. Clover on a USB drive that loads the BIOS module and there are certain enterprise level : large capacity Micron & c. that are supposed ot be usable natively. 

BambiBoomZ

HP z620_2 (2017) (R7) > Xeon E5-1680 v2 (8C@ 4.3GHz) / z420 Liquid Cooling / 64GB (HP/Samsung 8X 8GB DDR3-1866 ECC registered) / Quadro P2000 5GB _ GTX 1070 Ti 8GB / HP Z Turbo Drive M.2 256GB AHCI + Samsung 970 EVO M.2 NVMe 500GB + HGST 7K6000 4TB + HP/HGST Enterprise 6TB / Focusrite Scarlett 2i4 sound interface + 2X Mackie MR824 / 825W PSU / Windows 7 Prof.’l 64-bit (HP OEM) > 2X Dell Ultrasharp U2715H (2560 X 1440)

[ Passmark Rating = 6280 / CPU rating = 17178 / 2D = 819 / 3D= 12629 / Mem = 3002 / Disk = 13751 / Single Thread Mark = 2368 [10.23.18]

HP z420_3: (2015) (R11) Xeon E5-1650 v2 (6C@ 4.3GHz) / z420 Liquid cooling / 64GB (HP/Samsung 8X 8GB DDR3-1866 ECC registered) / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB/ HP/LSI 9212-4i > Samsung 860 EVO 500GB + HGST 4TB + HGST 4TB / ASUS Essence STX + Logitech z2300 2.1 / 600W PSU > Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (HP OEM ) > Samsung 40" 4K

[Passmark System Rating: = 5644 / CPU = 15293 / 2D = 847 / 3D = 10953 / Mem = 2997 Disk = 4858 /Single Thread Mark = 2384 [6.27.19]

HP ZBook 17 G2: (2015 ) i7-4940MX Extreme (4C@3.1/ 4.0GHz) / 32GB / Quadro K3100M 4GB / Kingston 480GB SATA SSD > 17.3" LCD 1920 X1080 panel > HP docking station> video externally to HP 2711x 27" LCD + Dell 17" (2007) / Logitech 533 _2.1 speaker system

[Passmark System Rating: = 3980 / CPU = 10140 / 2D = 618 / 3D = 2779 / Mem = 2559 Disk = 4662 / Single Thread Mark = 2387 [1.3.20

[mr_projects]

Thanks everyone that helped a bit. Also this video has some good recommendations might be useful for others

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyButmHM52E