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Hello all, I have an Early 2014 MBA which came standard with a 128gb SDD. I wanted an upgrade, so I purchased a 480gb SSD from OWC, the Aura Pro X2. One thing I didn’t like is the extremely slow boot time. 50 seconds to the login screen, FileVault is off and I already tried their suggestion of selecting the start up disk in system preferences. Once logged in, everything works great, apps are snappy and responsive. I do know OWC has a web page stating that 2013-2014 Macs have slower boot times because they were initially shipped with AHCI SSD’s. I was just wondering, other than purchasing a used AHCI SSD, are there any decent alternatives? TIA.
Sadly, there is no solution as the boot process first tries the AHCI interface and after a timer expires it then tries the NVMe driver. It would have been nice for Apple to offer an option to bypass the AHCI services.
