iMac 27 SSD i7 (Summer 2010) Startup and Shutdown Times

iMac 27 SSD i7 (Summer 2010) Startup and Shutdown Times
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So here is the second version showing the iMac 27 SSD i7 (Summer 2010) Startup and Shutdown Times. If you are thinking of getting one of these iMacs, read the following text.
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When I first got the SSD iMac, I was shocked to how slow the iMac startup time was, considering the SSD. I posted a video showing these times, and it was a nasty 48 seconds to startup. However, though, some very helpful people in the comments section told me that the iMac when booting looks for drives, so it will check for unnecessary things, such as the SD card being a bootable disk. However, I got this horrible 48 second boot time down to roughly 24 seconds by just doing something very simple in system preferences. Just click on system preferences, click on 'Startup Disk', and then make sure 'Macintosh HD' is selected. If it isn't, boot times will be a lot slower.
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Here is yet another problem with the new SSD iMac, well, I think it's a problem. For some completely stupid reason, the iPhoto library, and the iTunes library are defaulted to the SSD. WHAT A WASTE OF SSD SPACE! The only things that should be on the SSD are the apps, putting films and music on the SSD is really dumb, and I am surprised Apple hasn't done anything about it! You are potentially wasting a lot of money on that precious space, considering a lot of libraries with music and photos combined can add up to a few 100GB.
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Solution? Easy. Just go to the finder, and look for the iPhoto library. Click the iPhoto libary (it will be just one file, it will look like a stack photos, in that file is all your photo files so don't expand it unless you know what you are doing or you could corrupt it) and press CMD+C. Now click on 'Macintosh HD 2' and press CMD+V. This will copy your whole library to the HDD. For iTunes, do the same thing, just copy the 'iTunes' file in music to the 'Macintosh HD 2' as well.
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Now, when you open iTunes, hold the alt key. It will bring up a pop up window, and it will ask you to pick a libary. When the little finder window pops up, select the 'iTunes' folder on the HDD. If it works, then delete 'iTunes' folder on the SSD. This can save you a few hundred gig on the SSD if you have a huge libary. The same applies for iPhoto, just press alt when launching iPhoto, select the iPhoto libary in the Finder window on the HDD, check it works, and if it does, then delete the iPhoto library on the SSD. This means all new music and photos will be saved to 'Macintosh HD 2', aka, the HDD.
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Some other notes as well, when editing in iMovie, if you are copying or moving files, iMovie defaults to the SSD for some stupid reason. When importing footage, a little option bar appears to where you would like to save the footage, make sure you select 'Macintosh HD 2'. Same applies for GarageBand, save all of the projects to the HDD as some GarageBand files can be quite large.
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I hope this helps you all, and I hope my instructions are clear enough. If they aren't, just message me. Make sure to sub as it really does help me out :)

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[lHenry97]

675 bucks (€) is pretty pricey is it worth the money? or should i just get the normal hdd?

[TheTechnoRat]

@lHenry97 Hmmm, I'm not sure really. The SSD does make it very snappy, but you may not need it. Bear in mind Apple could release a new iMac in a few months, so you might want to wait.

[GtKiNg4LiF3]

i get about 27 seconds startup with a normal 7200rpm drive in my core i5 desktop. would and ssd make a much bigger difference?

[TheTechnoRat]

@GtKiNg4LiF3 No, not really.

[Jullzzzz]

whitch one should i get the i5 or the i7?

im going to use it for gaming,videos and possible rendering

[TheTechnoRat]

@Jullzzzz Definately the i7 definitely, considering all the extra features it comes with, faster speed, and not much more expensive!

[ultonator1]

@Jullzzzz

get the i7 dude, its way worth it. if your going to spend that much cash on a mac then gett the best one. :)

[ppoppoppoman]

i guess ssd is all that matters, eh?

i just put a 120gb ssd into my macbook unibody 2009 with a 2.26 core2duo and 2gb ram and i get about the same boot speed

[ultimatetoturial56]

SSD is a lighting drive

[Ghostraider67]

@The TechnoRat Glad that you solved the problem! A friend of mine who purchased the HDD version (1 terabyte) experienced a similar slowdown during the bootup sequence. He selected his M. HDD as booting device and from over a minute it went down to 40 seconds...not bad for a common SATA HDD.

Have you seen bheitjan video? His bootup seems to last less than 20 seconds!

[grechjames]

nice clip, keep it up - whats the the song in this video