What is considered "normal" time to boot unraid

i could have sworn when i first set it up it was much quicker

i get past post very quickly

then it starts to load the OS fairly quickly

when it gets to the bz checksums

the first 3 are quick

but bzfirmware checksum takes about 3 minutes

i dont remember it ever taking this long

unless i just did not notice

im fairly new to unraid

started seting up 4 months ago

been getitng it the way i like it and installing plugins/apps/dockers

now im just getting ready to "pull the trigger" and move all my data

i powered down to remove one of the drives that i will not need

i felt powering on took long

i read that on disk swap or change or move it can make bootup slower

but i powered off and on 3x

no matter what the first 3 "bz checksum" are quick but "bzfirmware checksum" is about 3 minutes to itsself

is this normal?

11 hours ago, charettepa said:

but bzfirmware checksum takes about 3 minutes

This is not normal and suggests the USB port is operating at USB 1.0 speeds. Try a different port and make sure at least USB 2.0 is enabled.

i have no other ports

this is the internal on motherboard port on a terramaster f4 424 pro

externally there is 1 usb c and 1 usb a both in use, C for my coral TPU, A for my mouse/keyboard

its a fairly new model

everything i read says its 3.x

the usb drive itsself is a (Sandisk) 3.2 gen1

could the external devices be conflicting somehow

edit**

creating and downloading the 850MB backup of the USB (boot) disk takes 29 seconds

this is for sure not USB1

looking at the "main" window in unraid i can see it is reading from the flash disk when this happens

Edited September 28, 2025Sep 28 by charettepa

If it's not the USB port, it may be the CPU operating slower than it should, like underclocked.

I will be testing booting up using the external port once i get a bit more time as i will need to dismantle to remove the usb which is sandwiched between the board and chassis

in the mean time, my numbers were off by a bit

when it starts and copies the first 2 BZ files, that is almost instant

then when it moves on to verifying the checksum of the 5 BZ files

the first 4 take 25 seconds total

the bzfirmware takes just over 2 minutes

for a total of 2.5 minutes to verify the checksum of all 5 files

from here its about 10 seconds to fully loaded and at login screen

i also tried booting without my coral TPU or the mouse/keyboard plugged in

this changed nothing

again, i will test using the external USB port as soon as i have at least 30-60 minutes of free time

just dropping this here to correct my original info as i originally stated 3 minutes for bzfirmware checksum alone

but its 2.5 for all 5

and 3 minute mark from pressing power button to all checksums done

then ~10 seconds to loaded and seeing ip/login