Originally Posted By: joemikeb
Originally Posted By: artie505
I just tried a few command-R restarts on my Mid 2015 15" Retina MacBook Pro/2.8 GHz/16 GB RAM/macOs 10.14.5, and they averaged out at about 55 seconds to desktop, whereas a few restarts into my boot volume averaged out at about 20 seconds to desktop.

On my system with a large conglomeration of external drives and volumes the normal time to boot to the desktop matches your twenty seconds, but it will take at least three minutes for everything to be up and running. The same is true in either Mojave or Catalina.

Wow! That sounds like quite a setup.

But if it's what you were referring to when you said "Booting into the Recovery Drive (Command+R) on my MBP takes less time than booting normally," your extended boot time is extraneous to this conversation.

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