I very much doubt that the brand of hard drive or people's opinions of it will affect your boot up time, but have you had a look in the BIOS configuration screens at the boot order? If the hard drive isn't at the top of that list, the system will spend time looking for an operating system on various external media before looking on the hard drive.

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