2012 MacBook Pro takes forever to get to the Chime
Channel: MrRicheee
Date: 2014-05-13

So if you put an SSD in the Optical Bay, the stupid thing takes 34 seconds to even get to the Chime.  After that boots hella fast (since it's SSD)
Sometimes clearing NVRAM solves the problem (not on the time I did it here though, typically!)
If you go to Startup Disk in the Prefs, and choose the SSD drive, then reset, after shutting down it boots quickly as it should do.
Seems to me there is a bug in Apple's SMC Controller software, and *hopefully* they will do something about it.
This machine is only 2 years old (I mistakenly refer to it as a 2010 model in the video, my bad!)