@ Dark
Why have you partitioned it like that, you only need the system one and the main one mate, partitioning is only really any use for multiple O/S's on one drive
And make sure the older drives aren't in lower port numbers, so you need the XT in port 0, and the rest of your drives behind that, i.e port 1 port 2 etc
Boot times are also dependant on what you have loading up as well, so an SSD with 25 utilitiy programs to wade through at boot time will take longer to boot to windows, those magic video's you see around the web of 10 second boots are basically software bare and on a PC that's been O/C'd to 4.5GHZ, a proper SSD will always be faster than an XT anyway.
To give you an idea, my boot is around 35 seconds, I have an OCZ Agility and an XT, at boot time I can't split them the OCZ takes just as long as the XT, if you want to see the fastest it's going to boot, wipe it reload it and don't put anything other than MB drivers on it, then re-boot it a few times so the Nand gets to write what it needs to optomise, this is then when you will see the fastest boot, and don't have any other drives connected at the time, hth.
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