Beginners • Pi 5 8gb is very slow to boot and very sluggish

Hey everyone,

Like the title says I have a Pi 5 I received in a canakit that is super slow. I will post some diagnostics below.

aspberry Pi Diagnostics - version 0.14
Tue Feb 10 22:00:27 2026

Test : SD Card Speed Test
Run 1
prepare-file;0;0;48473;94
seq-write;0;0;46479;90
rand-4k-write;0;0;3233;808
rand-4k-read;16536;4134;0;0
Sequential write speed 46479 KB/sec (target 10000) - PASS
Random write speed 808 IOPS (target 500) - PASS
Random read speed 4134 IOPS (target 1500) - PASS
Test PASS



systemd-analyze blame
40.523s fstrim.service
20.863s NetworkManager-wait-online.service
19.601s udisks2.service
18.624s accounts-daemon.service
18.604s NetworkManager.service
18.604s rpi-eeprom-update.service
18.564s polkit.service
18.111s e2scrub_reap.service
17.787s wpa_supplicant.service
1.932s dev-mmcblk0p2.device
1.861s ModemManager.service
1.685s raspi-config.service
1.242s avahi-daemon.service
1.239s bluetooth.service
1.205s systemd-logind.service
1.197s dbus.service
903ms dphys-swapfile.service
888ms rp1-test.service
833ms systemd-journal-flush.service
785ms glamor-test.service
745ms sshswitch.service
684ms lightdm.service
654ms keyboard-setup.service



If anyone can help me out that would be great. Still a relative beginner and I would like to start using this thing more seriously. Thanks!

Statistics: Posted by CMFussy — Wed Feb 11, 2026 3:11 am

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