Start up times vary - why? (MBP 10.8.3 with two drives)

I have a new MBP with 10.8.3 and two drives, an SSD and an internal.
Just curious as to why I get two varied startup times.
1. press startup button and within 3 seconds I hear the chime and the screen lights up.
2. press startup button and within about 12 seconds I hear the chime and the screen lights up.
Any thoughts as to why?

1 and 2 are both the same. I'm assuming I am starting up from the SSD drive because that is where all my applications are. The internal drive is just for storage.

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>I have 1 NI PCI GPIB board in my computer
>I have 2 identical devices (keithley 237) connected one at address 15
>one at address 16
>and 2 different programs one program to connect with 15 and 1 to
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>after I tell the 1st labview program to communicate with 15 then I
>tell the 2nd labview program to communicate with 16. then both
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>can communicate find with either device.
>
>Why can't I communicate with two different GPIB devices at the same
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