Alderaan takes 50 seconds to load on my Intel SSD. I moved the Alderaan TOR files (2 of them) to a RAMdisk, symlinked to them and loaded Alderaan again - which also took the same amount of time, 50 seconds.
I've also monitored CPU/GPU usage, neither of those are peaking during the load screen (CPU cores 0 to 3 spread over 50% to 25% usage, GPU at 0% to 20%).
i5-750 2.66GHz oc'd to 3.4GHz and Geforce 460 oc'd to EVGA's SC spec speeds.