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Apart from other marketplaces such as Origin,Uplay,Gog,etc. there isn't another option nowadays They all work in the same way as Steam I believe GOG is the exception though

Are you accessing the server like this ipaddress:port?

Hope this helps

If the speeds don’t improve even although it’s a pain I probably will still have to reinstall Windows. The PNY site states that the read should be 510 mb/s and the writes 390 mb/s

Happy to help. Fractal do make good cases

I did set it to AHCI Mode and the reads are better but the writes are still slow. Overall system performance doesn't seem faster though

Noctua has a good list on cases that fit the NH-D15 https://noctua.at/en/nh-d15/ccomp

What size is your motherboard?

Would going into safe mode not do the same as these commands? Edit: Just realised these commands make it easier to boot into safe mode

I know that I have used 88% disk space and you should have under 75% used but I have been at 88% for a while now and the performance has only slowed down recently, there are no firmware updates available for my SSD. I did take a look in the BIOS and the SATA type is IDE instead of AHCI which could be the issue, however when I changed it to AHCI Windows refused to boot so I changed it back to IDE. Are you aware of any reason Windows would not boot? Thanks

I noticed over the past few days that the SSD was getting slower so I decided to run Crystal Disk Mark and was shocked with the results. Even although Crystal Disk Info shows the drive health as good I'm not sure that it is. I saw this article (https://www.pny.com/mega-support/solid-state-drives-faqs) "Why is my SSD not as fast as it used to be?" it states that it could be because more of the space on the drive is getting used but I don't believe this is the case as I don't store anything on the drive and I haven't installed any new programs recently.

I do run backups but probably not as often as I should, I don't think I have backed up my boot SSD for a few weeks now. I know where the SATA configuration is in my BIOS.

I am just backing up my SSD now, I did wonder if it was something to do with the BIOS I will look at the BIOS once the backup has completed and see if it is set to AHCI.

I believe the case has two 120mm mounts. I have not tried lowering the fan speeds. I will run OCCT later and post the results.

It's most noticeable on boot up where sometimes it can take double the time compared to before.When launching Google Chrome and File Explorer it seems slightly slower