hardware SSD choking

[Faderhans]

Hey there guys, i'm new to this community so apologies if this post doesn't belong here. 

 

I have a pretty weird problem with my sata SSD (INTENSO 512GB). I've experienced just awful load times despite the disk being able to dish out 500 MB+ seq. read.

I used  AS SSD Benchmark 2.0. to test the drive, i have posted the results below - However, when i'm running games the drive will most of the time switch between as little as 5 MB/s and rarely peek at 110 MB/s. This is especially affecting load times. Do any of you guys have an idea to what could cause this? 

 

I'm using a MSI 110M PRO-VD with 4 sata ports all running at 6 Gb/s 

 

https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/H110M-PRO-VD/Specification

 

I also posted the read speed when validating files in steam. Notice how low it is compared to what it's actually capable of, for reference there's also a file validation from my kingston  SV300 drive performed in steam as well. 

 

 

Benchmark tool:

 

Read from benchmark:

 

Steam file validation

 

Steam file validation kingston:

 

 

 

[Radium_Angel]

9 minutes ago, Faderhans said:

INTENSO

Never heard of them. Not all SSDs are created equal. You might have a poorly built one, or one using cheap parts inside to cut corners. Try CrystalDiskBenchmark, it's more widely recognized here. Post your results.

[schwellmo92]

Can you run tests other than sequential? Sequential isn't a very good measure of a SSD. Also how full is your SSD?

[Faderhans]

15 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

Never heard of them. Not all SSDs are created equal. You might have a poorly built one, or one using cheap parts inside to cut corners. Try CrystalDiskBenchmark, it's more widely recognized here. Post your results.

 

There we go.

[Faderhans]

1 minute ago, schwellmo92 said:

Can you run tests other than sequential? Sequential isn't a very good measure of a SSD. Also how full is your SSD?

232 GB / 477 GB. About 50 %.

[Radium_Angel]

52 minutes ago, Faderhans said:

There we go.

Did you run ALL the tests, or only the 1st one?

[Faderhans]

12 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

Did you run ALL the tests, or only the 1st one?

I only ran the sequential, will post results for all tests later.

[TempestCatto]

Are you sure Windows, Steam, or something else isn't updating in the background? Do you have all other programs closed? Do you have everything except for your A/V disabled at startup? Other than the drive being no name, that's all I can think of.

[Faderhans]

18 hours ago, Radium_Angel said:

Did you run ALL the tests, or only the 1st one?

Back with some results.

 

All tests run on the INTENSO drive

 

 

Benchmark from my Samsung 840 EVO.

 

 

 

 

[Radium_Angel]

57 minutes ago, Faderhans said:

All tests run on the INTENSO drive

Hmmm...

 

Well those look ok, which kills my theory that there was something wrong with the SSD. I assume you are running win10? If so, do you know where the Event Viewer logs are? Look into the System subsection, and see if you are getting any "critical" errors (red X's) or anything to do with "Disk" and possibly "bad block"

[ChatDaw]

Is your SSD cool enough? Might be slowing down due to overheating?

[Faderhans]

2 hours ago, ChatDaw said:

Is your SSD cool enough? Might be slowing down due to overheating?

 

Seems fine to me.

[Faderhans]

2 hours ago, Radium_Angel said:

Hmmm...

 

Well those look ok, which kills my theory that there was something wrong with the SSD. I assume you are running win10? If so, do you know where the Event Viewer logs are? Look into the System subsection, and see if you are getting any "critical" errors (red X's) or anything to do with "Disk" and possibly "bad block"

I'm not exactly sure if this is what we're looking for, but i'm looking at "hardwareevents" and it doens't seem to log anything. My OS is in Danish so apologies if something is unclear.

[Radium_Angel]

3 hours ago, Faderhans said:

I'm not exactly sure if this is what we're looking for

One section up, the one labeled "Windows logger" then the section "System"

and I can read Danish well enough, being from there