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nvme read speed not exceeding 200MB/s - is it normal ?

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Hi.

Verifying steam files on large games took a lot (similar to hdd) so i checked speed in task manager (windows 10) and saw read speeds of 200MB/s tops.

drive is intel 660p https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/SpeedTest/602553/INTEL-SSDPEKNW010T8

I know it's low tier crap drive but got it really cheap. didnt expect much performance but 200MB/s is what i get out of my seagate HDD.

what is the problem ?

The mobo is a x470 taichi, tried in all slots, same speed.

I know im not supposed to expect much of it, but 200 TOPS (and reads, on top of that) ? i have usb thumb drives faster than this. not to mention  my old Adata sata boot ssd is faster than this.

In another m.2 slot i have a kingston SA2000M8500G 500gb nvme drive. this one tops 400MB/s. this is weird

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4 minutes ago, hash02 said:

Hi.

Verifying steam files on large games took a lot (similar to hdd) so i checked speed in task manager (windows 10) and saw read speeds of 200MB/s tops.

drive is intel 660p https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/SpeedTest/602553/INTEL-SSDPEKNW010T8

I know it's low tier crap drive but got it really cheap. didnt expect much performance but 200MB/s is what i get out of my seagate HDD.

what is the problem ?

The mobo is a x470 taichi, tried in all slots, same speed.

I know im not supposed to expect much of it, but 200 TOPS (and reads, on top of that) ? i have usb thumb drives faster than this. not to mention  my old Adata sata boot ssd is faster than this.

In another m.2 slot i have a kingston SA2000M8500G 500gb nvme drive. this one tops 400MB/s. this is weird

Did you try both in the same conditions? It could just be the platform where you are verifying the game or the game itself.

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Get latest CrystalDiskMark and see what you get for speeds.
As ding other things are almost ALWAYS depended on other speeds.

 

Like verifying Steam files will need a lot of CPU and RAM to check files, so not 100% disk speed will be used.

When i ask for more specs, don't expect me to know the answer!
I'm just helping YOU to help YOURSELF!
(The more info you give the easier it is for others to help you out!)

Not willing to capitulate to the ignorance of the masses!

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This one is the intel nvme drive:

intel-nvme.png.fc99f65795190bb192ac433effbc17a3.png

and this one is the kingston nvme drive:

kingston-nvme.png.05dd5b0af8d344bcbcc5c7cf1b44dbc8.png

the results are all over the place.

on paper, the kinston drive is faster.

Intel: 1800 MB/s read and write
(intel specs)
Kingston: 2,200/2,000MB/s
(kingston specs)

 

I know bench and real use is not the same thing but 200Mb/s ? something wrong with my motherboard or os ? it doesnt matter if its steam verify or just copy a huge iso from one disk to the other. speeds are crap :(

 

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20 minutes ago, hash02 said:

something wrong with my motherboard or os ?

No. your cpu and ram has to work on moving files too.

 

what cpu do you have?

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2 hours ago, SavageNeo said:

what cpu do you have?

ah i forgot my system specs

asrock x470 taichi

ryzen 7 2700x

2x8GB gskill 3200mhz cl14

windows 10 latest updates

 

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Make sure you have no other programs using to much CPU, RAM or especially the Drive you're testing.
(Can check via taskmanager)

 

 

20 hours ago, hash02 said:

asrock x470 taichi

ryzen 7 2700x

2x8GB gskill 3200mhz cl14

windows 10 latest updates

But your specs are surely good enough to have the max speeds, which i think its not completely getting to.

 

 

 

But besides that, there's a lot more that comes into play then just the diskdrive in doing things like you mentioned. It IS faster, but they cant do wonders yet. There will always be a bottleneck.

When i ask for more specs, don't expect me to know the answer!
I'm just helping YOU to help YOURSELF!
(The more info you give the easier it is for others to help you out!)

Not willing to capitulate to the ignorance of the masses!

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Yep, makes perfect sense. to be thorough i even disabled the antivirus.

So nope, nothing running in the background.

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do i have to install a driver from kingston or intel for their nvme drives ? like samsung has for it's 970 for example ???

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here's a screenshot of a real world problem : copying a game - for example - guildwars 2 from one drive to the other starts at around 2-300 MB/s then drops to 10.

no other activities running in the background

 

speed.png.8fc680fc67ad1c9edf06fadb6b8e80db.png

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