Getting About 50% Read Speeds and 25% Write Speeds, Reason?

[alanp1995]

I recently purchased a Sabrent Rocket Q 1TB NVMe PCIe M.2 Drive; claiming to reach speeds up 3200MB/s read and 2000MB/s write.

I assume the board is important so I have a B450M Mortar Max paired with a Ryzen 5 2600.

 

Results are shown in picture attached.

 

 

[SupaKomputa]

Plug the ssd in the first slot.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

Make sure the m2 is in the first slot. Otherwise, you share lanes with things like sata/chipset/whatever else uses chipset lanes 

[alanp1995]

2 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

Plug the ssd in the first slot.

 

1 minute ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

Make sure the m2 is in the first slot. Otherwise, you share lanes with things like sata/chipset/whatever else uses chipset lanes 

Thanks peeps. Will switch it up now. My thought process was to hide the drive behind the GPU.

[Kilrah]

Also your SSD is 75% full. Quoted specs are basically "up to, when it's empty". Only goes down from here.

[SupaKomputa]

1 minute ago, alanp1995 said:

hide the drive behind the GPU

No no. that's the best location for SSD.

Under the gpu might get hot air from it.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

1 minute ago, alanp1995 said:

 

Thanks peeps. Will switch it up now. My thought process was to hide the drive behind the GPU.

That should be the first slot

NVM that board is weird and be first pcie slot is really low down.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

1 minute ago, Kilrah said:

Also your SSD is 75% full. Quoted specs are basically "up to, when it's empty". Only goes down from here.

And they also say peak speeds, not max sustained.