Samsung 980 Pro not reading fast enough

[AT198864]

Hi guys!

So I’ve have this pc for about a year now, and I’ve noticed that my read speeds are around a gigabyte/s.

Any ideas? I have Pcie gen 4 as well, so I have no idea why, and I can’t find any drivers online on Samsungs website.

Thanks in advance!

 

Edit: people are wanting to know my pc specs so here they are:

ryzen 5 5600x

asus b550-a gaming

Radeon rx 6500xt

corsair 2x16 gb 3200 mhz rgb pro

samsung 980 pro (duh :P)

Dark rock pro 4

Edited February 8, 2022 by AT198864

[Levent]

How do you expect us to help you if you have literally no information in your post?

[suedseefrucht]

31 minutes ago, AT198864 said:

So I’ve have this pc for about a year now, and I’ve noticed that my read speeds are around a gigabyte.

1. "a gigabyte" is a storage capacity. If you meant GB/s, the Samsung 980 PRO NVMe M.2 SSD supports reading up to 7 GB/s
2. The speed depends on the weakest component. So we would need to know your components.

3. How did you measure read speed?

 

If you uploaded a file, the internet speed is probably your limit. (Unless you get 56000 Mbit/s upload speed)
If you moved a file from SSD to HDD, the HDD write speed is probably limiting.
If you moved a file to a flash drive, USB 3.1 is probably limiting to 10 GBit/s = 1.25 GB/s

[AT198864]

1 hour ago, Levent said:

How do you expect us to help you if you have literally no information in your post?

Pc specs:

ryzen 5 5600x

asus b550-a gaming

Radeon rx 6500xt

corsair 2x16 gb 3200 mhz rgb pro

samsung 980 pro (duh :P)

Dark rock pro 4

[BetteBalterZen]

Some thoughts; 

Make sure that the NVME is installed in the correct slot and that the slot is running in the correct mode PCI-E mode.

 

Also try download Samsung Magician and see if your NVME is detected by it - this could give you a driver / firmware update. 

[AT198864]

1 hour ago, suedseefrucht said:

1. "a gigabyte" is a storage capacity. If you meant GB/s, the Samsung 980 PRO NVMe M.2 SSD supports reading up to 7 GB/s
2. The speed depends on the weakest component. So we would need to know your components.

3. How did you measure read speed?

 

If you uploaded a file, the internet speed is probably your limit. (Unless you get 56000 Mbit/s upload speed)
If you moved a file from SSD to HDD, the HDD write speed is probably limiting.
If you moved a file to a flash drive, USB 3.1 is probably limiting to 10 GBit/s = 1.25 GB/s

I’m mainly concerned about game loading times, as even on light weight games, that are offline, and only around a mb, it takes over 10s to load

 

ryzen 5 5600x

asus b550-a gaming

Radeon rx 6500xt

corsair 2x16 gb 3200 mhz rgb pro

samsung 980 pro (duh :P)

Dark rock pro 4

ryzen 5 5600x

asus b550-a gaming

Radeon rx 6500xt

corsair 2x16 gb 3200 mhz rgb pro

samsung 980 pro (duh :P)

Dark rock pro 4

[AT198864]

Just now, BetteBalterZen said:

Some thoughts; 

Make sure that the NVME is installed in the correct slot and that the slot is running in the correct mode PCI-E mode.

 

Also try download Samsung Magician and see if your NVME is detected by it - this could give you a driver / firmware update. 

Ok, thanks I’ll try that when I get home. 
And for the correct pcie slot, it is in the one closest to the moon (#1)

[BetteBalterZen]

Just now, AT198864 said:

Ok, thanks I’ll try that when I get home. 
And for the correct pcie slot, it is in the one closest to the moon (#1)

You are welcome

You have to check the manual of your motherboard. 

Some motherboards wants them in the bottom slot, others in the top slot. Also depends on if you have other SATA drives connected to your motherboards via SATA cable ports.

[AT198864]

Just now, BetteBalterZen said:

You are welcome

You have to check the manual of your motherboard. 

Some motherboards wants them in the bottom slot, others in the top slot. Also depends on if you have other SATA drives connected to your motherboards via SATA. 

Ah, I do have a 2tb had with nothing on it, so I might try unplugging it, testing it, and see if it’s any faster. Thanks!

[BetteBalterZen]

3 minutes ago, AT198864 said:

Ah, I do have a 2tb had with nothing on it, so I might try unplugging it, testing it, and see if it’s any faster. Thanks!

Instead of mindlessly unplugging that drive, look in the manual and see what ports can be used with a PCIE NVME Could save you a lot of time. Sometimes when using 1 or 2 SATA ports, this will cause either the bottom or top NVME slot to run in SATA mode. 

[AT198864]

13 minutes ago, BetteBalterZen said:

Instead of mindlessly unplugging that drive, look in the manual and see what ports can be used with a PCIE NVME Could save you a lot of time. Sometimes when using 1 or 2 SATA ports, this will cause either the bottom or top NVME slot to run in SATA mode. 

Ok, this would be in the manual of the motherboard, right?

[BetteBalterZen]

Just now, AT198864 said:

Ok, this would be in the manual of the motherboard, right?

I would certainly think so. All the manuals I've looked in, it has always been specified in it

[suedseefrucht]

15 minutes ago, AT198864 said:

manual of the motherboard

Use M.2_1 for PCIe 4.0

 

 

I think the >10 s loading time can also be caused by the game itself.
Maybe it is programmed in a way, that doesn't allow faster loading.

[AT198864]

16 minutes ago, suedseefrucht said:

Use M.2_1 for PCIe 4.0

 

 

I think the >10 s loading time can also be caused by the game itself.
Maybe it is programmed in a way, that doesn't allow faster loading.

Yeah, I am using that one. I take it that with some games, it just is impossible for it to load faster, due to the programming, no matter what pc you have, yes?

[suedseefrucht]

5 minutes ago, AT198864 said:

with some games, it just is impossible for it to load faster, due to the programming, no matter what pc you have, yes?

Is your loading time typical for your games? I dont know, because I dont know your games.
Is it possible that there is a game with 10 seconds loading time with a fast SSD? Probably.

[ewitte]

Having 4 NVME drives in the primary system the slowest is still over 3GB/s.  Although there is some level of sharing I haven't seen enough going on to drag it down under 3GB/s.

 

3.0x2 which may happen with some boards is still 2GB/s minus a bit of overhead.

 

Now the 4th drive cut my video card to 8x and causes an occasional resume from sleep issue I'm unsure if it will stay.

 

Gaming - I haven't seen much of a difference even from SATA SSD drives.  We need to wait for directstorage to be implemented to get the benefit.

[AT198864]

23 minutes ago, ewitte said:

Having 4 NVME drives in the primary system the slowest is still over 3GB/s.  Although there is some level of sharing I haven't seen enough going on to drag it down under 3GB/s.

 

3.0x2 which may happen with some boards is still 2GB/s minus a bit of overhead.

 

Now the 4th drive cut my video card to 8x and causes an occasional resume from sleep issue I'm unsure if it will stay.

 

Gaming - I haven't seen much of a difference even from SATA SSD drives.  We need to wait for directstorage to be implemented to get the benefit.

Yes, however I have a 980 pro 500gb so I still should get 5gb/s a minimum. Also, it is run on an nvme 4.0, so that shouldn’t limit it

[Nayr438]

Have you ran a benchmark against it to verify your disk speeds? https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskmark/

 

2 hours ago, AT198864 said:

I take it that with some games, it just is impossible for it to load faster, due to the programming, no matter what pc you have, yes?

Yes. Most software can't take advantage of super high speed storage. You will mostly be waiting on the software to finish whatever it's doing in the background, not really waiting for something to load from the drive.

Most Games will typically see loading times pretty much the same across the board from Sata SSD's to NVME Gen 4.

 

The biggest noticeable difference will come from Specific Workstation and Server Use Cases.

[AT198864]

9 hours ago, Nayr438 said:

Have you ran a benchmark against it to verify your disk speeds? https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskmark/

 

Yes. Most software can't take advantage of super high speed storage. You will mostly be waiting on the software to finish whatever it's doing in the background, not really waiting for something to load from the drive.

Most Games will typically see loading times pretty much the same across the board from Sata SSD's to NVME Gen 4.

 

The biggest noticeable difference will come from Specific Workstation and Server Use Cases.

Ah, ok.

[ewitte]

11 hours ago, AT198864 said:

Yes, however I have a 980 pro 500gb so I still should get 5gb/s a minimum. Also, it is run on an nvme 4.0, so that shouldn’t limit it

Just checking My read is a bit over 7GB/s on the 980.  All the rest of the drives are 3.0 drives.