SSD IS TOO SLOW

[KTLtrooopah]

hi guys i have an samsung 860 evo 1tb and it is only running at 380 r/w speed and it is supposed to be at 500 but i cant see anything in the bios to turn it up it happened after i moved my ssd and unplugged it and plugged it back in

 

 

ryzen 5 2600

asrock b450m pro 4

samsung 860 evo 1tb

asus rtx2060 6gb oc

1tb seagate hdd

16gb corrsair vengance 3200mhz

corrsair tx550m psu

windows 10 home

[NovaNightmare]

You obviously have a bottleneck, I immediately thought, depending on the GPU, you'd not have enough PCIe lanes for the SSD to run at full speed, but your SSD is running on SATA.

 

You should post your full PC specs, OS and everything, including how many other drives you have.

 

Also, depending on your GPU, you may just be better off using an M.2 Drive, as your board supports it.

[191x7]

How full is it? 

Last time it was trimmed?

[KTLtrooopah]

Just now, 191x7 said:

How full is it? 

Last time it was trimmed?

68gb left of space i have deleted most of my games off it

[tkitch]

31 minutes ago, KTLtrooopah said:

68gb left of space i have deleted most of my games off it

you want to keep SSDs at least 10% free space.  20-25% is better for performance.

 

a 1TB at 68GB?  Way too full.

 

[NovaNightmare]

46 minutes ago, KTLtrooopah said:

68gb left of space i have deleted most of my games off it

I highly recommend you get yourself an NVMe M.2 drive. Your MB supports it, so a Samsung 970 will likely work wonders for you -

 

I don't know what kind of budget you have to live under, but a 2TB 970 Evo Plus is on sale for $199 on Amazon ($300 off), you don't want a 980 as you don't have PCIe 4.

 

Now once you put the new drive in, you can do a clone with Macrium Reflect for free, once you are loaded into the 2TB as the boot drive, you can format the 860, then reinstall your games there, create a new Steam Library (or whatever you use) on there for your less played games.

 

Your entire system should see a decent performance boost, because NVMe PCIe is definitely faster than a SATA connection

 

 

[191x7]

52 minutes ago, KTLtrooopah said:

68gb left of space i have deleted most of my games off it

To dhis:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/disk-cleanup-in-windows-8a96ff42-5751-39ad-23d6-434b4d5b9a68

 

Ant dhis:

 

Also, free up more space. You need at least 100GB free on a 1TB SSD for it to work properly.

Having less than that not only decreases the performance but also decreases the lifetime expectancy of the drive.

For example, you can move the Downloads folder to a different drive. -.-

 

After that do this:

https://rejzor.wordpress.com/2013/08/09/force-ssd-to-trim-free-space/

 

And last step;

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/defragment-your-windows-10-pc-048aefac-7f1f-4632-d48a-9700c4ec702a

 

[KTLtrooopah]

19 minutes ago, NovaNightmare said:

I highly recommend you get yourself an NVMe M.2 drive. Your MB supports it, so a Samsung 970 will likely work wonders for you -

 

I don't know what kind of budget you have to live under, but a 2TB 970 Evo Plus is on sale for $199 on Amazon ($300 off), you don't want a 980 as you don't have PCIe 4.

 

Now once you put the new drive in, you can do a clone with Macrium Reflect for free, once you are loaded into the 2TB as the boot drive, you can format the 860, then reinstall your games there, create a new Steam Library (or whatever you use) on there for your less played games.

 

Your entire system should see a decent performance boost, because NVMe PCIe is definitely faster than a SATA connection

 

 

yeah i was looking into geting an m.2 but for that 2tb one on amazon its $350 nzd and i dont have that kind of budget yet

[NovaNightmare]

15 minutes ago, KTLtrooopah said:

yeah i was looking into geting an m.2 but for that 2tb one on amazon its $350 nzd and i dont have that kind of budget yet

Editing - I assumed you were USD, did not understand NZD for you, sorry. Use CamelCamelCamel to put a price watch on the item and get an email when it drops to something you can afford. Leaving the rest as is.

 

Wrong one

 

https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-970-EVO-Plus-MZ-V7S2T0B/dp/B07MFZXR1B

 

That is the one you want - if you cannot afford it now, keep it on a Wishlist for later, do the cleanup others have recommended to improve the situation, it will be a nice upgrade for you when you have the chance, may go lower during "Prime day" but this is the lowest it has been (was a few dollars cheaper on 4/1) almost ever.