Is my Sabrent Rocket 4+ 4TB drive working properly?

[nightmarevoid]

I bought this a while ago but didn't install it for a couple months because of the time it would take to disassemble my water cooling. I've been using it for a while but I feel like it isn't running the way it's supposed to. I'm worried it may be the reason my computer will at times feel slow or won't load assets into games in a timely manner. I ran crystal disk mark on it, but I can't find result for the 4TB, only the 2TB, which it is way off of (here: https://www.legitreviews.com/sabrent-rocket-4-plus-2tb-ssd-review_224507/4). I've posted the results below and I was really hoping people who also have this SSD could run CDM and post their results to compare against. Thanks for the help in figuring this out.

 

Peak Performance (R/W mixed)

 

Real Performance (R/W mixed)

 

Some more info to cover the basics:

It is running off of a gen4 slot (Asus B550i), is set to gen4 in the bios (latest bios), and the other m.2 drive is set to use sata in an attempt to keep the lanes clean.

It has a heatsink, that being the one built into the motherboard, and I did remove the plastic from the thermal pad.

It is a clean installation of windows, but I upgraded to windows 11.

I ran these tests with as many background apps closed as I could. The only thing using the SSD was Nvidia Container, and I can't exactly disable that.

[nightmarevoid]

Here's something else weird, my C: drive doesn't have the UEFI partition on it. for some reason that's on my other M.2 SSD. Could this do something like funnel all of my drive fetches through the slower SSD?