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Ok, I found the problem and I am posting the solution I came up with here.

 

For some reason my boot controller was set to IDE and not AHCI

 

Changing to AHCI in the bios menu led to blue screens. So:

 

Start in safe mode.

Change from IDE to AHCI in the bios.

Boot into windows.

Turn off safe mode. Restart.

 

Here are the results:

 

 

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I ran the samsung magician performance test on my new 850 pro and it came back with this

 

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surely that's not normal. Is it?

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Well here is my OCZ Vertex 4 from 2 years ago and this was 2 years of usage just tested it last night.

 

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that looks a little low but yet we are maxing out the SATA 6Gb/sec with SSDs so it might be fine.

Computer and other things (My Phanteks Enthoo Elite build is done)

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Main Computer

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Processor: Intel Core i7 6850k @4.5GHz
Motherboard: Asus Rampage V ROG Edition 10
Heatsink: Custom Hardline
Memory: Corsaor Dominator 16GB (4GB x2) DDR4 3000MHz 
Video Card: EVGA GTX 1080 FTW
Hard Drive: x2 OCZ ARC 100 240GB RAID 0 (Boot), Western Digital 4TB SSHD (Steam), x2 Adata 512GB (Steam)
Main GUI: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit

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Monitor: x2 Dell U2414H
Keyboard: Ducky Shine 5 RGB (Cherry MX Blue)
Mouse: Logitech G502
Headset: AKG K553 Pro Studio Headphones
Speakers: Boston Accustics Home Media Theater 2.1 + Boston Accustics Soundbar
Microphone: Audio Technica AT-2035 w/ Focusrite Scarlett Solo
Sound: Creative Sound Blaster E5 DAC

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Case: Rosewill 4U Rackmount RSV-L4500

Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2670 V3 12C/24T

Motherboard: Asrock x99 Extreme 4

Ram: Kingston HyperX DDR4 2133 4x4GB

Video Card: Nvidia GT520

OS Drive: Kingston Hyperx 240GB SSD

Raid Card: LSI MegaRaid  9261-8i 8-port

Hard Drives: x7 HGST 4TB Nas

 

 

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What numbers do you get with CrystalDiskMark?

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Well here is my OCZ Vertex 4 from 2 years ago and this was 2 years of usage just tested it last night.

 

9s0uXzw.png

 

that looks a little low but yet we are maxing out the SATA 6GB/sec with SSDs so it might be fine.

Gb/s*

"It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brain falls out." - Carl Sagan.

"I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you" - Edward I. Koch

"I didn't die! I performed a tactical reset!" - Apollolol

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Gb/s*

 

Whoops sorry, didn't mean to do that, fixed it.

Computer and other things (My Phanteks Enthoo Elite build is done)

Spoiler

Main Computer

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Processor: Intel Core i7 6850k @4.5GHz
Motherboard: Asus Rampage V ROG Edition 10
Heatsink: Custom Hardline
Memory: Corsaor Dominator 16GB (4GB x2) DDR4 3000MHz 
Video Card: EVGA GTX 1080 FTW
Hard Drive: x2 OCZ ARC 100 240GB RAID 0 (Boot), Western Digital 4TB SSHD (Steam), x2 Adata 512GB (Steam)
Main GUI: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit

All That Extra Stuff

 

Spoiler

Monitor: x2 Dell U2414H
Keyboard: Ducky Shine 5 RGB (Cherry MX Blue)
Mouse: Logitech G502
Headset: AKG K553 Pro Studio Headphones
Speakers: Boston Accustics Home Media Theater 2.1 + Boston Accustics Soundbar
Microphone: Audio Technica AT-2035 w/ Focusrite Scarlett Solo
Sound: Creative Sound Blaster E5 DAC

Server

Spoiler

Case: Rosewill 4U Rackmount RSV-L4500

Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2670 V3 12C/24T

Motherboard: Asrock x99 Extreme 4

Ram: Kingston HyperX DDR4 2133 4x4GB

Video Card: Nvidia GT520

OS Drive: Kingston Hyperx 240GB SSD

Raid Card: LSI MegaRaid  9261-8i 8-port

Hard Drives: x7 HGST 4TB Nas

 

 

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Ok, I found the problem and I am posting the solution I came up with here.

 

For some reason my boot controller was set to IDE and not AHCI

 

Changing to AHCI in the bios menu led to blue screens. So:

 

Start in safe mode.

Change from IDE to AHCI in the bios.

Boot into windows.

Turn off safe mode. Restart.

 

Here are the results:

 

 

post-109492-0-26759100-1420012203.png

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