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Very low drive write speeds on new PCIE drive

Cameron Lister
By Cameron Lister
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I recently bought a Gigabyte Areo 15X laptop and did a drive speed test today, the read seems fine but the write seems unusually low for a PCIE drive. Is there any reason for this or is the drive just slow, considering changing to a 970 evo around christmas but still would be nice to know for now. 

 

The drive: https://www.transcend-info.com/Embedded/Products/No-946

 

 

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It's a DRAMless drive....I guess this is the problem

 

If you want a new NVMe SSD, can consider those with SM2262 controller like Adata SX8200. However, most users will be fine with SATA SSD as 4k speeds are about the same between SATA and NVMe SSD (which matter the most for regular users). Runs much cooler too

 

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5 hours ago, GeneXiS_X said:

It's a DRAMless drive....I guess this is the problem

 

If you want a new NVMe SSD, can consider those with SM2262 controller like Adata SX8200. However, most users will be fine with SATA SSD as 4k speeds are about the same between SATA and NVMe SSD (which matter the most for regular users). Runs much cooler too

 

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It does have SLC caching though so that's definitely a bit low.... unless it's not enabled in the laptop or something

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