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    Question SSD random reads seem particularly slow

    @Bob.B As SSD benchmark below:
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    Question SSD random reads seem particularly slow

    Thanks for the advice - would you mind please expanding on why it appears faulty so that I can have a reasoning for my RMA? Is it possible to tell whether I've installed it badly or it's a faulty cable rather than an SSD specific fault? Would a fault in either of those areas result in a slow...
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    Question SSD random reads seem particularly slow

    @Bob.B please see screenshot below: @Lafong I've updated the bios and all driver updates from HP who is the manufacturer of the laptop.
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    Question SSD random reads seem particularly slow

    Hi I enabled momentum cache to help try to improve the performance of the drive which was acting slow. I knew that the high numbers were inflated by the cache but the poor numbers were still poor. I've disabled the cache and rerun crystalmark benchmarking and it's pretty bad across the board...
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    Question SSD random reads seem particularly slow

    Hi Bob it was this SSD - Crucial BX500 2TB CT2000BX500SSD1-Up to 540 MB/s (Internal SSD, 3D NAND, SATA, 2.5 Inch), Black https://amzn.eu/d/7zOYzI1
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    Question SSD random reads seem particularly slow

    I've recently changed a SATA HDD to a Crucial SSD on my laptop. It also has an nvm2 SSD as the primary drive. The secondary SSD drive is reading very slowly at certain times. I've checked that trim is occurring (and manually triggering through optimising), installed Crucial Storage Executive...