Question 3B7QCXE7 AS SSD benchmark after seven years

[theking2]

I frequently (at some point in time, montly) do measurements of most ssd I have somewhere sitting in chaos manor.
This was one in 2017:

and this in 2024


Not bad from 3911 to only 2835 in heavy use. My real question is in between those years I had way better markings with a different driver. Instead of Samsung SSD 960 it reads NVMe Samsung SSD and is useing ioStorAC. Are these numbers reliable at all?

 

[helpstar]

iostor is the rapidstorage driver feom Intel, stornvme most likely Microsoft default driver
update the intel rst driver and chipset driver

you changed the test in between feom1GB to 3GB, might not be comparable then

 

[CountMike]

SSD's speed doesn't change with time and usage if there are no HW/FW/SW errors but conditions like used capacity, drivers and OS can make such testing produce different results.
With frequent speed testing you are potentially wearing it out, every write test writes at least as much writes as set in the program and then to erase that much which counts as writes.
Check health in SMART table instead. SSDs have no moving mechanical parts to wear out or get dry bearings or fragment data to slow it down after some time.