[SOLVED] Adata SX8200 slow write speed

[briantoanle]

I'm using a ADATA SX8200NP 480gb and the write speed is very slow. Write speed hovers around 550ish for Sequential. Read speed is also slower than other benchmarks I saw but not as bad as Write. My motherboard is MSI H370 Gaming Pro Carbon, the ssd is plugged into the top slot with m.2 shield. It is also my boot drive and running in UEFI.

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[y-prime]

I have also found that if you put the drive in a desktop it will always get better performance than in a laptop. Go figure. Other testers have confirmed that they believe the only way to max these out is in a desktop with the drive connecting on the mainboard not through a PCI-e adapter. With the laptop you have I would expect the write speed to be closer to specs though. Do you have more than 1 NVMe connection? If so try the other one as my G752 would not even get close to the specs when I used the second connector.

I will try the other slot when I get some screwdrivers in hand. Both of the m2 slots are PCIe 4.0 so i dont expect anything to change but no harm in trying.

 

[RSpitzer]

I thought the same thing with my G752 but when I tried the different slots found the speed was significantly slower. Let me know how it works out for you.

 

[spanko]

I had this problem when benchmarking with ATTO. By default, Direct I/O is checked and gives me write speeds capping at 480MB/s. Turned off Direct I/O and it's benchmarking at 2.70GB/s write and 4.73GB/s read.

I read that Direct I/O option is a "worst case scenario" option and doesn't reflect typical situations. Disable it and try your benchmarks again.

 

[louno]

Hello, I also have this problem, my 480gb Adata SX8200NP write speed is capped at ~530mb/s ... write speeds are fine around 2650 mb/s

I tried running the ADATA SSD Optimization using the SSD Toolbox app , i did not run the OS Optimizations though because it seems like this would change some windows registry (superfetch, prefetch, automatic defrag, etc) , not sure if i should do this OS Optimization, i dont trust this Adata SSD Toolbox app much..
**EDIT I tried the OS Optimisation BASIC and ADVANCED in the ADATA SSD Toolbox app and using these options did not improve write speed.

In the device policies tab, i made sure that "Enable write caching on the device" was enabled.

There doesnt seem to be any firmware update available at all.

Not sure what else to try...

My computer specs:
Win 10
Ryzen 5 3600x
Asus ROG Strix X470-F

 

[moikan]

I am having the same problems. I added the 1TB version as an additional drive for my Helios 300 2019 laptop yesterday. When it was empty, read speed reached 2500~ slow as advertised. Now that it's 20% full, rw is 500~

 

[RSpitzer]

Make sure the write cache is turned on for the drive in Device manager. All I can say is to experiment a bit. Try different slots on the mainboard if you have more than 1. I have 2 and one performs a lot better than the other. Not sure why. I also tried a Corsair Force 510 in the my ROG G752 and found the same results with the different slots so it is not the drive, it is the way the manufacturer set up the M.2 slots. Every time you change the slot you must make sure the Write cache is on in Device manager as Windows turns it back off if you change the slot.
Do you have an m.2 drive in the machine that it boots from? How does it benchmark?
My HP Omen came with one that had absolutely horrible benchmarks (1100 read and 500 write). I put the SX8200 in and the speed is now up closer to specs (3500 read and 2500 write).
Is your drive the SX8200 Pro or the regular SX8200 as the rated speeds are different for them? My testing is done using Crystal Diskmark 6 and my drive is the SX8200 Pro.

 

[y-prime]

so yesterday i bought a second sx8200pro with a capacity of 512gb. I moved my original 256gb one to my second m2 nvme slot and it was working much better(~ 2000r/~ 900w with %80 filled). Now i cloned os from 256gb to 512gb one. Both performs superb. I am not quite sure what was the issue but at this point Im happy with my purchase.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=10-PhBIjbjuI-0ZmVzAPNdyDVhTjYu_6F

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[RSpitzer]

so yesterday i bought a second sx8200pro with a capacity of 512gb. I moved my original 256gb one to my second m2 nvme slot and it was working much better(~ 2000r/~ 900w with %80 filled). Now i cloned os from 256gb to 512gb one. Both performs superb. I am not quite sure what was the issue but at this point Im happy with my purchase.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=10-PhBIjbjuI-0ZmVzAPNdyDVhTjYu_6F

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Glad the drives are working out for you. I have been informed from several sources that the performance on the smaller drives (256 and 512) is always lower than the quoted specs. The 1TB will perform closer to the quoted numbers. It all has to do with how much cache is on the drive. Also if you can try tweaking the buffer and cache flushing on Windows 10 it changes things quite a bit on the smaller drives.

 

[y-prime]

Glad the drives are working out for you. I have been informed from several sources that the performance on the smaller drives (256 and 512) is always lower than the quoted specs. The 1TB will perform closer to the quoted numbers. It all has to do with how much cache is on the drive. Also if you can try tweaking the buffer and cache flushing on Windows 10 it changes things quite a bit on the smaller drives.

Yeah me too. I wouldn't mind the differences since my actual concern was that i somehow got a faulty unit or that my laptop motherboard was faulty. Speeds Im getting now is more than enough for me(I just use them for windows and games) so no need for any tweaks. Btw, advertised speeds for 256 is 3500r/1200w and for 512gb 3500r/2300w.