Benchmarking tells me my SSD is 100mb/s write speed?!

[repair-team-console]

Ok so ive done a lot of reading around online about this and cant find info that helps me, hoping someone here can shed some light on this...

I added a 500 GB samsung evo SSD a few months ago and i just got around to benchmarking everything because i was curious. The SSD is less than 25% full, and is all 1 partition.

Im using "NovaBench" to test, and when its done it says my write speed is 108mb/s
I closed all other programs, tried a few times, its the same each time.

I also use "samsung magician" and set it to high performance, and yes AHCI is enabled. I also enabled the RAPID mode but that didnt change anything.

I built the pc myself, and yes i am using a SATA3 cable and its plugged into a SATA3 in my mobo

here are the rest of the specs:
AMD FX 6300 CPU
Asus M5A96 LE mobo
GeForce GTX 660
16 GB DDR3
windows 10

thank you very much for the help!

 

[ArtPog]

That is an abysmally low score for that Samsung SSD. Historically Samsung SSDs have had incompatibility problems with AMD-based systems, but presumably their SSD models released in recent years have supposed to overcome those problems.

You didn't mention anything about running the Samsung Magician Performance Test. Did you? And were the results equally poor?

 

[SuperSoph_WD]

Hey there, repair-team-console!

I'd suggest you use the SSD's brand-specific tool to test the performance, just like @ArtPog suggested. You should also check if the firmware of the SSD is up-to-date.
You mentioned that the drive is connected to the SATA III port on your mobo, but I'd also recommend you swap the port and the SATA cable with a different one, to see how the SSD will perform then. The poor performance could be caused by inefficient power.
Do you have access to another PC? If you do, I'd suggest you plug the SSD there and run the performance tests again.

Keep us posted & Good luck!
SuperSoph_WD

 

[intimthebrave]

I Also am getting only 95-99 write speed on my new OCZ Agility 3 SSD Drive, with read speeds around 200mb, and my WD Blue, 7200 rpm drive(500gb) gets around 115 write speed which is faster then the SSD, i have tried everything from checking to see if it is running in AHCI Mode in the device manager, which i dont think it is, switching sata ports on the motherboard(Which did help some, it actually increased the write speed from 85 to 95 somehow someway), also tried new sata cables, try updating the firmware that will be my next step. Device SCSI\Disk&Ven_&Prod_OCZ-AGILITY3\4&352c0692&0&010000 was configured.

Driver Name: disk.inf
Class Guid: {4D36E967-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
Driver Date: 06/21/2006
Driver Version: 10.0.10586.0
Driver Provider: Microsoft
Driver Section: disk_install.NT
Driver Rank: 0xFF0005
Matching Device Id: GenDisk
Outranked Drivers:
Device Updated: false
Parent Device: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1E02&SUBSYS_05821028&REV_04\3&11583659&0&FA

 

[intimthebrave]

Seems to say Deviice SCSI, and not AHCI, which might be both of our problems on the getting low write speed, and i have already checked in the Bios, and it is set to AHCI