[SOLVED] Games on my SSD have started having terrible loading times

[davidbozovic1]

Pretty much the title. I have 2 SSD's on my PC, one which is NVME which I use for OS and other "productivity" software, and a standard SATA SSD which I use to store games on. Now admittedly, I have written and deleted TONS of data on that SATA SSD in a short span, mainly because I was hyped for the fast loading times on demanding games and because I had access to high download speeds. I had this SSD for 141 days. For instance, DOTA 2 used to load in few seconds, now it takes around 35 seconds to load from splash screen, with other elements of the UI slowly loading up after the initial load. It sometimes freezes while in game and becomes unresponsive, sometimes not even being able to be killed through task manager. When I moved DOTA onto my OS SSD, it loaded and performed flawlessly. Then i moved it back to SATA one, with the same issues reappearing. This SSD is still under warranty thankfully, so I was wondering, should I RMA it?

The SSD in question is ADATA SU750. Below are advertised speeds (which I initially had), and current speeds that I just measured today, as well as SMART values.

 

[Lutfij]

Using Adata's ToolBox, can you see if the SSD in question has any firmware updates pending? Also, what motherboard are you working with and what is your current BIOS version?

 

[scout_03]

those adata number are from the ssd toolbox also what is the space left for files on this 1 tb ssd .

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

ADATA SSD's aren't very good in terms of quality and longevity. I would say it's failing.

 

[davidbozovic1]

Using Adata's ToolBox, can you see if the SSD in question has any firmware updates pending? Also, what motherboard are you working with and what is your current BIOS version?

I checked the toolbox. Its firmware is up to date. Motherboard is Asus Prime A320M-K Prime, with latest BIOS. I did secure erase via ADATA toolbox and trimmed, but the speeds are still the same. The issue appeared like 2 weeks ago, but became very apparent few days ago.

 

[Bob.B]

Pretty much the title. I have 2 SSD's on my PC, one which is NVME which I use for OS and other "productivity" software, and a standard SATA SSD which I use to store games on. Now admittedly, I have written and deleted TONS of data on that SATA SSD in a short span, mainly because I was hyped for the fast loading times on demanding games and because I had access to high download speeds. I had this SSD for 141 days. For instance, DOTA 2 used to load in few seconds, now it takes around 35 seconds to load from splash screen, with other elements of the UI slowly loading up after the initial load. It sometimes freezes while in game and becomes unresponsive, sometimes not even being able to be killed through task manager. When I moved DOTA onto my OS SSD, it loaded and performed flawlessly. Then i moved it back to SATA one, with the same issues reappearing. This SSD is still under warranty thankfully, so I was wondering, should I RMA it?

The SSD in question is ADATA SU750. Below are advertised speeds (which I initially had), and current speeds that I just measured today, as well as SMART values.

Some how I doubt you got 500MB/s perf from a sata 2 connection.

Make sure your using a sata 3 port on the mobo.
Reseat the sata data cable both ends.
Try a different sata cable.

 

[davidbozovic1]

Some how I doubt you got 500MB/s perf from a sata 2 connection.

Make sure your using a sata 3 port on the mobo.
Reseat the sata data cable both ends.
Try a different sata cable.

It's crazy how something as trivial as readjusting the cable can work wonders. Funny story my monitor that I bought in 2008 stopped showing picture like 2-3 years ago and the technicians all told me that some "image processor" has died and that replacing it will be very costly and that I'm better off buying a new monitor. Turns out that the power socket on my monitor died, and the cost of replacing that was almost free, and now it's still working as if nothing happened. Anyways here is the benchmark after readjusting the same cable:

Thanks Bob.

 

[RodroX]

Far as I remember there are no SATA 2 ports on that A320 mobo, so either this is a bad SATA port, SATA 2 cable been used, or just a bad SATA 3 cable.