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Is there something wrong with this picture?? VERY SLOW write speeds on new Samsung 840 SSD

thecynicalmonk

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It should be faster than this...look at the write speeds :-/

Newegg says this:
Performance
Sustained Sequential Read
530 MB/s
Sustained Sequential Write
130 MB/s

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Although it shouldn't make a difference connect your drive to your motherboard's 1st SATA port (SATA6G_1) and see if that improves your scores.

There's been some anecdotal evidence that the 1st SATA port on a motherboard gives slightly better performance.
 


Actually, it is on the 1st sata port



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here you are, sadly its showing the same problems :-/
 


No, not a preused drive. I just bought it brand new from newegg last week. And yes, its the "first ever copy of windows" on my SSD .

Edit: I will note that Samsung Magician says otherwise...

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I have the Asus M5A97 R2.0 , all are using the AMD SB950 controller. It is on the first port. Since writing this, it now takes forever for windows to shutdown/restart (usually 3-5 minutes)