M.2 SSD speed in the kbps!

[Vespill]

I have a Samsung 960 Evo 500GB and i have a problem in need of fixing. I get about 110-150MBps in Windows when downloading things and stuff like that, but it very quickly drops down ti 50-80KBps and stays there, making for painfully slow speeds. My cpu is not the issue, nor is my internet speed which is 300MBps.

 

[atomicWAR]

Could be thermal throttling. How/Where is your M.2 drive installed? Also what motherboard do you run?

 

[Vespill]

I have two, one under the motherboard heat sink and one on a vertical mount. It's on an ASUS Prime x299 Deluxe.

 

[Vespill]

Also the one that I'm using most is the heat sink ssd, haven't had time to really test the vertical.

 

[Vespill]

Could be thermal throttling. How/Where is your M.2 drive installed? Also what motherboard do you run?

I have two, one under the motherboard heat sink and one on a vertical mount. It's on an ASUS Prime x299 Deluxe.

Also the one that I'm using most is the heat sink ssd, haven't had time to really test the vertical.

 

[atomicWAR]

If it is the heatsink SSD that could be the issue. Those heatsinks frequently act as insulators making temps even worse. MSI has had a huge issue with it but this is the first report I have seen of an asus board heat sink doing the same, potentially. Try removing the heatsink and see if your m.2 performs better. Also get a disk monitoring program and check your temps. Try this one below. You should be able to spot thermal throttling better.

http://crystalmark.info/download/index-e.html

 

[Vespill]

If it is the heatsink SSD that could be the issue. Those heatsinks frequently act as insulators making temps even worse. MSI has had a huge issue with it but this is the first report I have seen of an asus board heat sink doing the same, potentially. Try removing the heatsink and see if your m.2 performs better. Also get a disk monitoring program and check your temps. Try this one below. You should be able to spot thermal throttling better.

http://crystalmark.info/download/index-e.html

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3Hq5EGsxHSqNVFxSW85dVlJb1E/view?usp=sharing
here are the results. temps did not show higher than 55 degrees.
also, i dont know if the c drive or the d drive is the one under the heatsink, and i dont want to remove one to test that, But since the c drive is cooler im going to assume it is the heatsink one as asus markets 20 degree cooler temps.

 

[atomicWAR]

Oh you got the diskmark not the diskinfo...regardless though you seem to found your m.2 temps. And everything looks good. I am not sure what is happening. If your at 55C on one 35C on the other I see no reason to be throttling (assuming you check temps while benching). Even if you didn't though those benches look good for speed and regular windows use like downloading shouldn't stress your drive to much harder. I might even think it was a driver issue but again your speeds are really good.

So The next thing I would try is doing a speed test of your internet. Try this link below and let me know your results.

http://beta.speedtest.net/

We'll see if we can't narrow this down yet.