[SOLVED] My SSD Is at 100% Tried everything

[marioroeg9]

My PC build is
CPU: Ryzen 2600x
Motherboard: Asus ROG B-450 f
Ram: G skillz 16 GB 3000
GPU: Evga 1070 ftw
SSD: Samsung 500gb 860 Evo
Power supply: Evga 650 G3

I tried everything from reinstalling windows 10 to disabling windows search, superfetch, also downloading all the new drivers, I have try ti turn off MSI, I did disk cleanup. My SSD still goes to 100%. It happens when I turn on my PC, I have an SSD and my boot time is like 5 minutes and whenever i click on anything on my PC is shot to 100% and then take 5 minutes to go back down. I have seen every video and read everything but nothing works. Does anyone know any other way which worked for them to fix this?

 

[camieabz]

Start with a benchmark (once your drive has quietened down, to ensure it's running good when not being hit hard - https://www.userbenchmark.com

Superfetch won't make a massive difference, and once you and your system has habits, it helps. One thing that I would check is that your settings are tuned. This mostly involves updates and telemetry, and a little tweaking.

Disable Delivery Optimisation, and enable metered connection (don't set it to anything specific). This should reduce the inclination for Windows to use your disk / network for its insidious needs. See how here - https://www.howtogeek.com/224981/how-to-stop-windows-10-from-uploading-updates-to-other-pcs-over-the-internet/

Get CCleaner, and once installed, go to the Tools / Startup tab, and look for a list of Nvidia processes on startup. Unless they are essential (to you) for some aspect of the Nvidia package, they can be disabled. There is one that controls access to the Nvidia control panel (Display Container), but that's all it does. As far as I know, you can enable it, do whatever tweaking you want, then disable it again. Above all, the Nvidia telemetry process is one to get rid of. See here:

https://www.ghacks.net/2012/12/26/make-sure-you-only-install-nvidia-drivers-you-need/
https://www.howtogeek.com/343120/what-are-all-those-nvidia-processes-running-in-the-background/

For Windows 10 telemetry, I personally disabled it all. Read here - https://blogs.systweak.com/2017/12/how-to-disable-telemetry-and-data-collection-in-windows-10/

Lastly, I would just add a small tweak of the swapfile to hopefully keep it as quiet as possible. I recommend a manual swapfile only on the boot drive, and set its minimum to 1024, and its maximum to 16384 (1GB and 16GB respectively). That makes it of a decent fixed size initially, and if it need to expand, it can, up to the amount of RAM on the system. Instructions here - https://ccm.net/faq/43000-adjust-default-virtual-memory-size-on-windows-10

I have a sneaky suspicion that the culprit is the nvidia telemetry. I had a similar experience after installing the latest drivers, although in my case it stole half of my network bandwidth. Disabled it after first reboot though.

Edit: I wouldn't make all these changes at once. Do a few and reboot. Partly to test difference each time and find the culprit, and partly to avoid too many changes between boots.

 

[marioroeg9]

The first thing i did was runt he benchmark and my scores came out and everything seems fine my gpu is " Performing way above expectations (91st percentile)" my cpu "Performing as expected (51st percentile)" my ram "Performing way above expectations (98th percentile" buy my ssd is " Performing below potential (2nd percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable". My motherboard has sata 6 gb ports, it had 6 of them and idk what type of cable it has connected to it just the normal cable connected.

 

[marioroeg9]

One thing i noticed when i downloaded the Samsung magic driver it did say 3gb sats even though it is connected to a 6 gb port, idk if the cable has something to do with it.
https://imgur.com/COv7IyM
https://imgur.com/2QP1cgt

 

[marioroeg9]

I did a fresh install of windows 10 and have no drivers installed at all no Nvidia or AMD, but I still have the issue.

 

[marioroeg9]

UserBenchmarks: Game 100%, Desk 84%, Work 81%
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X - 96.3%
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1070 - 107.8%
SSD: Samsung 860 Evo 500GB - 86.9%
RAM: G.SKILL Trident Z RGB DDR4 3000 C16 2x8GB - 103.6%
MBD: Asus ROG STRIX B450-F GAMING

 

[camieabz]

Based on your test, and you suspicions of the 3GB speeds, I would look into that first. Try other cables and SATA ports. Check SSD's connector for any damage or dust, or basically anything that might be a problem.

Double check your manual for any SATA sharing or BIOS settings that might affect SATA speeds (unlikely, but you never know).

Your CPU score is slightly low too, but that might easily be caused by the SSD's issues.

If nothing improves, your best option is to try the SSD in another system, or try another SSD in your system.