Question NVMe started act strange

[paolo81]

I am having issue with xpg sx8200 on Gigabyte h170-d3hp MB.
All of sudden any ssd tool software (except Adata SSD Toolbox) doesn't show any SMART data from this drive (other SSD SMART data are shown), I haven't made any change in BIOS or any HDD settings in general.

Also write sequental speed is suddenly somewhere around 300MB/s (while sequental read goes up to 2600MB/s stable).
What might cause trouble?
Should i replace the drive/apply warranty?

 

[Deleted member 14196]

Is it full of data? How full is the drive? I am not a fan of any of Adata products anymore, too many problems with their SSDs

 

[paolo81]

Is it full of data? How full is the drive? I am not a fan of any of Adata products anymore, too many problems with their SSDs

98/223GiB, so it shouldn't cause any problems. The drive is just 1 year old with 7tb written...

 

[ElectrO_90]

Install Hard Disk Sentinel and see what that tells you about the drive.

 

[paolo81]

Install Hard Disk Sentinel and see what that tells you about the drive.

Everything appears in normal, no problems, SMART data are shown and all fine. The write benchmark is still weird though.

 

[ElectrO_90]

Write testing will always be slow, if you are testing a Windows Bootbale Drive, as it's always doing stuff in windows.
If you boot up into Safemode and run it, you will likely find it faster, as less background programs load up.

 

[mdd1963]

An NVME drive getting only half of the write speeds even a lowly standard SATA drive would get is indeed a cause for concern....

This drive is supposed to be capable of 3,000 MB/sec sequential writes!

Assuming no one/nothing has disabled 'write caching' within the device manager/disk drive/ properties/policies...

 

[paolo81]

An NVME drive getting only half of the write speeds even a lowly standard SATA drive would get is indeed a cause for concern....

This drive is supposed to be capable of 3,000 MB/sec sequential writes!

Assuming no one/nothing has disabled 'write caching' within the device manager/disk drive/ properties/policies...

ad) caching: I've tried both options before benchmarking, with pretty much similar results; write went somewhere between 282-302MB/s, so no big difference.

 

[0gati]

https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/adata-sx8200-slow-write-speed.3466375/#post-20966187

@paolo81 come join us here - we are all experiencing this issue. If you haven't attempted to contact ADATA yet please feel free to tweet at them with your concerns.