Question Slow read speed

[alzakiel]

Hello everyone

I am not entirely sure what is the problem, but the read speed of my Firecuda 2TB 7200rpm (STD2000DX002-2DV164) seem to be kind of low. It's seem there is no problem with it whatsoever, it pass Seatools for windows short drive self test, S.M.A.R.T test come back fine too. But when i do some testing with CrystalDiskMark this is the result.

I don't really have much knowledge about SSHD and hadn't really been worrying about it until today when my windows started feeling really unresponsive while i was installing a game. But now i wonder if there is anything i can do to possibly fix this or if it is simply normal ?

--System Spec--
EVGA Semi-modular 750w 80+ Gold Power supply
B450 Aorus Pro Wifi Motherboard
Ryzen 5 2600 3.9Ghz
Corsair Vengeance LPX 2x8GB's 3000mhz
MSI RX570 8Gb's armor edition
Windows 10 Pro Version 1909 Build 18363.1082

Outside the GPU and the SSHD which i've bought in october last year, everything is pretty much only a few months old.

 

[mdd1963]

those are indeed some slow reads, with 85 MB/sec currently rivaling 5400 RPM laptop drives...(assuming the drive is not 80% full or anything, as performance does drop as drives fill up, as data is then stored in in some tracks on the platters , or mixed in various places whereever it can fit in large files (when applicable) ,which take longer to read from

I'd just grab a 1 TB Crucial MX500 SSD for your OS for about $105, fresh install OS and games to it, and quick format the Firecuda. (You can always check that nothing shows amiss in CrystalDiskInfo as well...)

 

[alzakiel]

those are indeed some slow reads, with 85 MB/sec currently rivaling 5400 RPM laptop drives...(assuming the drive is not 80% full or anything, as performance does drop as drives fill up, as data is then stored in in some tracks on the platters , or mixed in various places whereever it can fit in large files (when applicable) ,which take longer to read from

I'd just grab a 1 TB Crucial MX500 SSD for your OS for about $105, fresh install OS and games to it, and quick format the Firecuda. (You can always check that nothing shows amiss in CrystalDiskInfo as well...)

Yaa well i don't have info installed, but i do have HDDScan and the S.M.A.R.T general health information show everything in the green. So it doesn't look like it's a dying drive at least. The drive is also 63% full and a reboot to go check something else on the bios (I did find i have a problem with my ram not running at the right frequency, but is using all the timing as if it was running at 3000mhz from the XMP profile when it's NOT). And the read speed increased to 109 mb/s for SEQ1M Q8T1 while Q1T1 decreased to 71.51 and write speed Q1T1 also decreased to 101.71 and RDN4K all being lower than on the picture from earlier.

I sure was hoping not to have to buy a SSD, because i have more importants thing to think about before that. But i guess that's probably the easiest solution.