Question SSD errors when testing with userbenchmard

[djmurdoc11]

I used UserBenchmark to help me pick out a new motherboard, CPU and ram which I recently built. I am using the SSD Crucial MX500 1TB that I got back in Aug of 2019. It used to benchmark a little low when I ran it on my old system but now when I run the benchmark I get some errors. Could someone help me figure out how to fix this. I hope there is something wrong with the test or some setting and not the SSD.

Errors:
INFO: Launching Core drive benchmarks on C:
INFO: C: sequentialWrite inf MB/s
ERROR: C: Drive bench execution failed
ERROR: t[0:0] error during write: The media is write protected. (19)
ERROR: There has been an error during threads execution

AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
Asus AM4 TUF Gaming X570-Plus (Wi-Fi)
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB DDR4 DRAM
Crucial MX500 1TB SSD
Windows 10 Home

I believe all SATA ports on the motherboard are SATA3. I reformatted it when I installed Windows 10 last week. Crucial StorageExecutiveClient updated the drivers of the SSD to 10.0.18362.1. I updated the bios to the motherboard last week. The drive is formatted to NTFS. I have tried different SATA cable and get a similar result. I have run error chedcking at it comes back good.

Thanks to anyone who might be able to help me figure this out!

 

[USAFRet]

Solution - Don't use userbenchmark.com. Badly flawed tool.

If you want to check the drive, what does CrystalDiskMark say?

 

[djmurdoc11]

I just ran the test but i'm not sure yet what to make of the results. I'll see if I can find something to compare the results to. Can you tell if the results are on par to what they should be?
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CrystalDiskMark 7.0.0 x64 (C) 2007-2019 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World: https://crystalmark.info/
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• MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
• KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes

[Read]
Sequential 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 549.100 MB/s [ 523.7 IOPS] < 15251.53 us>
Sequential 1MiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 525.984 MB/s [ 501.6 IOPS] < 1992.80 us>
Random 4KiB (Q= 32, T=16): 226.786 MB/s [ 55367.7 IOPS] < 9225.10 us>
Random 4KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 27.014 MB/s [ 6595.2 IOPS] < 151.43 us>

[Write]
Sequential 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 464.926 MB/s [ 443.4 IOPS] < 17978.37 us>
Sequential 1MiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 447.081 MB/s [ 426.4 IOPS] < 2344.00 us>
Random 4KiB (Q= 32, T=16): 163.995 MB/s [ 40037.8 IOPS] < 12737.93 us>
Random 4KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 43.868 MB/s [ 10710.0 IOPS] < 93.20 us>

Profile: Default
Test: 1 GiB (x5) [Interval: 5 sec] <DefaultAffinity=DISABLED>
Date: 2020/03/07 16:43:00
OS: Windows 10 [10.0 Build 18363] (x64)

 

[USAFRet]

I see nothing desperately wrong there.

This is my C drive, a 500GB Samsung 860 EVO.

 

[Maxxify]

4KiB Q1T1 result is a bit low. Is the drive 4K aligned (check AS SSD) with write caching enabled in Windows? Otherwise looks okay.

 

[djmurdoc11]

I don't really understand what you are taking about. Ill follow the link. sorry It has been a long time for me to build a PC. Thanks for the info

 

[Maxxify]

If you cloned originally from a HDD or something it might not be aligned properly for a SSD, which can reduce write performance. Your sequentials look good enough for write caching to be enabled though, my bad.

 

[djmurdoc11]

OK. I ran the software and it said the ssd is already 4k aligned.
I did not clone the drive. It was my previous boot drive on my old system and I reformatted it and installed a new version of Windows 10.

 

[djmurdoc11]

It seems like my system if running like it should be but for some reason I really want to see how it performs on Userbenchmark.

 

[USAFRet]

It seems like my system if running like it should be but for some reason I really want to see how it performs on Userbenchmark.

userbenchmark is a badly flawed tool.

Even among exactly identical hardware, you're comparing to other systems that might be overclocked. Or running different or lesser software. Or any number of other differences.

 

[djmurdoc11]

I get that the userbenchmark test may not be the best. I would like to figure out why my SSD errors out every time is try to test it when that test. I would like to see how my new build stacks up.