Question SSD running slow ?

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funny_bruh

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For the past 3 or so weeks I've had problem with games that are installed on one of my SSD's. My games and applications take forever to boot up and often the in-game assets and textures take forever to load or they don't load at all. For instance, in CS:GO loading a map takes so long that I've gotten a cooldown for abandoning a game. When I didn't have this issue it took me max 2 minutes from starting up Cyberpunk 2077 and getting in to the game. As I'm writing this I've waited for more than 15 minutes and it's still loading the game. I have another SSD that I use as a boot drive and the few games that I have on that run fine.

I ran winsat disk in CMD and this is what came up:

Windows System Assessment Tool
> Running: Feature Enumeration ''
> Run Time 00:00:00.00
> Running: Storage Assessment '-drive f -ran -read'
> Run Time 00:00:02.98
> Running: Storage Assessment '-drive f -seq -read'
> Run Time 00:00:17.41
> Running: Storage Assessment '-drive f -seq -write'
> Run Time 00:00:42.80
> Running: Storage Assessment '-drive f -flush -seq'
> Run Time 00:00:34.03
> Running: Storage Assessment '-drive f -flush -ran'
> Run Time 00:00:31.70
> Dshow Video Encode Time 0.00000 s
> Dshow Video Decode Time 0.00000 s
> Media Foundation Decode Time 0.00000 s
> Disk Random 16.0 Read 6.71 MB/s 5.2
> Disk Sequential 64.0 Read 18.93 MB/s 3.5
> Disk Sequential 64.0 Write 18.49 MB/s 3.5
> Average Read Time with Sequential Writes 8.215 ms 4.9
> Latency: 95th Percentile 24.234 ms 4.2
> Latency: Maximum 265.740 ms 7.1
> Average Read Time with Random Writes 7.342 ms 5.2
> Total Run Time 00:02:09.06

It says the seq. read and write speeds are around 18 MB/s, while the advertised speed is around 500 MB/s. The SSD I have is ADATA SU650.
 
funny_bruh said:
For the past 3 or so weeks I've had problem with games that are installed on one of my SSD's. My games and applications take forever to boot up and often the in-game assets and textures take forever to load or they don't load at all. For instance, in CS:GO loading a map takes so long that I've gotten a cooldown for abandoning a game. When I didn't have this issue it took me max 2 minutes from starting up Cyberpunk 2077 and getting in to the game. As I'm writing this I've waited for more than 15 minutes and it's still loading the game. I have another SSD that I use as a boot drive and the few games that I have on that run fine.

I ran winsat disk in CMD and this is what came up:

Windows System Assessment Tool
> Running: Feature Enumeration ''
> Run Time 00:00:00.00
> Running: Storage Assessment '-drive f -ran -read'
> Run Time 00:00:02.98
> Running: Storage Assessment '-drive f -seq -read'
> Run Time 00:00:17.41
> Running: Storage Assessment '-drive f -seq -write'
> Run Time 00:00:42.80
> Running: Storage Assessment '-drive f -flush -seq'
> Run Time 00:00:34.03
> Running: Storage Assessment '-drive f -flush -ran'
> Run Time 00:00:31.70
> Dshow Video Encode Time 0.00000 s
> Dshow Video Decode Time 0.00000 s
> Media Foundation Decode Time 0.00000 s
> Disk Random 16.0 Read 6.71 MB/s 5.2
> Disk Sequential 64.0 Read 18.93 MB/s 3.5
> Disk Sequential 64.0 Write 18.49 MB/s 3.5
> Average Read Time with Sequential Writes 8.215 ms 4.9
> Latency: 95th Percentile 24.234 ms 4.2
> Latency: Maximum 265.740 ms 7.1
> Average Read Time with Random Writes 7.342 ms 5.2
> Total Run Time 00:02:09.06

It says the seq. read and write speeds are around 18 MB/s, while the advertised speed is around 500 MB/s. The SSD I have is ADATA SU650.
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Run a pass of crystaldiskmark on this disk and post a screenshot of the results.
 
Aeacus said:
Cheap SSD with poor performance. Also, if you fill the thing up, it will slow down even further.

Buy a new SSD. I suggest Samsung 870 Evo 2TB (i have those in use with my builds),
pcpp: https://pcpartpicker.com/products/compare/7nsnTW,3CmmP6/
comparison: https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Adata-SU650-480GB-vs-Samsung-870-EVO-2TB/m434166vsm1463967
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ADATA are fine, no better or worse than any other midrange drive. I've been running them for years across many machines.
 
Aeacus said:
No matter how you slice it, if you pay peanuts - you will get monkeys.

Or are you saying that OP is imagining the issues with their drive? 🤔
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All drives fail, it's only a matter of time. Both Samsung and ADATA recently had egg on their faces with poor releases, I just had an Intel drive less than 2 years old go into read only. I've run dozens of SSD's over the years and brand power gets you only so far. I've been playing the PC game for almost 40 years, buy once cry once doesn't always apply here.

It will do you well to NOT read to far into comments here or on any forum. If you are just here to pick fights, move along.
 
USAFRet said:
Anecdotally, ADATA are over represented here with fails or problems.
At least it seems that way.

I wouldn't buy one.
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I've had many, zero failure rate, Intel 2 out of 2, Samsung, 2 out of 3. Sabrent 0 out of 5. Crucial, 0 out of 3. These are just my drives Anecdotes for sure but I'm fine with them, and have installed them in dozens of other machines. They are a value brand for sure, and I trust them as much as I trust any brand of storage device...not at all.
 
Here are the screenshots.
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CelicaGT said:
I've run dozens of SSD's over the years and brand power gets you only so far.
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Thing is, you look the brand as a whole, generalizing it. While i look at specific model within a brand.

OP has SU650. You're currently running SU800. SU800 is quite a ways better than SU650,
comparison: https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Adata-SU650-480GB-vs-Adata-Ultimate-SU800-1TB/m434166vs3914

With this, you can not say the same about SU650 as you can for your SU800. Brand generalization is bad business.

It's like when you'd say that all Corsair PSUs are good. Well, No. There are good PSUs from Corsair (e.g AXi), then there are mediocre PSUs (e.g CXm) and then there are complete crap as well (e.g VS).

funny_bruh said:
Here are the screenshots.
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Performance of the SSD has really dropped. Almost to the levels of cheap micro SD card.

Also, your drive is 80% full, which doesn't help. And temp is relatively high, at 50C. My 2.5" SSDs sit at 31C and 36C.

You could try freeing up space, to improve performance. But i'd go with new SSD. 50 bucks for 870 Evo 1TB. Far better, more reliable and double the storage space as well. (Or 100 bucks for 2TB drive, for quadruple the storage space.)
 
I tried reseating the SATA cable and I even tried a new cable. Ran the test again but it performed the same. I also tried downloading ADATA's own SSD software to try and update the firmware. That also didn't help plus ADATA's own software's diagnostic scan fails when scanning the SSD. I decided to pick up a WD Black SN850X 1TB, which I hope will last at least 5 years. The ADATA SSD is only 2.5 or 3 years old.
 
funny_bruh said:
The ADATA SSD is only 2.5 or 3 years old.
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Cheap price = cheap manufacture = short lifespan. That's how things are. If you want to buy good and cheap product, you have to buy 2 products: the good one and the cheap one.

The oldest 2.5" SSD i have, is Crucial MX500 1TB. Bought it in May 2018 and it still is going strong, 5+ years later. My Samsung drives are newer and are going strong as well.

All-in-all, do read a review beforehand. With this you can't go wrong and you can even find a gem within otherwise mundane brand (e.g like Crucial MX500, only good SSD from Crucial, almost equal to 860 Evo but at cheaper price).
 
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