[SOLVED] SSD underperforming. Why?

[NightHawkRMX]

MSI B350 Gaming Plus w/ SATA 3 support
Kingston A400 240gb with 13gb free. Latest firmware and good health according to Kingston's utility.

I am in an overclocking mood today. In the process of overclocking I decided to check performance relative to other RX480s with Userbenchmark. I noticed every time i ran the test my SSD was vastly underperforming.

I will eventually swap this SSD out for a better model from a name brand, but I am wandering why this SSD is performing so poorly compared to other identical drives. I am just wandering if there is some extra performance to be had.

Run results:
https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/21980896

The SSD is connected over SATA 3 6gb/s with the cable that shipped with the motherboard. This SSD has 13gb free space and has indexing disabled.

Here is the screenshot from Kingston SSD manager:

https://imgur.com/1Y7YdbK

View: https://imgur.com/1Y7YdbK


I may run crystal disk info aswell and update info here.

 

[rgd1101]

only 13GB free? move something out.

 

[USAFRet]

1. Free up some space.
2. DO NOT USE userbenchmark. Totally flawed and irrelevant readings.

CyrstalDiskMark, and show us the screencapp.

 

[NightHawkRMX]

20.7gb free good enough?

 

[USAFRet]

20.7gb free good enough?

For a 240GB drive, don't go over 200GB actual used space.

 

[NightHawkRMX]

I have 202gb used, so that close enough.

Rated performance:
https://www.digitalcitizen.life/reviewing-kingston-a400-ssd

My drive:
As you can see, performance is lower than expected across the board.

https://imgur.com/32eEed7

View: https://imgur.com/32eEed7

 

[USAFRet]

1. It's your C drive. That has an impact.
2. Its too full.

 

[atljsf]

i completelly agree with the previous recomendations

on a ssd you should leave 10% of the total space empty all the time, so the ssd can do its own internal maintenance, otherwise it will slow down and supposedly will reduce the lifesapn

rarely i see improvements updating firmware on kingston ssd, on western digital i had to do firmware upgrades to get something usable

 

[NightHawkRMX]

Ok, I had never heard about the 10%, i always knew not to keep it full, and i figured a few gb was fine.

 

[USAFRet]

Ok, I had never heard about the 10%, i always knew not to keep it full, and i figured a few gb was fine.

Actually, 15-20% is recommended.

 

[NightHawkRMX]

Ill move some games to my hdd

 

[NightHawkRMX]

https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/21985869
A little better. I may be looking for a faster SSD sooner than later.

Look at that 100 percentile for CPU+GPU. EPIC.

 

[NightHawkRMX]

Just a little update. This SSD died about a weak later. Completely dead.

So that may have been part of this.

 

[NightHawkRMX]

Now that I got a brand new replacement for the drive and it is only half full, the result is much better.

I think that drive was trying to tell me it was on its way out.

https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/22862826