Firstly, I'm using Windows 11 but with the patch that fixes the NTFS issue on (mostly) the operating system drive. Now that's out of the way, I find all storage drives not responsive on my 5900X system compared to my 6700K system, regardless of whether it's PCIe 3.0 M.2 NVMe, SATA3 SSD, or SATA HDD.
A few points:
An example is that when renaming a directory (F2 or context menu), explorer can freeze for a second or two. This is just from renaming a directory - nothing more.
My PC is not overclocked, apart from 48 hour tested (memtest) XMP/DOCP. Apart from that, it's at stock values. No part is older than two months - the entire PC is new - and Windows was a clean install.
Does anyone have any idea of what the cause may be? It's getting really quite annoying.
A few points:
- Sustained transfer speeds between drives are excellent (over 17-240 MB/s for the HDDs, 540 MB/s for the SSDs, and 2,400 MB/s for the M.2 NVMe drive). The flash storage has a DRAM cache and the HDDs have a 512MB (or possibly 256MB) buffer.
- Transferring a dummy 20GB file from one HDD to the other HDD keeps a sustained speed without any slowdown. Searching for files is speedy - even on the HDDs.
- Speedtests using CrystalDiskMark are great and with expected results.
- Opening a large video file (10GB) from a HDD is responsive.
- M.2 NVMe, SATA SSD, SATA HDD access times are close to 0 when this happens with 0-1% activity.
- This problem does not occur when using Linux Mint
- A reboot seems to reduce the 2-3 seconds to rename a file or directory to less than a second (almost instant).
- I use a home server via RDP, and when renaming files on my workstation over RDP it's actually quicker than renaming them on the workstation. I hope that makes sense (Workstation -> Server via RDP -> rename file from Workstation drive on server in RDP session -> file is renamed and quicker than renaming it on the Workstation)
- Drive firmware is up to date, BIOS is up to date, Windows is up to date, Chipset drivers also up to date.
An example is that when renaming a directory (F2 or context menu), explorer can freeze for a second or two. This is just from renaming a directory - nothing more.
My PC is not overclocked, apart from 48 hour tested (memtest) XMP/DOCP. Apart from that, it's at stock values. No part is older than two months - the entire PC is new - and Windows was a clean install.
Does anyone have any idea of what the cause may be? It's getting really quite annoying.