I'm getting some nice things about my new build from UserBenchmark except the SSD NVMe installed on the mobo (two of them). Here is what UserBenchmark says:
Samsung 970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$90
91,673 User benchmarks, average bench 267%
466GB free
Firmware: 2B2QEXE7 Max speed: PCIe 5,000 MB/s
SusWrite @10s intervals: 1150 1185 621 625 624 623 MB/s
Performing way below expectations (7th percentile)
My other 970 Evo is scoring at 22%. I've done this twice.
Now, my situation is, that I am very grateful just to have stuff boot up when installed. I've had my share of agonizing over failed units. But as I write I am using an OS which is installed on the M.2 NVMe on the mobo (ASUS Prime X470 with Ryzen 5 2600X).
So in my world, I count that as a win. It's working.
On the other hand I have read that one can boot up with an M.2 NVMe OS in as little as 5 seconds. It takes me about 20 seconds.
I'm wondering how much to worry about this and how seriously to take UserBenchmark. (They are consistent if nothing else)
I will tell you a story about eletronics. Thirty years ago my brother had a headlight go out, when he was at the autoparts store he picked up two figuring the other one would go soon. He threw the second one in the closet. Five years later he sold the car and still had a headlight in his closet.
So....am I to conclude these two M.2 units need to be replaced? Is the UserBenchmark a sign from the gods that these two units are destined to fail in the near term? Or is it a case of use it and enjoy, the two "bad" units might just as easily be working 5 years hence?
I bought one of the M.2 970 Evos from Newegg and the other from Best Buy. So it is unlikely these are two units from a "bad batch" unless it was a very big bad batch that hit all vendors.
Thanks,
Greg N
Samsung 970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$90
91,673 User benchmarks, average bench 267%
466GB free
Firmware: 2B2QEXE7 Max speed: PCIe 5,000 MB/s
SusWrite @10s intervals: 1150 1185 621 625 624 623 MB/s
Performing way below expectations (7th percentile)
My other 970 Evo is scoring at 22%. I've done this twice.
Now, my situation is, that I am very grateful just to have stuff boot up when installed. I've had my share of agonizing over failed units. But as I write I am using an OS which is installed on the M.2 NVMe on the mobo (ASUS Prime X470 with Ryzen 5 2600X).
So in my world, I count that as a win. It's working.
On the other hand I have read that one can boot up with an M.2 NVMe OS in as little as 5 seconds. It takes me about 20 seconds.
I'm wondering how much to worry about this and how seriously to take UserBenchmark. (They are consistent if nothing else)
I will tell you a story about eletronics. Thirty years ago my brother had a headlight go out, when he was at the autoparts store he picked up two figuring the other one would go soon. He threw the second one in the closet. Five years later he sold the car and still had a headlight in his closet.
So....am I to conclude these two M.2 units need to be replaced? Is the UserBenchmark a sign from the gods that these two units are destined to fail in the near term? Or is it a case of use it and enjoy, the two "bad" units might just as easily be working 5 years hence?
I bought one of the M.2 970 Evos from Newegg and the other from Best Buy. So it is unlikely these are two units from a "bad batch" unless it was a very big bad batch that hit all vendors.
Thanks,
Greg N
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