Question Why is my nvme ssd so slow?

[jimmyjonjohnson]

I recently built my first pc and so far I've been loving it. The only issue I have with it however is the SSD. I bought a Silicon Power UD85 1TB NVME SSD from Amazon mainly because it was cheap. It's a Gen 4 drive with reads and writes up to 3600 and 2800 mb/s. The issue is however it never even reaches close to those speeds. When downloading a 4 GB file today, it averages at around 2 mb/s of write according to HWmonitor and at most 81 mb/s. It's making downloading files excruciatingly painful. It averaged about 4.5% Activity in the Utilization tab when downloading that file. Does anybody know how to speed it up? Because I really don't want to buy a new drive.
Screenshot of HWmonitor
PC specs-
12600k
16gb ram
SP UD85 1TB SSD
RX 6800

 

[rocktalkrock]

Have you run a speed test of the drive using the Silicon Power ToolBox software?

 

[jimmyjonjohnson]

Have you run a speed test of the drive using the Silicon Power ToolBox software?

No, i'll try that now

 

[USAFRet]

I recently built my first pc and so far I've been loving it. The only issue I have with it however is the SSD. I bought a Silicon Power UD85 1TB NVME SSD from Amazon mainly because it was cheap. It's a Gen 4 drive with reads and writes up to 3600 and 2800 mb/s. The issue is however it never even reaches close to those speeds. When downloading a 4 GB file today, it averages at around 2 mb/s of write according to HWmonitor and at most 81 mb/s. It's making downloading files excruciatingly painful. It averaged about 4.5% Activity in the Utilization tab when downloading that file. Does anybody know how to speed it up? Because I really don't want to buy a new drive.
Screenshot of HWmonitor
PC specs-
12600k
16gb ram
SP UD85 1TB SSD
RX 6800

Downloading something from the internet is NOT the way to test a drive speed.

CrystalDiskMark, and post a screencap of the results.
(screencap, not the text results. Upload your pic to imgur.com, post the link here)

 

[jimmyjonjohnson]

Downloading something from the internet is NOT the way to test a drive speed.

CrystalDiskMark, and post a screencap of the results.
(screencap, not the text results. Upload your pic to imgur.com, post the link here)

https://imgur.com/a/GNhPo0y

View: https://imgur.com/a/GNhPo0y


here. The results look fine, but it shouldn't take 20 minutes to download 4 gigabytes

 

[USAFRet]

here. The results look fine, but it shouldn't take 20 minutes to download 4 gigabytes

That 20 minutes has nothing to do with your drive.
Your internet speed, and what the server is giving you is the only consideration.

You have a firehose size SSD.
It is being fed by a garden hose at best. More likely a soda straw.

 

[jimmyjonjohnson]

That 20 minutes has nothing to do with your drive.
Your internet speed, and what the server is giving you is the only consideration.

You have a firehose size SSD.
It is being fed by a garden hose at best. More likely a soda straw.

ok gotchu

 

[jimmyjonjohnson]

I ran a wifi speed test and they were really slow, so I updated the wifi and Bluetooth drivers and the speeds are much better now.

ok gotchu

I updated wifi drivers and it's working a lot better now