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Dorkinator

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I've had a Kingston HyperX 120gb SSD for 2 years now. It seems like it's much slower than it used to be, so I recently ran the ATTO benchmark and I'm only getting 183 MB/s Read and 124 MB/s Write. A review of the device I found had it getting 555 Read/527 Write.

Any ideas on the reason for my huge performance discrepancy? BIOS/mobo issues? Drive dying?(hopefully not)

Thanks in advance!
 
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jkhoward

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How full is the hard drive?

Older drives required at least 25% of the drive to be free to perform garbage cleanup properly including TRIM.
 
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I have an almost 18 month old Kingston HyperX 3K 128GB as my boot. Been on basically 24/7.
This is the results from that same benchmark test (just ran it). It appears to still be at pretty much benchmark speeds.
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How full is your drive?
 
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I currently have 31.1 GB free, out of 111 capacity, which is 28%. Kinda close to the 25% mark. Think I should free up some room? (Also side note, don't think it makes a difference, but I have just the HyperX, not the HyperX 3K)
 
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Update:

I just got a new motherboard/cpu (ASUS Z87-A & i5-4670K) and now my read/writes for that drive are back up to where they should be! Thanks for all your answers. I guess my old motherboard's SATA III port was strangling my SSD for some reason.
 
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