- Dec 26, 2009
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Hey fellas!
I recently made my very first dive in to the world of SSDs and I am wondering as to whether or not my Corsair MX200 250GB is already on the fritz or if it's performing as it should.
First, let me say that the boot up time is fantastic and programs installed on it load and run without a hitch.
Naturally, the first thing I did was run benchmark software and here are the results. AS SSD was sort of all over the place though and seemed like it needed more testing time to settle.
Now, being new to the SSD scene, I can say that those look relatively close to the numbers promoted as far as reading and writing but, upon further investigation, those 4k results seem fairly low from what I could gather in regards to other SSDs of the same size and price range.
Even worse, when I transfer my Warcraft addons folder (117MB, 6500 files) from the installed directory to the desktop to create a backup, this is what I can expect. Ouch. It'll dip to ~900KB/s and the highest it will reach is ~12MB/s when it reaches 90% then it'll drop like a stone until it's complete. This is on the same SSD.
Meanwhile, when I transfer my Warcraft folder (30GB) out of the root directory to the desktop (for testing purposes), it'll ramp up and peak at ~280MB/s and trough at ~175MB/s. Sometimes it'll hit over 300, other times it'll hit 160 but those are generally outliers as seen here. Again, this is all on the same SSD.
So, I have to ask, are those real-world transfer numbers normal? Are there better real-world tests which I can throw at it? I don't have a problem with the transfer rates provided with the Warcraft folder but the small size (4k?) transfer rates seem incredibly low which makes me wonder if it's a bad drive.
My motherboard is a MSI Gaming 970. SATA III ports/cables and my Bios is setup to AHCI and I am running Windows 10. I turned off indexing and moved page file to my HDD drive.
I recently made my very first dive in to the world of SSDs and I am wondering as to whether or not my Corsair MX200 250GB is already on the fritz or if it's performing as it should.
First, let me say that the boot up time is fantastic and programs installed on it load and run without a hitch.
Naturally, the first thing I did was run benchmark software and here are the results. AS SSD was sort of all over the place though and seemed like it needed more testing time to settle.
Now, being new to the SSD scene, I can say that those look relatively close to the numbers promoted as far as reading and writing but, upon further investigation, those 4k results seem fairly low from what I could gather in regards to other SSDs of the same size and price range.
Even worse, when I transfer my Warcraft addons folder (117MB, 6500 files) from the installed directory to the desktop to create a backup, this is what I can expect. Ouch. It'll dip to ~900KB/s and the highest it will reach is ~12MB/s when it reaches 90% then it'll drop like a stone until it's complete. This is on the same SSD.
Meanwhile, when I transfer my Warcraft folder (30GB) out of the root directory to the desktop (for testing purposes), it'll ramp up and peak at ~280MB/s and trough at ~175MB/s. Sometimes it'll hit over 300, other times it'll hit 160 but those are generally outliers as seen here. Again, this is all on the same SSD.
So, I have to ask, are those real-world transfer numbers normal? Are there better real-world tests which I can throw at it? I don't have a problem with the transfer rates provided with the Warcraft folder but the small size (4k?) transfer rates seem incredibly low which makes me wonder if it's a bad drive.
My motherboard is a MSI Gaming 970. SATA III ports/cables and my Bios is setup to AHCI and I am running Windows 10. I turned off indexing and moved page file to my HDD drive.
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