Samsung 960 pro slow speeds? Help!

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So I have the latest bios for my motherboard and set the M.2 strap to pcie instead of Sata in the bios. doing this did increase read write speeds by about 10 percent. However Samsung magicion performance test still shows my 960 pro 2 TB read speed at 2302 and write speed at 1659 when its supposedly rated and tested at 3500 read and 2500 write.
What am I missing? Is there anything else I can do?
Thanks in advance
 
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What's the rest of your system? Is this drive full? Make sure that you always have high performance power plan, enabled in the windows power options, before running any benchmarks. You have to also make sure that you have the latest Samsung NVMe driver installed and that other programs/windows aren't running int he background during bench-marking. Finally make sure that you enable over-provisioning in the magician software. It helps improve the speed and the reliability of the SSD.
 
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Sorry I should have included specs:
MSI x99-A sli plus MB
I7 6850k @ 4.4
Corsair h110i cpu cooler
GTX TitanX (Pascal)
32GB Corsair Vengence DDR4 @ 3200mhz (XMP)
EVGA 1200 80+ platinum
Installed latest driver from Samsung after M.2 install and clone, power plan is high performance. 2TB drive is only 500gb full.
Latest version of samsung magician does not included option for over provisioning. Just a S.M.A.R.T button and performance benchmark option.

 
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Mateu

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Sorry I should have included specs:
MSI x99-A sli plus MB
I7 6850k @ 4.4
Corsair h110i cpu cooler
GTX TitanX (Pascal)
32GB Corsair Vengence DDR4 @ 3200mhz (XMP)
EVGA 1200 80+ platinum
Installed latest driver from Samsung after M.2 install and clone, power plan is high performance. 2TB drive is only 500gb full.
Latest version of samsung magician does not included option for over provisioning. Just a S.M.A.R.T button and performance benchmark option.

 
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Rhekluse

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Hey guys.

I know this thread is closed but I ran into some issues and something was overlooked...

You need to optimize your drives. Especially if you have installed a bunch of stuff. This will alter the performance of your read/write speeds (sometimes by half) It's easy:

- Go to C: right click and open properties
- Go to Tools
- Optimize your SSD HDD

I recommend you schedule this daily, if you are writing a lot of files to the drive.
 
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Palorim12

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Or with Samsung drives, put a file in the recycle bin and empty it. This will enable Samsung's Garbage Collection, which will then trigger TRIM, which is what Optimize does, except without triggering GC, which TRIM is useless without.
 
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