Crystal Mark Scores - SSD SATA vs M.2

moosedoctor

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Why is the NVMe slower than the SSD running storage catching? It gets close but not as quick as the regular SSD even when I switch caching to the M.2
Ps both SSDs haver over provisioning to speed them up.


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CrystalDiskMark 5.2.2 x64 (UWP) (C) 2007-2017 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes

Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 2053.331 MB/s
Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 2132.583 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 261.121 MB/s [ 63750.2 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 242.630 MB/s [ 59235.8 IOPS]
Sequential Read (T= 1) : 2690.646 MB/s
Sequential Write (T= 1) : 2436.619 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 263.285 MB/s [ 64278.6 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 244.470 MB/s [ 59685.1 IOPS]

Test : 1024 MiB [D: 70.5% (79.9/113.3 GiB)] (x1) [Interval=5 sec]
Date : 2017/09/19 20:04:44
OS : Windows 10 [10.0 Build 15063] (x64)


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CrystalDiskMark 5.2.2 x64 (UWP) (C) 2007-2017 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes

Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 773.293 MB/s
Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 321.577 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 144.224 MB/s [ 35210.9 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 210.268 MB/s [ 51335.0 IOPS]
Sequential Read (T= 1) : 689.413 MB/s
Sequential Write (T= 1) : 76.333 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 34.090 MB/s [ 8322.8 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 112.896 MB/s [ 27562.5 IOPS]

Test : 1024 MiB [C: 37.5% (44.3/117.9 GiB)] (x1) [Interval=5 sec]
Date : 2017/09/19 20:07:06
OS : Windows 10 [10.0 Build 15063] (x64)




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CrystalDiskMark 5.2.2 x64 (UWP) (C) 2007-2017 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes

Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 399.358 MB/s
Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 154.378 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 201.215 MB/s [ 49124.8 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 154.191 MB/s [ 37644.3 IOPS]
Sequential Read (T= 1) : 426.136 MB/s
Sequential Write (T= 1) : 156.862 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 33.497 MB/s [ 8178.0 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 80.825 MB/s [ 19732.7 IOPS]

Test : 1024 MiB [S: 0.2% (0.1/58.8 GiB)] (x1) [Interval=5 sec]
Date : 2017/09/19 20:02:21
OS : Windows 10 [10.0 Build 15063] (x64)



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CrystalDiskMark 5.2.2 x64 (UWP) (C) 2007-2017 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes

Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 2039.648 MB/s
Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 2167.297 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 252.339 MB/s [ 61606.2 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 236.154 MB/s [ 57654.8 IOPS]
Sequential Read (T= 1) : 2678.454 MB/s
Sequential Write (T= 1) : 2375.103 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 251.618 MB/s [ 61430.2 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 238.167 MB/s [ 58146.2 IOPS]

Test : 1024 MiB [C: 37.6% (44.4/117.9 GiB)] (x1) [Interval=5 sec]
Date : 2017/09/19 20:14:40
OS : Windows 10 [10.0 Build 15063] (x64)
 
You don't tell us which drives the #1, #2, #3, and #4 benchmarks are from. So it's impossible for us to see the problem, much less diagnose it.

However, the random 4k read and writes (with queue depth Q=1) are 200+ MB/s on some of your benchmarks. No SSD that's being sold today is capable of hitting those speeds at 4k un-queued read/writes. So you probably have some sort of disk caching program like Samsung RAPID mode enabled. If that's the case, you're basically measuring your RAM speed, not the SSD speed. Turn it off (it's of dubious value anyway, since Windows already uses unused RAM as disk cache, just in a way that doesn't mess up benchmarks).
 

moosedoctor

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That would help, right?
#1 SATA SSD Micron / Cruaial CT128m550ssd1 with cache thingie
#2 = #1 Micron stock
#3 Intel M.2 stock
#4 Intel NVMS M2 600 something on Crucial's cache program