Core I7 with 16 GB ram but still extremely slow because of SSD drive being very busy where it shows only 2 mb/s read/write?

Question

i brought SSD hadrive and installed windows in it as they are known for very high performance but i dont know why my ssd is making problems on windows 10 i noticed that its always at 2 mb/s at maximum on read or writing speed so i think its very less than expected what could be wrong ?
attached are snap of SSD performance

Answer 1

SSDs are slow when they're too small, or you have too much on it

Answer 2

SSDs slow down as they get full.. the more you put stuff in the SSD, the slower it gets..

this is why you should always leave some empty space inside the SSD - the more the better..



in my setting, i have one SSD to hold Windows and few online multiplayer games that i need fast loading.. however, i have 2 magnetic regular hard-drives HDD to store my files: documents, music, videos and pictures; and to store my other games that are often not online multiplayer games..

more than half of my SSD is empty..



to read more about this known problem, checkout this link

https://pureinfotech.com/why-solid-state-drive-ssd-performance-slows-down/



if your SSD is not mostly full, then it could be the HDD that is causing the delay..

if you are copying some files from your SSD into magnetic hard drive HDD (or from an HDD to your SSD), it is possible that the magnetic HDD is broken/faulty or the HDD of an older model that cannot support speeds more than 2mb/s.. i have an old USB HDD that is broken and unable to copy files as fast as before..



if the HDD is slow, then the SSD would be slow as well..

Answer 3

Maybe it down to the drive being full if I am reading it write - all drives slow down significantly when near full

Answer 4

Did you install all the drivers.

Hard drive

Chipset

Bus Drivers etc



If not, you will need to download the exe files from the manufacturers website of your system.

Somtimes there's like 15 or more.