I'm cloning with Macrium Reflect, no compression, so it streams data without a CPU bottleneck. A SMART tool like HD Tune can read that, if it's standard SMART format - so I'll check on that. Not sure about temps - haven't really paid much attention to SSD temps, sadly. The mSATA 512gb Samsung SSD in my ThinkPad would whip the snot out of this WD Black drive in write performance, what's up with that? It's 4 years older! NVMe was supposed to be faster, but here it is, performing worse than nearly every other SATA SSD I've used in the past, on a write basis. But I just have this sick feeling that something is just WRONG here. Yeah, they're fast in reads, and that's what it's going to be used for. Is it just that NVMe / m.2 drives are just being made with worse and worse components to cram them into a smaller space, sacrificing write performance for form factor and thermals? (Or just that I keep picking the absolute sh*ttiest drives, setting new standards for corner-cutting, and that's just what I get?) hard drive is falling asleep with the SSD being slower than the HDD at writing. With this WD Black, I'm here about 50GB into a clone, and it's blinkin' away. The SSD there (around 7:19) rips through 100GB of writes at stupid speed, then slows down to merely 90MB/s. Surely an NVMe WD Black SSD isn't going to choke on write speeds that match the read speeds of a pissy little 500GB 2.5" drive? What the f*k is going on here? blink blink blink blink blink blink (*gag*) can't keep up blink blink blink blink blink. But halfway through the imaging process, again. So, I'm writing the drive back from an image I had stored on my 2.5" 500GB SSHD also in the same rig. couple days ago I picked up a WD Black 512gb NVMe drive. Okay, so I chalked it up that the Intel 600p 128gb is just a piece of crap, and I cheaped out. they never filled up, they just churned constantly, and it was awesome. I've got SATA SSDs and plenty of mSATA SSD experience where that's never been a thing, it wouldn't crash from 200MB/s down to 50MB/s when it filled up. Instead, it would blast for about 2GB, then it would start flashing the activity LED - I picked it up to mean it's filled its buffer and is busy trying to flush itself. I didn't need a lot of storage, and I figured Intel would kick arse at this. So I first picked up an Intel SSD 600p, 128GB. I have an Asus B150i ITX board that has an NVMe slot. So, I'm just getting started with NVMe drives. At least, those of us born into the world of computers prior to Windows 8, where the virus of sh*t design took away activity LEDs from all computers on the planet, it seems. Okay, we all know what a hard drive activity LED looks like.
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