Windows 10: My SSD acting slow as compared to the speed it had and windows booting up slow

I purchased a 256GB NVMe M.2 SSD for my laptop in December 2022. Initially, it took around 8-10 seconds to boot up. However, after two years, with 100GB of space still available, it now takes Windows nearly 40-50 seconds to boot. I checked the SSD's read and write speeds in the command prompt, which showed: read speed - 1200 MB/s, write speed - 200 MB/s. The irony is that my HDD has the same write speed as my SSD. Could you help me understand why my SSD is slowing down? Should I reinstall Windows, update the drivers, or consider replacing the SSD? I also enabled Safe Boot in the BIOS to play V

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windows 10 slow boot

I was having a slow boot issue on my Windows 7 install a little while back. It would take about 30 - 40 extra seconds to boot up for whatever reason.

I would try following these steps, while this didn't solve my issue, it did increase Read/Write to where it should be.

10 Tips for SSD Optimization in Windows 7 - Part 1

Looks to be similar to this: SSD Optimization for your Windows Gaming PC and Tips and Tricks


In the end, I had to reinstall my Windows 7 entirely to fix the booting issue. It was taking around 35 seconds to boot, and after the fresh install it takes about 7 seconds to boot.

 

Slow speed when compared to others

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windows 10 slow boot

Obviously if there's a problem with the speed of it it will show up in benchmark results....

Read speed is fine, writes are a bit slow but probably what they should be although can't see the rest of the results for random read /writes

Actually write speed is a lot slower than it should be..