Windows 10: Question About SSD Read & Write Speeds Within The Same System

Discus and support Question About SSD Read & Write Speeds Within The Same System in Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware to solve the problem; I am doing an upgrade on my laptop, increasing the RAM to 32GB and installing a 1 TB SSD and a 2 TB SSD. Both are Samsung 860 EVO 2.5 SATA III. I'm... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware' started by ryevick, Dec 27, 2019.

  1. RYEVICK
    ryevick Win User

    Question About SSD Read & Write Speeds Within The Same System


    I am doing an upgrade on my laptop, increasing the RAM to 32GB and installing a 1 TB SSD and a 2 TB SSD. Both are Samsung 860 EVO 2.5 SATA III.

    I'm trying to figure out which one I should use as my OS Drive. The main purpose of the laptop will be for music production and dealing with very large sound libraries (50 - 500GB). I'm wondering if it would read/perform faster if I put the 2 TB as the OS drive and install sound libraries on that drive instead of making the 2 TB the 2nd drive. I'm not sure if that would bog the system down or speed the system up with the 2 TB drive as the OS under this workload.

    The data for read speeds I've seen, seems to be referring to the speed at which an over OS can transfer data to and from a different drive, not within itself. I don't know which is faster and I'm confusing myself just trying to explain this, hopefully you understand what I'm saying.

    By the way this will be a fresh install of Windows onto the drive there's not going to be any OS transfer.

    :)
     
    ryevick, Dec 27, 2019
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  2. NIKHAR_K
    Nikhar_K Win User

    Slow HDD read and write speeds

    Hi,

    Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

    We will require a few more information from you to help you further with the issue. Please reply with the following details:

    • In which device are you facing this issue?
    • Are you using an external HDD or internal HDD?
    • Are you getting the read and write speed issue on any particular application?

    However, you can Disk Defragment on your computer to optimize the drive. To run Disk Defragment please follow the steps from the article

    Defragment your Windows 10 PC    .

    Alternatively, you can check for the read and write speed of the HDD in task manager. Please follow the steps mentioned below to check the read and write speed of the hard drive:

    1. Press Ctrl + Shift + Esc key together on the keyboard.
    2. Click on Performance tab.
    3. Click on Disk 0.
    4. You will find the Read speed and
      Write speed       at the bottom of the window.

    Hope it helps.

    Please reply with the status of the issue, we will be glad to help you further.

    Nikhar Khare

    Microsoft Community - Moderator
     
    Nikhar_K, Dec 27, 2019
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  3. MELVIS
    Melvis Win User
    SSD Read/Write speed question!

    Hi guys, I just installed a New SSD into my dads computer and I want to know if the speeds are good or not?

    Im sorta new when it comes to SSD's so im not sure if ive missed anything.

    Ive set all BIOS options to AHCI and ive run ATTO Benchmark to see the read/write score, to me i think its a little slow? as the website says it can do 560read and 535 write? Ive changed Sata cables and that made no difference in speed running sata 3 or sata 2 cables.

    Anyway the SSD is a 128GB Corsair GS on a AM3 870A-UD3 motherboard.

    *Toast :toast:
     
    Melvis, Dec 27, 2019
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  4. NEWCONROER
    newconroer Win User

    Question About SSD Read & Write Speeds Within The Same System

    Harddisk queries, partition questions and read/write speeds

    I've always struggled to grasp quite exactly what it is that determines read/write transfer directions on drives as well as the correlation between benchmarks on hard disks and real world usage.

    The first question is whether or not the drive your sending a file to is being written to, or is reading the data that's coming in. Are they the same operation or treated differently? The speed being reported, is this the drive that's sending the file or the one receiving it?

    For the benchmarks, most of them show peak burst but not sustainable throughput and similarly so do reviews. Yet when you actually move anything but a single compressed file, you get speeds that are half what testing programs or reviews would suggest.
    Why is it that reviewers never seem to just transfer random files manually and treat that as 'real world?'

    Lastly, as per below picture, this is how my drives settled after putting in a second SSD and installing Windows onto it.

    Unnamed EFI partition: SSD Disk 0
    C: - Windows installation permanent SSD Disk 0
    F: - Old Windows installation/temporary storage SSD Disk 1
    D: - Storage HDD Disk 2
    E: - 'System Reserved' EFI partition with data on it SSD Disk 1

    For the unnamed EFI partition, it's great that it's the first partition on the disk however it's empty? What's the point of it then?
    Is E: necessary?
    Why is the EFI partition from Disk 1 listed as "Active and primary?"

    Conversely, when I load up the old SSD, there's no EFI partitions for either disk showing in Explorer.

    I am feeling OCD a bit on this and would like to clean it up so that everything is as should be.


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    newconroer, Dec 27, 2019
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