B450M Pro4 NVMe M.2 SSD Speed

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   Hi

I have a Silicon Power P34A80 PCIe Gen3x4 M.2 NVMe SSD 256GB, this drive should reach around 3200MB/s read, 3000MB/s write sequential.
The read speeds are OK (3200MB/s), but the max write speed is 1000MB/s in my case (tested with ATTO).

My config:
B450M Pro4
Ryzen 5 2600
2x8GB 3200MHz Team Group T-Force Delta RGB
Win 10 Pro 64bit
BIOS 3.50

Every driver is updated to the latest, the SSD installed in the correct slot, in the BIOS the link is set to Gen3.

What can I do to reach higher write speeds?

Thanks!

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Dusee Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 02 Sep 2019 Status: Offline Points: 6	Post Options Post Reply Quote Dusee Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: B450M Pro4 NVMe M.2 SSD Speed Posted: 02 Sep 2019 at 3:08pm
	Hi I have a Silicon Power P34A80 PCIe Gen3x4 M.2 NVMe SSD 256GB, this drive should reach around 3200MB/s read, 3000MB/s write sequential. The read speeds are OK (3200MB/s), but the max write speed is 1000MB/s in my case (tested with ATTO). My config: B450M Pro4 Ryzen 5 2600 2x8GB 3200MHz Team Group T-Force Delta RGB Win 10 Pro 64bit BIOS 3.50 Every driver is updated to the latest, the SSD installed in the correct slot, in the BIOS the link is set to Gen3. What can I do to reach higher write speeds? Thanks!

kschendel Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 21 Aug 2018 Status: Offline Points: 86	Post Options Post Reply Quote kschendel Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 03 Sep 2019 at 10:32am
	3GB/s write speed would be pretty impressive for any SSD. Who claims these rates? I'm not sure I can hit that with a 970 Pro, which is one of the fastest writing prosumer SSD's available. It may be that the 3 GB/s figure is only valid for very specific conditions, like staying within write cache or something.

Dusee Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 02 Sep 2019 Status: Offline Points: 6	Post Options Post Reply Quote Dusee Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 03 Sep 2019 at 5:02pm
	I know that, but it never exceeds 1000MB/s, like it is fixed to that value. Review: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/silicon-power-p34a80-pcie-gen3x4-m-2-nvme-ssd,6180-2.html In the sustained sequential test You can see that if the cache is full it throttles to 1000MB/s, but in my case it didn't happened, cause an ATTO or CrystalDiskBenchmark doesn't write that much data. Is there a setting/trick in Windows which You have to enable to use the write cache, it is not enabled by default?

gizmic Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 13 Jun 2018 Location: Hong Kong Status: Offline Points: 677	Post Options Post Reply Quote gizmic Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 03 Sep 2019 at 6:47pm
	atto and crystaldisk is enough to flood cache i know this because i can sometimes get 700MB/s on write seq q32T1 on 970 evo but i know it goes back to 24XXMB/s when i diable razer synapse + asrock rgb


Dusee Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 02 Sep 2019 Status: Offline Points: 6	Post Options Post Reply Quote Dusee Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 04 Sep 2019 at 4:17pm
	Tested a few things, the only one that helped was if I turned off the Direct I/O in ATTO, after that I reached ~3000MB/s write speed, but the read speeds gone up to almost 6000MB/s, which is non-sense. Tried to turn off the RGB, it did nothing in my case, checked the Windows settings regarding write cache, everything was okay by default.

Ray62 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 01 Jul 2018 Location: Germany, Berlin Status: Offline Points: 706	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ray62 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 08 Sep 2019 at 1:30am
	Everything is ok with your SSD. If you want real 3000MB/s write speed, you have to use the 1 TB version. Silicon Power P34A80: Silicon Power PCIe M.2 NVMe SSD M.2 1TB Gen3x4 R/W up to 3.400/3.000MB/s Silicon Power PCIe M.2 NVMe SSD M.2 512GB Gen3x4 R/W up to 3.400/2.300MB/s Silicon Power PCIe M.2 NVMe SSD M.2 256GB Gen3x4 R/W up to 3.100/1.100MB/s Geman site, but look at the pictures, it's the P34A80 https://www.amazon.de/Silicon-Power-Gen3x4-1-100MB-Interne/dp/B07P8KXX4B?th=1
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Dusee Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 02 Sep 2019 Status: Offline Points: 6	Post Options Post Reply Quote Dusee Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 08 Sep 2019 at 7:06am
	Oh, thats sad. The store I bought it from and the Silicon Power website stated the same speeds for all the capacities. Thanks for the clarification.