M2 Upgrade option?

[EsaT]

Yes I just read about Adata, defiantly going to avoid that one.
Samsung SSD 980 £100
Samsung 970 evo pro £125
Crucial P5 plus £126
Crucial P5 £89
WD black sn750 £109

The reviews on the 980 seem decent so do I stick with it or cancel and go with a deferent drive? My machine is used for gaming 95% of the time.

That's good example of Samsung's brand pricing.

Crucial P5 Plus is PCIe v4 drive with well higher sequential speed capability than PCIe v3 970 Evo.
While coding of most games plain sucks when it comes to loading data, some games are well coded.
And in those high transfer rate capable drives just blast through loading:
https://www.realhardwarereviews.com/silicon-power-us70-1tb-review/11/

And 980 is cost downed DRAMless PCIe v3 drive.
While lack of extra DRAM cache doesn't really show in home use workloads, that's still lower design level drive than P5.

 

[mikeo]

P5 is what I'd choose. It's a better drive than the 980 and as said the differences are marginal so cheapest is best.

Totally agree with the above comment.

If you are getting a new O/S drive. Then if it was me, I'd still be interested in doing what I suggested earlier (IE. Secure Erase the MP510 and test it as an empty data drive). I wouldn't take that long to do.

Good luck what ever you decide.

PS. Worth pointing out that the OP's mobo is only PCIe 3.0, so he obviously would not see any immediate benefit to a V4.0 drive.

 

[Quartz]

Write speeds have always been under 600 mb/s. I

That sounds like it's in SATA mode. Do check in the BIOS that the socket is set for NVME and not SATA.

 

[mikeo]

That sounds like it's in SATA mode. Do check in the BIOS that the socket is set for NVME and not SATA.

Indeed. I made a similar comment earlier. But if you look at a post later in the thread, you will see his sequential reads are around 3.5k MB/s.

 

[Gwyn]

That sounds like it's in SATA mode. Do check in the BIOS that the socket is set for NVME and not SATA.

Yes defo in NVME mode

 

[Gwyn]

Totally agree with the above comment.

If you are getting a new O/S drive. Then if it was me, I'd still be interested in doing what I suggested earlier (IE. Secure Erase the MP510 and test it as an empty data drive). I wouldn't take that long to do.

Good luck what ever you decide.

PS. Worth pointing out that the OP's mobo is only PCIe 3.0, so he obviously would not see any immediate benefit to a V4.0 drive.

Yes will be trying this. I am going with a new drive in my machine, I will then test the Corsair and decide to RMA it or not. When all is good, I will stick it in my sons pc

 

[mikeo]

Yes will be trying this. I am going with a new drive in my machine, I will then test the Corsair and decide to RMA it or not. When all is good, I will stick it in my sons pc

Sounds like a good plan

 

[Quartz]

Indeed. I made a similar comment earlier. But if you look at a post later in the thread, you will see his sequential reads are around 3.5k MB/s.

Read-ahead mode was clearly off!

 

[mikeo]

Read-ahead mode was clearly off!

I must be getting old! I had to think about this for a while

 

[Gwyn]

Just a quick update. Installed the 980 today and works perfect. Just installed a fresh copy of win 10 on the old Corsair and now I am getting 2102 mb/s sequential read as advertised.
so looks like my son is getting a new boot drive.
Thanks again for all the help

 

[Mcnumpty2323]

Good. Result for your son lol

 

[Gwyn]

Yes he is very pleased.

 

[Mcnumpty2323]

It also reaffirms my faith in the mp510
Have found them great
And the endurance rating of them
Was even higher than Samsung
From my dodgy memory anyway lol
Used to be years ago you would just say
Don't get anything but a Samsung
But the 850 evo was probably about when
Samsungs ssd domination ended

 

[Gwyn]

That’s good. Must have been something dodgy going on in Windows causing the issue

 

[Mcnumpty2323]

Looks like it
I guess for future reference
If you have more than 1 drive with Windows on it
Boot to that one to benchmark
Or use a Linux Live USB
Or maybe you can actually use a Windows Live USB
Just in the middle of installing windows 11 to go funnily enough
Those ways allow you to test without the actual windows which may be causing the problem
Being involved

 

[Gwyn]

Sound like a very good plan

 

[mikeo]

Good show

 

[Mcnumpty2323]

Guess I should have thought of
Those options in the beginning lol
but your son paid me not to
But just to update for future reference idea
windows 11 to go
it actually looks very useful as a test/diagnosis/recovery tool
or just as a plain portable windows you can plug in to a pc if youre
out and about
though will need 2fa verification when plugging it in for the first time
by email to your microsoft account email address
does require 64gb or larger usb drive the faster the better
microsoft account
rufus or similar usb tool
windows 11 iso though rufus can fetch that for you
it automatically has persistence so can download your own tools/software
and they will stay even after reboot
and if youre not used to linux you get a recovery environment thats familiar