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- Nov 16, 2004
Two weeks ago I threw the build together in my sig below. Today a huge patch came out for ARK and I ended up not having enough space on my main SSD for the game so I had to shuffle some games around. I dumped a majority of my steam games from my secondary (Intel X-25M Drive) onto my External 4TB WD. Everything went great with this, 100+MB/s over USB 3.0 consistently.
Once I had freed up basically the entire drive I attempted to move ARK over from my OCZ Vector to the Intel (About 75GB)... I figured this would go quite quick. However, the transfer started out at roughly 250MB/s then began to plummet to as slow as 500kb/s before cruising at a steady 2MB/s. What... the...
So I immediately hopped on Asus.com and updated every driver and downloaded the latest motherboard BIOS figuring the ones on the CD that came with the board were already outdated.
And here I am still sitting here watching my two SSDs transfer at 2MB/s about 75% of the time with random spikes into the hundreds. It has taken over 3 hours to move roughly 30GB of data between my two SSDs.
In my prior build I never had this issue and it was nothing special - It was a recycled HP Business Class with some generic MSI board.
I know the Intel SSD is much older and is bottlenecked by its 3Gb/s SATA transfer rate - but this shouldn't murder my rates down to 2MB/s unless somehow my two drives are no longer compatible on this SATA controller? That just doesn't seem realistic to me.
I'd be happy to hear some suggestions on how I can solve this issue. My next best bet I can think of is to try and update the SSD drives firmware as well, but I'm pretty sure both are on their latest versions as they're both quite old. I unfortunately do not have any more time tonight to try anything. I will be able to remote in during work and try a few more things in the AM, but this issue is so ambiguous I can't think of anything else significant to try and Google isn't really serving me anything helpful.
Anybody got anything that might help? Thanks.
Update: This is extremely odd. I am now copying Starcraft 2 from my external to my OCZ Vector and it's cruising at a consistent 125MB/s. It took 3 minutes and 45 seconds to move 23.5GB of data between those two devices. So really the only issue here is SSD to SSD. I just waited out the extremely long transfer to move ARK, but man... took nearly 9 hours to move the game plus 20GB of downloaded content from steam. Something is messed up.
Update 2: Just checked and both drives firmware are up to date. Going to run some diagnostic scans with Intel's SSD toolbox... running out of ideas though.
Once I had freed up basically the entire drive I attempted to move ARK over from my OCZ Vector to the Intel (About 75GB)... I figured this would go quite quick. However, the transfer started out at roughly 250MB/s then began to plummet to as slow as 500kb/s before cruising at a steady 2MB/s. What... the...
So I immediately hopped on Asus.com and updated every driver and downloaded the latest motherboard BIOS figuring the ones on the CD that came with the board were already outdated.
And here I am still sitting here watching my two SSDs transfer at 2MB/s about 75% of the time with random spikes into the hundreds. It has taken over 3 hours to move roughly 30GB of data between my two SSDs.
In my prior build I never had this issue and it was nothing special - It was a recycled HP Business Class with some generic MSI board.
I know the Intel SSD is much older and is bottlenecked by its 3Gb/s SATA transfer rate - but this shouldn't murder my rates down to 2MB/s unless somehow my two drives are no longer compatible on this SATA controller? That just doesn't seem realistic to me.
I'd be happy to hear some suggestions on how I can solve this issue. My next best bet I can think of is to try and update the SSD drives firmware as well, but I'm pretty sure both are on their latest versions as they're both quite old. I unfortunately do not have any more time tonight to try anything. I will be able to remote in during work and try a few more things in the AM, but this issue is so ambiguous I can't think of anything else significant to try and Google isn't really serving me anything helpful.
Anybody got anything that might help? Thanks.
Update: This is extremely odd. I am now copying Starcraft 2 from my external to my OCZ Vector and it's cruising at a consistent 125MB/s. It took 3 minutes and 45 seconds to move 23.5GB of data between those two devices. So really the only issue here is SSD to SSD. I just waited out the extremely long transfer to move ARK, but man... took nearly 9 hours to move the game plus 20GB of downloaded content from steam. Something is messed up.
Update 2: Just checked and both drives firmware are up to date. Going to run some diagnostic scans with Intel's SSD toolbox... running out of ideas though.
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