Storage driver vs Microsoft NVMe driver: which caused my 100% disk? 🤔

Otto · 2024-05-26T07:06:28.262Z

so annoyed rn after the Samsung 840 EVO SSD Firmware EXT0DB6Q update, my home built PC became painfully slow. Opening the Start menu takes ages, and apps freeze for seconds at a time. Task Manager shows this: [code] The second NVMe drive sits at 100% active time, with barley any read or write speed. Response times are huge. Before the update everything was snappy 😅 Im wondering whether the storage driver is teh issue or whether my drive is dying at the worst possible time. any ideas??

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Otto
@ottom414
20 rep · 4 posts
2 yr. ago
so annoyed rn after the Samsung 840 EVO SSD Firmware EXT0DB6Q update, my home-built PC became painfully slow. Opening the Start menu takes ages, and apps freeze for seconds at a time. Task Manager shows this:
```
Disk 0 (C:)   Active time 100%
Not responding
```
The second NVMe drive sits at 100% active time, with barley any read or write speed. Response times are huge. Before the update everything was snappy 😅 Im wondering whether the storage driver is teh issue or whether my drive is dying at the worst possible time. any ideas??
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Felix Brandt
@fbrandt_5
119 rep · 8 posts
2 yr. ago
ok but what does SMART health show for the an old hard drive??

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Otto
@ottom414
20 rep · 4 posts
2 yr. ago in reply to @fbrandt_5
event Viewer has warnings about resets to the device every few minutes. sorry for the wall of text lol

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Felix Brandt
@fbrandt_5
119 rep · 8 posts
2 yr. ago
If its an external SSD, try a different USB port and cable. UASP issues can cause 100% active time with low throughput.

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Felix Brandt
@fbrandt_5
119 rep · 8 posts
2 yr. ago
oh ive been there lol check that teh drive has free space (at least 10 to 15%) and that TRIM is enabled: fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify should return 0. lmk how it goes

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