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My laptop (8750h, gtx 1060, 16GB RAM) only came with a 240gb wd green drive so I added a 1tb hp ex920 nvme drive to the second empty m.2 slot and installed windows on the hp drive and formatted the wd one as secondary storage. I've noticed lots of inconsistent performance where opening files or programs are delayed as well as clicking on menus or even just typing letters. Video files in particular would take several seconds to load sometimes, or even stutter during playback which is very odd. Video scrubbing/seeking is not always smooth and will freeze sometimes. Some folders would say "working on it" and not show any files for several seconds, which is ridiculous. Reminded me of using a ten year old flash drive.
The hp drive benches as expected at around 2900mb/s read and 1700mb/s write. However, subsequent tests after a restart I can only get 2000mb/s seq read which seems like a big drop. I cannot see the temperature in some hardware monitoring programs like hwmonitor. Crystaldiskinfo shows it at 54c which I find too high and I think is a broken number since it never changes even during a read/write test. I updated all my drivers a second time but it made no difference. I tried placing the same 1GB video file on both the hp and wd drives and used vlc player to quickly fast forward 3 seconds at a time by holding shift and mashing the right arrow key. The wd drive kept up well and the audio never cut off. Playing from the hp drive, however, the video and audio would sporadically cut off for a second or more at times. I am definitely suspecting the hp drive but I don't know why it would do something like that.
System is slow after new nvme drive installed
Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by silverwolf0, Dec 11, 2018.
