Readspeed before and after Spinrite Level 3

[bghite]

Before.

Driv Size  Drive Identity     Location:    0      25%     50%     75%     100
---- ----- ---------------------------- ------- ------- ------- ------- -------
82  250GB Samsung SSD 840 Series         43.6    79.7    45.3   211.2   272.9
83  250GB Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB     456.9   510.6   510.6   525.2   523.7

                  Benchmarked: Monday, 2021-01-04 at 08:02

After running Spinrite at Level 3 on both of the drives.

Driv Size  Drive Identity     Location:    0      25%     50%     75%     100
---- ----- ---------------------------- ------- ------- ------- ------- -------
82  250GB Samsung SSD 840 Series        273.0   272.9   272.9   272.9   272.9
83  250GB Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB     531.7   533.8   533.7   533.6   533.8

                  Benchmarked: Monday, 2021-01-04 at 14:51

 

[lovecakeboy]

Thanks for posting those! An impressive improvement!

Is the first drive SATA II by any chance? Interesting that it seems to have a speed cap at around 273? Or do you reckon that’s just the maximum drive speed on the older model?

 

[DarkwinX]

@lovecakeboy @bghite it should say above the benchmark table if a SATA3 Capable drive is connected to a slower interface. If you want to rerun the benchmark hit the escape key and run

RS.exe /ident

This will specify the drive and interface capabilities.

 

[Steve]

Right. It appears that drive 82's performance is being clamped by the speed of a SATA II link.