Running RS twice on same drive amlost 57% faster??

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orion2921

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Not sure whats going on behind the curtains here. Just ran back to back runs on the same drive the speed increase a good deal.

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Driv Size  Drive Identity     Location:    0      25%     50%     75%     100
---- ----- ---------------------------- ------- ------- ------- ------- -------
 81  2.0TB WDC WDS200T2B0B               275.9   525.3   534.3   541.5   536.8

                  Benchmarked: Saturday, 2021-01-09 at 16:14

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  AHCI '.' and IDE '-' drive reset & diagnostic latencies in milliseconds:

  61.607

  Associating BIOS drive [80-81]:

  [ 80 81! ]

  BIOS drive count: 2

  BIOS Inter Bus Location Dev Port Intr
  ---- ----- --- -------- --- ---- ----
   80   USB  PCI  0:29:0  17                                                 

  BIOS Location Type Clas Pg Vend Devi Prt Intr Cmmd Ctrl Mast Driv Link Size
  ---- -------- ---- ---- -- ---- ---- --- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -----
   81   0:17:4  AHCI 0106 01 8086 8D62  1   11  < AHCI Cntrl >  6.0  6.0 2.0TB

BIOS Size  Drive Identity     Location:    0      25%     50%     75%     100
---- ----- ---------------------------- ------- ------- ------- ------- -------
 81  2.0TB WDC WDS200T2B0B               475.7   538.1   541.8   541.9   539.3

                  Benchmarked: Saturday, 2021-01-09 at 16:15
 
Not sure whats going on behind the curtains here. Just ran back to back runs on the same drive the speed increase a good deal.
Yes, we've seen this often and your question is a good one. I'm not sure that we even have a theory about it. =I= would be inclined to suggest that if a readback of a very troubled sector "frightened" the SSD controller, it might have recovered the data then swapped it into a new location, thus "healing" the drive for the second and future passes. But it's unknown whether SSD controllers will do that on the fly.
 
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Suspected this SSD was having issues for some time now. Crazy a speed test would wake it up, least in that spot. Thanks Steve!