So I built a new system and upgraded my OS drive to a 990 Pro from a Samsung 970 EVO Plus. I don't know why, but it seems like copying large amounts of files on this new PC is actually slower than I remember on my old rig. CrystalDiskMark is benching the drive fine:
https://i.imgur.com/aR7BhPq.png
https://i.imgur.com/1CytfJT.png
But when I copy a directory that has a lot of files, transfer speeds slow to a crawl:
I know there is a lot more overhead associated with copying large amounts of files, but I really expected the drive to be more performant.
Quick PC specs:
CPU: AMD Ryzen™ 9 9950X
MOBO: ASRock X670E Taichi
RAM: G.SKILL Flare X5 64GB (2x32GB DIMMs) 6000MT/s CL30-40-40-96
NVME1: Samsung 990 PRO 4TB M.2 PCIe v4.0 (7.45 GB/s)
NVME2: Samsung 970 EVO Plus 2TB M.2 PCIe v3.0 (3.50 GB/S)
NVME3: Samsung 970 EVO Plus 2TB M.2 PCIe v3.0 (3.50 GB/S)
OS: Windows 10 Pro x64 22H2 (OS Build 19045.4894)
- I've enabled high performance mode in Magician.
- The 990 Pro is installed in my PCIe 5.0 slot (I know the drive is only v4.0, wondering if maybe this is the issue).
- For the 970 EVO Plus drives, I installed the Samsung NVMe™ Driver (v3.3) from here: https://semiconductor.samsung.com/us/consumer-storage/support/tools/
- Here is a screenshot of all the drivers installed:
https://i.imgur.com/Rn4P2O7.png
Is this normal? It would be great if anyone else with this same drive could share their experience with it.
And yes I know about the trick of zipping/archiving files first and then transferring one big file. I am just worried that I have some kind of driver/installation problem.
Thanks for any input!
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Yeah. You have a ton of tiny files. The drives aren’t your bottleneck. The Explorer file threading is.