Intel 540 SSD half write speed

cly · Sep 1, 2016

Anyone know why my write speed would be about half of what it could be? Intel advertises a max write speed of 480 but I am around 220 on a couple of different bench\mark tools. I realize I am not going to be at 480 but I thought it would be higher then that.

Thanks

FR@NK · Sep 1, 2016

The sustained write speed on those drives are pretty slow, 480MB/s is the write to cache speed.

Caring1 · Sep 1, 2016

Is the firmware up to date and are you using the latest Intel RST drivers?

flappyone · Sep 10, 2016

How full is the SSD?

FR@NK · Sep 10, 2016

Write speed isnt very important. Freespace and firmware isnt going to make it any faster. The drive can only write 120mb/s sustained. The write caching helps speed things up under normal use.

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Intel 540 SSD half write speed

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