I bought this as advertised 2000Mb/s read 500Mb/s write. I get bellow 1000MB/s read and 60MB/s write, that’s from AS SSD Benchmark. It feels like hot garbage, my 5400rpm hardrive is faster. I can make the stupid ssd crawl at 15mb/s by copying files into a different folder and windows takes 2 minutes to boot,
So what gives ? Is it defective ? + do you have any drivers for the NVM Express ? I"m running this on my AMD AB350 and I don’t trust the hot garbage “Standard NVM Express…” driver
well I’m replying to my own Post !
I finally found the fix, doing 1700Mb/s write / 672Mb/s read
You need to disable the windows write buffer.
This WD ssd is completely broken with that enabled, becomes slower then a 5400rpm, dipping into single digits Mb/s lol
WD should print a notice with their x4 SSD !
This is a good post as a solution for other people’s problems. How does a person disable the the Windows write buffer?
I have referred another person to TJTrmeor solution. . I am searching for data to use the WD Black 512GB PCIe with NVMe on my MSI 970A Gaming Pro Carbon with an AMD Phenom II and wanted to find out about compatibility problems such as these. The specs say that reads are up to 2050 MBS and writes are up to 800.
I do want to know if the WD unit is compatible with the MSI AND if I can use other SSD’s in my server with no conflicts. Some info states that this WD unit requires that the full system be “UEFI ONLY” and that does conflict with my WD 4TB and other smaller 1TB Seagate drives.
Will submit my request as a new pre-sales item in a new post.
Thanks,
DL