Slow ssd

[Disdoodfake322]

My ssd is slow for downloading steam games I have the closest city near me, and it's still slow I've installed the firmware, and here's my pc specs for help.



Ryzn 3 3600 Stock Fan

8Gb of ram OC to 3000mhz

GTX 1660 MSI

Motherboard is MSI M.2 PRO MAX

500 Watts PSU


No HDD

PNY 500GB

SSN50 1TB





Send help please my ssd is slow.
Thank you bye.


Edit: I don't have a lan connection. Sooo that might be the problem

Edit 2: Uhhh i did all of the tips that you guys sent me, and uhhh it didn't work.

-Fatboi09

[Kobs]

Why do you think it's your hard drive that's slow, my first idea would be your internet connection

Somewhere from point A to point B of the download, there's a bottleneck / hourglass preventing your SSD to perform, and that's what you have to find out.

[_I_]

steam downloads are limted by cpu, drive iops, and internet
most often its the cpu and drive
watch cpu usage, if it high (eqiv of one core maxed by steam client) its the cpu limiting it
also watch the disk line on steams download page to see if its the drive lmiting

[Disdoodfake322]

_I_ It could be my cpu, but I checked my frimware for my SN550 and the disk read is so low, any way to fix that?

[Disdoodfake322]

Kobs my internet is fine, I'm on house with two floors and I'm on the second floor, and the internet is giving me like 30 ping whenever I play games. I think my disk read is slow

[Blaquicat]

Originally posted by fatboi09:

Kobs my internet is fine, I'm on house with two floors and I'm on the second floor, and the internet is giving me like 30 ping whenever I play games. I think my disk read is slow

Okay your internet is fast enough, but that does not mean your downloads can come with larger band..
A ferrari is very fast, but cant carry much things inside, a truck is slow, but carries a lot of things inside, failed analogy that may work on this case..
Do a www.speedtest.net just to be sure.

[[☥] - CJ -]

I think your understanding of certain things is incorrect

Ping has nothing to do with how FAST your internet is or how quickly a game will download and or install.

Ping has to do with how quickly or slowly information is sent and received between you and the server you are connected to, in the case of online games that means how long it takes for your actions and those of others to be seen, for Ping lower is generally better.

Download speed is how fast your internet is but its also affected by your CPU as higher internet speeds use more CPU cycles. When downloading a game how fast it downloads depends on your Internet speeds, the server you are downloading it from, your CPU and of course the Drive the game is being downloaded/installed to.

Do a speed test at www.speedtest.net and post the results

With that said
Depending on the content, an SSD will not always do everything at the speeds its capable of, the speeds will always vary and never be constant when downloading/installing as the files are all different sizes.

Only in a benchmark will a drives speeds max out for an extended period of time.

[Disdoodfake322]

Thank you guys for responding, as I'm not a pc master race.

I've done my speed test and it's fast, but steam seems to be downloading games slowly.

[[☥] - CJ -]

Originally posted by fatboi09:

Thank you guys for responding, as I'm not a pc master race.

I've done my speed test and it's fast, but steam seems to be downloading games slowly.

i explained the possible cause of that.

Steam downloads will not always fully utilize your internet speeds for one reason or another.
Its normal

And what do you consider fast?

[Disdoodfake322]

Basquiat my internet speed is like 50 mpbs, so I don't know why steam is giving me 3mbps I have it on no limit and itd still going slow

[dOBER]

Originally posted by fatboi09:

Thank you guys for responding, as I'm not a pc master race.

I've done my speed test and it's fast, but steam seems to be downloading games slowly.

Fast? How much is fast and how fast/slow are your downloads compare to your max download rate?

I mean last time we had someone with dsl 50000 mbits and wonder why can download only with 10mb/s.

[Disdoodfake322]

CJ i consider my ssd fast, thank you for asking.

[Disdoodfake322]

My nvme says it read and write speeds are like high like close to 2300 mpbs and 2400 mpbs for my read and write speeds.

[[☥] - CJ -]

I was talking about your Internet speeds not the SSD
But yes 50Mbps is *decent*.

And as i mentioned before, you will not ALWAYS get your internet speeds worth when downloading games.

Its Normal.

Also
Keep in mind that Mbps and MB/s are not the same thing.

[Disdoodfake322]

I thank you for reminding me for Mb/s is not the same im in a rush, so I'll be lazy and use whatever comes into mind

[Pocahawtness]

It's more likely there is just a poor path to the steam server. Any disk drive is way, way faster than your internet connection is likely to be.