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I can attest that getting one of those cheapo SSD-s for a gaming PC and then downloading games on Steam over a good connection (500 Mbit/s) can overwhelm the SS
by hddherman 4y ago
I can attest that getting one of those cheapo SSD-s for a gaming PC and then downloading games on Steam over a good connection (500 Mbit/s) can overwhelm the SSD and cause the whole system to be unusably slow, with similar multi-second latency numbers being shown in Task Manager on Windows 10. It’s a relatively common situation among the gaming community, I’d say.
- louwrentius 4y agoI've seen people complain exactly about this.
- mgraupner 4y agoI read that disabling the Windows write cache for the drive helps with this problem. Don't ask me why though.
- justsomehnguy 4y agoThe OS stops sending bazillions of bytes to the drive, overwhelming its' caches, but waits for the writes to complete. Less throughput from the OS => more time for SSD to complete whatever inner shenanigans are happening.
- adgjlsfhk1 4y agogenerally the limit here is windows/antivirus making your storage a ton slower. Linux/Mac don't have this problem nearly as bad.
- withinboredom 4y agoWindows isn’t alone in this problem… someone uploading gigabytes of files to a web server can cause this too.
- wtallis 4y agoAre you talking about a web server running in somebody's basement, or a web server running in a data center? Because the SSDs in a real server wouldn't have SLC caching in the first place.
- adgjlsfhk1 4y agowindows is alone in the problem of having an OS with a really slow file system and being commonly deployed with antivirus that will scan every file.