Samsung 980 SSD Magician low speeds benchmark

[GZRa3]

Samsung magician shows
Sequential read: 900mb/s
Sequential write: 737mb/s
Random read: 131835

Random write: 67138

My laptop is Lenovo ideapad S145 Ryzen 3 3200u

System SKU LENOVO_MT_81UT_BU_idea_FM_IdeaPad S145-15API

[ddaniel51]

Do you have a pic of Drive Dashboard and Drive Details?

[GZRa3]

[ddaniel51]

Your 980 250gb SSD is a DRAMless design with no onboard memory for data mapping and cache functions.  It relies on the motherboard to provide High Bandwidth Memory for those functions. 

Considering the Lenovo is using a 2.6ghz dual core AMD CPU then it's benchmark performance isn't bad. 

Even in a higher performance system it's benchmark improvements would be marginal.

Pricewise it is Samsung's lowest cost/performance nvme ssd.

[GZRa3]

So there is nothing I can do to get the full speed or even high speed?
if I buy a dram SSD would I get high speed or the problem is just in my laptop?

[ddaniel51 · Accepted solution]

Even if you were to  drop  in  a higher performance SSD in that laptop I doubt you'd detect any difference in day to day  operations.  The current SSD is probably idle a lot just waiting on Windows to catch up with it now.

A lot of companies also slow down the ssd's to reduce battery drain on their portable devices.