HardwareXDAabout 2 hours ago
SSD speed limited by motherboard manual
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Flagship NVMe drives often run at half speed because motherboard manuals document PCIe lane sharing that users ignore. A PCIe Gen 5 SSD behind a chipset link can't deliver its rated 14,000 MB/s. Checking CrystalDiskMark and HWiNFO reveals the bottleneck. Moving the drive to the CPU-connected primary slot fixes it.
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