Slow real world NVME SSD performance

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I have a Dell Inspiron 15 7000 Gaming with an i5 and a Toshiba XG5 256GB NVME SSD. The PC is basically new, and out of the box, performance is sluggish. It seems to hang at odd times (5 seconds to open Chrome, for example), but it's erratic (at other times, Chrome loads instantly). To me, this sounds like some sort of SSD issue, but I guess it could be an oddity in a driver or something.

So, I ran a couple performance tests. The results are attached. Can anybody help me interpret?

Thank you!
 

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jebo_4jc said:
I have a Dell Inspiron 15 7000 Gaming with an i5 and a Toshiba XG5 256GB NVME SSD. The PC is basically new, and out of the box, performance is sluggish. It seems to hang at odd times (5 seconds to open Chrome, for example), but it's erratic (at other times, Chrome loads instantly). To me, this sounds like some sort of SSD issue, but I guess it could be an oddity in a driver or something.

So, I ran a couple performance tests. The results are attached. Can anybody help me interpret?

Thank you!
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I have a 7557.

What performance mode are you utilizing for Windows?
 
I'm using the "Dell" setting. About the only thing I could see affecting these results is the PCIe state power management, right?

Edit: not to mention, if this is the Dell recommended setting, how could they recommend a setting that would result in drastically worse user experience? Ugh.
 
jebo_4jc said:
I'm using the "Dell" setting. About the only thing I could see affecting these results is the PCIe state power management, right?

Edit: not to mention, if this is the Dell recommended setting, how could they recommend a setting that would result in drastically worse user experience? Ugh.
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Yeah, turn off the pcie management.

I don't really know what Dell was thinking with a few things they did. The drives they put in them with the exception of the Samsung are garbage.

I don't recall any bios settings that would cause this. Have you updated your firmware and bios?
 
Update the laptop's firmware, if you haven't already.

It should already be enabled, but verify the TRIM setting.

Download the latest Intel DSA and update everything that it finds an update for.
 
Sometimes they do that so they can test the battery power and brag about how long it lasts.
 
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