引用自 Tesityr：

This is not a Tech Support question - and by that I mean, I don't need anything 'solved' or don't need help with it really - I am just curious if anyone else has run into this issue with these 'newer' drives. Just wondering...

As a treat for myself, with Xmas money I purchased an NVME m.2 drive (little stick of gum size drive that is mostly just computer chips that you plug directly into the mobo). It is supposed to be faster than SSD drives (and it is!) - but my issue is, that when I transfer files thrhough it, or install large programs (eg. games) it slows down my ENTIRE PC lol as in, I cannot do anything else barely, everything takes a long time to respond to clicks, etc. It's like the process 'takes over' the entire system it makes me laugh a bit each time this happens.

Now I know you guys are helpful, and I appreciate there is a Tech Support area (Steam) but I don't really need this 'solved' per se; I am just curious if this is a common thing, or if other people have run into this.

I've run Benchmarks on it and it runs great, much faster than my platter drive (HDD) or my SSD drive. It seems to work fine. Windows starts in like 10 seconds (I used to wait minutes on end when Windows was on my platter/mechanical drive). I'm happy with it - I'm just wondering if this is a 'normal' thing.
If it isn't and everyone says that is wackoshmacko, I'll look into it sometime (Troublehsoot, look for help sometime), but for now I'm just more or less taking a poll I guess... and since it's not directly related to any one game, I figured OT is ok to put this into ((Mods, please feel free to move this if you think it is warranted, I do not want to offend))

Thanks for any input :crt:

引用自 Hugsie Muffinball：

Are you transferring a small quantity of very large files or many small files?

引用自 Autumn：

If you're transferring a lot of data, and your OS is on that drive, it's going to take a while to respond because all of it's bandwidth is being used.
Just the same as any other drive.

It's like trying to drive down a backed up motorway - You're not going to get far, because it's already full.
Whereas, if there's a few people (normal useage / gaming), then you're going to get very far, very quickly.

Just a quick correction though.
NVMe drives are still SSDs, just as USB sticks are also SSDs.
They're just different speeds, controllers, interface, and if they have a cache or not.

Because NVMes use PCI-e, they have MUCH more bandwidth to play with (1970MB/s to 7876MB/s, depending on how many lanes it uses, and what PCI-e version it uses.) Compared to a SATA SSD, which is limited, to you guessed it, SATA3 speeds (~600MB/s)

Though, I really doubt you're going to fully saturate an NVMe just by installing a game. Because your internet wouldn't be able to keep up.
What CPU do you have?

Edit ; for some reason there were 2 quotes, I removed one.

引用自 Spec_Ops_Ape：

File transfer will be limited to the slowest component whether it be a mechanical/SATA SSD drive or the Internet to the NVMe drive, but it should not slow down the entire system. A lot of the normal operations of Windows is cached in RAM so disk file transfers should not impact it. Something else is going on.
Also once the file transfer is initiated, the disks talk directly to each other instead of going through the middle man.

引用自 Tesityr：

引用自 Autumn：

If you're transferring a lot of data, and your OS is on that drive, it's going to take a while to respond because all of it's bandwidth is being used.
Just the same as any other drive.

It's like trying to drive down a backed up motorway - You're not going to get far, because it's already full.
Whereas, if there's a few people (normal useage / gaming), then you're going to get very far, very quickly.

Just a quick correction though.
NVMe drives are still SSDs, just as USB sticks are also SSDs.
They're just different speeds, controllers, interface, and if they have a cache or not.

Because NVMes use PCI-e, they have MUCH more bandwidth to play with (1970MB/s to 7876MB/s, depending on how many lanes it uses, and what PCI-e version it uses.) Compared to a SATA SSD, which is limited, to you guessed it, SATA3 speeds (~600MB/s)

Though, I really doubt you're going to fully saturate an NVMe just by installing a game. Because your internet wouldn't be able to keep up.
What CPU do you have?

Edit ; for some reason there were 2 quotes, I removed one.

What a lot of great info - thanks for your input. I didn't want to bother people too much with 'troubleshooting' it, but I have an Intel 9400f, so 'midrange' I think?

I was thinking like you, that it shouldn't be 'that' slow - heck I could do more at the same time of transferring files, when I had an SSD drive as my OS drive (thanks for the clarification, I should have said PCIe in there somewhere maybe, heh) - I was wondering overall if it was a 'normal' happening for these drives.

引用自 _I_：

update bios
make sure the m.2 slot is configured as nvme not sata/pci

引用自 emoticorpse：

My entire pc doesn't slow down when I copy from m.2 to hdd and I constantly transter 100gb+ over. Stays just as responsive and it's usually is.

引用自 Tesityr：

Thanks for that, I did that; the Gigabyte BIOS reports it detected as is "NVME". It doesn't state any "channels" though, oddly. Lots of people in other forums says "check for PCIe 4", etc

引用自 Mjtxe：

How did you fix it?