100% disk usage with brand new Munchkin SSD

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Hi guys,

Yesterday I received my brand new Munchkin Enhanced Reactor 1TB. The goal of that purchase was simple. I am paying for gigabit and my 1TB WD Caviar Blue wasn't able to keep up when I was downloading games on Steam and other sites. However, I realised that when I download directly on my main SSD, which is an Intel 335 Series, I can hit a CONSTANT 100 MB/s with star citizen and 60 MB/s with any game on Steam.

The problem is, the Intel SSD have only 240 Go so last week I purchased the Munchkin.

I think it is important to say that I reformatted Windows, and I initialized the drive in NTFS.

Now, when I download a game, like star citizen, I can hit 100 MB/s but after like 2 minutes, it drops to 1 MB/s and even stops completely for a good 30 seconds to even a minute. After, it goes way back up.

I did a chkdsk, no errors were found. I did a scan with some other software, it said they the SSD condition was PERFECT.

So here I am. I lookup on Google, but other people seems to experience this whit older drives, not a brand new one. I also tried to disable windows search and another service (that I don't remember), and it changed nothing. Other people also seems to have problems with 100% disk activity all the time in Windows, which is not.my case.

So what do you think ? Is it a bad drive ? Or maybe it's normal and this SSD is not as good as my old Intel one ? Maybe I need to reformat another time ?

Also here are my specs

Intel i-7 3770
GTX 680 4gb
32 GB hyper x @1600
600 W corsair power supply
Intel DH77EB (motherboard)

Your answers will mean a lot thank you !

Edit: I forgot to mention that I did check in task manager which task was using the disk and for example when it is Steam, it gets to 60MB/s when it works normally, but when it jams at 100% disk usage, Steam is using 0MB/s which is why I find it weird.

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Munchkin? Are those as good as Mushkin? ;)

This seems like a network issue. What are your actual disk speeds on local file transfer? Using CrystalMark?

http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskMark/index-e.html

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I did a Crystal mark test with the 2 drives and I watched closely what was happening. The Intel one was performing normally, with normal speeds. Then I did the same test with the Mushkin (hahaha). For the first 6/8 all was normal but then it happens for the last two ones. It was writing for a second the stops for like 20-30 seconds. The results of the test was a normal speed, but what was happening live was not normal or at least it was not like the Intel one.

I will provide screenshots very very soon.

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The C drive (the first screenshot is my main Intel drive.

The second is when it started to get weird.

As I said, the result is 428.5 but the process was way longer than on any other test either on the Intel or the Mushkin.

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You may want to contact Mushkin support and see what they say about this issue. You might be due an RMA.

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Is the new drive on the same SATA cable and same motherboard SATA port than the Intel was before?

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No, I only have 2 SATA III (6GB/s) (they are blue) so I took the SATA cable from my Blu ray drive and I plugged it where my WD Caviar Blue was. Then I plugged the WD in a SATA 3GB/s (they are black). I didn't touch the Intel. The Intel is still the drive where Windows is installed.

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Try the other cable from the Intel drive. I have no Idea how that would make sense but at least we can rule out a hardware issue on your side then.

You can try downloading an ubuntu ISO and install that directly onto the Mushkin. When you get the same issues there it is drive.

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Great I will do this tonight and post after. Thanks you.

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Wow thank you man.

i changed the SATA cable and I downloaded Star Citizen in 5 minutes ahah.

I wasn't even the port, it really was the cable.

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