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poor reading performance of SSD drive

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I have two SSD (nvme, pcie 4.0) and one SATA disk. One of the SSD seems to be very slow in reading operations - one is getting 2 GB/s and the other one 200 MB/s.
I'm not sure what can be the cause or how can I get more info. Any ideas?

Benchmark:

root:/# hdparm -Tt /dev/nvme0n1; echo 'second'; hdparm -Tt /dev/nvme1n1

/dev/nvme0n1:
 Timing cached reads:   29588 MB in  2.00 seconds = 14813.35 MB/sec
 HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
 Timing buffered disk reads: 596 MB in  3.01 seconds = 198.00 MB/sec
second

/dev/nvme1n1:
 Timing cached reads:   29354 MB in  2.00 seconds = 14697.06 MB/sec
 HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
 Timing buffered disk reads: 6376 MB in  3.00 seconds = 2124.77 MB/sec

I havent found any issue running smartctl -a /dev/nvme0 or nvme error-log /dev/nvme0

System details:

root:/# uname -a
Linux ryzen-desktop 5.11.0-25-generic #27~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 13 17:41:23 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

root:/# cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS \n \l

Slow SSD is 74% full:

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/nvme0n1p1  916G  638G  232G  74% /other

HW specification:

Motherboard: X570 AORUS MASTER (https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/X570-AORUS-MASTER-rev-10/sp#sp, manual (pdf) - https://download.gigabyte.com/FileList/Manual/mb_manual_x570-aorus-master_1002_e.pdf?v=30c7ecc8f9bc0e464b65a4062dd58841)

First SSD (fast): Force Series Gen.4 PCIe MP600 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD (https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Categories/Products/Storage/M-2-SSDs/Force-Series%E2%84%A2-Gen-4-PCIe-NVMe-M-2-SSD/p/CSSD-F1000GBMP600)

Second SSD (slow): WD BLACK SN850 NVMe SSD (https://www.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-black-sn850-nvme-ssd#WDS100T1X0E)

I have also old SATA HDD connected.

Corsair (the fast one) is connected to M2C and WD (slow one) to M2A slots (see the motherboard's manual). The SATA disk is connected to SATA port 1.

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Ok, so I guess I have found the cause of the problem, so posting here in case anyone else have the same issue.

It was basically an issue on WD side:

https://www.pcgamer.com/wd-is-fixing-a-bug-that-makes-black-sn850-ssds-run-slow-on-x570-motherboards/

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