Extremely slow performance on Samsung 970 EVO Plus 500GB m2

[DoozyDoge]

I'm baffled here. First run I was at about 11,500 Disk Mark. Second run I'm at 12,929. Third run 13,655. It's like at the 50% mark and this is supposed to be one of the faster .m2 drives out there. I mean, on the comparison graph, the same drive (but 1TB size) scored 26,442.

It seems to be running at 1/2 speeed.

This is a Ryzen 7 laptop, 16GB ram @2,666 with a RTX 2060 mobile gpu.

Any help would be appreciated!

[David (PassMark)]

See this post to start with
https://forums.passmark.com/performa...-for-a-slow-pc

Maybe there is background activity on the drive? Maybe it is near full? Maybe the PCIe slot on the machine is only x2?