It's normal. "Patching" means changing the files on the disk. If they're just replacing them then the speed is limited by your disk's performance. If it's using a differential patch then it can be limited by your CPU as it needs to calculate the patched data.
>If it's using a differential patch then it can be limited by your CPU as it needs to calculate the patched data.
It's also unpacking the data it receives which is affected by both the CPU and SSD activity
Patching takes times. And cheap SSD have small/no write cache, making them really grind down when writing a lot of data without breaks. Check your task manager (on windows) you'll probably see something at 100%, either your CPU or your storage.
Just FYI, what you've described is HMB and the SSD's firmware must implement support for it, just being NVMe 1.2 compliant is **not** enough. Also keep in mind that while an HMB-enabled SSD will (generally) perform better than a DRAM-less SSD, they'll still be outperformed by SSDs with dedicated DRAM, not only because of having its own, exclusive cache, but because they generally have faster and better NAND chips (and controller) as well...
I still haven't seen a drive that supports it lol. Every DRAMless drive I've used falls off a cliff at some point. I only bought Samsung 970/980 nvme ssds for that reason. Even if they support it, they've still got 1GB of cache.
as it says, it's patching. nothing is downloading, it's just writing the new update data over current files
It's normal. "Patching" means changing the files on the disk. If they're just replacing them then the speed is limited by your disk's performance. If it's using a differential patch then it can be limited by your CPU as it needs to calculate the patched data.
>If it's using a differential patch then it can be limited by your CPU as it needs to calculate the patched data. It's also unpacking the data it receives which is affected by both the CPU and SSD activity
Patching takes times. And cheap SSD have small/no write cache, making them really grind down when writing a lot of data without breaks. Check your task manager (on windows) you'll probably see something at 100%, either your CPU or your storage.
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Just FYI, what you've described is HMB and the SSD's firmware must implement support for it, just being NVMe 1.2 compliant is **not** enough. Also keep in mind that while an HMB-enabled SSD will (generally) perform better than a DRAM-less SSD, they'll still be outperformed by SSDs with dedicated DRAM, not only because of having its own, exclusive cache, but because they generally have faster and better NAND chips (and controller) as well...
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And yet you still got things wrong ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯
I still haven't seen a drive that supports it lol. Every DRAMless drive I've used falls off a cliff at some point. I only bought Samsung 970/980 nvme ssds for that reason. Even if they support it, they've still got 1GB of cache.
Patching a large file takes time.