[daniel1212]

Thanks. I will add another 8GB ram that matches the Samsung 8G module that the computer came with.

That is best as the Lord leads.

It come with an Intel Optane chip which speeds up the 7200RPM hard drive. So that READ is 929 mb/s WRITE is 159 mb/s

Very slow writes, and are you sure the read is that high? Even a Samsung 860 EVO maximum read/write speed is cited as 550 MB/s and 520 MB/s. And see https://photographylife.com/nvme-vs-ssd-vs-hdd-performance and https://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/storage-hardware/ssd-vs-hdd-speed.html

I did put a fresh WD 500GB NVME drive into a cheap i3 Dell laptop. Speeds now are>> WRITE— 1800 Mb/s READ —2400Mb/s

Sound good. I was able to get a Silicon Power 512GB NVMe for under 60.00 a while back and a quick CrystalDiskMark 7 sequential 1MiB Read is 3456.993 MB/s and 850.57 Write. On SSD I have tests as 564.26 Read and 489.91 Write.

Thank God for what tools we have; may they be use to help us serve Him.

[dennisw]

Optane was nice try by Intel but NVME drives have surpassed it. Anyway here are two examples of my reads/writes for a 7200RPM drive in my HP desktop computer with Optane assist. Optane is legit because reads are more important than writes. With Optane the WRITES are about the same as without any optane chip. You can see that Optane makes a 7200RPM hard drive READS much much better.