I remember a test which I conducted after I received my Intel SDD 510
120 GB about 1 year ago. I don't remember all the details, but the
essence was that write speed decreased dramatically if the write process
wasn't aligned.
I did:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=4k
I got around 400 Mb/sec, which was expected. But when I did:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=5k
I got only around 40 Mb/sec
When you write in 5k blocks, the SSD has to do a lot of overhead because
of the Read-Modify-Write operations. I guess this might also be the case
if you write in 4k blocks, but don't align them to the SSD's "native"
blocks. So I would check for any misalignment.
Regards,
André
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