[kasabali]

It sounds like a regular day.

Probably combination of:

- Constructed with fewest number of nand chips possible, and using bottom of the barrel shit like 64L Intel QLC

- Easily overheating DRAMless controller (eg. SM225*XT hitting 70+C at the slightest load)

- Tucked in a heat trap plastic case

- pSLC cache is always almost-full (because for some reason entry level controllers always choose to do that), which is quickly filled after a not-so-long run of Windows update

Combine all these in a single product (like ADATA often does in its entry level SATA), and 5 MB/s sounds actually fast :)