I have a drive I boot windows 2 go with for various purposes. My Framework 13 has the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and the nvme is my work drive. The performance is so slow its unusable. I’ve tried all four ports and it doesn’t seem to make a difference. I’ve attached two benchmarks from the same drive, the slow one is from booting the Framework 13. The drive is fine, the faster of the two is the same drive running on my old Elitebook 840 G8. I’ve tried messing with bios settings, when searching there was a comment of disabling legacy boot, but I don’t even see that in the BIOS.
Is anyone else booting a Framework 13 run into this issue and figured out a fix?
The top one looks like usb3 10gbit and the bottom one looks like usb2.
What kind of drive are you using here? If it has a cable are you using the same one as with the elitebook?
Its a Corsair MP600 MINI 1TB in a ORICO Full Metal M.2 NVMe 2230 SSD Enclosure, USB C 3.2 Gen2 Type-C 10Gbps to NVMe PCIe Adapter. Using the same cable in both cases, I’ve tried the one that came with it and a usb 4 cable that I have same results. I’ve ordered some different expansion cards in case that is the issue.
You could try plugging directly into the mainboard without an expansion card, the thing dropping to usb2 consistently points to a potential wiring issue.
I found this thread because I am facing the exact same issue. I have a fw13 7640U and a 1TB Crucial X9 Pro USB-C SSD (USB 3.2 Gen2) with a Windows2Go installation. It usually reaches around 1gb/s sequential read. However, when I try to boot my framework from the drive I also just get 40mb/s read speed which indeed looks like it dropped to USB 2 speeds and would explain why we both get pretty much the same (more or less maximum throughput of usb 2).
Sometimes (I haven’t figured out how/when) when I randomly switch the port I use or cold start it the drive boots and gets up to 1gb/s, but most of the time I get abysmal performance when booting from the drive.
I did try connecting it directly to the mainboard usb-c ports but that did not change anything for me.
