Thanks KhaaL. Juan Flynn suggested that I check the temperature to make sure no throttling is taking place. I'll give that a shot tonight.
So far, the possibilities are some driver issue or some sort of hardware throttling issue.
I ran hdparm -i /dev/sda on my work machine (which does not have this issue).
I'll post the results from my laptop next.
Thanks KhaaL. Juan Flynn suggested that I check the temperature to make sure no throttling is taking place. I'll give that a shot tonight.
So far, the possibilities are some driver issue or some sort of hardware throttling issue.
I ran hdparm -i /dev/sda on my work machine (which does not have this issue).
I'll post the results from my laptop next.