[SOLVED] Is it safe to change the NVME Driver

[cschwarz]

I have been using a Samsung 970 for about 6 x months. I opened Samsung Magician and it shows that I am using the Intel driver rather than the Samsung driver and says that this is strongly not recommended.
Is it safe for me to change the driver, will I lose data?
There is no raid on this drive. I have some hard drives attached in raid mounted as a seperate volume.

 

[USAFRet]

will I lose data

You should ALWAYS be prepared to lose data.
This is what backups are for.

Is changing from the Intel driver to the Samsung 'safe'? Probably.
Are you currently seeing any performance issues?

 

[cschwarz]

I run the drive hard. Occasionally at 100% for huge data operations. I'm more concerned ensuring that I have the correct driver for longevity.
It's my boot drive so I would rather not wipe that. If it's safer not to change the driver then so be it, if it is safe then I'd just do it.

 

[USAFRet]

I run the drive hard. Occasionally at 100% for huge data operations. I'm more concerned ensuring that I have the correct driver for longevity.
It's my boot drive so I would rather not wipe that. If it's safer not to change the driver then so be it, if it is safe then I'd just do it.

There is no 100% "safe".

For any storage device, with any data you care about, you need to have a known good backup.
For the OS drive, preferably a full drive backup.

Having said that, changing from the Intel driver to the Samsung is almost certainly just fine.
Except if the system suffers a power loss in the middle of the process, or something equally weird.

ALWAYS have a fall back point.
ALWAYS protect your data.

And I'm pretty sure Samsung recommends for you to have a backup before you do that. Just in case.

 

[geofelt]

You should be safe enough.
But just in case that there is an issue, protect yourself by taking a user system restore checkpoint first.

 

[CountMike]

Changing drivers to proper Samsung drivers, safe enough, firmware is another story although mine was updated without data loss.