Question Is there any risks updating hardware via Device Manager?

[danny009]

Hi again, I'm getting low speeds with my USB connections when I copy or paste a huge file, speeds are high first but then drops down to literally USB 1.1 speed or similar, my motherboard is an old one, Z97 pro gamer from Asus, should I update SATA/AHCI thing via Windows 10's hardware manager or should I look for ASUS website instead? ASUS website usually lists old and new versions as well, should I update in number order or instantly jump to the latest version? This can brick my computer? or somekind corruption with USB ports? I never updated my SATA/AHCI controller thing and literally using it since a decade now, I have "Standard SATA AHCI controller" under ATA/ATAPI,

I wouldn't mind a explanation about this if you have time, thank you,

 

[USAFRet]

What specific devices are you copying to and from?
The high speed at first is probably just the cache. Once that fills up, then the 'performance' drops a lot.

So, specifics count.

And the slowest device in the chain dictates performance.

 

[danny009]

What specific devices are you copying to and from?
The high speed at first is probably just the cache. Once that fills up, then the 'performance' drops a lot.

So, specifics count.

And the slowest device in the chain dictates performance.

I copy and paste 7200rpm hdd to each other and sometimes from hdd to my external SSD connected to a 3.0 USB port back in the case, I own a 1TB and a 500GB HDDs, external Samsung T5 SSD size is 500GB,

Driver for T5 is up to date via samsung ssd software portable,