Samsung SSD 950 PRO M.2 problem...

[Dave18k]

Hi there !

I have an Alienware R3 15'' 2016 and I just bought a new Samsung SSD (V-NAND SSD 950 PRO M.2) for my Alienware and it runs perfectly ! BUT ...

specs :

NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 with 6GB GDDR5

Processor - Intel® Core™ i5-6300HQ (Quad-Core, 6MB Cache, up to 3.2GHz w/ Turbo Boost)

Operating System - Windows 10 Home 64bit English

Memory - 8GB DDR4 at 2133MHz (1x8GB)

SSD : 256GB Samsung PCIe SSD V-NAND 950 PRO M.2 NVM Express

Hard Drive - 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s (now my secondary drive for storage)


The only thing is my Samsung Magician is not detecting it ?? When I try to install the Samsung NVMe Driver 2.0 it tells me : "Samsung NVM Express Device is not connected. Connect the device and try again."


Not sure what I should do now ? It works fine but ... this thing annoys me right now lol.


Which is funny because I run on the SSD right now lol

Thanks a lot,

Dave.

 

[JaredDM]

According to Samsung:

If the SSD is connected to a RAID/SCSI storage device controller, it may cause a failure to detect the SSD properly.
If this is the case, please install the MS default drivers.

So it's likely that it can't read the SSD through your motherboard's controller. Check if you have RAID mode enabled or if it's set to AHCI. Other than that, just forget about it and stick with Window's own driver. Really makes no difference in my opinion.

 

[lakimens]

It actually does make a difference, Samsung's software gives a lot of information about the drive, including how much life it has left.

 

[Dave18k]

@Storage Master : When I check it out in Magician it says : AHCI Mode : Desactivated. So I suppose its running in RAID mode. The thing is hella fast thats for sure.

I did a benchmark test with the Magician and I get 1870 MB\sec in reading and 1218 MB\sec in writing which is awesome !

Well looks like I will have to live with that for now ... until Samsung comes up with a solution with that.