I have an ASUS Z170-A Motherboard equipped with a Samsung M.2 SM951-NVMe SSD. Windows 10 lives on it. My programs live on another -slower- SSD.
In the BIOS I noticed the mode for this disk is set to SATA, but Samsung Magician reports around 1900 MB/s Read and 657 MB/s write, which is around the spec of the disk.
Also in the BIOS there is an option to set the mode for the M.2 disk from SATA to PCIe.
Is there any benefit in terms of speed?
If I toggle the mode, do I need to do a completely fresh install when I do?
In the BIOS I noticed the mode for this disk is set to SATA, but Samsung Magician reports around 1900 MB/s Read and 657 MB/s write, which is around the spec of the disk.
Also in the BIOS there is an option to set the mode for the M.2 disk from SATA to PCIe.
Is there any benefit in terms of speed?
If I toggle the mode, do I need to do a completely fresh install when I do?