Question The best actual driver for Samsung 960 Pro 1 TB NVMe

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Hi Everyone.

I´m new to the forum and looking for some help with the Samsung 960.

I have a Lenovo Yoga 900-13ISK2 80UE about a year ago I swapped the original PM951 512 GB SSD (NVMe) to a the Samsung 960 Pro 1 TB (also NVMe) successfully. Everything seems to be working fine, as both SSDs the old one and the new one are NVMe apparently the same driver was good for it to booth and work. Using the Microsoft NVMe driver.

The speed is nice and seems same as to the original SSD but I keep having the feeling that it may not be using its full speed as there is no specific Samsung driver I could install to maximize its operation. I have the same problem with the Magician software about getting the message that the drive is not supported.

I keep getting a message from Intel drive update to updated it to their RST driver latest version but I´m afraid to run into problems as to stop being the drive recognized or other problems.

Can anyone give me some recommendation?

Thanks, Roger
 
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Numbers will tell the tale, rather than feelings.

Run CrystalDiskMark, and see what it says.
Numbers will tell the tale, rather than feelings.

Run CrystalDiskMark, and see what it says.
Here is what I got I think it is like 30% or more under what is expected:

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CrystalDiskMark 6.0.2 x64 (C) 2007-2018 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : https://crystalmark.info/
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  • MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
  • KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes

Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 1630.859 MB/s
Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 1057.098 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 724.361 MB/s [ 176845.9 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 423.983 MB/s [ 103511.5 IOPS]
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 286.549 MB/s [ 69958.3 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 240.209 MB/s [ 58644.8 IOPS]
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 38.986 MB/s [ 9518.1 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 123.117 MB/s [ 30057.9 IOPS]

Test : 1024 MiB [C: 73.8% (115.4/156.4 GiB)] (x5) [Interval=5 sec]
Date : 2019/07/15 12:42:44
OS : Windows 10 Professional [10.0 Build 18362] (x64)

Appreciate your comments.

Tks, Roger
 
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Not sure how to find out but the main specs are:
Laptop Lenovo Yoga 900-13ISK2 80UE
Intel Core i7 (6th Gen) 6560U / 2.2 GHz
Dual Core
x64-based PC with 16 GB Memory
Intel HD Iris Graphics 540
Baseboard Version: SDK0J40709 WIN
Baseboard Product VIUU4
Bios mode UEFI

I this info of any help or please I appreciate if you advise what to look for.
 
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use hwinfo to find out more about your motherboard

open it, and click on Motherboard on the left, and in the right pane, you will see PCIe version. tell us what that it please.

mine at work it pathetic, it's PCIe Express v2.0, ugh. I need a new box, it was suggested above yours might only be PCIe 2.0, if so, that explains your numbers.
 
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