System Performance

Hello everyone, I have searched for a week and a half a suitable firmware for both versions (AHCI/NVME) of SM951 M.2 SSD. So I discovered that there are different firmwares for this OEM’s piece, we have the originals di…

Somewhere I have read, that a PCIe connection may give an NVMe SSD a better performance than a direct insertion of the SSD into an on-board M.2 port. Reason: The data transfer lanes of the on-board M.2 ports are usually …

@ all Intel RAID0 users: Optimized SSD Performance - Advices for Intel RAID0 Users If you want to get the best performance and benchmark scores with your SSD RAID0 system, you should do the following: Update the SSD…

@ all Intel AHCI resp. NVMe users: Optimized SSD Performance - Advices for Intel AHCI and NVMe Users If you want to get the best performance and benchmark scores with your Intel Chipset system running in AHCI or NVMe m…

From Win7 up, all Windows Operating Systems do send TRIM commands to the connected SSDs. TRIM is able to clean the SSD cells, which contain unusable or finally deleted data, and make them instantly re-usable by the Opera…

Which are the fastest Consumer SSDs? SATA3 vs. M.2/PCIe Interface (Completely new start post, all tests done in June 2017) In November 2014 and December 2015 I had already done some benchmark comparison tests with my …

@ users with one or more SSDs: Within this thread I want to present some very useful specific SSDs tools, which you can get and use for free. Recommended SSD Tools (will not be updated by me anymore) Last updated: 10/08…

Function and reasonable use of the Win8/8.1/10 "Optimizer" One of the most important tools for boosting the performance of the HDDs and SSDs is the “Optimizer” (formerly named “Defrag Tool”) as part of the Operating Syst…