System Performance

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 …

@100PIER : Meanwhile I succeeded trying to create an Intel RAID array consisting of 2x250 GB Samsung 960 EVO SSDs (downgrading the mainboard BIOS from v7.30 to v2.00 did the trick). The NVMe RAID0 system is very stable a…

@ 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…