I own the Dell EMC Intel Optane DC P5800X
400GB (053M3R) U.2 SSD.
I’ve managed to update the firmware from
v1.0.0, to v2.0.0.
The driver that I am using is the Intel
Datacenter NVMe driver v5.3.0.1005 (from
Softpedia).
However, though my drive hits good
benchmark sequential numbers, the 4K
random numbers are pretty low:
about 190MB/s read/write, in
CrystalDiskMark.
QUESTION:
Is there a better driver for this drive?
Can anyone provide one?
MENTION:
I’ve got RAID-0 enabled in the BIOS, as I also
own 3 Samsung 970 Pro 1TB SSDs.
(Maybe, using the RAID protocol instead of
AHCI has a negative impact on my drive.
I don’t know).
@NDRE28
Welcome to the Win-Raid Forum!
Maybe you can find some information >here<.
You forgot to mention the OS you are running. The performance is quite different with different Operating Systems.
By the way - the creation of a RAID Array is a good idea for HDDs, but not for NVMe SSDs. I have tested it myself: The performance gain is only detectable, if you work intensively with very big sized files, but the system may become unstable.
The OS that I am using is Windows 11 Enterprise v24H2 (I’ve edited my original post too).
In my case, the RAID-0 array is very stable; I’ve been using my PC in this way since building it, in march 2024, and I’ve also been using it, without any issue, on my previous PC for several years.
However, if RAID-0 slows down my Optane drive, I’ll delete my RAID array.
Though the Optane drive was not part of the RAID-0 array, somehow the Optane drive was attached to it. (Maybe, because of the boot-start drivers, which had to be installed at the Windows setup, in order for the RAID array to be seen by Windows as a single large drive, instead of 3 separate drives).
After deleting the RAID-0 array, my OS drive numbers, in CrystalDiskMark, in random read/write transfers (Q1T1), went from, 190+MB/s, to 330+MB/s!