AFAIK the company “SK hynix” has never published any NVMe driver. So there is no specific driver for the SKhynix NVMe Controller with the DeviceID DEV_174A available.
I am not sure, maybe SKhynik sometimes uses 3rd-party controllers? Not every brand has their own controllers. But on the their webseite they don’t provide much informaion about that SSD, because of OEM product. Google also don’t find any useful information to this model. I think it depends to that rare format 2230.
By the way: DEV_174A is the Hardware-ID from the built-in Controller of the Laptop. This isn’t a SKhynix controller. I don’t know the manufacturer of this controller.
@ole258
The manufacturer of the SSD doesn’t matter regarding the choice of the best matching NVMe driver. Only important is the manufacturer and the properties of the NVMe Controller.
@westlake
Thank you for your idea to put some additional information about the importance of the Controller’s HardwareIDs into the start post.
Trying to follow your advice I have now added a new chapter named “How to find matching Storage Drivers?”. Is it ok or should I change/add anything?
By the way - your attached list contains only HardwareIDs of some NVMe Controllers, whereas the HardwareIDs of all SATA AHCI and RAID Controllers and of Samsung’s NVMe Controllers are missing.
@Fernando
The “How to find the right “Storage Drivers”?” description is absolutely fine. I didn’t include all the SSD-related driver IDs in the list for a reason, but I can eventually expand it to include the others.
@Tito
Thanks for having found and uploaded the currently latest 64bit Micron NVMe drivers v2.1.19.0 WHQL dated 08/03/2021.
The start post has been updated by me.
@westlake
As already announced last year, I am going to give up the support of the threads, which had been started by me. After the Forum move the outfit and the structure of many start posts have become unacceptable for me and I am not willing to spend weeks of my free time with their reparation (if I should succeed at all).
So it would be a good idea for the Forum members, if you (or someone else) would overtake my job and start a new thread about this topic.
@westlake
Thanks for offering the new AMD RAIDXpert2 drivers v9.3.2.130 WHQL dated 06/16/2022.
Meanwhile I found the related AMD RAIDXpert2 Installer Set v9.3.2.130 dated 06/28/2022 at Station-Drivers (hidden within the today offered old AMD Ryzen Chipset drivers Installer Set). It is now available within the start post of this thread as well.
By the way - I am waiting for you reply to my last post. If I shouldn’t find a successor, I will stop keeping “my” start posts up-to-date.
@kgbab
Which OS are you running?
Why do you want to get the specific WD NVMe driver installed? I seriously doubt, that the WD driver is the best choice for the currently latest Win11 Editions.
Nevertheless here is my reply to your question:
To be able to make a certain driver compatible with a certain NVMe Controller, I need the exact HardwareIDs of it.
A driver modification may not be required for your system. Provided, that you are running a modern Windows OS, you should be able to get the WD NVMe driver v3.3.2102.41615 properly installed and working with the NVMe Controller of the WD 850 SSD. If the related DeviceID of the NVMe Controller is not listed within the *.INF file, you may have to force the driver installation by using the “Have Disk” button and navigating to the original WD driver.
