Thanks to Station-Drivers for the source package. What I do not yet know is, whether a) these drivers do support TRIM and b) the drivers do support Windows XP and/or Vista (x86/x64).
Any feedback is much appreciated!
Good luck with these Marvell AHCI/RAID drivers! Dieter (alias Fernando)
@Fernando I will test Trimcheck with V1.2.0.1049 for W10 x64 soon on ASUS P8Z77 and let you know. You said V1.2.0.1048 for Win7-8, is there a typo in the start post ?
Where do you see v1.2.0.1048? By the way: The fact, that Marvell has put TXTSETUP.OEM files to both driverpacks (one supposedly designed for Win10 and the other for Win7-8) indicates, that both driver models may work with all Windows Operating Systems from XP/W2K3 up. Otherwise it wouldn’t make any sense.
I have a Samsung SM961 512GB m.2 NVMe I installed Windows 2016 Server on it, it installed without asking any drivers. I don’t really get fast write speeds on it (see screenshot).
It’s probably because of the driver, when I look the disk up in the device manager, it’s using Microsoft Driver. I tried downloading your driver pack, but it doesn’t recognize the disk.
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I’ve used the following driver for the controller: Samsung NVMe drivers v2.0.0.1607 WHQL I thaught I should be used on the disk driver also (when looking up in the device manager) because i have those slow write speeds…
I don’t understand why the read speed is OK but the write speed is bad…
No, you should not update the drivers of devices which are listed within the section "Disk Drives".
Maybe you forgot to set the optimized write-caching settings for your NVMe SSD. Look for point 8 within the start post of >this< thread. By the way: Many of the other tips, which were primarily designed for AHCI users, are valid for NVMe users as well.
Samsung SM961 is very similar to 960 PRO. I use v2.0.0.1607 under W10 x64 Home v1607.
You should have this similar CDM score:
As said Fernando, do you have properly set the ‘Strategy Policies’ ?
By curiosity can you provide the CrystalDiskInfo screenshot such as this one, so I can compare some essentials data (firmware and unsafe shutdown parameter) ?
@Tistou, Thanks for your screenshot, however the interesting SMART values are for 0D, 0E and 0F parameters. Please, can you get a full screen like that, I am tracking the ‘unsafe shutdown issue’, may be related to Samsung driver
Maybe the impact depends on the NVMe SSD model. You have tested the Samsung 960 Pro, whereas I made my just published benchmark tests with a Samsung 950 Pro.
