@fernando Hi, the Optane 905P is not the hybrid acceleration version for Intel Only - it is an Optane based NVME SSD which is available as 380 (M2 form) 480 (U2 Form) and 960 (PCIE Slot form factor) - I had a great opportunity to get one at a reasonable price from a system pull. The benefit is extremly fast small file random R/W also at low que depth (good but not amazing in sequential large files - here Rocket 4 is clearly better) and the response I am seeing in the 24 hours using it is just great - its like launching every application from a huge Ram disk - is it worth the 3x normal SSD price (or 6X without a good buy opportunity) - likely not, its more the fun of a really responsive system. To my own surprise (and initial shock) the X570 xtreme seems to be optimized to take it on. When I inserted it in the M2A slot the slot came up empty in BIOS (and it still does) - however a complete new section appeared in the BIOS showing all the Optane Drives Characteristics and only with CSM enabled it then also came up as a configurable boot drive. None of that is documented in the Gigabyte manual - hence my initial shock to have M2A showing empty just after physically installing an expensive SSD in it. Attached the storage controller section - now shows 4 Samsung (2 Rockets, one Samsung, One Optane):
Attached a CrystalDiskMark comparison (Rocket completely empty - just wiped after moving Windows to Optane) - it does not tell the full story since the extremely low latency giving the snappy instant performance is not fully reflected by this. Use Case ? I intend to use the Optane as System and Program drive where the strength of small file access and low latency fully shines and the Rockets for about anything else with large data files.
If you should mean a specific and not a generic Intel NVMe driver, you can force the installation of an NVMe driver, which natively doesn’t support the specific NVMe Controller’s HardwareIDs, by using the "Have Disk" option and pointing to the matching *.inf file.
Please be more precise. What ido you mean with "version 3" and why are you searching for such version?
If you should mean a specific and not a generic Intel NVMe driver, you can force the installation of an NVMe driver, which natively doesn’t support the specific NVMe Controller’s HardwareIDs, by using the "Have Disk" option and pointing to the matching *.inf file.
Please be more precise. What ido you mean with "version 3" and why are you searching for such version?
this driver version 64bit Win10 Samsung NVMe driver v3.2.0.1910 WHQL dated 09/19/2019 that I know, using manual installation, the problem comes with choosing the device, from a list of nvme intel. have to choose someone or is it indifferent?
another thing, today testing various drivers, the nvme of microsoft, samsung and ofa, trying conquered by you i find the system no longer bootable, crashes when loading windows
@pipes80 : Attached is the desired 64bit Samsung NVMe driver v3.2.0.1910 WHQL for Win10 x64, but why do you prefer this driver, although a newer and probably better v3.3.0.2003 is available?
It probably doesn’t matter, because the INF file entries are valid for all listed Intel NVMe Controllers. While using a Samsung NVMe SSD, I always have chosen the "Intel(R) Solid-State Drive P3700/P3600/P3500/P3520/750 Series".
Did you disable the "Secure Boot" and "Fast Boot" options within the BIOS and the "Hibernate" option from within the OS before you started the driver update?
It probably doesn’t matter, because the INF file entries are valid for all listed Intel NVMe Controllers. While using a Samsung NVMe SSD, I always have chosen the "Intel(R) Solid-State Drive P3700/P3600/P3500/P3520/750 Series".
Did you disable the "Secure Boot" and "Fast Boot" options within the BIOS and the "Hibernate" option from within the OS before you started the driver update?
@pipes80 I think you should first inform yourself and read the forum a bitt more in-depth, since it is obvious you don’t even know what you are asking…
Is there an accepted power efficient nvme driver? I’m assuming that either they are all very similar or Samsung takes the lead here. They have been tested as having the most power efficient ssd’s on the market. I’ve seen it mentioned you can load samsung or OFA drivers in my case a western digital nvme drive. Is there any issues with windows pop ups when using unsigned drivers? Is this a bad idea to change the driver on your boot drive, if is stops communicating you would use a rescue usb/load the old driver from usb? (windows 10)
@knowsthedose : 1. Until now I have not measured the power efficiency of the different NVMe drivers. 2. The mod+signed NVMe drivers, which I am offering within this Forum, are digitally signed and are accepted by the Windows OS. It is not even necessary to force their installation. 3. I never got a Windows popup during the use of a mod+signed OFA or Samsung NVMe driver. The only event I have seen was, that I was not able to boot into the OS. 4. In all these cases I was able to solve the problem (by disabling the "Fast Boot" option) or to repair the boot issue by using the advanced Boot Options via F8.
Thanks for the work! I always reference your work after buying new storage hardware (since 2013). Question - for your new x570 build - why don’t you benchmark the AMD NVME drivers? Just curious.
@vicbyrd : You obviously have overlooked >this< post, where I have compared the performance of an Intel RAID0 with the performance of an AMD RAID0 array by using the exactly same SSDs as array members. This was the only test, where I had an AMD NVMe RAID driver installed. Since AMD doesn’t offer NVMe SSDs, the AMD NVMe drivers can only be used after having created an AMD NVMe RAID array. I only have created an AMD RAID0 array for test purposes, because my single (non-RAIDed) 1 TB Sabrent Rocket 4.0 gives my X570 chipset system a much better performance (and stability). You can find the related benchmark results within the start post of >this< thread.
Thanks for the links. I agree that I don’t need any form of RAID, the Sabrent stand alone will be plenty fast for my OS drive. I’ll use the stock Windows driver until I’m up and running on the new x570 setup and then use your modded Samsung driver from there. I always follow your lead for new system hardware (inadvertantly) - good to know I’m making the right choices. Thanks again.
@Fernando I tried your Samsung generic mod drivers in my Western Digital SN750 Black, performance is similar to generic Microsoft one, but Western Digital Dashboard (similar to Samsung Magician) won’t let me enable the “gaming mode” with your mod driver installed. Gaming mode is supposed to make the WD nvme faster. Any tips to make the “gaming mode” work along with your driver??? Thanks in advance.
@vmanuelgm : No, I have no idea how to persuade the WD SSD tool to enable the “Gaming Mode” by customizing the Samsung NVMe driver. By the way - I seriously doubt, that WD’s Digital Dashbard can boost the performance of your WD SSD. It seems to be rather similar to Samsung’s “Magician”, which lets the benchmark tool measure the memory speed instead of the SSD speed.
