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    Samsung NVMe SSD Driver Download v2.1

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Spartan@HIDevolution, Jan 12, 2017.

  1. Spartan@HIDevolution

    Spartan@HIDevolution Company Representative

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    Official Link = http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/download/tools.html

    Mirror = http://www.mediafire.com/file/0aoy8czfbso5w67/Samsung_NVMe_Driver_2.1.exe

     
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  2. fiziks

    fiziks Notebook Evangelist

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    The 2.0 version and the earlier drivers also work with all Samsung NVMe drives and provide a performance boost over the generic MS NVMe driver.
     
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    Geronemo Notebook Consultant

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    fiziks Notebook Evangelist

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    The SSD you referenced uses the SATA III bus and will be limited to SATA III speeds (max of 560MBps read for that drive). NVMe uses PCIe bus and is capable of much faster transfer rates. However, those transfer rates are still limited by the SSD itself. You can find inexpensive NVMe drives that don't do much better than SATA III drives in terms of transfer rates. m.2 is the slot for the SSD card (as opposed to mSata, for example). m.2 can support PCIe/NVMe, SATA III or both.
     
    fiziks, Jan 16, 2017
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    So from what I am understanding if my motherboard supports PCIe m.2 it will also support NVMe drive right? max speed.

    My current Motherboard is limited to SATA 3 m.2. so NVMe drive won't so much good.

    Are all M.2 PCIe drives NVMe and support high speeds?

    Thanks.
     
    Geronemo, Jan 16, 2017
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    tilleroftheearth Wisdom listens quietly...

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    See:
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    Imo, putting an M.2 SATA III drive in a notebook is the worst of all worlds. ;)

    Lower 1QD performance (thanks NVMe...), same thermal throttling issues (thanks again NVMe...) and in most/all notebooks - lower sustained, real world performance - thanks to almost no notebook chassis being designed to properly cool an M.2 drive...

    Bottom line? Don't worry about SATAIII vs. NVMe... in the end, you're still stuck with the connector/bays you have available (i.e. just use what you have...).

     
    tilleroftheearth, Jan 17, 2017
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