Huge upgrade from SATA ssd

Ive been using a vertex 3 120gb ssd as a boot drive for a few years now wanted to replace it with something higher capacity and faster. got this little thing in and installed a fresh version of windows 10 hit the power button and was very disappointed with performance at first. read and write speeds were very low I verified in device manager and bios nvme was selected for the drive. Having samsung phones in the past i know how important it is to use samsung specific drivers. updated to the latest nvme driver for the 960 evo and problem solved. This thing is amazingly fast especially if its your first pcie storage experience. here are the performance numbers coming from a z170 gigabyte gaming board and i5 - 6600k overclocked to 4.6ghz. Sequential Read 1367mb/s Write 591.38 4k Read 47.35mb/s Write 212.3mb/s Sequential 32q 1 thread Read 1640mb/s Write 585.4 Before the samsung driver was installed all read speeds were about half this and write speeds were about 25% of current numbers. Installing the driver i was able to actually see and feel the difference in system response. I highly recommend the drive if you can get if for a good price just remember to update that driver.Read full review

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