Does Windows 10 need a driver for NVME drives?

Virdi · 8 May 2019 at 23:14

Hi all,

So I finally got the following running.

MSI Z97 Gaming 5 motherboard with an ADATA SX6000 NVME M.2 on a PCI-E riser card.

Windows 10 has installed fine and everything works, but I’m not quite getting full speeds when doing a SSD benchmark test

....so my question was ...do I need to install a driver for the NVME drive.? Or something else?

Thx

Quartz · 8 May 2019 at 23:20

Virdi said:
MSI Z97 Gaming 5 motherboard with an ADATA SX6000 NVME M.2 on a PCI-E riser card.

Is the riser card x1, x2, or x4? Is the Adata card B-keyed?

Virdi · 9 May 2019 at 07:38

Does this Help?

Troop · 9 May 2019 at 11:23

I get full speed, connected to the PCIe slot.

Quartz · 9 May 2019 at 12:04

Virdi said:
Does this Help?

That looks like a x4 card and a x4 M-key NVME drive.

Virdi · 9 May 2019 at 14:57

Thanks, so this means I should be getting full speed?

ToTheMax · 9 May 2019 at 17:09

Virdi said:
Thanks, so this means I should be getting full speed?

Looking at the board specs;
https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/Z97-GAMING-5/Specification

You have to sacrifice the GFX lane count down to 8X so the lanes can be shared to the other 2 large 16X connections. Assuming you've got it plugged into one of the remaining 16X slots then yes should be full speed.

The native M.2 slot on that board though isn't full speed so you won't see this level of performance I'm afraid.