Reinstall windows on NVME, for max performance?

opethdisciple · 6 Nov 2018 at 17:25

So I just took the plunge on a 970 Evo as an upgrade from my MX100.

Is it perceptibly faster or have I wasted my money?

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Radox-0 · 6 Nov 2018 at 17:38

Depends on your use case. If it’s as a boot drive or for gaming on then no real differences. If you have a workload or task that can leverage it then sure. Other benefit I suppose is no cables!

opethdisciple · 8 Nov 2018 at 21:47

Q.

I've noticed on the Samsung website that there is an NVME driver. Do I need to install this?

When I set up a 970 Evo on a mates machine I wasn't aware of this driver and just let windows do it's thing.

Also to flash firmware do I do it through the magician software?

Jamin280672 · 9 Nov 2018 at 15:03

opethdisciple said:
Q.

I've noticed on the Samsung website that there is an NVME driver. Do I need to install this?

When I set up a 970 Evo on a mates machine I wasn't aware of this driver and just let windows do it's thing.

Also to flash firmware do I do it through the magician software?

Yes and Yes

opethdisciple · 9 Nov 2018 at 15:08

Jamin280672 said:
Yes and Yes

Thanks

opethdisciple · 13 Nov 2018 at 17:53

Question.

I can clone my existing drive to the new 970.

But is there any performance loss doing this? Am I better off reinstalling windows for maximum performance?

bledd · 14 Nov 2018 at 10:44

Besides being a fresh install with zero 3rd party software, there'd be no benefit.

Personally I like doing fresh installs with new kit like this

opethdisciple · 15 Nov 2018 at 15:56

I can announce that switching from my Crucial MX100 to a 970 EVO has netted me ZERO performance gain. (Games)

Synthetic benchmarks I am over TEN times the speed. But windows and game load times remain unchanged.

muziqaz · 19 Nov 2018 at 15:03

opethdisciple said:
I can announce that switching from my Crucial MX100 to a 970 EVO has netted me ZERO performance gain. (Games)

Synthetic benchmarks I am over TEN times the speed. But windows and game load times remain unchanged.

That's the problem with todays software, it does not use your hardware to the fullest. You can sleep better knowing that you renewed your SSD, as MX100 seem to be 4 years old now, and SSDs have limited lifespan, especially the older ones (except, Intels Optane, that thing is completely unusable for any serious workloads), so with new SSD you reset the failure clock back

I have one of the very first OCZ SSD drives still running in my main system, but this is going to be replaced by Samsung NVMe drive once I switch everything over to Ryzen system.

willhub · 19 Nov 2018 at 15:58

I'm upgrading from a Samung Oem 250GB M2 SSD to an Evo 970 500GB. I wanted more C drive space but the odd benefit with file transfers isn't going to go amiss.