Just reading back and my reply to gavinh87 was wrong. The "Standard SATA AHCI Controller" is under the IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers section of Device Manager. After using AS SSD it shows the driver as the MS storahci one. Do AMD not have any drivers like Intel (iaStorA) boards have or do they just rely on the MS ones? Curious more than anything cos the speed tests are the same as on my Z77 board.
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Just reading back and my reply to gavinh87 was wrong. The "Standard SATA AHCI Controller" is under the IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers section of Device Manager. After using AS SSD it shows the driver as the MS storahci one. Do AMD not have any drivers like Intel (iaStorA) boards have or do they just rely on the MS ones? Curious more than anything cos the speed tests are the same as on my Z77 board.
Mine are the same as yours (storahci). I don't know anymore on this side of things but I've noticed no issues when using this same drive on a z97 board either.
Hang on, I didn't realise you're talking about an NVMe drive not SATA /facepalm
The chipset doesn't provide the driver for those as they are PCI-E devices, their controller is onboard not on the motherboard/chipset. You get the driver from the manufacturer, if yours is a Samsung 960 EVO Polaris then it should be the driver on this page: http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/product/consumer/960evo.html (under DOWNLOAD FILES > NVMe Driver).
The chipset doesn't provide the driver for those as they are PCI-E devices, their controller is onboard not on the motherboard/chipset. You get the driver from the manufacturer, if yours is a Samsung 960 EVO Polaris then it should be the driver on this page: http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/product/consumer/960evo.html (under DOWNLOAD FILES > NVMe Driver).
Sorry mate, we're getting confused now
I was talking about the SATA drivers, looking at getting a 960 though if the wife will agree.
I run an 960 EVO and not loaded any additional software on my Windows 10 Ryzen setup, any advantage in this as my benchmark results were what they should be.
Ahh NVM then my badSorry mate, we're getting confused now
I was talking about the SATA drivers, looking at getting a 960 though if the wife will agree.
Well if you're getting advertised speeds/IOPs with the generic driver then that's cool, personally I always use the manufacturer ones, makes a noticeable difference with Intel drives.
Almost 8 months on from my question above and just installed the latest AMD Chipset drivers but still not 100% sure I've installed them correctly.
In Device Manager under IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers I have the following:
AMD SATA Controller
Standard SATA AHCI Controller
I've tried to update the Standard controller but I get a message stating that the installed driver is the best one. Is this correct? Am I unable to change this?
When I look under Disk Drives my 3 SSD's are using the MS Driver (10.0.16299.15). Should these use AMD drivers?
I've done a bit of searching and some people say AMD don't make the SATA drivers for W10 and to use the MS ones whilst others say you should be able to change both the controllers to AMD.
Probably overthinking the whole thing though and I'm fine the way it is