Samsung 970 evo plus 1tb

[Badger1970]

Hi all
I've been running my 970 pro plus SSD using the standard Windows 10 driver. A couple of questions:

1. Can I use Samsung Magician to install a Samsung 3.3 driver?
2. Is it worth doing so?
3. Are these SSDs automatically encrypted?

re 3. I was going to upgrade from Windows 10 Home to get bitlocker but then read there some issues with Ryzen cpus and TPM.

Thanks for any help/advice.
Cheers
S

 

[darael]

1. I'm not sure if Samsung Magician will install the NVMe driver. I would just download driver manually from this page and install it, it's simple enough to do.
2. If a driver exists I always try to install it, unless I know it's bloated software like some network card drivers. In this case, the NVMe driver offers performance improvements for the drive, so you'd be silly not to install it.
3. As far as I'm aware, you have to enable encryption in Samsung Magician

 

[Badger1970]

Hi, many thanks