[SOLVED] Tweaking Samsung M.2 Drive
August 6th, 2016
this new type of drive-M.2
I can not find any information to optimize this drive or any “drivers”. It is installed as my OS boot drive and working perfectly. Looking for any additional information that might help the drive performance. Maybe I don’t need
any additional drive performance, but I can not find this information. Thanks, tooth
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I am a bit confused. Do you want to increase your read/write performance because you are getting below the manufacturer’s specified speeds? And to my knowledge, SSDs don’t have drivers, just like how hard drives don’t have any drivers either.
I am a bit confused. Do you want to increase your read/write performance because you are getting below the manufacturer's specified speeds? And to my knowledge, SSDs don't have drivers, just like how hard drives don't have any drivers either.
SSDs don't have drivers
yes, this was my question. no drivers, thanks
Any tweaks to the OS that will make a difference? For example, turning off indexing
I was looking into one of these for a future pc build. I saw where there was a program(maybe it was the mobo I was looking at that had a program) that stored alot of the writes to the ram or a regular hdd to save the read/write times to the ssd. I know the supposed time for the m.2 ssd was like 10Gb/s per the board, but the fastest m.2 ssd I could find were only 6Gb/s. So they are not maxed out yet. That was when I was searching a few weeks back, maybe faster are out now or I didnt see them before. Even so, you prolly wont see much diff as they boot so fast with either one of these(10Gb/s or 6Gb/s) but you will prolly notice marginal increase in boot speed to a reg ssd. The first mobo I looked at had one of these slots, the one I am considering now doesn’t and its not a deal breaker for me. I have hdd now so just the increase in speed to a reg ssd would be like night and day for me.
Just reading reviews on your link, says they have mobo slots up to 32Gb/s called ultra m.2 but I have yet to see any ssd that fast, but hope they come soon. Be so fast would be near instant on.
They really are not main stream yet. But for the speed that is out right now, some of them are “stupid’ fast.
The Samsung sm951 specs are: Read: 2150MB/s, Sequential Write: 1200 MB/s,
first test run was
Not sure what all these number mean, but it looks good to me
I have a problem getting to my dvd drive to boot from “cd/disk” ;}
Shutdown is less than 3 seconds
: AFAIK SSD”s have firmware, I had to update my firmware on my mx100 a few days ago.
Not sure about Samsung though.
When I done mine, it increased my read/write speeds and my boot times.
m.2 drives no need for driver for basic usage as windows comes up with the necessary drivers for the slot it occupied. firmware is another issue , you should stay away from it unless your current firmware causes malfunctioning or lock the drive’s capacity. in addition most of hard drive requires to completely wipe out drive before applying upgrade.
the only efficient method of increasing hard drive performance for standard hard drives, is defragmenting hard drive and carrying system files to the beginning of the disk. this is not the case for ssd. normal hard drives reach cluster(tiny boxes on defrag screen) in order , first is fastest . if you add fragmentation of a file to it , hard drive have to seek many cluster to read it which causes slow speed.
ssd able to reach every cluster at the same time with same speed like a spider web over all clusters. so it certainly doesnt need defrag. on the contrary defragmenting it , decrease its life time. there are many software about ssd tweak but none of them is really working. since many changing their drives to ssd , those defragmenting software had to find a way to continue to earn money so they have found ssd tweak.
keep in mind ssd may start to lose performance as you fill it. for example if you have 120 gb one , you may start to feel slight performance drop after its 60-70 gb filled and certainly will feel after you fill up more than 100gb.
I trim ssd drives using defrag software, don’t notice not much difference,as it’s still fast for me. I’m using an m.2 ssd too.
The program is smart defrag 4
Any tweaks to the OS that will make a difference? For example, turning off indexing
Turning off indexing might help, but in all honesty, any performance tweaks on the OS level would be unnoticeable simply because the read/write gains combined would likely be <1% of what you are currently getting. I trim ssd drives using defrag software
TRIM is normally automatically enabled on SSDs
Assuming it is supported by the OS
TRIM also tries to maintain speed and performance, not increase it
AFAIK SSD''s have firmware, I had to update my firmware on my mx100 a few days ago.
Traditional SSDs have firmware, but I’m not very sure about M.2 ones
Found on google Samsung SSD Majician for only Samsung products. When installed, it does show the M.2 drive SM951.
This is what I was looking for in the beginning. Looking at the options of the software, so I may have another question or 2 :}
http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisite/SSD/global/html/support/downloads.html