@Fernando
Thanks, I discovered Win10 offers a “Roll back driver” button/feature and used that.
I was surprised that the OFA driver degraded performance over the inbox Win10 driver.

XPG SX8200 Pro 512GB ....

I've been having issues with the Community OFA NVMe driver and my X570 board/nvme drive (XPG S11 Pro). I can't get sleep to work properly, or hibernate. Sleep just ends up forcing me to force shut down because it never comes out of sleep normally, the screen stays black. This is not an issue when I reverse to the Microsoft drivers. Is there another generic driver I could try that fits all boards/drives and that would have better performance than Microsoft's driver?

Edit: Nevermind, I tried the Intel 16 platform one and so far so good!

@Fernando :
Greets,
Sir,
I want to bring it in your kind notice that I am very much interested in the case of my friend :
@Arctucas : Recommended AHCI/RAID and NVMe Drivers (98) .

I want to ask if it is anyhow possible to accomplish a stable RAID0 Array for his Samsung NVMes SSDs with Win 7 on his PC. We are ready to do all the hard work, take steps & furnish all the required information.
Is there a chance that we integrate some drivers into the ISO itself & a stable RAID0 Array is accomplished.
Can M$ NVMe updates make any difference ?
( One of my seniors linked me here : https://www.dell.com/community/Laptops-G...es/td-p/5072571 )

Thanks & Regards. ...

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #1567

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Good luck!No matter whether the Win7 installation onto the Intel RAID0 array was successful or not, please write a short report into >this< Sub-Forum. This would be very helpful for other users, who are planning a similar project

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@Fernando:
Ok here's the answers:
- Windows 10 Home 64 bit
- PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_282A&SUBSYS_08EA1028&REV_10
Intel Chipset SATA/PCIe RST Premium Controller

ID Hardware of Samsung MZVLB256:
SCSI\DiskNVMe____SAMSUNG_MZVLB256201Q

Thanks in advance

Edit by Fernando: Unneeded fully quoted post replaced by directly addressing to the author (to save space)

@Fernando
many thanks for your explanation. I'll stick with Intel RST driver.
I did some benchmark and performance is very good.
Now i'm reading other thread in the forum to see if is it possible to update the PM981 firmware

@daddyxx1
I do observed and measured always poor and unstable performance of a PM981 SSD installed by MSI on a laptop.
I do suspect a bad SSD firmware, but unfortunatly I have some doubt that PM981 firmware is updatable by a user.

Can u help me too about that chossing the right driver for the Samsung PM981 thing, please?

Answering the questions you made:

1. the OS and the OS architecture (32/64bit) you are running: It is Win 10 Home 64 bits

2. the HardwareIDs of the NVMe Controller:
PCI\VEN_144D&DEV_A808&SUBSYS_A801144D&REV_00
PCI\VEN_144D&DEV_A808&SUBSYS_A801144D
PCI\VEN_144D&DEV_A808&CC_010802
PCI\VEN_144D&DEV_A808&CC_0108

Oh! Ok then. I thought it would be one amongst all the ones included in the file.
I'll be testing one by one to see which one is the winner.

Also, I would suggest to @daddyxx1 that, if you can and know how to do it, change the BIOS SATA mode from Raid to AHCI (you have to boot in safe mode, boot again, make the BIOS change to AHCI, let it boot again). Then you have to reinstall the controllers drivers. Those would be the NVMe controller one and the AHCI SATA one. Currently, I'm using the Samsung one for the NVMe controller (but you can also use the standard microsoft one - stornvme - until u decide about the modded one) and the standard microsoft one for the AHCI SATA controller (storahci), but you can use the one provided by the vendo (mine would be Intel (R) 300 series Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller). The important thing is to change from the RAID controller to an AHCI controller (so it corresponds to the BIOS configuration).

I didn't see any good comments about using RAID-on mode coming from people that tested this and AHCI. Especially if u use SSD plus HDD, nobody sees the point in using RAID instead of AHCI. But do a research and decide for yourself. I hope you can solve the problems with your SSD.

The only thing I couldn't find out how to do with this Samsung PM981 is a firmware update. Tried some stuff (like using Lenovo's updater), but no go. If someone in here finds out how to do it, please leave a comment!