I did read EVERYTHING that you linked which is why I'm assuming the version I'm forwarding is the right one. And yes I'm in AHCI mode.

Jesus, so I missed a section in a 210+ lines of text post give me a break. What's so hard about giving a straight answer ? But yeah I found it now. Thanks for beating around the bush.

Hi guys,

Sorry to dig up >this< post but I also found this 6.2.0.1238 driver through Driver Booster and it really boosts my 860 EVO. The only problem is outside Windows 10 21H1, it boots slower and if you restart Windows the computer shuts itself off and then powers on again and proceeds. Anyone has this driver working fine? My mobo is MSI H110M PRO-VD.

Thanks

Edit by Fernando: Fully quoted long post replaced by the blue colored link to it (to save space)

The performance test could do with an update comparing modern drivers (esp. the 17.x.x.x drivers but also the 18.x.x.x ones since many have moved on to Intel 500-series and upward) to + chipsets (and more modern drives including M.2 PCIe NVMe drives). I guess it depends on the hardware available to Fernando.

Or... users/members could report their own findings and specify their specific hardware and OS + driver setup/version that they are testing. Some standardization for settings when benching the performance should be defined to avoid invalid comparisons.

My suggestion would be:
Under Device Manager -> Disk Drives -> Properties (for the selected storage device) -> Policies
Should be set to Windows default mode:
Enable write caching on the device: Enabled
Turn off Windows write-cache buffer flushing on the device: Enabled (if SSD on SATA3 or M.2 PCIe), Disabled on HDD
(I don't enable this option on my mechanical drives since they're much slower and have a bigger risk of losing data if the OS freezes or crashes as well as any memory/cpu instabilities during write operations simply due to their write operations taking much longer than fast SSD's)

And all tests should be done with the same disk benchmark with the same settings. This is something we'd have to decide together but I'm guessing it'll be CrystalDiskmark which has become ubiquitous.
As members report their results the data could be compared. The more reports, the better the accuracy of the comparisons.