Is there an accepted power efficient nvme driver? I'm assuming that either they are all very similar or Samsung takes the lead here. They have been tested as having the most power efficient ssd's on the market. I've seen it mentioned you can load samsung or OFA drivers in my case a western digital nvme drive. Is there any issues with windows pop ups when using unsigned drivers? Is this a bad idea to change the driver on your boot drive, if is stops communicating you would use a rescue usb/load the old driver from usb? (windows 10)

Thanks for the work! I always reference your work after buying new storage hardware (since 2013).
Question - for your new x570 build - why don't you benchmark the AMD NVME drivers? Just curious.

Thanks for the links. I agree that I don't need any form of RAID, the Sabrent stand alone will be plenty fast for my OS drive. I'll use the stock Windows driver until I'm up and running on the new x570 setup and then use your modded Samsung driver from there. I always follow your lead for new system hardware (inadvertantly) - good to know I'm making the right choices. Thanks again.

@Fernando
I tried your Samsung generic mod drivers in my Western Digital SN750 Black, performance is similar to generic Microsoft one, but Western Digital Dashboard (similar to Samsung Magician) won't let me enable the "gaming mode" with your mod driver installed. Gaming mode is supposed to make the WD nvme faster.
Any tips to make the "gaming mode" work along with your driver???
Thanks in advance.

@vmanuelgm:
Yep, its just a gimmick, do not use it (could also create problems!)...

@vmanuelgm
@MDM
@Fernando

The benefit of enabling Game mode is arbitrary. The setting effectively disables the energy saving mode (lower clockspeed) of the module.

Don't think the difference would be noticeable.

I think I'll need to create a new customized Win7 install disc - where I want to integrate the USB 3.0 drivers for Intel Z390 Chipset, the Microsoft NVMe drivers & patches/hotfixes and the original Samsung NVMe driver for my Samsung SSD 970 Evo Plus.

About integrating the NVMe drivers:

Does adding the Microsoft stuff (NVMe drivers, patches, hotfixes) negatively affect the function of the vendor-specific driver (Samsung NVMe driver). The Samsung NVMe driver shall be the main driver I want to use for my system, but I would still like to install/integrate the generic Microsoft stuff - like this:

Variant A: integrating the generic MS drivers/patches/hotfixes first and then integrating the Samsung driver into the Win7 installation image -> then installing Windows
Variant B: integrating the generic MS drivers/patches/hotfixes ONLY -> then installing Windows -> after Windows installation, run the Samsung NVMe driver executable to install the Samsung driver afterwards.

But if the presence of the generic MS stuff has any negative influence for the function and/or performance of the main driver (Samsung), then I will not add or install them in the first place...

AZ

Today I'm working on a friends pc and put in a western digital 1TB Blue M2 ssd in it.I am not too familiar with this company and wonder do they provide a NVME driver like Samsung does for their M2 ssd's or do you just use the stock windows Microsoft Storage Spaces Controller for it..

Glad I stumbled across this thread as I'm going to try some of the modded Samsung NVME drivers for my 960 and 970 1TB EVOs.

I used to use the Samsung NVME driver (3.0 - 3.3) until for some strange reason, I believe after a Windows update, I noticed significant stutter during disk access. Uninstalling the driver and using MS's standard one seemed to mitigate/resolve the issue.

Has anyone experienced something similar?

I'm running an 8700k on a Maximus X Hero WiFi.
System is quite tuned and OC'd.

Where are the DL links?