@100PIER

I just ran some similar benchmarks with the same but single 960 Pro 1TB M.2 SSD to compare with your RAID 0 configuration on the same Maximus X Hero mobo. I also included the results of "winsat diskformal" command among the other benchmark tools, which I found interesting.

I want to compare with you, did you leave all settings as default in Anvil?

For all ANVIL tests done I leave all ANVIL default settings.

@100Pier Thanks for the reply, My nvme drive is scoring in the mid nine thousands. After seeing yours I am not satisfied until I get close to 12k :) I'll play around with different drivers for the storage controller, rst, and management engine. Unfortunately, my Corsair MP500 leaves me very few options when it comes to drivers. I use an intel 300 series chipset 8th gen processor. Non raid, and there is no nvme driver as far as I know.

@ rand0mz805

I'm not sure what OS you're running but in case it is Windows 7 which does not natively support NVMe drives, there is an interesting microsoft KB article that explains a hotfix to support NVMe drives [Update to add native driver support in NVM Express in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2]:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help...indows-7-and-wi

It might be of some value to someone else, at the very least.

I just upgraded from my previous 960 Pro M.2 to a 970 Pro M.2. Here are some benchmarks for your interest:



I'll try and find the benchmarks for the previous 960 Pro M.2 and add it to this post when I do, for comparison.
Edit: I just realized that the benchmarks for my previous 960 Pro are inserted in my previous post above.

@myDNA Thanks for info to compare with, and very nice SSD you got there. The interesting thing is, I tried changing the settings to compression 0-fill, and my score jumps way up to 14,000.

So, I'm curious, does your drive also see a significant score increase when using the 0-fill compression setting?

@rand0mz805 I'm not certain I know that setting you mentioned? Which benchmark app is this setting? I will test once I know.

update : I found the 0-fill setting in Anvill's storage utilities and ran a benchmark with that setting. Here is what I got:


Did this help?
i would like to know more about what you found, so please do share, Thanks

UPDATE 2 i thought I would include results for AS SSD Utilities I/O score:

@myDNA Thanks very much! That's a bit of a relief to see, I was afraid your score would jump to 20,000+ which would mean my nvme is far worse in all categories. I'm glad to know that my nvme performs fairly well when working with certain data types, compared to the best drives on the market such as yours. Appreciate it!

@rand0mz805 it is my pleasure to be of some help. I'm glad that you can now relax knowing that your SSD is performing well, as it should. If you ever want any help with anything. please do not hesitate to ask and I will do what I can.

@ 100PIER did you have any problems setting up RAID array with the 2 1TB 960 Pro NVMe SSD drives? I ask because last Sunday I went to a local PC parts store wanting to purchase 2 Samsung 970 Pro 1TB NVMe SSD so that I could run them in RAID like you have done with the 2 960 Pro SSDs. The sales person said that many people are having problems with RAID with NVMe SSDs M.2, something about Intel chipset having a bug. However, I did a little research but couldn't find anything that stands out to substantiate his claim regarding this problem. Are you aware of this? Or can someone here elaborate or share more about this?

I have never set up a RAID array, this particular area is new to me. It appears though that when it comes to Samsung Pro NVMe line of SSD drives, there is no real great advantage in real world performance running 2 such SSDs in the M.2 PCIe RAID setup, compared to 2 SATA HDD and possible 2 SATA SSD running in the appropriate RAID config.

Can anyone add to this. If this is not the correct thread to discuss such matters, then please accept my humble apologies Dieter and please feel free to move this post to the appropriate area of your wonderful forum. I do not want to get out of line :}

@myDNA
I have tested NVMe RAID0 solution (non bootable) (2x960PRO ans 2x960EVO) under W10 x64 on a ASUS X99 machine.
Doing that was only possible using a proprietary PCIe v3.0 x16 add-in card from HighPoint manufacturer. The RocketNVMe controller SSD7101A add-in card does support up to 4 x M.2 NVMe SSD such as 960/970 PRO or EVO.
The benefit of RAID NVMe is valuable only for applications manipulating (transfer) very large files. (Video Editing, etc..)
Personally I think SATA RAID0 SSD is quite OK for major standard applications and NVMe RAID0 SSD is valuable only for very specific applications.

I thought it might be of some interest here to add to the collection a benchmark of a Microsoft Surface Book 2, which has a Samsung NVMe SSD which appears to be an OEM specific model "SAMSUNG MZFLW1T0HMLH-000MU 1024.2 GB".

I was able to test the new Intel NVMe 4.2 drivers, compared to the v3 with 900P
The v3 are always a little better

Drivers v3 :



Drivers v4.2 :