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I was helping my shithead brother set up his new POWERSPEC G700 and I was like "dude they didn't install that 480 SSD" until I realized there was a weird stick on the motherboard and I learned what M.2 drives were. So that's the level of expertise I am working with. Here's the thing: This M.2 drive seems really slow. Aren't these things supposed to be on the PCI-E pipeline? When I poke around in device manager I see a lot of stuff about SCSI interfaces, which I took to mean SATA but what the gently caress do I know? I was doing 100 other things and didn't get the model # on it. I just know it's an Intel 480 gb. I didn't have a lot of time last night over at his house to troubleshoot. I was setting up and formatting his other drives, one of which is an EVO 850 that has a warning about RAPID mode that I couldn't quite solve. Anyway, I had Magician installed so I ran a benchmark on the EVO and got something like 3-4K sequential read/write. I ran the Magician bench on the Intel and got something like 400 write/500 read. I probably should have used whatever third-party benchmark is standard but that seemed like quite a spread from the EVO. I did a quick look into BIOS to see if there was some switch to flip between SATA and PCI-E but nothing jumped out at me and I had to get out of there because he didn't have any more beer. I know it's some ASUS B350-Plus motherboard. Any ideas for the next time I go over there and drink all his beer and fine tune this POWERSPEC GAMIN' RIG?
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Fame Douglas posted:m.2 drives can be either NVMe (PCIe) or SATA. Ah. Well, I am learning a lot about M.2 drives and a little about myself over the past 24 hours. I guess this thing is fine. Mainly because I don't want to reinstall Windows on the EVO. Now I just gotta figure out why Magician is bitching about Rapid mode compatibility. If I remember right the code was "VID 1002" which looks like it's some incompatibility with Ryzen. One other thing, back when I was setting up my old EVO, the hivemind here said to install some Intel driver. I think it was Intel RST. Is that still kosher? el_caballo fucked around with this message at 18:30 on Jan 25, 2018 |
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Jan 25, 2018 18:26
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nielsm posted:Don't enable Rapid Mode, it doesn't help real-world performance, only benchmarks, and adds an increased risk of data-loss if the power goes. The SSD world moves so fast. Time has passed me by. 
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Jan 25, 2018 18:46
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Thanks dudes. Well, looks like I have to make some changes to my own settings too, then.
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