Windows 10: 960 evo nvme speed improvement

I have a new system with a 960 evo nvme. The system bios is legacy. If i change the bios to uefi and change the mbr to gpt, would i gain any significant speed improvement with the nvme drive? Currently i am underwhelmed by the speed of the nvme in comparison to a 850 pro on my older machine.

Any thoughts would be appreciated

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Windows 10 not starting after I upgraded bios on MSi B250M Bazooka!

I upgraded my WD blue to an Samasung 850 Evo then a 960 Evo. I first cloned the Hard Disk to the SATA SSD & it worked, then I cloned it to the M.2 NVME SSD & it was starting from the SATA SSD. I had to format both the SATA SSD and Hard Disk to make
it work on the M.2 NVME. I did that by going into Disk Management & I had to get the drives hot swappable in the bios beforehand. I had my SATA data & power cables off on both Hard Disk & SSD. The NVME M.2 960 Evo worked I got the drives online & I formatted
them, otherwise it was booting of SATA drives instead of my NVME M.2 no matter how much I fiddled with it in the bios trying to set 960 Evo as the first drive to boot. I recently did a bios update to my MSi B250M Bazooka.

All the drives were installed I did not think to get them offline while I was updating the bios. The only bootable one being 960 Evo M.2 NVME the other 2 formatted. I have looked for a way to do this my self but I didn't make much progress. I managed
to reinstall Windows on the Sata 850 Evo.

My Computer is a CyberPowerPC ET8282-2162 Model C Series. I upgraded the processor to a i7 7700K from a i5 7400 & changed the video card to a 1080 Ti. I tried to figure out a way of creating a system restore on the 850 Evo & move the file to the 960 Evo
because it does not see a system restore file created. I tried all the troubleshooting ways possible. I am currently trying to get Windows media creation tool & run that off an USB see if that gives me any other options.

I tried to go to diskpart and listed the volumes & see if I can copy the recovery or system to the 960 Evo NVME M.2 drive but I don't know if it will work or it will still tell me I have no recovery file saved. I should of had 1 when I upgraded to
fall creators update but it's telling me I don't have one, I don't have other drives where I have Windows 10 clones because I deleted them if 960 Evo got corrupted somehow. Good thing is that I can still see the drive & I haven't lost any files. I have steam
games bitdefender installed & I still have another 7 months or so out of the subscription. I am afraid with a new install it will see it as a new computer. Is there a way to port over the Apps installed on the 960 Evo to the 850 Evo & then I can clone the
960 Evo with the fresh install.

I did the same thing on a CyberPowerPC ET8260-5322 I upgraded the CPU to a 1700X changed the ram to 3200 Mhz the videocard stayed the same 580 4Gb. I have the same 960 Evo & Hard Disk in it & I haven't have a problem with it. The Bios update on the
AMD setup was fine while the Intel suffered. On the AMD I have like 15 days of Kaspersky so I wouldn't of had a problem reinstalling Windows on that anyway + other apps as usual, which will take a while to install. I'd rather not do that if I can.

Thank you for your Help!

 

Directories with HEVC/x265 or Hi10p/10bit video sluggish

Same issue here since installing the Fall creator's update, and I have an absolute monster of a PC so non-sufficient hardware is NOT the cause of the issue (AMD 8c/16t Ryzen 7 1700 @ 4GHz, AMD R9 Fury X (which has native GPU HEVC decode support iirc),
32GB (16x2) 3200MHz CL15 G.Skill Trident Z DDR4, Samsung 960 EVO NVMe SSD).

 

How are you comparing the speeds between NVMe drive and the SATA drive? Are you using a benchmark program or just by using your PC, under normal usage, you will not notice any difference between them but NVMe drive is much faster when you transfer any large files/folders.

 

Could you provide a screen shot from CrustalDiskMark please from a best of three test runs.

On some motherboards only AHCI mode is supported when an M.2 PCIe SSD device is installed.

Also you should install Samsung Magician and their NVME driver further down that page.

You might also want to see this thread for pointers as well.

 

I haven't used benchmark programs, I use comparing program boot times with a stop watch

 

I have samsung magician installed as well as the nvme Samsung drivers

screen shot of Samsung magician

 

Remember that the 250gb has slower write speeds than say the 1tb version is. But they all have the same read speeds. Check this comparison table.

 

Hi,
According to @AddRAM he likes his 850 pro better I'd probably agree seeing the evo is a cheaper product in the 850 line anyway and well the 960 line is there even a pro version yet I have not looked into m.2 drives seeing I like keeping all my os's completely separated especially win-10 and linux from my win-7's
So I prefer one of these to make life and dual booting easier and conventional 2.5 ssd's or 2.5 hdd's for that matter,
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

I appreciate the information but I'm trying to find out if the 960 evo operates faster ( just in general use) with a uefi bios as compared to a legacy bios. currently the 960 evo system seems to take longer to load programs, assessed by using a stopwatch timing as compared to my 2 year old system with an 850 pro ssd.

 

Hi,
The only speed in win-10 is in it's fast start features and that applies to all ssd's and hdd's for that matter which is little more than hibernation on steroids
Turn On or Off Fast Startup in Windows 10 Windows 10 Performance Maintenance Tutorials
Otherwise best way to compare is to benchmark each separately
But the evo line even in the 850 line was not all that impressive one had to go to the pro series to get a real performance bump.

 

Hi,

UEFI and GPT have nothing to do with speed. So no, but I'd still recommend UEFI since you have it anyway.
That said, I use an NVMe drive myself and it's way faster than any other regular SATA SSD I have including a couple EVO 850's in about anything I do on a PC.
Boot times depend on a lot of factors, drivers that need to be loaded, networked machine or not.
Basically a simple machine will boot faster than a more complex one given similar hardware.

Cheers, *Wink

 

For an M.2 PCIe drive to function, it normally needs to be booted using the NVMe driver in the UEFI Bios. So I would certainly use the UEFI install.

If you are running it from a legacy install, you may be bypassing the NVMe controller. In device manager, look under storage controllers to see if it is showing and how it is designated.