Windows 10: Samsung NVM Express Driver privacy

Hello,

Samsung NVM Express Driver for Windows agreement says the following:

3. CONSENT ON DATA USE AND TRANSFER
You understand and agree that Samsung will collect, use and transfer internationally data relating to your device, including technical information about the systems and applications, application programs and devices associated with and connected to your device, in order to provide product support, engage in statistical research, upgrade our software and provide other related services. This data may be shared with other Samsung affiliates worldwide and our service providers for these purposes.

However, there are no details provided on when the information is collected, how often, whether there is a way to opt out, how and when it's sent to Samsung, and other details.

Does anybody here know/have any details on this?

Thank you.

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Standard NVM Express Controller

Hi.. Hope all are doing great...



Issue, I am running Windows 10 Pro 2004. I have an XPG SX6000 Lite 256GB M.2 drive installed on a Vantec Adapter in a PCIe slot. Motherboard is an old P8H77-V i3770 CPU. When Windows loads from a shut down (Cold Boot) the Standard NVM Express
Controller Driver loads and the drive works great. But, when a restart (Soft Boot) is done the Standard NVM Express Driver fails to load and the drive does not show and is not listed...

What do you think ? Help would be amazing... Thanks

 

Hotfix is no longer available for native driver support in NVM Express in Windows 7?

Crucial 500GB NVM E M.2 P1 Series

System Model: Lenovo M710t Desktop (ThinkCentre)

Checked Device Manager and PCI Device - Error drivers for this device not installed (Code 28)

Hardware ID - PCI\VEN_C0A9&DEV_2263&CC_0108

Hotfix Download is no longer available in this link:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us...er-support-in-nvm-express-in-windows-7-and-wi

 

NVM Express Over Fabrics Specification Released

NVM Express, Inc., the organization that developed the NVM Express specification for accessing solid-state storage technologies on a PCI Express (PCIe) bus, today announced the release of its NVM Express over Fabrics specification for accessing storage devices and systems over Ethernet, Fibre Channel, InfiniBand, and other network fabrics. NVM Express, Inc. has also recently published Version 1.0 of the NVM Express Management Interface specification.

The NVM Express over Fabrics specification extends the benefits of NVM Express beyond rack-scale architectures to datacenter-wide Fabric architectures supporting thousands of solid state devices, where using a fabric as an attach point to the host is more appropriate than using PCI Express.

Storage technologies are quickly innovating to reduce latency, providing a significant performance improvement for today's cutting-edge applications. NVM Express (NVMe) is a significant step forward in high-performance, low-latency storage I/O and reduction of I/O stack overheads. NVMe over Fabrics is an essential technology to extend NVMe storage connectivity such that NVMe-enabled hosts can access NVMe-enabled storage anywhere in the datacenter, ensuring that the performance of today's and tomorrow's solid state storage technologies is fully unlocked, and that the network itself is not a bottleneck.

The new NVMe over Fabrics specification builds on NVM Express version 1.2. It is designed as a layered architecture, enabling NVMe to be transported over different fabric types. NVM Express, Inc. has also published the NVMe over Fabrics reference implementation code for Linux, including a full NVMe host and storage target implementation for the RDMA and Fibre Channel transports. CLI tools and Linux OS integration aids are included. NVMe users can download the new driver stacks, Linux distribution maintainers can pull in the NVMe over Fabrics stack, and developers of both NVMe storage systems and devices can leverage the reference design for their low-latency, high-performance solutions. In addition, the Linux driver is supported and supplemented by the Storage Performance Developer Kit (SPDK) project, which has developed a user-space device implementation to be distributed under the BSD license via Github.

NVM Express Management Interface Specification
The NVM Express Management Interface 1.0 specification defines an architecture and command set for out-of-band management of an NVM SSD over PCIe (using VDMs) and SMBus/I2C. It allows a management controller to perform tasks such as pre-boot SSD device and capability discovery, health and temperature status polling, and out-of-band firmware updates.

The NVM Express Management Interface specification allows server and storage manufacturers to deploy an interoperable management architecture to support IT managers' ability to extensively administer PCIe SSDs. Prior to development of the new specification, manufacturers relied on proprietary vendor-specific management interfaces that limited customer choice and increased cost.

All NVM Express specifications are available here.