Updating 970 EVO driver

ThreePeenSoup · October 2, 2019

I keep having to ask this because I can't get a straight answer.

I need to update the driver for my 970 EVO. Right now it's using the microsoft 2006 driver the for the SSD and the intel RST driver for the HDD with optane memory installed which requires RAID to work. I can't install the new 970 EVO driver while it's in RAID mode, samsung magician won't allow it. I just need to know if it's safe to switch over to AHCI using the safeboot method to update the driver and then switch it back to RST so I can still use my hdd + optane.

Any help is appreciated.

THanks

jj9987 · October 2, 2019

31 minutes ago, ThreePeenSoup said:

I need to update the driver for my 970 EVO.

First question - how do you know/why do you think that and why?

30 minutes ago, ThreePeenSoup said:

I just need to know if it's safe to switch over to AHCI using the safeboot method to update the driver and then switch it back to RST so I can still use my hdd + optane.

You should be using NVMe for that drive.

ThreePeenSoup · October 2, 2019

1 hour ago, jj9987 said:

First question - how do you know/why do you think that and why?

You should be using NVMe for that drive.

The driver in the device manager under Disk Drives says microsoft 10.0.1 whatever it is from 2006.

I don't know what you mean by, "should be using NVMe for that drive." There is no other option. It's in PCIe mode, gen 3 x4

jj9987 · October 3, 2019

23 hours ago, ThreePeenSoup said:

The driver in the device manager under Disk Drives says microsoft 10.0.1 whatever it is from 2006.

So? Are you having any issues? I have the same driver for my 970 Evo Plus and there are no issues. It's stable and I am getting the full performance out of it.

If you are not having issues, I wouldn't bother updating it. Can mess up way more than brings any benefits to using newer driver.

23 hours ago, ThreePeenSoup said:

I don't know what you mean by, "should be using NVMe for that drive." There is no other option. It's in PCIe mode, gen 3 x4

You shouldn't use AHCI for your 970 Evo. It's a slow protocol for modern NVMe drives. AHCI was designed with HDDs in mind. SATA SSDs also use AHCI still.

ThreePeenSoup · October 8, 2019

On 10/3/2019 at 8:36 AM, jj9987 said:

So? Are you having any issues? I have the same driver for my 970 Evo Plus and there are no issues. It's stable and I am getting the full performance out of it.

If you are not having issues, I wouldn't bother updating it. Can mess up way more than brings any benefits to using newer driver.

You shouldn't use AHCI for your 970 Evo. It's a slow protocol for modern NVMe drives. AHCI was designed with HDDs in mind. SATA SSDs also use AHCI still.

It's slower when it's set to RST than when it's set to AHCI. I just don't get the benefit of the Optane memory which i'm not really using at the moment. What other option is there?