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Samsung Magician Benchmark: 960 500GB vs 850 500GB

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How did the NVMe lose to the SSD in sequential? You'd think Samsung would inflate the numbers for their newer products to get everyone to switch over.

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That read number is off, should be 10x higher. At least if that result is in MB/s

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samsung magician is bullshit and temporarily caches stuff in ram/something to get your sata ssd to look fast in sequential 

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138 is a good number.

 

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Sorry I have to ask, did you download and install the NVMe driver correctly from the Samsung website?

 

I only ask because the first benchmark I did of my 960 Pro score was half the expected in Magician.  Reinstalled the driver and results as per expected.  Although they do fall short as the driver fills up.

 

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I didn't reinstall the same software and just used the one that was already there when I first got the 850 SSD.

 

EDIT: By the way, I did install the latest drivers but the results were more or less the same when I ran the benchmark after installation. I also wasn't running any applications while I ran the benchmark.

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Is the SSD installed in m2 slot or on a PCIe adapter card?

 

Can you change slots?

 

Does you Mother Board support NVMe ?

 

Do you have to enable NVMe manually in your BIOS?

 

Slot share resources normally they auto detect, you can manually change them if needs be.

 

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I have an ASRock Z270 Fatal1ty Gaming K4. It's using the M2 slot at the bottom of the board which means SATA_5 is disabled. I believe the top one disables SATA_0 which is in use for my SSD (850 EVO) or platter drive (Seagate 4TB). And yes, NVMe is supported with it already enabled in BIOS. I already cloned the SSD over to the NVMe and using the NVMe as my boot drive, in fact.

 

This is the board, I have: http://www.asrock.com.tw/MB/Intel/Fatal1ty Z270 Gaming K4/index.asp

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@Qi_Forever, actually, thank you! You gave me an idea. I'll move my NVMe to the top slot and move the SATA drives to different SATA ports. I wonder if the top slot is faster.

 

EDIT: Never mind. Just confirmed in the PDF manual that there will be no difference between either slots.

PDF (page 38): http://asrock.pc.cdn.bitgravity.com/Manual/Fatal1ty Z270 Gaming K4.pdf

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I think it could be related to RAPID technology. Is your 960 EVO compatible with RAPID technology? Probably, the 850 is using RAPID technology to "get to that speeds". 

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My results:

 

960 Evo 500GB-

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850 Pro 256GB-

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3 hours ago, eera5607 said:

I think it could be related to RAPID technology. Is your 960 EVO compatible with RAPID technology? Probably, the 850 is using RAPID technology to "get to that speeds". 

Not sure to be honest. I'll look into that.

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