I am now not sure if it's an issue with the AHCI not being enabled, but then what is it. Also, upon using the AS SSD Benchmark utility, I can see 'stornvme - OK' for the SSD and 'iaStorAC - OK' for the HDD. Thanks Thank you so much for posting this. Join Date Jan 2014 Reputation 10 Posts 1.

View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message ROG Junior Member Array. A search online revealed that it is sometimes locked by HP and is not changeable.īut, in the device manager, I can see 'Intel(R) 6th Generation Core Processor Family Platform I/O SATA AHCI Controller' installed under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers. The only thing id recommend directly after installing windows is to install the samsung nvme driver and use that instead of the default windows one. However, I did not find any option to change the SATA interface in the BIOS. Again, on checking online, the suggestion was to change the SATA interface in BIOS to AHCI from IDE or RAID. However, it seems that Samsung (and some other vendors) announces these drives as consumer-only. As you probably know, Samsung NVME SSD drives currently are among the best IO devices for database performance: they are very fast, they have reasonable prices, and they are reliable. However, I have been getting the following error when trying to install the driver: 'Samsung NVM Express Device is not connected. How to install Samsung NVME SSD disk driver on Windows Server.

After checking online, I found that installing the Samsung NVM Express driver instead of the generic Microsoft one could improve the speed and resolve stability issues. However, I have been noticing that the speed of the SSD is nowhere near what was advertised and also have been facing few BSOD dpc_watchdog_violation issues since I installed the SSD. I then reset the windows after going to Update -> Recovery -> Reset this PC to start things fresh. I had cloned the windows installation from HDD to SSD and had made it bootable. I have recently purchased a Samsung 980 SSD and have installed it on my laptop and am using it along with the 2 TB HDD that came with the laptop.

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