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[brian71us]

I recently built a system with the following components:

ASROCK AB350 PRO4 ATX Motherboard

AMD Ryzen 5 2400G

Samsung 960 EVO 500 GB M.2 SSD

16 GB Crucial DDR4-2400 RAM

The Samsung documentation shows the drive being capable of up to 3,500 MB/s read speeds. However, a benchmarking application shows the read speed in the 1,850-1,870 MB/s range.

Is there any way to improve the performance of the SSD in this system?

If not then what CPU / MB would I need to purchase to get closer to the maximum read speed - say 3,000 - 3,500 MB/s ?

Thank you!

[black_zion · Accepted solution]

Benchmark speeds will vary based on what you're doing at the time, from run to run, and from program to program, and advertised speeds are almost always achieved with a queue depth of 64 or 128, a situation not ever encountered in home usage. Don't worry about it, you're not losing any performance, just make sure you're using the latest driver, which of this post is 3.0.0.1802.

[brian71us]

Thanks!

Installing the NVMe driver made a huge difference. I'm up to 3,045 read and 1,808 write now.