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dear Dave...I have dedicated my venerable pc to nothing but benchmarking( Passmark to be precise) and have now decided to try my hand at improving drive scores,problem is apart from keeping it as uncluttered as possible there is no wise advice from gurus ( such as your goodself) to be found, there is of course no overclocking the damn thing either.So shall I concentrate my humble efforts on the other hardware components in the old girl? or is there a vast as yet unexplored mine of opportunity/tricks etc etc that an unlearned chap such as myself might try,to attemt to beat the pants off the other hd`s in its weight category?...as always thankyou for your time....from South Africa.....B.
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Many SSD's slow down when full.
If it is the boot drive there is often a lot of background activity from Windows.
Making sure the card is in the optimal PCIe slot is important. (i.e. not Gen 2 x 1)
Make sure TRIM is available and in use.
It is easy to confuse improved performance with caching of disk data in RAM. Samsung tried to 'cheat' benchmarks in this way. Details are here
https://forums.passmark.com/performa...msung-evo-ssds
The force caching on (in main RAM), then claimed their disk had better performance.
Disk benchmarks are also super sensitive to the test scenario. Some experiments here
https://forums.passmark.com/pc-hardw...ax-nvme-speeds
Small changes to the test setup can result in big differences in reported performance. -
thanks Dave as always I shall read up on the info you provided...keep well.....B.Comment
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