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Having both OSs on one drive and two data partitions on the 2nd drive will be quite a bit faster: Drives 'like' pure reads or pure writes. Anything in between results in a U shaped graph where the typical OS's simultaneous 70% read/30% write performance is now around 60% of the pure read and...

I haven't read all the posts, so just in case no-one's mentioned it: Drives running the 4Kn SECTOR (not Cluster) size, rather than 512e, seem to be running cooler from what I have read. ie: Converting your SSD to its native K4 sector size, rather than have it emulate 512K sectors may well mean a...

The enclosure you want MUST have a UASP (USB Attached SCSI Protocol) capable controller chip: UASP enabled USB is much faster and enables the use of NCQ (Native Command Queuing) which is much quieter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_Attached_SCSI...

SMR drives are 'write seldom' read often storage type drives. They do have some non SMR space that transparently acts as a write cache for the drive, but not enough to write a large backup to. When writing (even just 1 changed bit) to the drive it has to read the whole track/s into its RAM...

I am using mod+signed Samsung drivers on my Corsair MP600as they are more performant and will make up the losses you are seeing through the chipset, and then some! NB that the .inf file is modded, NOT the actual driver.sys file... A search for win-raid.com mod signed drivers will bring you to...

IF the adaptor is not UASP capable, which gives you TRIM and multi threading for a start THEN It should NOT be on your list.

Drivers: 1st thing; go read this: Which NVMe Drivers are the best (performance related)? - Important Drivers / Specific: NVMe Drivers - Win-Raid Forum (level1techs.com) NB the instructions for 1st installing the certificate. 2nd, VERY IMPORTANT thing is go read this: Understanding SSDs |...

So basically what you want to use some of your system DRAM as a read/write cache for your drive. Windows does this already: Disk Reads: Superfetch/sysmain will dynamically use unused DRAM as an intelligent read cache that is aware of your computing routine. Win 10 will also do Memory...

To actually answer your question: RAID 0 will increase large sequential speed but It adds another layer, to be processed, to the I/O stack which adds latency and that generally isn't good for Small Random (4K) I/O. R4K at Que Depth 1 is very important to the Windows OS as: 66% of all I/O is...

Hmmm... Price aside: The fact that one could: 1: Connect a battery to it. (and a charger/power) 2: Change it back to 1TB using HDParm/SSDParm Means secure data with full write caching! Due to every dev and his pet sheep using the Flush () command for everything; Few realise the just how much...

In most cases: "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is." But statistically; once very 30 years a real breakthrough comes along and everyone living by that saying misses it... Remember transistors vs ...vacuum tubes was it? ie: This one looks very interesting and worth reading and...

66% of Windows I/O is RANDOM 4K Less than 1% is the large sequential #s you guys are winging about here..! https://www.thessdreview.com/ssd-guides/beginners-guide/the-ssd-manufacturers-bluff/2/ Games are trying to do bigger RANDOM reads(16-32K) but still all the random writes...

You might try modding the registry to add a RAM write back write cache to the Optane. In: Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\SCSI\Disk&Ven?????\Device Parameters\Disk Add the a new DWORD (32-bit) value named: UserWriteCacheSetting and modify it with a decimal value of 1...

If your read data is USB 3 (2 too) and large files; you an increase speed ~30% by increasing the block size of USB data transfers. A larger transfer length reduces protocol overhead, leaving more 'bandwidth for data. The easiest way to do this is with an app I am quite proud of as I brought...

I think the Primocache and Fancycache etc guys will be more than happy to get into the software side of things, if they knew about it... They cant compete with Superfetch and Prefetch etc in main RAM with their Block Caching and they know it. So while they may have fooled some with running...