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Magician benchmark and Task manager screenshot : note the value of average response time during sequential write benchmark

And here are the CrystalDiskMark results. I selected "nvme SSD" in settings Low iops for random writes ??

Actually, I have a long black screen of about 10 seconds after the spinning point animation (windows boot) until the logon screen appears. I have not this behavior on my old Acer laptop. I also notice that the response time / latency in task manager is weird for an nvme disk: between 0.3 to 23ms...

Toggle VMD enabled to disabled done following this tuto: Switch Windows 10 from RAID/IDE to AHCI - Knowledgebase / Microsoft Windows - Critical Technology Solutions - Helpdesk I ran "bcedit /set safeboot minimal", then reboot and enter bios to set VMD disabled, then reboot. Then, once in windows...

Nope... There was no reason for me; in my mind nvme interface is the same for any brand. Maybe I'm wrong.

Thanks, I found a tutorial for that. I will try in the next few days (or weeks) and I'll give a feedback here.

Thanks! Good to know about this tool. But the Samsung 980 does not have a specific driver. From what I read on the forums if I disable VMD in bios windows won't boot (won't be capable to load it's default driver)

Hi, My laptop (Asus Intel i5 11th gen) came with an Intel NVMe SSD and I replaced it with a bigger samsung 980. Doing that, I missed the VMD controller (enabled) in bios so my Samsung is working with Intel RST VMD driver (I had to manualy install vmd drivers during windows install in order to...