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I don't know how necessary they are, but Samsung offers NVME drivers for their SSDs. SSD Tools & Software | Download | Samsung V-NAND SSD | Samsung Semiconductor Global Website
I don't know how necessary they are, but Samsung offers NVME drivers for their SSDs. SSD Tools & Software | Download | Samsung V-NAND SSD | Samsung Semiconductor Global Website
Funny that we even question using anything but the OEM recommended driver for an NVMe when that is the SOP with almost any other device.
When I installed a 970 evo NVMe in my laptop I also wondered if there was a better driver than the official Samsung driver, however; I chose to follow Samsung's directive without any scientific evidence.
I found this tidbit that illustrates how using a non-OEM-recommended driver is likely trivial but measurable for those of us who care.
Forum - Which NVMe Drivers are the best (performance related)?
Amazon is showing the delivery date as being next Wednesday the 13th. When it arrives I'm going to image my SSD and make the NVMe my boot drive. I'll remove my SSD and test the NVMe drive for awhile.
Is this going in a laptop? And have to checked to see if the OS will boot from the NVMe drive within that laptop?
And for clarity the OS will boot from an NVMe drive (I've two PC's that have them), but that of course depends on board design. What worries me is you're replacing a 16gig drive on a port that was using said drive as a sort of RAM cache as opposed to now asking the port to support a "boot drive".
While you could use the m.2 port as a boot port - does the port support a SATA or PCIE NVME boot drive?
In Post #3 I attached a pic of the specifications page for the motherboard the OP listed. It shows that the M.2 port will do either SATA or PCI-e x4.
I've never had hands on experience with that setup. I don't know if the bus switching is automatic or if it needs to be set in the BIOS.