After some days with the new Microsoft Surface 4 Pro I'm quite happy with it. One thing bugged me was the poorly SSD Performance. Microsoft use a Samsung M2 SSD with NVMe Protocol, actually a quite fast little thing. But a SSD Benchmark showed me unbelieveable bad performance at the Random Write and Threaded read:
0.89 MB/s thats terrible. After a little Research I tried the samsung NVMe Driver instead of the native Win10 one and look at the Improvement:
Not bad, eh?
| MICROSOFT | SAMSUNG | DIFFERENCE | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seq Read | 1135 | 1250 | +115 |
| Seq Write | 110 | 252 | +142 |
| 4k Read | 36 | 36 | 0 |
| 4k Write | 0,89 | 93 | + 92 |
| 4k64 Read | 451 | 1369 | + 918 |
Get the Samsung NVMe Driver Installer here.
(Scroll Down until you see the Headline: "Samsung NVMe Driver Installer")
One Sidenote
A current controversial Discussion is the Problematic of the NVMe Driver to cause high System Active States (Battery Drain). In my Case I couldn't reproduce this, but other users on Reddit found the PCIe0:PR5 Device (The SSD) to stay 100% Awake after the upgrade.So please try and judge by yourself, this is a Screenshot of the Command: powercfg /sleepstudy when the SSD is not causing drain. If you have a red Line with "Unregistered, SB.PCI0.RP05.PXSX" or similar causing a high acive Time you should revert the Driver to Original. To do so simply go to Start > Settings > System > Apps and search for "Samsung NVMe" there you can uninstall it, reboot and you're done.
