01-15-2016 12:05 AM - last edited 3 weeks ago by ROGBot
01-15-2016 07:43 AM
01-15-2016 02:20 PM
01-15-2016 03:51 PM
12-02-2016 07:27 PM
JustinThyme wrote:
Those read speeds are not even close to correct in any sense of the word, its an inherent fault in Samsung software. Reading and writing to RAM is not reading and writing to the disk, no matter how you slice it. Run the Crystal Marks for a real disk benchmark. Guarantee 100% you wont get anywhere near that and it will show you just how much of a farce the Samsung Magician software is and show you what your real disk performance is. They are taking a very small slice and exploiting it. When you start a sequential read or write you first have a lag then it spikes to high value until the RAM is saturated then drops like a rock right back to where its really operating. It still has to go to and from disk at some point, that's where your real numbers are.
Ram disk would be fine, after the machine is up and running for whatever you can store on it. Currently my machine and my software exceeds 200GB, I cant load all of that on RAM disk. If I max out my RAM to 64GB and keep back 16GB for actual ram operations I can load a few programs to RAM disk if I want and those apps will load faster a little faster but in the end the app performance other than the initial load time wont be increased. Then as you mentioned are the risks of RAM drive, cant load anything on it that you cant easily reinstall. Best across the board performance would be seen with an SSD.
As for BIOS, these laptops are stripped to the bone in that regard, only very essential things like boot order etc.
12-03-2016 02:51 AM
02-04-2017 01:57 PM
httuner wrote:
Personally; it ain't worth it.
In real life usage; your not going to notice the tiny difference at all: I don't think an average user or even a power user will write so much data as to need the incredible speeds on these laptops. Sure its nice to have but it only looks good on benchmarks.
If you got money to burn sure why not; but you can play with the BIOS; its easily unlockable to allow you many options like on a desktop motherboard(although you still have some limitations) Anyhow if you end up upgrading; you'll have to get into BIOS and turn your bios to AHCI settings and you'll be able to install windows 10 on those nVme drives easily as then the windows 10 install will see the nVme drive.
02-04-2017 02:15 PM