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Optimize SSD speed via driver and 4K alignment

2016-06-05 by Rasmus Haslund 1 Comment

Ever since I received my new corporate laptop, I had a feeling that perhaps the SSD drive was not running as fast as it could be, especially for writes.

I decided to start of with an initial benchmark:
Performance before driver and 4K alignment
While read performance looks pretty good 🙂 I think I have USB stick drives with better write performance.

 

I located the proper driver on Samsung.com, installed it and performed a new benchmark:
after-driver

Serious improvement to write performance, but a bit surprising read performance went down.

 

Next step was to align the disk partition to 4K instead of 2K.

Note: If you have BitLocker enabled, you will need to disable it first (you can re-enabled it afterwards).

To perform the 4K alignment, I found a free and easy to use tool: AOMEI Partiion Assistant

Step 1: Select drive/partition and click Partition Alignment in Partition Operations pane
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Step 2: Select 4096 sector in drop down menu and click OK
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Step 3: Notice the pending alignment in Pending Operations pane then click Apply button
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Step 4: Click Proceed
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Step 5: Click Yes – NOTE! You will be unable to use the computer during this process
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Once the alignment process was finished, I performed yet another benchmark:
after-alignmentPerformance before driver and 4K alignment

I put the final benchmark on the left and original benchmark on the right.

In case anyone is wondering which drive this is, it is a Samsung NVMe MZVPV256.

 

Please drop a comment below if you found this interesting or helpful 🙂

Filed Under: Fix IT, Windows

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Steve Galbincea
5 years ago

What benchmark software are you running here?

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