PSA: Update your NVME M.2 drive firmware!

The Samsung Magician is also handy since it can tell you if the drive is connected in a way that offers less bandwidth, as well as drive health and other SMART type stuff:

Here you can see at upper right this drive is connected as PCIe 2 x 2, which I didn’t realize, and would affect perf!

I don’t know if the “performance optimization” here is worth it either. But you can turn on a “full power mode” which

Full Power Mode allows the SSD to run at peak level (PS0) for nonstop consistent high performance

requires a reboot though!

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