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thehayashimanca
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April 11th, 2016 13:00
Alienware 13 r2 NVMe Storage
So I've had this new Alienware 13 r2 for a week now and I've noticed that while it is fast, its boot time and login time is significantly slower than my Dell Inspiron 7000 14 inch Haswell notebook running a Samsung 512 850 SSD.
I'm a little surprised by this since this is supposedly running a 500 GB NVMe storage. Any ideas as to why this is slower? It is a faster chip, faster storage and a newer computer...
Is the NVMe being fully utilized? I noticed that the Intel RST installed does not show any storage drives in its console...in fact it doesn't really add any value. Is there any other program or driver that should be running to fully utilize NVMe?
Thanks for the help!
thehayashimanca
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Posted April 12th, 2016 11:00
I tried installing Samsung Magician and it did not recognize the NVMe, even though under the device manager it shows the NVMe as a Samsung device. Any ideas?
because the pc has to be set to legacy mode with secure boot to disabled
problem with this is the OS does not get recognized so you cannot migrate
I actually made a how-to install 950 pro successfully on 17 r3 so do a search and follow it so you can use your key and OS
17R3owner
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Posted April 12th, 2016 03:00
Install Samsung Magician for best performance.