I didn't get any change in performance. Pathetic I spent 2500.00 on this and find out they cut corners with the drive...OR it needs firmware updates. Who knows.
Surface book 2 15 inch 256G super low wirte speed
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My surface book 2 (15 inch, i7, 16G, 256G ssd) shows high read speed (~3000 mb/s), but super low write speed (~330 mb/s). I returned my 1st one due to this super low write speed, but 2nd one also show almost same benchmark speed. Based on other reviews, these numbers are consistently reported in 256G ssd model. I wonder if this write speed is normal or it can be improved by firmware update later. If this write speed is normal...why MS used this ssd?. 300mb/s write speed is much slower than my 2yr old surface pro 4 256G (~1000mb/s) and 3yr old 256G ssd(~800mb/s) in my desktop....
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2018-05-08T16:08:34+00:00 wow that's awesome...wish I knew your before and after speeds but I'm gonna give it a try...the write speeds are shameful for such an expensive device. thanks for responding so fast and for the input.
Does this fix the issue with the write speeds, I installed the driver and noticed no difference. Can you share how much of boost did you get?
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Anonymous
2018-04-30T16:02:06+00:00 no problem hope it helps, let me know :)
I found that during the SQL query, the disk was just sat not doing a lot, obviously the standard Microsoft NVE driver is just plain broken so it might help with the overall SSD performance by using the proper Samsung driver.
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Anonymous
2018-04-30T15:59:23+00:00 wow that's awesome...wish I knew your before and after speeds but I'm gonna give it a try...the write speeds are shameful for such an expensive device. thanks for responding so fast and for the input.
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Anonymous
2018-04-30T15:57:25+00:00 Really?! What are your new read/write speeds? Can you tell me where you got that driver?
Thanks a lot!
My issue was that when running an SQL query, it took 30 seconds to run on my new i7 512Gb Surface Book 2, my old Surface Pro 3 took 9 seconds so something was really wrong here. So I installed the Samsung NVE drive from here, had to go to Device Manager and manually update the 'Surface NVE Driver' it and bang, now takes 3 seconds.