Author: parsec
Subject: Installation of AMD AHCI driver
Posted: 29 May 2017 at 10:44am
You have said the 17.10 "chipset driver" but have you checked or used the AMD "All in One" driver package? It's the same version provided with any ASRock AM4 board, so this link is just to the AM4 board I have:
http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/X370%20Killer%20SLIac/index.asp#osW1064
It may be difficult finding the AHCI driver among all the files in this download. I am using RAID mode on my X370 board, so cannot tell you what AHCI driver I have installed, since I obviously have the RAID driver installed.
You seem to be looking for a Windows 10 AM4 AHCI driver for a particular reason. Might that be poor 4K random read and write speed performance on SSDs?
The Windows 10 storahci driver will be installed during the installation, but you should be able to manually update it in Device Manager.
I'm surprised the Magician software is not recommending the Microsoft storahci AHCI driver. It has been used since Windows 8, and seems to simply be a rename of the older msahci AHCI driver. In the past, the Magician software did not support the AMD AHCI driver until recently. Of course, AMD has multiple AHCI drivers for at least three different chipset now. That sounds like typical excuses from Samsung about problems with the Magician software.
Subject: Installation of AMD AHCI driver
Posted: 29 May 2017 at 10:44am
You have said the 17.10 "chipset driver" but have you checked or used the AMD "All in One" driver package? It's the same version provided with any ASRock AM4 board, so this link is just to the AM4 board I have:
http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/X370%20Killer%20SLIac/index.asp#osW1064
It may be difficult finding the AHCI driver among all the files in this download. I am using RAID mode on my X370 board, so cannot tell you what AHCI driver I have installed, since I obviously have the RAID driver installed.
You seem to be looking for a Windows 10 AM4 AHCI driver for a particular reason. Might that be poor 4K random read and write speed performance on SSDs?
The Windows 10 storahci driver will be installed during the installation, but you should be able to manually update it in Device Manager.
I'm surprised the Magician software is not recommending the Microsoft storahci AHCI driver. It has been used since Windows 8, and seems to simply be a rename of the older msahci AHCI driver. In the past, the Magician software did not support the AMD AHCI driver until recently. Of course, AMD has multiple AHCI drivers for at least three different chipset now. That sounds like typical excuses from Samsung about problems with the Magician software.