Is pathetic NVMe speed expected in the SpinRite Benchmark?

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Festeron

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I was pleased to see benchmark numbers in the new SpinRite, but some of them are worrying. Is the horrible NVMe result simply because SpinRite is using the BIOS interface?

Also, because the SSD numbers are not wildly different, I shouldn't expect to see any dramatic difference in performance if I did a level 3 scan on it. Correct?

SizeTypeTechFrontMidEnd
500 GBSSDAHCI471569569
2 TBHard DriveAHCI14611966
8 TBHard DriveAHCI20418089
2 TBNVMeBIOS157159159
 
Yes, the NVMe numbers are what they are because: for any BIOS drive, the only thing that SpinRite can benchmark is the BIOS I/O speed. Where NVMe drives are concerned, SpinRite 6.1 does not have a native driver for NVMe. Hence accessing via the BIOS is the only option for SpinRite 6.1.

You are correct about the SSD. SpinRite should increase the 471 number to about 569. Not worth doing at this point.
 
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