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So finally got around to benchmarking(using default settings in Samsung Magician 8.0.1) the various policies in the drive properties@Device Manager. Freshly installed 870 EVO 2TB with 3 games on it and nothing else.
'Quick removal' ----------------------------------SeqRead: 559 MB/s SeqWrite: 180 MB/s RanRead: 95703 IOPS RanWrite: 10986 IOPS
'Better performance' ----------------------------SeqRead: 558 MB/s SeqWrite: 203 MB/s RanRead: 95703 IOPS RanWrite: 11718 IOPS
'Enable write caching' checked -----------------SeqRead: 560 MB/s SeqWrite: 528 MB/s RanRead: 96191 IOPS RanWrite: 84960 IOPS
'Turn off write-cache buffer flushing' checked -SeqRead: 561 MB/s SeqWrite: 529 MB/s RanRead: 95947 IOPS RanWrite: 85205 IOPS
For a game-only drive(and I imagine videos too), the TLDR seems to be just to use the Quick removal policy, as this minimises any possible data loss/corruption while also possibly(?) increasing the lifespan of the drive and system performance due to nothing 'helping' the drive to perform better(read something about RAM being utilised for one or more policies, for example). Furthermore the Read performance(which seems to me like THE important thing for gaming) is basically the same across all 4 policies.
Thoughts? Corrections?
Something to mention which probably doesn't matter much for this post is that the allocation size I set for the drive is at the maximum of 2MB(putting only games with few and large files on it).
'Quick removal' ----------------------------------SeqRead: 559 MB/s SeqWrite: 180 MB/s RanRead: 95703 IOPS RanWrite: 10986 IOPS
'Better performance' ----------------------------SeqRead: 558 MB/s SeqWrite: 203 MB/s RanRead: 95703 IOPS RanWrite: 11718 IOPS
'Enable write caching' checked -----------------SeqRead: 560 MB/s SeqWrite: 528 MB/s RanRead: 96191 IOPS RanWrite: 84960 IOPS
'Turn off write-cache buffer flushing' checked -SeqRead: 561 MB/s SeqWrite: 529 MB/s RanRead: 95947 IOPS RanWrite: 85205 IOPS
For a game-only drive(and I imagine videos too), the TLDR seems to be just to use the Quick removal policy, as this minimises any possible data loss/corruption while also possibly(?) increasing the lifespan of the drive and system performance due to nothing 'helping' the drive to perform better(read something about RAM being utilised for one or more policies, for example). Furthermore the Read performance(which seems to me like THE important thing for gaming) is basically the same across all 4 policies.
Thoughts? Corrections?
Something to mention which probably doesn't matter much for this post is that the allocation size I set for the drive is at the maximum of 2MB(putting only games with few and large files on it).
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