Nvme drive firmware and speed test

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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Currently using a Samsung 970 EVO Plus nvme drive. While performance is ok I was looking at seeing if I can make it any faster.

Output from nvme-cli gives me

                Generic               SN                   Model                                    Namespace  Usage                      Format           FW Rev
--------------------- --------------------- -------------------- ---------------------------------------- ---------- -------------------------- ---------------- --------
/dev/nvme0n1          /dev/ng0n1            S4EVNX0T907731W      Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 500GB           0x1        131.03  GB / 500.11  GB    512   B +  0 B   2B2QEXM7

Wondering two things is it worth updating firmware? Or looking at other settings to get best performance.

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Yes, you can try to choose more performant I/O scheduler for each type of disk SSD / HDD / NVME, by creating that file + reboot:

/etc/udev/rules.d/96-scheduler.rules

# IO scheduler
# Algorithm to manage disk IO requests and balance it with other CPU loads.

# HDD
ACTION=="add|change", KERNEL=="sd[a-z]", ATTR{queue/rotational}=="1", ATTR{queue/scheduler}="mq-deadline"

# SSD
ACTION=="add|change", KERNEL=="sd[a-z]", ATTR{queue/rotational}=="0", ATTR{queue/scheduler}="bfq"

# NVMe SSD
ACTION=="add|change", KERNEL=="nvme0n[0-9]", ATTR{queue/rotational}=="0", ATTR{queue/scheduler}="none"

For nvme best performance is usually achieved using none, like in file above.

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you have to wait linux6.8 :

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No, what i’ve advised above is already available and much better than defaults was (at least last time i’ve checked, maybe it’s changed), however yeah 6.8 should probably improve it a bit further.