Just tell me it's much better than the 5400 RPM drive I had in here and I promise not to be too butt hurt.

It's MUCH better than the 5400 RPM drive you had in there.

Somewhere between you two, wonder if there is some tweaking I should do.

This is my Samsung SSD

Actually the CrystalDiskMark showed a better score to what the drive is supposed to do.

I just ordered another Samsung SSD for my laptop. The boot time on that is about 3 minutes with 8.1. I'm going to clone the drive then wipe it at put Win 10 on it.

I don't have any chart with numbers but a couple months ago 

I had to replace the drive in my Grandson's laptop with an SSD

and then his laptop booted up very fast and shut down in 1 second.

with Windows 10 .

Kona use sleep mode for fastest shut-down and re-start times.  The people who say they see 2 sec start times are in fact starting from sleep mode.

Leave your Lappy plugged in of course due to power consumption.

Here's a couple of things to optimize an SSD.

https://www.maketecheasier.com/12-things-you-must-do-when-running-a-solid-state-drive-in-windows-7/

Although it says that you can defrag an SSD I heard that you are not suppose to. Actually my Samsung software turned this option off. I also disabled indexing and set it to the High Performance option.

Mine boots up in seconds

RAID 1 of M.2 WD Blacks - just to show how fast it can really be

However - I have replaced hard drives in several laptops and desktops... and without fail, the boot time is far less than half even on the older machines... big upvote for the speed of SSD...

Loving my SSD's! Samsung 850 EVO's, 500GB with Rapid Mode turned on. This is on SATA III.

Here's my Intel 512gb NVMe scores, but I'm not so sure on the accuracy of either program as repeated tests resulted in different scores each time.  And on the AS SSD Benchmark, it couldn't access the Acc time read times, so I'm not sure the overall score reflects its true potential, etc.

And here is my other desktop system:

Mostly slower than my first.

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Somewhere between you two, wonder if there is some tweaking I should do.

I just tried with both my 950 PRO and 960 EVO and the scores were cca 2260 for the 950 and 3911 for 960 - thus very similar to yours, so i guess things are fine on your side. Or, alternatively, we have both some tweaking to do

Anyway, obviously Optane is currently probably the fastest thing you can get, faster than these Samsungs, at least in benchmarks, so its not unexpected it by decent amount faster. AFAIK its by decent amount more expensive, LOL.

i don't think so ssd are jokes, they are much better than external hard drives and traditional SATA, programs load faster in them and boot up time of ssd is also good.

This is just a single Samsung SSD for comparison.

And my other one:

Hmmmmm. I just tested 2 different M2 cards and got much lower read speeds than you guys. Write speeds about even with Brad's. Wonder why mine are so slow?