Articles & Reviews
News Archive
Forums
Premium
Contact
Categories

Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals

DragonFlyBSD Has Initial NVMe Driver Support

Written by Michael Larabel in BSD on 6 June 2016 at 07:39 AM EDT. Add A Comment

The DragonFlyBSD kernel now has an initial NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) driver for supporting these modern, super-fast storage solutions.

A few days back Matthew Dillon added the initial NVMe driver code and since then he's begun to work it into basic shape.

For those unfamiliar with it, NVM Express is a modern standard for storage devices that allows better SSD performance and lower overhead compared to other interfaces like SATA 3.0. NVMe offers a lot more parallelism, efficiency, and other features over AHCI.

If you are looking for an NVMe driver for your Linux or BSD system, the one I currently use on my main benchmarking system is the Samsung 950 Pro NVMe M.2 SSD.

Add A Comment

OpenBSD 7.5 Released - Faster Performance For Many-Core ARM Servers

NetBSD 10.0 Released With Much Improved Hardware Support & Faster Performance

FreeBSD 13.3 Released With Better WiFi Support, LLVM objdump Added

NetBSD 10.0 Should Be Released Soon - Likely Last RC Debuts

FreeBSD 13.3-RC1 Improves WiFi Stability, Takes Care Of Some Kernel Panics

About The Author

Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 20,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics drivers, and other topics. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software. He can be followed via Twitter, LinkedIn, or contacted via MichaelLarabel.com.