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RCI announce Release 9d of NVMe drivers with NVMeTools and SMART

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R-Comp Interactive is pleased to announce that version 9d of our NVMe 
Drivers are now available.

Since the drivers are already incredibly fast (up to 80% faster than 
competing products), and work with a wide variety of drives, the focus 
this time has been on expanding functionality, features and the experience 
for both users and developers.

Headline features of this release include !NVMeTools, a friendly toolbox 
of NVMe related software for checking the health of your drive, formatting 
and configuring 512 or 4K sectors.  The tools offer a friendly, desktop UI 
for managing your NVMe disk.

For programmers, example code is provided to demonstrate the various 
features, as well as documentation and source code via github.

Drive health can be monitored by industry standard S.M.A.R.T disc health 
checks, which run in a window on your desktop, with key info colour-coded 
for easy reference.  It can also be integrated directly into the filer on 
the iconbar.

At recent user group meetings, we've been demonstrating support for 
partitioning, and up to 2TB per partition.  This means that you could run 
up to 8TB on a single drive.  In demo we showed a 4TB drive being used, as 
these drives are more practically affordable.

Key features:

     Class leading performance

     Up to 4 partitions, each up to 2TB in size

     Wide compatibility

     S.M.A.R.T disc health monitoring

     Supports both RISC OS and FAT32 partitions

     !NVMeTools software provides desktop UI for config

     Underlying BlockDevices architecture is 64bit aware for large 
     drive support and provides an open-source, next generation 
     architecture for RISC OS storage

     Supports CM4 boards and Pinebook Pro


The software is supplied free of charge with any NVMe drive, NVMe-related 
peripheral or NVMe-based Computer supplied by RCI.  NVMe computers include 
our N.Ex.T range, Hydra and super-affordable mini.pi systems.  Pinebook 
Pro is also supported.

Even if you prefer to DIY, why not get the drivers from us with a 
known-good NVMe drive that will be compatible with your Pi or Pinebook Pro 
computer?  Contact us by phone or email to discuss your needs.

Owners can download the drivers from the usual download areas.

Note about Performance
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

At a recent ROUGOL meeting, the presenter demonstrated how he printed his 
documents to postscript.  The example timings he gave were roughly as 
follows:

     iMX6 with SATA SSD - approx 5 mins

     Pi4 with USB SSD - more than 5 mins

     NVMe N.Ex.T system - approx 1 min

     RAM disc - 45-50 sec

The benefits of NVMe storage for real-world tasks are quite clear!



Best wishes,

Andrew


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RCI announce Release 9d of NVMe drivers with NVMeTools and SMART Andrew Rawnsley <rcomp@rcomp.co.uk> - 2025-10-23 19:00 +0000

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