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
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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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