Optimize the performance of my SSD.

a) If you use your SSD in a PC, we advise you to use an M2 slot corresponding to the standard of your SSD. If you plug a PCIE Gen4 X4 SSD into a PCIE Gen3 x4 slot, the speed of the SSD will be limited to the speed of the Slot.

M.2 SSD standard:

1. SATA
2. PCIE Gen3 x4 (up to 4GB/s)
3. PCIE Gen4 x4 (up to 8 GB/s)

b) If you use your SSD in a USB box, we recommend that you use a USB port with performance equal to or greater than that of the USB box.

there are 5 different types of USB ports:

1. USB 2.0: Actual speed up to 40MB/s
2. USB 3.2 Gen1: Actual speed up to 500MB/s
3. USB 3.2 Gen2: Actual speed up to 1000MB/s = 1GB/s
4. USB 3.2 Gen2x2: Actual speed up to 2000MB/s = 2GB/s
5. USB 4.0: Actual speed up to 4000MB/s = 4GB/s

c) File size affects write speed.For the same amount of data, a single file is faster to copy than several small files.If you can, create an archive of your small files to copy them all at once to the storage device. This can speed up the transfer.Also, Windows is able to open a compressed file in a zip archive without unzipping the entire archive. Compressing your data also optimizes the free space on your storage device because compressed files take up less space. For this you can use a utility such as: 7zip, Winzip or others.