check out garage sales and you might find slightly cheaper m6s.

with 500+ you should be able to get plenty of choices for mainstream drives, but a limited number of performance ones (the one i know is crucial m550 256gb).

the idea of getting a ssd is because of its speed, which is related to the bandwidth of ports (pata, sata i/ii/iii, pci-e).

imo the older ide (pata?) bandwidth might not be good enough. the better options are sata ii and above.

This post has been edited by horns: Aug 25 2014, 11:22 AM

i am not sure what is inside the disc, but you can just grab the latest version of samsung magician from their website. (imo that's all you ever need to maintain and optimize samsung ssd's)

yeah that. the move pissed some reviewers off.

this is how manufacturers that do not build their own parts do ssd business. unless they are committed to secure massive stock parts (i.e. willing to take the risks instead of channeling them to consumers), i see no point as a consumer should bear this kind of risks. (we have more choices and options these days)

if you're not greedy for performance, mainstream ssd's should work fine for you. (for instance, crucial m500/mx100, plextor m6s, samsung 840 evo) in fact any decent ssd's in the market will most probably do very well for you.

these mainstream drives have 3-year warranty.

hm.. you should tell us earlier what you're comparing with.

yeah basically what TristanX said.

oh thanks for the info lol! although i have the cd's, i never run them before.

these days we have little news about ssd development. perhaps now it's the stage that put all those talks into working products lol!

have fun with it it's also good to take a look at the first posts for some best practices.

yeah i do that too. with proper optimizations and better practices, there is no need to worry about the program/erase cycles.

just use it normally and there is a very high chance that your ssd will outlive your current system.

wow. that's a nice find. older files will get terrible read speeds on 840 evo? that's really something new :/

downloaded the file bench utility and tested on my drive (samsung sm841):

yeah it seemed like it. what logic exactly can lead to something like old written files get slow speed while fresh ones are fast?

i have samsung 840 evo also. to think that i need to defrag a ssd to get back speed is kind of funny lol!

lol! a new firmware update is expected when news like this catch samsung's attention. (they are just about to push tlc-based ssd's to enterprise space lol)

.. and now i wonder if touch in linux can 'fix' the issue. (we use it to update access and mod time of files when necessary)

thanks for the link. it surely is an easy read for those who wanna know about the basics of how ssd works.

i have a first-hand experience about this right now

you will feel that apps take ages to load.

check this out:

before:


after defrag:


here you go:

https://db.tt/M3nH7azP

This post has been edited by horns: Sep 12 2014, 11:56 AM

spending gb's of writes later, everything is back to normal:



yeah many people are starting to send out complaints about this haha!

edit: apparently the degradation of this sort is not about anything else. i have 20% over-provisioning for these 840 evo, and they are still relatively empty. i rarely use this laptop also.

This post has been edited by horns: Sep 12 2014, 12:34 PM

Just realized this was why recently windows of this laptop loaded much slower than ever. An app with 1s load time could become more than 10s.

The temp 'fix' helped. Lets see how fast samsung repond to this hehehe

you are right ssd's normally do not need that.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1507897/samsung...0#post_22818618

yes, this is samsung 840 evo specific. the temporary quick fix that works is disk defragmentation.

there is no such things as compatibility based on brand. it's just asus appointed sandisk to produce oem ssd for them.

i have a g55 that i put a raid0 with a plextor m5m and a vertex 4. don't bother about thickness of ssd (7mm or 9.5mm) if you have a non-ultrabook laptop. both should fit.

between intel 530 and sandisk ultra ii, my choice will be intel 530. (it's personal preference)

just wait for the proper fix from samsung.

oh. i think samsung will do something about it so just wait.

uh? setting up raid needs 2 or more ssd's. can your laptop have 2x ssd?

also, do you really need raid?

if you can afford large ssd's then why not?

Firstly i am like you, a consumer. I have no definite answers for your questions.

However i think that they will deliver something out (most probably a firmware fix to the issue) in the future. All we can do is wait for it.

For the impatient, there is this defrag fix. Although not perfect, it does work well. (At least to me and many others) its up to you to use it or not.

Im not sure if its possible to do rma with perfect drives.