Note that the 840 EVO SSDs are only affected by this issue. The 840/840 Pro/850 Pro are not affected.

This post has been edited by chocobo7779: Sep 10 2014, 05:27 PM

I'm confused as well....

That's pretty nice, and I will give it a read later.

BTW, OpenSUSE user spotted. I'm just a Linux Mint user...

I don't have a SSD right now...

Looks OK, though I'd get something better.... but why would you want a mSATA SSD? Are you planning to put one in your laptop?

http://www.storagereview.com/kingston_ssdn...ta_review_240gb

The performance isn't stellar, though you can't really complain at this price point.

Note that there are two variants, with the 120GB (or smaller capacity) version uses a much faster Toshiba NAND, whereas the 240/480GB version uses a slower Micron NAND.

http://www.legitreviews.com/kingston-ms200...d-review_125006

This post has been edited by chocobo7779: Sep 12 2014, 01:20 AM

Samsung 840 EVO mSATA...

...or the Plextor M6M...

I have posted about it earlier, and it seems like Samsung decided to utilize an overly aggressive wear leveling algorithm in the firmware...
...which causes this problem.

The non-permanent solution to this problem is to defragment the SSD...

Can you please defragment the drive, and re-run the benchmark please?

Well, this is something... Looks like Samsung needs to issue a new firmware update....

Yup, though you can opt for Intel as well...

But Crucial drives are overpriced in the local market, unless you are willing to get one from Ebay/Amazon...

This post has been edited by chocobo7779: Sep 12 2014, 02:57 PM

Intel 530/Plextor M5S/Crucial MX100 should work nicely...

Intel 530... it has a higher grade NAND, and it would likely to perform just as well as the Sandisk. I'm not a fan of Sandisk drives, and I tend to lean towards Intel/Samsung/Crucial drives.

Anyway, you can install any SSD into your notebook, however there are two types of SSD of different thickness, i.e. 7mm and 9mm drives.
7mm drives are designed to fit into Ultrabooks, though you can install 7mm drives in typical notebooks. 9mm drives are only intended for typical notebooks, and they cannot fit into Ultrabooks.

ASUS tends to use Sandisk SSDs on their notebooks, whereas other laptop manufacturers tend to use Samsung/Plextor (LiteOn) SSDs.

This post has been edited by chocobo7779: Sep 12 2014, 10:43 PM

horns Looks like Samsung will release a new firmware for the 840 EVO to address the slow read speeds on older files on October 15:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8570/firmwar...on-october-15th

This post has been edited by chocobo7779: Sep 27 2014, 12:06 PM

Depends... Rapid Mode seemed to shave a few seconds off from boot time, and it makes some difference when running VMs...

This post has been edited by chocobo7779: Oct 15 2014, 04:58 PM

Yup, there is a tool available:

http://www.samsung.com/global/business/sem.../downloads.html

Scroll down a bit for the 840 EVO performance restoration tool.

Download and run the tool, and follow the instructions.

This process does not remove any data on the drive.

ngkhanmein

Personally some firmware issues aside, both SSDs (Samsung 840 EVO and Intel 530) are pretty decent and should be plenty fast enough for most consumers. The average consumer doesn't really need to worry about MLC and TLC flash memory, as both drives would likely to outlast an average consumer computing cycle.

Though the Samsung drive does come with RAM caching, which should reduce the amount of writes on the drive. However the Intel comes with a longer warranty period, which can be useful if you plan to resell the drive in the future since longer warranty period sometimes means better resale value.

Check out the SSD write endurance test by Techreport:
http://techreport.com/review/25889/the-ssd...nt-500tb-update

The 840 EVO is not listed, however the older 840 SSD is listed in the endurance test. BTW, 500TB of writes is equivalent to writing 140GB of data continuously over 10 years.

P.S: I'm not Sam Loo from Paultan.org.

This post has been edited by chocobo7779: Oct 31 2014, 03:50 PM

Then get Samsung 850 PRO... 10 years warranty.
However the warranty is only valid if you have written less than 150TB of data...

I bought my Seasonic PSU from lingloong...

http://www.overclock.net/t/1507897/samsung...0#post_23037405

For 840 EVO users who used the performance restoration tool... Please check your SMART status using HDTune Pro. Some users have reported that the Used Reserved Block Count has risen to 1 after running the tool.

Update: it's most likely an error caused by the program itself. Other programs such as SSDlife and Samsung Magician do not report this error.

This post has been edited by chocobo7779: Oct 31 2014, 04:11 PM

Just finished running the performance restoration tool on the 840 EVO, and the tool has completed its run without any problems. It looks like the drive is performing as it should...

However, as usual, always perform a data backup first before using the tool. It's always good to have some form of data backup should anything unexpected happens.

Make sure you close all programs (including programs running in the background) before running the tool, since any running programs can slow down the restoration process. The restoration process will take approximately 1 hour, in my case, the process takes about 1 hour and 30 minutes.

Not bad... though I think the pricing looks awfully expensive for me....

Anyway, note that the prices are MSRP, which means that retailers will likely to price it lower than suggested pricing.

This post has been edited by chocobo7779: Dec 9 2014, 04:47 PM