hey guys i just bought samsung ssd evo 850

how do i register for warranty?

the shop (aone plus from gemfive) didnt provide me with receipt. thanks

if you, which one you most prefer?
or any better choice within that price range? 

Holy crap.

Please make it affordable in the next 3-5 years.

I really want to have a single SSD for all my Steam games.

Their reply

Dear customer,

Thank you for your email.

Samsung Malaysia's eWarranty is only applicable for mobile devices. Kindly keep your receipt for the SSD's warranty. The receipt will be valid as a proof of purchase for any warranty claims at any of our service centres nationwide.

Thank you and have a nice day.

Warmest Regards,

I bought a SSD online, but when i received the item the SSD packaging was a re-sealed package, i suspect it was a used item, i plug in to my pc & run Crystalinfo, power on count shown '9', however power on hours still '0', can i assume it is brand new unused before? Thanks

Thanks for your info, the software can't detect total host write of the ssd, no such data i checked, btw the ssd is Kingston KC400 512GB. I did check with the seller, he seem like has no idea on this and blame his supplier fault, anyway he told that will solve it by this week.

Ya, I do aware that most of the Samsung xp941 which pulled from original systems having less than 90% of lifespan although seller said they are very new items, that actually worried me otherwise I would to get one for my system.

For the Kingston ssd I bought actually very cheap, I bought from Gemfive with original price RM 626 minus 25% discount with code, so it is about RM469

horns,

Given your extensive experience in SSDs, I would like to run this SSD configuration through you:

Current:
1. Samsung 850 SATA SSD for operating system (including Steam and sometimes AAA games but limited)
2. Normal Western Digital for everything else

Proposed:
1. Samsung m.2 950 for operating system (including Steam and some AAA games where permits)
2. Samsung 850 SATA SSD for games which require a lot of loading, usually AAA titles such as Fallout 4, Total Wars series and etc)
3. Normal Western Digital for everything else.

Would I be able to experience significant shorter loading time (particularly for games) and boot time comparison with the current setup?

Thank you.

Test-run:


Response:


Samsung 950 Pro NVME M2 512GB.

why would you disable them?

Yeah, make him buy that so I can get his current version for a significantly lower price.

I've come to a stage where "fast is already fast enough". 2600 to 3200MB/s would probably only shave 0.5 seconds of boot time, and most of my games will be in the traditional hard drives anyway.

Guys, I have a question

If I defrag my SSD drive, will help improve my general PC performance?

Why I'm asking this is because I just noticed something with my SSHD. I'm using a 256 GB Adata SP 900 SSD for C:Drive (OS and some apps) and 2TB Seagate SSHD as my D:Drive for most other apps (games especially). I always defrag my HDD since the days of Win XP as I know and I see that it helps improve overall PC peformance. Boot time, app loading etc. Been using Piriform Defraggler for the past 3 years and I normally defrag my HDD once every 1 or 2 months. I don't defrag my SSD since defraggler warns againts defragging SSD (claims that it will shorten the SSD life span) and I think that SSD is fast anyway, no fragments or with fragments.

3 nights ago, I was doing my usual PC housekeeping which includes defragging my SSHD and HDD. Defraggler has this "Benchmark" button that I somehow never bothered to try all this years. Just happen that to try out the just before I defrag by SSHD. I can't recall the numbers I got for my SSD and HDD, but there was a comparison graph. I recalled that the SSD graph was long, and the SSHD was pretty short in comparison. So after that, I let Defraggler ran the whole night, after which I went to sleep. The next morning, defrag was completed, and when I ran the bench drive again, the SSHD graph was as long and sometime even longer than the SSD graph. So my conclusion the defrag really help with the SSHD performance.

So tonight I decided to test again. So what I did, I uninstalled one the games from my SSHD, ran defrag, and then re-installed the game so that I have some major fragmentation on the SSHD again. Ran the bench and this what the drive cluster and random read write performance I got (between 2 to 4 Mb/s)

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After that, I did defrag the drive (by just defragging those fragmented files only rather then the whole SSHD). Ran the bench again and this is what I got for the SSHD (between 77 to 134 Mb/s)

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Confirm that defragging helps with SSHD. So I wonder, will defragging my SSD help increase its performance (because I'm getting only between 77 to 85 Mb/s for the SSD) and will it actually shorten its lifespan. If defragging my SSD helps, I won't be doing it as frequent, maybe once every 6 months. Even my SSHD now I think I will only need to defrag it if there apps update or install/ uninstall. I have a 3rd E: drive which I used for downloads, or saving temporary work files which means the cluster and fragments will change more frequently.

Thank bro. Yes, I've done trim before, I think the last was around 4 months ago. I'll read up that article and see if there's something I can do other than updating the firmware, which I also need to do. See how it goes from there.

Guys if want to do data cloning just use acronis..just download the free trial right?

anyone have problem with Samsung Magician latest version, it cannot detect my 850 evo as AHCI.

same problem like this guy: http://www.win-raid.com/t2187f25-Samsung-M...a-AHCI-N-A.html

i clean installed windows 1607 with official windows ISO from MS. then apply windows updates. motherboard is Asus H97. SSD is plugged into the SATA_1.

AHCI in BIOS already enabled by default since last Windows installation. also updated Intel RST/chipset drivers to latest from Intel.

AS SSD Benchmark seems to show iaStorA - OK and i do see a Intel 9 Series Chipset Family SATA / AHCI Controller in Device Manager. i also checked TRIM command in cmd prompt and it shows enabled.

@@ is it Samsung Magician unsigned driver causing it unable to detect AHCI mode.


borrowed pic from that thread.

did you do clean install with w10 1607 from ISO or upgraded to 1607 from previous build? is secure boot enabled on these machines?

this is what shown in my Event Viewer when launch Magician 4.9.7:
i've also tried reinstalling Magician and also older version 4.9.5. since the 1607 Anniversary update requires drivers to be digitally signed, if clean install you'll probably get this error. if upgraded/updated Magician will not show the error. so then should i clean install again or just let it be

AS SSD Benchmark:

strange, not sure if i should clean install again.. can share which version for the intel driver you used? is it this one? https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/2...y-?product=1145

what do you mean by f6 driver?

thanks.

thanks. but i already did that do you think i should do a clean install again? or is this result normal and can move on?



this was the benchmark i did after installing windows/drivers:

thanks, so far no slowness or lag, boot quite fast i guess. should be working properly despite the Samsung Magician no recognizing AHCI.

is it ok to run benchmark? i hear it writes/read a lot to the SSD. the score is also inconsistent, looks like it lower sometime. i forgot to benchmark before making it system drive.

Incoming 2TB SSD for USD550 from Crucial.

Source: Tomshardware

Lotsa space for demanding games (for loading that is).