OcUK plan to stock Samsung 840 PRO?

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Pointless, as with any current ssd, you can't tell the difference between them in use, so £140ish for a 256gb 830, or £200 for an 840, which in benchmarks show a marginal difference and in real world show no difference at all.

I mean look at the info in the review, the memory chips have gone from 133mbps chips to 400mbps chips and there is almost no change in performance. Its still around the 30MB/s mark, faster memory chips, better controllers are going to do almost nothing, the limit in performance is 1 queue depth 4kb read, both the most used in day to day usage and the performance than has increased the least in the past 3 generations or so.

Very little to gain from ssd's till some dramatic change really. Even if we get a Sata 4 with double the throughput, doubling the sequential speeds when they only make up 10% of reads will only improve performance what, 5% maybe.

Now if the 840 pushes the 830 price down... that would be very welcome.
 
I agree with drunkenmaster. HDD to SSD was a huge jump in performance. I still have a 60GB Vertex2E on 1.11FW and it runs lovely.

A good SSD to a faster SSD just doesn't seem worth the money - a jump in size though is welcome, so is the drop in price.
 
Since this is replacing the 830 I wouldn't be surprised if they dropped in price, perhaps down to what it costs after the cashback is factored in.
 
drunkenmaster said:
Pointless, as with any current ssd, you can't tell the difference between them in use, so £140ish for a 256gb 830, or £200 for an 840, which in benchmarks show a marginal difference and in real world show no difference at all.

I mean look at the info in the review, the memory chips have gone from 133mbps chips to 400mbps chips and there is almost no change in performance. Its still around the 30MB/s mark, faster memory chips, better controllers are going to do almost nothing, the limit in performance is 1 queue depth 4kb read, both the most used in day to day usage and the performance than has increased the least in the past 3 generations or so.

Very little to gain from ssd's till some dramatic change really. Even if we get a Sata 4 with double the throughput, doubling the sequential speeds when they only make up 10% of reads will only improve performance what, 5% maybe.

Now if the 840 pushes the 830 price down... that would be very welcome.
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I agree, the new 840 PRO SSDs do look very nice. But in real world scenarios I couldn't care, the 830s are still fantastic drives and yes if they push down the prices on these I would be more than happy.. :D

Surveyor said:
Someone beat you to it ;)

no wonder the sammy 830 is going for so cheap...
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Ahh well! :p
 
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