840 Evo dead. Replace with 850 Evo?

.:SAmSuNG:.

.:SAmSuNG:.

.:SAmSuNG:.

Soldato
Joined
12 Feb 2009
Posts
4,399
Location
London
So my 840 Evo has stopped being detected after giving me write errors for the last few days.

I'm looking to get a bigger drive (1TB probably). Will just be used for games.

Is the 850 Evo the obvious choice?
 
It it will only be used for games... then it's not worth paying the premium for an 850 EVO.

There was a cracking deal on Sandisk 960GB drives for black friday.

They're not as cheap as they were, but I think you can still get them for 180 quid each. I bought two for storage SSDs, one for games. The write speed isn't the best for an SSD... but it doesn't need to be... it's fast enough, averaging about 200MB/s... but the read speeds are still up at 450-500MB/s... so for game load times, it won't make any noticeable difference between other SATA3 SSDs... only PCI-E drives will be noticeably faster.

If you were looking for a boot drive, then I wouldn't recommend the same drive...
 
Pro for twice the life span?

The 240 was rated for 3000 rewrites. So if we go off a 250gb drive that's 750tb in theory? I'm guessing you noticed its probably much lower than that. The 850 is rated at 75tb, did I miss something or is that a 10th of the life span? 5 years warranty is nice mind you..
 
After one year my boot drive has written 6Tb (I have a second drive for everything else)

So even 75tb for "normal" usage will be fine.
 
I had a 840 which would randomly disconnect and cause my PC to crash. done a RMA on it after having it for 8 months and got a 850 in its place as the 840 was end of life.

had no issues with the 850 at all and quite happy with it :)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom