Assistance - Calling all Samsung EVO owners

So I've done mine, took about an hour I think? Didn't really time it. But, I do notice a difference, boot up is faster, genmerally a little more snappier. I now realise that it had slowed down.

Before

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After

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Does that still seem a little slow? Its the 500Gb version if it makes any difference.
 
V_R said:
So I've done mine, took about an hour I think? Didn't really time it. But, I do notice a difference, boot up is faster, genmerally a little more snappier. I now realise that it had slowed down.

Before

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After

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Does that still seem a little slow? Its the 500Gb version if it makes any difference.
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It does seem to drop a lot still. After running the patch you should get a straight line round about 450 for the 250GB version. Not sure about the larger drives?
 
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wazza300 said:
try booting in safe mode and see if it will update? don't know any other way apart from updating it while booting from another hdd/os
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Safe mode still loads the AMD sata driver. Will have to do it from my laptop sometime. Hope USB to SATA will work on it.

Got some big drops on my drive.

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Seems the secure erase/restore was only a short term fix, hopefully this is permanent!

Looks really nice again on HD Tune.
 
Originally (after 12 months of usage as OS drive):
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After Secure Erase 5 weeks ago:
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Before fix today (showing some deterioration, but nowhere near as bad as before):
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After Fix :)
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(All on SATA2 of course)

I'll be keeping an eye on it though...
 
Something definitely is not right here. So following on from my average of 350MB/sec results after the fix and it being jumpy unlike most others.

I did a secure erase and fresh install of Windows 8.1 with just chipset/rst/gfx drivers etc and it's still no where near the performance some other 250GB owners are seeing.

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I then did another secure erase, fresh install of Windows 8.1, then ran the performance fix, rebooted, and re-tested and it was pretty much identical to the above.

Time to drop Samsung a line you think?
 
Terrier_Jimlad said:
Using 5.5 makes no difference fella, and i'm already using an Intel SATA3 port, hence it's getting above 280MB/s already, just not near the 450MB/s I would expect
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My 250gb drive is only averaging 379 after the fix as measured by HD tune. But if I bench using crystal mark my results are just slightly in front of the other crystal mark bench tests that are included in this thread.

Have a look at crystal mark and see what your results are on that, but, like you, I am a little concerned as to why my HD tune results are lower than other ones for the same drive when connected via SATA3.

Perhaps it is a MB chipset issue as I am still using a 3770k on a Z68 chipset which is hardly the latest kit?
 
Spudgun said:
My 250gb drive is only averaging 379 after the fix as measured by HD tune. But if I bench using crystal mark my results are just slightly in front of the other crystal mark bench tests that are included in this thread.

Have a look at crystal mark and see what your results are on that, but, like you, I am a little concerned as to why my HD tune results are lower than other ones for the same drive when connected via SATA3.

Perhaps it is a MB chipset issue as I am still using a 3770k on a Z68 chipset which is hardly the latest kit?
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Maybe it is a chipset issue as I'm on Z68 also.

My average is 278 in HD Tune (before it was 238) but my min and max has increased.

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CrystalDiskMark

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My before running the repair tool

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