I carried out the firmware update on the day it was released (15th October ?). Did a benchmark afterwards and performance was fine. Carried out a few more benchmarks over the following days, and everything seemed fine. Noticed the drop in performance a few days ago, when I posted the results.
Assistance - Calling all Samsung EVO owners
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I have been booting to an XP install on another SSD in my system.
I wonder if that's having anything to do with it ? Maybe whatever "maintenance" that takes place to restore performance (I guess that's how Samsung fixed the problem) is not happening while I'm running XP on the other drive. Having said that, I do boot into Windows 7 on the Evo fairly often, most days in fact.
When I get chance, I'll do a backup/restore, like we did before the update was available. See what happens in the weeks after that.
I wonder if that's having anything to do with it ? Maybe whatever "maintenance" that takes place to restore performance (I guess that's how Samsung fixed the problem) is not happening while I'm running XP on the other drive. Having said that, I do boot into Windows 7 on the Evo fairly often, most days in fact.
When I get chance, I'll do a backup/restore, like we did before the update was available. See what happens in the weeks after that.
I thought TRIM only helped with write speed performance.
Also, I have been booting to W7 on the Evo most days (although I have spent a fair bit of time on the other SSD in XP).
To make sure, I`ve just used Samsung Magician's "Performance Optimization" facility. It didn't help.
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Magician's Performance Optimization is supposed to do what TRIM does (in case your OS doesn't support TRIM). I`ve run the optimization a couple of times, and still no improvement.
I think I'm going to backup/secure erase/restore, then see what happens.
The update, back in October seemed to go OK apart from the "fail" when running the restoration after the firmware update. That "fail" is the one I`ve experienced virtually every time I`ve updated an Evo with the new firmware. The restoration process seems to run perfectly after I start it again, and the HDTune benchmarks shows good performance, indicating that the update did work.
I'll have to check up on a few of my customer's SSDs to see if they are showing any signs of degradation.
I think I'm going to backup/secure erase/restore, then see what happens.
The update, back in October seemed to go OK apart from the "fail" when running the restoration after the firmware update. That "fail" is the one I`ve experienced virtually every time I`ve updated an Evo with the new firmware. The restoration process seems to run perfectly after I start it again, and the HDTune benchmarks shows good performance, indicating that the update did work.
I'll have to check up on a few of my customer's SSDs to see if they are showing any signs of degradation.
Hey mate,
No I don't! Can't tell you about the speed as mine is on sata2 in an old d630 laptop. Its consistent right across the 120gb though. My wear range delta as reported in hd tune is 14.
Low level diagnostics?
Pretty sure I'm not going to get past 20TB of writes before this 840 EVO is toast :S I don't think TLC actually stands up to real power use.
20TB would do me fine. I think I`ve given my EVO a bit more "stick" than the majority of users would. 20TB would mean that I`ve owned it about 6 years.
It would be a fair bit longer if I didn't have to keep erasing/restoring to maintain performance, but 6 years would be enough.