Assistance - Calling all Samsung EVO owners

Rroff said:
I've had mine a year (almost exactly) and nearly hit 10TB :S
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C:\Users\Mike>systeminfo | find /i "Original"
Original Install Date: 27/10/2014, 19:31:19

I've apparently written 1.99TB despite only using the laptop purely for internet browsing :confused:
 
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trickynickyuk said:
Hope you can see them first time i Uploded though drop box couldnt get it to show image directly here though :(
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I can see them OK.

If those results are from the system in your signature, it appears that you`ve got your SSD connected to a SATA 2 ports rather than SATA 3.

Although you are getting transfer rates that are slightly higher than the SATA 2 limit. I know AMD chipsets don't generally give quite as good performance with SSDs as Intel, but I would have thought the transfer rate would be closer to 500 MB/s. Have you got the latest AMD southbridge drivers installed ?
 
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Dervious said:
I can see them OK.

If those results are from the system in your signature, it appears that you`ve got your SSD connected to a SATA 2 ports rather than SATA 3.

Although you are getting transfer rates that are slightly higher than the SATA 2 limit. I know AMD chipsets don't generally give quite as good performance with SSDs as Intel, but I would have thought the transfer rate would be closer to 500 MB/s. Have you got the latest AMD southbridge drivers installed ?
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Yeah i defo got it in the SATA 3 Port i went and checked and also tried it is the AsMedia SATA 3 port and my speeds were even worse I got below 150MB/s. I have just rerun the test to get near or the same results as stated above

here is a link to a post i have out to try find out why Smart is reading the drive as fair using diskeeper

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18641641

Looking at the results i am also disappointed could this mean that my drive is on its way out
 
yeah latest everything i even ran the Samsung SSD 840 EVO Performance Restoration Software i will try a few other bench progs see what results i get off them and Samsung magician as well
 
I must admit that I`ve had much more experience with Intel systems in recent years, so I can't say for sure if your results are "normal" for an AMD chipset.

One thing to check is the "Block Size" setting in HD Tune. The default is 64K (I think), which will give lower results. If it's set to 64K, try changing it to 8MB

I am due to install a Crucial MX100 in an AMD machine very soon. I will be doing a few benchmarks to see how it performs.
 
I have ran the restoration software (1.1) on my ssd when it first came out.

I currently have mine connected to a x58 board using sata 2 ports.

I am getting the following in the Samsung read and write speeds

285mb read and 274mb write

if I change it to the sata 3 ones I get 410mb read and 250mb write, I don't use these as they use the marvell controller which is very poor on the x58 boards
 
Dervious said:
I must admit that I`ve had much more experience with Intel systems in recent years, so I can't say for sure if your results are "normal" for an AMD chipset.

One thing to check is the "Block Size" setting in HD Tune. The default is 64K (I think), which will give lower results. If it's set to 64K, try changing it to 8MB

I am due to install a Crucial MX100 in an AMD machine very soon. I will be doing a few benchmarks to see how it performs.
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well that worked i was starting to get worried there for a min
 
Bought a HyperX to clone mine to and go from there, 500MB worth of not very cleanly retired blocks after a year of admittedly averaged 4GB a day over the "rated" writes. Could just be I don't have a great drive but not really convinced these drives are upto "real" use.
 
Seems to be a magician update - dunno if its just me but seems RAPID mode is having a little more effect in some situations since the update - they've also updated RAPID support for more drive models so guess something changed at the same time.
 
Rroff said:
Seems to be a magician update - dunno if its just me but seems RAPID mode is having a little more effect in some situations since the update - they've also updated RAPID support for more drive models so guess something changed at the same time.
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Yeh just updated, 4.5 :)
 
^^ Have to say I'm noticing a little more effect from RAPID mode since this update - nothing earth shattering but definitely some stuff isn't hitting disc when it used to (some places its noticeable that its a little more snappy on regularly used stuff and 1-2 programs that show performance data have increased from ~300MB/s to 700-1000MB/s when doing certain operations).

Also so far *fingers crossed* my drive seems to be working like new again (aside from some prematurely retired blocks) since doing both the performance restoration, cloning it, secure erase and copying the data back - it seems that the performance restoration tool alone didn't restore all cells to full functionality.
 
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