Assistance - Calling all Samsung EVO owners
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"sweep it under the carpet and hope no one complains"
they can fix it easily,just scrap the cheap tlc nand and shove some mlc nand in their,but they wont because Samsung manufacture their own cheap tlc nand
I bet they run into the same issues with the new 850 evo's further down the line
if its a controller bug its taking them an awefully longtime to fix it,and no problems with the pro drives which so happens to be using mlc nand
they can fix it easily,just scrap the cheap tlc nand and shove some mlc nand in their,but they wont because Samsung manufacture their own cheap tlc nand
I bet they run into the same issues with the new 850 evo's further down the line
if its a controller bug its taking them an awefully longtime to fix it,and no problems with the pro drives which so happens to be using mlc nand
I can guarantee you I won't be going away. If this isn't fixed I will want a refund or a replacement, not including TLC NAND.
In the rush to bring new technology to market, manufacturers seem to be neglecting testing and quality control. Eventually they might learn that consumers want some reliability, rather than the cheapest or "latest" thing.
I think a lot of us do.
The question is, will Samsung recognise this and restore trust in their brand ?
If it's slowed down after the update, disk refresh will be a temporary fix.
Mine degraded again so I ran the restoration tool for a second time but it's slowly degrading yet again. I've replaced it with one of my 850 PROs for now and put the EVO in my netbook while I wait and see what samsung do.
If samsung can't fix this once and for all I'll be requesting an 850 EVO or a full refund because as they are the 840 EVOs are no fit for purpose.
It's highly likely the 850 EVOs don't suffer the same bug because they use a larger process node.
I could be tempted with a 850 EVO 120GB if a good offer come up on OcUK.
If samsung can't fix this once and for all I'll be requesting an 850 EVO or a full refund because as they are the 840 EVOs are no fit for purpose.
It's highly likely the 850 EVOs don't suffer the same bug because they use a larger process node.
I could be tempted with a 850 EVO 120GB if a good offer come up on OcUK.
I`ve just reinstalled it.
When I run it is tells me that "Performance Restoration is complete".
I`ve hit the "refresh" button, but it remains the same. The "Start" button continues to say "Complete".
Is there a registry hack I need to do ?
In theory if the issue is fixed it only needs to run once. It uses up write cycles so they don't want you repeatadly running it for no reason wearing out your drive unnecessarily. As we know though it's not fixed so we have to go back to re-writing the data to temporarily mask the issue.
No just uninstall it, then install it again. Try a few reboots aswell if it's not letting you run it.
Uninstall
Reboot
Install
Reboot
Run it
IIRC I didn't need a reboot, just uninstalled, installed, ran it again. It took about 20 mins for it to run which was the same amount of time it took the first time and performance was restored, for now at least.
when did you run the restoration software?
has dipped a few times but speed looks pretty much consistant
I've tried running this again and following those steps by uninstalling, reboot, then reinstalling etc. But it always says complete and I can't run it again.
Strange, it works here and I can see it's worked for people on OCN aswell.
Have you tried a complete shutdown rather than a reboot. The only other thing I can think of is they silently updated the installer to close this loophole.
EDIT
I see they have v1.1 up on their site, whereas I'm using v1.0. I suspect they have closed the reinstall loophole in the new version, shame they can't actually fix the issue instead.
There are other ways to restore performance such as diskfresh but I can upload v1.0 if you want to try it?
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