Assistance - Calling all Samsung EVO owners

Decided to hang on to my drives in the hopes that Samsung sort out something official or fix it finally.

To be fair to OCuk they did offer me a refund but that was because I had already gone through 2 drives.

So great CS from them but I will just wait.
 
Aurhinius said:
Decided to hang on to my drives in the hopes that Samsung sort out something official or fix it finally.

To be fair to OCuk they did offer me a refund but that was because I had already gone through 2 drives.

So great CS from them but I will just wait.
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Why wait? I would have taken the refund.
 
I thought about it but it's been a long day with car problems that need sorting and SSD's were last on my list and I didn't have the energy to fight!

That and I believe Samsung need to come good on this for everyone. Not just one person.
 
Aurhinius said:
I thought about it but it's been a long day with car problems that need sorting and SSD's were last on my list and I didn't have the energy to fight!

That and I believe Samsung need to come good on this for everyone. Not just one person.
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I can see your point. :)
 
"The newer Samsung 850 Pro and 850 EVO SSDs, which use bleeding-edge vertical NAND technology, aren’t affected."

how can they say that? its too early to tell? with all the testing carried out on the 840 evo's they have only just admitted a fault on those and look how long they have been on the market
 
Selekt0r said:
Yep - performance on mine has 'gone south' again :(

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I'll be interested in the response from bailey on this.
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How long did it take for that to happen? I think I'm at 1 month since using Disk Fresh on my drive and while performance has dropped, it isn't by a massive amount. Yet.

edit: Actually at 3 weeks.
 
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i just readall the news regarding a second patch. i have a 840 Evo 512 drive should i be worried?. not noticed any slow down but then my mother board is to old for its top speed + the marvell port is to unstable to use although its quicker. anyway surpised at this

is this bad?

whoops sorry last image was the wrong drive :)

is this bad???

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PaulW said:
is this bad?
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For a SSD that's terrible. However that result is for your hard drive :D

Edit: That doesn't look good either! Mine is starting to show slight signs of the problem since the firmware update/restoration tool ran but nothing too serious yet.
 
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Hi, that looks similar to what mine did before the first 'restoration'. Have you run the Samsung tool/firmware upgrade on that drive?
 
PaulW said:
yep just updated the image after i noticed.

what about this one?

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shouldn't be getting a minimum speed of 9.9mb.

have you ran the restoration tool and done a secure erase?

my results are after 3 weeks of doing secure erase and installing windows 10.

using a x58 mobo with sata 2 ports
 
no i haven't run any restoration tool only found out there was a potential issue this week. where do i find such tools?

Edit : unless you mean the one that magician asked me to run, i think. is that what you mean that was about a year ago right?
 
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wazza300 said:
"The newer Samsung 850 Pro and 850 EVO SSDs, which use bleeding-edge vertical NAND technology, aren’t affected."

how can they say that? its too early to tell? with all the testing carried out on the 840 evo's they have only just admitted a fault on those and look how long they have been on the market
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Read a review if you want to know how they can say that.
 
Agreed but one person rarely makes a difference and I think samsung need to fix this not Ocuk out of pocket. We'll see if they come up with the goods. If they can't fix it they should upgrade everyone to 850's
 
Dervious said:
And the most effective way to do that is to get a refund on your 840 EVO and buy a different make of SSD (not an 850 Evo).
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Aurhinius said:
Agreed but one person rarely makes a difference and I think samsung need to fix this not Ocuk out of pocket. We'll see if they come up with the goods. If they can't fix it they should upgrade everyone to 850's
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Agreed, it's for Samsung to resolve not the retailers.

I've replaced mine with an Intel, will wait to see what Samsung do in the next few weeks before contacting the place of purchase to sort mine out.
 
A 100% boycot is a bit dramatic, especially as there has been no data loss.

The point is to get refunded for the defective product to show we won't stand for it. Holding onto it and keeping quiet won't help, returning it and getting your money back will (or at least you'd hope that it would).

If everyone stopped buying samsung ssd's they would stop making them and then we would never get a fix.

I agree retailers shouldn't have to front the cost, if indeed that is what they are doing. However that is their choice, plus if you are charging more than your competitors I'd expect that level of service anyway.

Retailers telling samsung they are having to refund customers can only help pile the pressure on for a fix aswell.

At the end of the day I don't think samsung are going to get away with this, unless they feel like pulling out of the SSD market they will have to resolve it one way or the other, otherwise the damage to their reputation will be too great and they won't survive.
 
Aurhinius said:
Agreed but one person rarely makes a difference and I think samsung need to fix this not Ocuk out of pocket. We'll see if they come up with the goods. If they can't fix it they should upgrade everyone to 850's
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One person rarely makes a difference ? Probably not worth voting in the general election then. ;)

Samsung do need to sort this out. They`ve got the money/resources, so they've got no excuses.

In the meantime, they`ve already lost 5 SSD sales to me, and will continue to lose more unless they sort this properly within a reasonable amount of time. That may be a "drop in the ocean" to them, but I bet they'd have preferred me to stick with Samsung.
 
Dervious said:
In the meantime, they`ve already lost 5 SSD sales to me, and will continue to lose more unless they sort this properly within a reasonable amount of time. That may be a "drop in the ocean" to them, but I bet they'd have preferred me to stick with Samsung.
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I would agree with you on this, ill not be buying anymore Samsung SSDs even though I do like the drives.

I will be looking at different SSD's if they cannot sort this permanently
 
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