Assistance - Calling all Samsung EVO owners

bliss · 1 Mar 2015 at 11:50

1 month results for me.

Then

Now

Dervious · 1 Mar 2015 at 12:06

bliss said:
1 month results for me.

Seems a bit odd that HDTune is reporting that you`ve got an 840 non Evo.

tatts · 1 Mar 2015 at 13:37

How do you put this on to a pen? I tried the other day and gave up as it wouldn't boot

bliss · 1 Mar 2015 at 13:38

Dervious said:
Seems a bit odd that HDTune is reporting that you`ve got an 840 non Evo.

Also reports I'm running ATA when it's set to AHCI. Never understood it or what could fix it lol.

Might try updating the Intel Rapid Storage drivers later today see if they removes the bugs.

Subliminal Aura · 1 Mar 2015 at 13:53

Used the boot iso and it took ages to complete for not much better performance

Seemed to me like it didn't fully complete the process ?

hdparm -tT /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 2100 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1050.14 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 402 MB in 3.00 seconds = 133.98 MB/sec

FwRev=EXT0CB6Q

Neil79 · 3 Mar 2015 at 01:22

It will be interesting to see what my 120GB EVO 840's SSD's are like as I do weekly clean free space wipe using ccleaner, and SSD Optimization via magician.

Neil79 · 3 Mar 2015 at 16:09

- N/M see below -

bledd · 3 Mar 2015 at 16:13

Did you set the chunk size to 8mb ?

Neil79 · 3 Mar 2015 at 16:14

bledd. said:
Did you set the chunk size to 8mb ?

No, I'll do that now

ED209 · 3 Mar 2015 at 16:18

Neil79 said:
No, I'll do that now

also I think your using the trial version and not the pro version (5.50)

think all the tests on here have been done using the HD tune pro version 5.50

bledd · 3 Mar 2015 at 16:26

^Doubt that makes a difference does it?

Neil79 · 3 Mar 2015 at 16:32

OS

GAME DRIVE

Oddly enough the game drive is actually worse in performance and it's in turbo mode... Still though those aren't too bad

ED209 · 3 Mar 2015 at 16:33

bledd. said:
^Doubt that makes a difference does it?

it doesn't but I was using 2.55 and people where telling me to use 5.50 as this is what the tests where done on.

Pants · 4 Mar 2015 at 12:13

I'm so glad I visited the storage forum!

The performance restoration tool has made a shocking difference to my system. Boot up is back to being seconds and applications are responding much quicker.

I had put it down to my windows install getting lardy so didn't think much of it, until it got silly slow.

Wish I did a before test on HD Tune, it would have been a good one. Oh well.

Danny75 · 4 Mar 2015 at 14:09

Pants said:
I'm so glad I visited the storage forum!

The performance restoration tool has made a shocking difference to my system. Boot up is back to being seconds and applications are responding much quicker.

I had put it down to my windows install getting lardy so didn't think much of it, until it got silly slow.

Wish I did a before test on HD Tune, it would have been a good one. Oh well.

Test again in a month's time or so. Some of us are finding the fix isn't permanent.

bliss · 4 Mar 2015 at 14:09

Pants said:
I'm so glad I visited the storage forum!

The performance restoration tool has made a shocking difference to my system. Boot up is back to being seconds and applications are responding much quicker.

I had put it down to my windows install getting lardy so didn't think much of it, until it got silly slow.

Wish I did a before test on HD Tune, it would have been a good one. Oh well.

Hope it sticks. If it doesn't you'll be getting noticeable speed degradation within 4 weeks or so.

tatts · 4 Mar 2015 at 19:47

This seems dreadful considering how little it gets used

Seeing as there is no long term fix, can these be rma'd or exchanged? Mine is 7 months old.

ED209 · 4 Mar 2015 at 20:11

tatts, have you ran a secure erase and the restoration tool?

tatts · 4 Mar 2015 at 20:35

ED209 said:
tatts, have you ran a secure erase and the restoration tool?

Can't be bothered erasing it as it's my windows drive, I'd sooner just buy a new one. I didn't run the restoration tool as I couldn't burn a bootable usb and it looks like the fix doesn't last long?

ED209 · 5 Mar 2015 at 07:51

tatts said:
Can't be bothered erasing it as it's my windows drive, I'd sooner just buy a new one. I didn't run the restoration tool as I couldn't burn a bootable usb and it looks like the fix doesn't last long?

you don't need a bootable ISO, you install it like you do any other program and then you run it, the software does the rest.

link to it is here, also what firmware are you running as the tool will put on the latest firmware for you before it starts

http://www.samsung.com/global/busin...tware/Samsung_Performance_Restoration_V11.zip

secure erase may not be needed but sometimes people have reported this to get full speed back.

you should run the tool as it may fix the drive. there is still a few people that have said its not fixed theirs.