Assistance - Calling all Samsung EVO owners

Haven't run any fix on mine, TBH I'm losing interest. I've not long since done a fresh W8.1 install anyway so it should ok for now. Will wait to see how you guys get on before I do anything.
 
Telecaster said:
Haven't run any fix on mine, TBH I'm losing interest. I've not long since done a fresh W8.1 install anyway so it should ok for now. Will wait to see how you guys get on before I do anything.
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Applying the firmware update takes seconds (OK, a minute or less is you include the reboot).

Slight risk of data loss, yes. However, I`ve done dozens of firmware updates to Samsung SSDs and never had a problem.
 
I last ran the Samsung optimisation util last October so my trial period for HD tune has run out which means I cannot run it anymore. Do these results look ok?

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I bought the Samsung 840 evo as it seemed to be proving the most reliable so whilst it may remain so, if it is going to degrade in speed then I may consider a replacement but which other drive do I go for? Is the Kingston HyperX 3K drive any good? I've always used Kingston memory and that has proved reliable.
 
I've had mine for about a year and there seems to be no slow down so far. Haven't updated to the latest firmware but updated to the first "fix".
 
Dervious said:
Applying the firmware update takes seconds (OK, a minute or less is you include the reboot).

Slight risk of data loss, yes. However, I`ve done dozens of firmware updates to Samsung SSDs and never had a problem.
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Yeah I know, but I just can't be bothered.

TBH I don't even know why I bother having a PC as I have virtually no time to use it any more, I spend far too much time with work that when I do get chance to use it I just switch it on for 30 mins and do the few bits I need and then switch it off.
 
Telecaster said:
Yeah I know, but I just can't be bothered.

TBH I don't even know why I bother having a PC as I have virtually no time to use it any more, I spend far too much time with work that when I do get chance to use it I just switch it on for 30 mins and do the few bits I need and then switch it off.
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Funny how our lives and priorities change... My PC hardly ever gets used either. The rise of powerful phones and tablets has dramatically reduced the amount of time I need to use my PC.
 
I must admit I am curious to know just what proportion of the 840 evo's were actually affected by this degradation, not found any sort of stats. My 840 500gb evo is still reading exactly as it was nearly 8 weeks ago, still averaging 540 mb/s. Nearly all of the data was written on the first day, and having seen so many graphs showing fall off at this stage, I am now thinking there is a definite worst and best case scenario's depending on perhaps build date and the batch the chips came from. I am still on the previous firmware, as my Samsung magician has still not notified me 4.6 is out. I will just keep testing and wait.
 
Yozzer said:
I must admit I am curious to know just what proportion of the 840 evo's were actually affected by this degradation, not found any sort of stats. My 840 500gb evo is still reading exactly as it was nearly 8 weeks ago, still averaging 540 mb/s. Nearly all of the data was written on the first day, and having seen so many graphs showing fall off at this stage, I am now thinking there is a definite worst and best case scenario's depending on perhaps build date and the batch the chips came from. I am still on the previous firmware, as my Samsung magician has still not notified me 4.6 is out. I will just keep testing and wait.
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I have the 850 evo running version 4.5 and this doesn't state to me there is a new version of the software out (4.6) either so I've left it on this as 4.6 was purely released to fix the 840 issue and allow them to download the new firmware for the SSD.
 
Yozzer said:
I must admit I am curious to know just what proportion of the 840 evo's were actually affected by this degradation, not found any sort of stats. My 840 500gb evo is still reading exactly as it was nearly 8 weeks ago, still averaging 540 mb/s. Nearly all of the data was written on the first day, and having seen so many graphs showing fall off at this stage, I am now thinking there is a definite worst and best case scenario's depending on perhaps build date and the batch the chips came from. I am still on the previous firmware, as my Samsung magician has still not notified me 4.6 is out. I will just keep testing and wait.
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To a degree how soon and how badly you encounter it will depend a bit on your usage pattern. After the previous performance update I cloned mine and wrote it all back - so all the data was of the same age or newer and it was fine for about 8 weeks I guess with only minor changes then soon after that a large amount of the drive dropped ~200MB/s in performance.
 
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After optimization.

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After advanced optimization, still not what it should be.

Edit - managed to bump it up a bit by setting it to max performance but doesn't hit 500mb/s at any point.
 
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@ khemist, i was geting results like yours till i noticed hdtune was not set to 8mb for benchmarking, then results vastly increased. is yours set to 8mb ?
 
So one month on after installing the new firmware, it seems the fix really was a fix this time and looks pretty much the same as it did one month ago.

 
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