Soldato
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Couldnt be bothered doing a back up. All done in about a hour.
I didn't back up either. fw updated fine
Couldnt be bothered doing a back up. All done in about a hour.
My EVO is used as a system drive. Is this safe to use?
Stoner 81, it applies to 840 EVO only!
I backed up some data before hand (not much though, I don't keep a lot of "data" on the SSD (just OS and some games that benefit from load times).
30ish minutes in at 88%. This is a 250GB EVO with approx. 50% free space.
I happened to check the total data written just yesterday (was 2TB) so will check again after the process is completed and report back.
Just checked, and the drive has now written 2.12TB (or ~120GB more than before the utility was run). This is the same amount of data on the drive, and I would therefore conclude that it's simply moved all of the data from one cell to another so that it's all "new" files, and the firmware update prevents the problem recurring.
Yeah I was suspicious of it adding a drive amount of wear to your drive.
Technically to fix this issue then samsung are causing unecessary wear to the drive.
While I'm happy that they fix it I think it's a bit naughty that they are reducing the life of my drive to fix their problem.
Probably being too picky... but TLC nand doesn't last as long as MLC in the first place.
In my case I got an RMA drive so I don't have much to moan about but everyone should be aware there drive will get significant wear.
Hopefully this total re-write will not effect write performance casued by massive re-writes to the drive. I'm guessing samsung thought of that... but you do wonder.