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Updated my 250GB evo just now. Never noticed a problem before if im honest mind.
Firmware update for the Samsung 840 EVO drives out tomorrow
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500gb 75-80% full took me 1hr 30 to complete :/
Not had the chance to test it out
Not had the chance to test it out
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Applied the update, seems a tad slow?
Would be expecting 400mb+ usually
Would be expecting 400mb+ usually
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Looks to be a bit slow. Mine below.
This is what I and a few others have been saying, yet some have sold or returned their EVOs in order to get a "better" SSD. Their choice, I suppose. If this update turns out to not fix the problem properly, then it may have been a wise decision, otherwise it would appear to have been a bit hasty, and possibly more trouble than it was worth.
And for those worried about the "massive"
amount of data writes that's require to implement this fix....http://ssdendurancetest.com/ssd-endurance-test-report/Samsung-840-EVO-120
It's not entirely clear if the 78.47 TiB written was as far as the SSD under test got before failing, but if it did fail at that point, it means that writing 100-200 (ish) GB to "refresh" an EVO after the firmware update isn't going to make any significant difference to it's lifespan. Yes, there's a principal involved, but it's not really worth mentioning IMHO.
You mean like football games? You're only good as your last game…
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Here's what happened with my 250GB EVO, and others seem to have the same results.
My drive had approx 120GB (or 0.12TB) of data on it.
- Running Samsung Magician showed me that the drive had done a total of 2TB of writes before running the tool
- After running the tool the drive had done a total of 2.12TB of writes
- Ergo (vis a vis, concordantly), one of the operations that the tool performs is rewriting ALL of the data on the drive once (Presumably the purpose of this is to make all of the files "new" to eliminate the pre-existing issue of the slow read performance on "old" files)
- Benchmarking prior to running the tool showed that average read performance was around 170MB/s
- Benchmarking after running the tool showed performance back to "new drive" levels, ~440MB/s average
- Drive firmware was updated to the latest version (incidentally, not downloadable separately) as pert of running the tool. I assume the purpose of this firmware update is to avoid the problem recurring once fixed.
And for those worried about the "massive"
http://ssdendurancetest.com/ssd-endurance-test-report/Samsung-840-EVO-120
It's not entirely clear if the 78.47 TiB written was as far as the SSD under test got before failing, but if it did fail at that point, it means that writing 100-200 (ish) GB to "refresh" an EVO after the firmware update isn't going to make any significant difference to it's lifespan. Yes, there's a principal involved, but it's not really worth mentioning IMHO.
If its a one off then I would agree, however I haven't seen an explanation yet of how the firmware update prevents the problem reoccurring.
If the update repeats the process in the background monthly for example then it is significant.
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So here's my before and after on a 120GB (with OS installed), still have a 250 and 500GB to go. Slight variations though the fact I've appeared to lose 3GB of free space is quite annoying when space is always at a premium.
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Did you reboot after Samsung Tool said complete, my first run was really slow after running firmware then rebooted and it was fine.
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It wont let you flash in raid 0, i think you would have to start afresh, unraid, install windows, flash them, put back raid
frustrating.
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Image of a 840 non evo - it looks as though it is suffering from the same issue:
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Image of a 840 non evo - it looks as though it is suffering from the same issue:
That's it! My next SSD I'm buying Intel.
Ah cheers
Just tried. Cannot find Evo drive. Seems it doesn't work with raid!
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