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Just started off mine, probably take forever seeing as I have the 1TB.
Firmware update for the Samsung 840 EVO drives out tomorrow
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Did mine, took around 55 mins on a 256gb 2/3 full.
Hadn't noticed any issues before and it's always seemed quick
I also picked up an annoying piece of malware searching for 'CrystalDiskMark' and installing their latest version - homepage/search and browser hijack. Think it was version 6 something, removed it using malwarebytes and 'Adware Removal Tool' from techsupportall.com so be warned guys!
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Hadn't noticed any issues before and it's always seemed quick
I also picked up an annoying piece of malware searching for 'CrystalDiskMark' and installing their latest version - homepage/search and browser hijack. Think it was version 6 something, removed it using malwarebytes and 'Adware Removal Tool' from techsupportall.com so be warned guys!
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In my experience, updating the firmware on an SSD (I`ve done a fair few Crucial and Samsung updates) is trouble free. Unless you have a power failure during the actual update (which only takes seconds), there's not a lot that can go wrong.
why cant i do secure erase through magican any more? on all 4 drives it gets to 20% and tells me the drives are in frozen state, keep pc on but remove the power connector to the drive then re-attach. bit hard for me to try as the drives are in my laptop and sata and power connectors are on the same cable
Have you tried creating a boot disk / flash drive ?
Be careful with that. I kept getting that, eventually removed the power connector as instructed and still it hung on 20% overnight. I had to reset PC and drive was dead from then on. Had to RMA.
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When erasing SSDs at my previous job I would boot the PC, disconnect the SSD, re-connect the SSD, then perform the secure erase.
Never had any problems with that but I also never tried disconnecting/re-connecting with it already at 20%.
Note that mine was done through Parted Magic, not using Samsung Magician.
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Cant you just attach the SSD to a PC for the sake of 30 seconds then pop it back in the laptop?
It's not like you need to secure erase often.
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Took around 2 hrs on my 1TB in the end, that's with 280gb free space
wish i could do that, i sold my gaming pc off and got the the current laptop till im ready to do a new build next year
Yeah all Evo 840s.
From what I can make out Samsung seems to be saying there is a problem with the way data is written to a cell for the first time which means that over time there is a widening variance between the "calibration" used by the drive software to read the data and the "calibration" actually needed to read it correctly - which eventually leads to increasing levels of ecc being used to retrieve data = performance drop.
From what I can make out Samsung seems to be saying there is a problem with the way data is written to a cell for the first time which means that over time there is a widening variance between the "calibration" used by the drive software to read the data and the "calibration" actually needed to read it correctly - which eventually leads to increasing levels of ecc being used to retrieve data = performance drop.
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