replacement for 840 Evo

Bounce · 9 Jul 2019 at 09:58

Iv had my 840 Evo for about 5-6 years, Crystal Disk and Samsung Magic say its a healthy SSD. I'm not so convinced as it seems to hang a lot and performance has dropped off over the years.

I havnt shopped for an SSD for many years, so with that being said what is the go to SSD nowadays?

My motherboard is a MSI Z370A-Pro.

Bounce · 9 Jul 2019 at 14:48

Webzta said:
Can't go wrong with a newer version of what you had: https://www.overclockers.co.uk/sams...olid-state-drive-mz-76e1t0b-eu-hd-234-sa.html

just normal sata?

Edit : isnt M.2 PCIe the way to go

Bounce · 12 Jul 2019 at 15:11

EsaT said:
Nothing nice in those Samsung's planar TLC drives, which were one of the first drives needing to distinguish 8 charge levels.
They were semi volatile memory, because leakage/interference in small transistors caused data to start fast evaporating causing heavy reliance on error correction.
Samsung had to duct tape "fix" that with firmware which rewrites data regularly.
Kinda like how DRAM has to constantly refresh data.

While 3D NAND with bigger transistors made TLC workable QLC pushes amount of charge levels to pretty much analog 16.
So wouldn't touch QLC drives in some years.

Crucial MX500 and WD Blue 3D are the best priced TLC drives.

So you don't recommend the Samsung 860?

Am I best running with the default Windows drivers or download the Mobo drivers for the hard drive controller

Bounce · 12 Jul 2019 at 15:18

tamzzy said:
Have you installed the latest firmware for the 840 Evo?

Yeah according to Samsung magician it's the latest

Bounce · 12 Jul 2019 at 15:20

I get stuttering in games such as Cs go, I have put this down to the SSD.

Bounce · 15 Jul 2019 at 12:52

bledd said:
Which version of magician do you have?

I believe the latest is 5.3.1 or similar. The application itself can be poor at auto updating.

There was a firmware fix for performance a couple of years ago.

As for a replacement, can't really go wrong with an 860 Evo.

Edit, just seen your motherboard, might as well go all out and get an Evo 970 plus

Yea it's all up to date.

Iv purchase the 970 evo 500gb version.

Thanks for all your help.