Samsung 840 EVO Series - Impressions, Opinions?

Hey guys, new member here

I'm here because I'd like to hear your opinions on Samsung's 840 EVO Series SSD's. I have no experience with any of Samsung products, however a friend of mine says his 840 EVO SSD has been treating him well, so I looked around was surprised at how the price of their SSD's is.

Now, I need the SSD for storage and quick access of my photos and large Logic Pro X files. WIll it do the job or should I look for something different? I'd welcome any suggestions within the 200$ price range

 

I have one myself, I like it, I have never ran any speed tests or anything but it is fast as any SSD should be and it works so I am happy. SSD prices are falling quickly so you can get larger size SSD quite cheap now. Black Friday should have some amazing deals was well.

Welcome to the forum!

 

Ditto,

I have the 840 pro and the 1tb evo, no griefs yet, as a bonus a very polished software accompanies the drives. The one sad thing for me was the price I paid for it nearly a year ago (in AUD..420$) ..ouch

 

After owning 3 TLC 840 EVO 1TB SSDs, one of them which is an mSATA, I'd never ever buy a TLC SSD again. the have a major issue where old files tend to give you horrible performance. When I say horrible, I mean horrible to the point where when I open my software solder which contains all those setup EXEs, the setup file icons would load in slow motion! just as if it were an HDD.

It's good in benchmarks, but in real world performance, even my older 840 PRO gave me better speeds, stuff like copying files, opening programs, etc. I could feel it big time.

Now when the finally awaited fix from SAMSUNG came, I quickly jumped on it, upgraded the firmware, and let it do the performance restoration. Yes, that did help, but after about 1 month, I started noticing the same slow down again.

I then sold my two 1 TB 840 EVOs and substituted them with 850 PROs. The EVO is great in benchmarks, in real world performance, the older 840 PRO and 850 PRO are much faster and offer consistent performance every single time.

Morale of the story: stick to MLC

Read this thread, and you'll never come near an EVO or any TLC NAND based SSD EVER:

Samsung 840 EVO read speed drops on old-written data in the drive

 

+1000.. I've only heard horror stories about this drive...

P.S: Ferris, what happened to your R9 290MX CF setup? Where did u get 780M's from?

 

oh I still have it mate along with the crappy 4810MQ CPU that was replaced once already but still getting Cache Hierarchy Error upon every reboot so DELL finally decided to give me a new laptop with ta 4900MQ and 780GTX GPUs since that's what they have in stock for now.

I should be getting it next week hopefully

 

Jeez, thanks for the heads up! At this point I can't even keep up with all different brands and options anymore But I'll definitely go for MLC

 

You've got too many free upgrades from Dell man... First dual 770Ms to the R9 290MX and now 780Ms? Lol your so lucky... When my 7970M was failing, they refused to even give me a 680M...

 

Well I didn't ask for any of them upgrades. All I wanted was a working system. The first system had a terrible screen bleeding issue that even after replacing the screen twice, they couldn't fix it, so they just gave me a new laptop which by chance, had an upgraded R9 290X Crossfire and an upgraded CPU (4810MQ , first system had a 4800MQ). Now again, I didn't ask for an upgrade, all I wanted was the issue of the CPU Cache Heirarchy fixed, they changed the CPU, didn't change a thing. so since they are out of stock of my current system, they are offering me a new system.

I thank their management so much as the current system I have cost me $3000 USD but the new one I'm getting is a $4000 USD system I know since they were both on display when I bought mine but I couldn't afford the latter.

 

Well your still so lucky.. Dell is so stingy here when it comes to stuff likes this..

Also no hard feelings.. I'm dumping the Alienware bandwagon as soon as the P771 comes out..

 

What's a P771 mate?

 

17" Clevo laptop with a i7-4790K processor and MXM3.0B slot ... Can't wait to get it.. AW's are too tempermental for me...

 

P771 could be something else too and still fit the forum

 

Yo KLF, it was in my signature... So no excuses on Ferris's part lol.. Unless he was reading for a mobile device

 

Ferris did you apply the FW on the 840EVO, designed for that very same problem.

(link included)

Samsung SSD Downloads | Samsung SSD US

i updated it anyways...i barely had the drive full at 132GB of the 835GB i had (post OP)

 

when running the Evo performance restoration tool the first time, it updates the firmware automatically, that's mandatory

 

Yeah i meant that , did it work though?

 

Not for Ferris from what he has said...

 

For me it did. Updated the firmware and did the performance sweep all in one go. Took about 90 minutes total on a drive that was roughly half full.

I performed the update the day Samsung released it, and the drive is still going strong with no performance regression.