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Samsung 840 Evo Performance Bug

Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by iceblitzed, Nov 17, 2014.

iceblitzed Notebook Enthusiast

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Im pretty sure some of you have heard of the samsung 840 evo performance bug and the patch that was released in mid october. I installed the patch which updated the firmware and everything went well but how can I be test to be sure my performance is top notch like day one of buying it.

iceblitzed, Nov 17, 2014

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See:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/sol...ds-old-files-evo-fix-september-19-2014-a.html

You'll need to be a member of the other forum mentioned in my posts in the link above to download Filebench and SSDReadSpeedTester utility to properly test for this.

The key is that most benchmark software before this point was creating a file and then reading back this same file so the issue was masked.

The two utilities mentioned here read back existing files and based on how long ago they were written to the drive, the slower they would be read.

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

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Read speeds dropping dramatically on older files; benchmarks needed to confirm affected SSDs

tilleroftheearth, Nov 17, 2014

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