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    Samsung 840 Evo Performance Restoration Tool

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Spartan@HIDevolution, Oct 15, 2014.

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    Performance before running the tool (notice the consistency):

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    Performance after running the tool (consistent performance):

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    Spartan@HIDevolution, Oct 15, 2014
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    The wife and my daughter have Samsung evo disks so this here is certainly fine and have installed :thumbsup:
     
    Papusan, Oct 15, 2014
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    How much time does it take for performance restoration for 1tb disk?
     
    duzz, Oct 16, 2014
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    Edit: On my 4-month-old drive, filled to about half capacity, and with 1 TB of data written to it (according to Samsung Magician), it took about 90 minutes start to finish. Your mileage may vary.
     
    saturnotaku, Oct 16, 2014
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    On the overclocker's forum, I have seen reports of 5 hours or more, depending on amount of capacity used and degradation experienced prior to running the restoration tool.
     
    tilleroftheearth, Oct 16, 2014
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    n=1 YEAH SCIENCE!

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    1TB drive, ~300GB of data, oldest is 22 days, and it took 90 minutes.

    I've feeling for my even older 500GB driver with data that's pushing 250 days old, it's going to take half a day at least.
     
    n=1, Oct 16, 2014
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    Took me 1 hour but the SSD was only 30% filled
     
    Spartan@HIDevolution, Oct 16, 2014
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    Stage 3 took 5hours for my 1tb evo 80% filled. Had also BsODs caused by the newest geforce drivers on stage 3. Strange enough, in the process the system was not fully responsive.
     
    duzz, Oct 17, 2014
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    Original post updated to version 1.1
     
    Spartan@HIDevolution, Oct 24, 2014
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    Nice to see as Im running an 830 now, but need to buy one for my gfs computer soon
     
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    I wonder if they will come out with such a tool for the standard 840 which is also a TLC based drive.
     
    Spartan@HIDevolution, Oct 25, 2014
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    So far, Samsung has refused to consider the older TLC drives as 'affected', even though the proof is out there.


    See:
    Samsung 840 EVO read speed drops on old-written data in the drive - Page 120


    The above is only one example in that overclock.net thread.
     
    tilleroftheearth, Oct 25, 2014
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    The owner of the Site Major Geeks also told me he has experienced very slow performance lately with his 840 and got a bit excited when I showed him this tool but was disappointed that it only works on the 840 EVO! :(
     
    Spartan@HIDevolution, Oct 26, 2014
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