Samsung 840 250gb with far cry 3 $158.39 at newegg

dwightschrute said:
So this is not as good as an 830?
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Both 830 and 840 are good drives. The 830 uses MLC nand and the 840 uses TLC nand, the 840 is a bit faster when comes to reading, but however is slower when talking about write speeds.

You can't go wrong with either, they will last you a very long time and give great performance. To be honest, go with which is cheaper. If you have the money, just get the 840 pro.
 
WHoly shit this is a steal! frree game and all. sucks stinkegg charges me tax. unless i have it shipped to a friend in Philly, BTW how do these compare to Intel 520 series?
 
how much could I sell far cry 3 for i wonder..

its tempting me, but not pushing me over the edge to click buy...
 
turbolude said:
just found this in a review

Samsung is better and cheaper. An alternative is the crucial M4.

Don't get the 840 though, it uses TLC NAND chips, which is garbage.

TLC has half the life of MLC.

SLC > MLC > TLC

Source:http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2281792
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I doubt I'm going to keep one for 70 years. 5-10 years is plenty good enough for an average user like me. Placed an order, thanks OP.
 
If I didn't have FC3 already and/or hadn't recently bought a second 128GB 830 I might've bit. TLC's obviously not as durable as MLC but it's fine for most people... I would probably still go with an MLC drive for my OS, but for a second game drive or whatever TLC would be fine. I wouldn't be surprised if they drop even more next year tho, Samsung's clearly positioning TLC as their path for all future budget drives and the close price proximity to the outgoing 830 isn't a coincidence (nor the naming scheme).
 
I like how every time I come into a thread that I'm slightly excited about I find out that the product is crap for some reason.
 
/\ the product is not crap lol, it just has some issues but the 840s are fine for the majority of people.
 
This drive would still last you long enough before you were willing to upgrade again anyways. If I had the loot, I'd be buy three for all my computers. Too bad I have to use my funds for christmas presents though.... Damn. :mad:
 
turbolude said:
just found this in a review

Samsung is better and cheaper. An alternative is the crucial M4.

Don't get the 840 though, it uses TLC NAND chips, which is garbage.

TLC has half the life of MLC.

SLC > MLC > TLC

Source:http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2281792
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Like rekojenasni said, for 98% of non-enterprise users, the differences between TLC, MLC and SLC are irrelevant. In their review of this drive, Anandtech points out that you could write 10GB to the drive every single day for the next 7 years, and even after all that the drive would still likely work just fine.

FishHead said:
I like how every time I come into a thread that I'm slightly excited about I find out that the product is crap for some reason.
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Guess you didn't read the thread? The 840 (non-pro) is a damn good ssd with the only real knock on it being mediocre sequential write performance (that still obliterates the Intel g2 in my gaming rig). From the Anandtech article:

...the 840 exceeded all our expectations. It's faster, overall, than most of the previous generation MLC NAND based SSDs we have tested, which says a lot about Samsung's skill with it comes to designing a controller and firmware...

...Prior to the 840, if you wanted a low cost SSD you either had to sacrifice on capacity or performance (or both). Sacrifice enough on capacity and you end up being forced into a SSD + HDD caching solution. Sacrifice enough on performance and you end up with a bad SSD. If TLC NAND pricing ramps to where it should be, the 840 can deliver the best of both worlds: low-cost pricing with all of the quality (and a lot of the performance) of a more expensive drive...

...We will see about final pricing in a couple of weeks, but for now the 840 looks like the entry level SSD to buy. The 840 Pro is likely the drive to buy for your primary notebook/workstation, while the 840 is the drive to recommend for a relative who isn't as concerned with performance and has a much lighter workload. I have to say, this is the first performance/value split of an SSD line that's really made sense.
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I've been holding out on a new ssd till I could find a good price on something in the 500GB+ range, but ~250GB drives have been getting so inexpensive, might just have to bite.
 
coconutboy said:
Like rekojenasni said, for 98% of non-enterprise users, the differences between TLC, MLC and SLC are irrelevant. In their review of this drive, Anandtech points out that you could write 10GB to the drive every single day for the next 7 years, and even after all that the drive would still likely work just fine.
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This, exactly. I needed one to replace a failing drive in my daughter's PC, and after reading a few reviews out there, I have no problem putting it in her system...
 
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