Anything worth upgrading to from a 840 Pro?

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I have a 240GB 840 Pro. With a few stackable coupons, I could get a new SSD from TD for ~$50 off. Nothing else in my computer would be worth upgrading. Is there anything out with new tech that would beat up an 840 PRO (I've had it for almost a year, I'm guessing there should be)?
 
Not really. Progress is really slowing due to SSD's blowing there load and tapping out SATA 3.0 within months of it going mainstream. Besides some internal nerdy logic progress there isn't really much to be had. Nobody knows what comes next since as of now SATA Express is up in the air and few people really understand how the hell that's going to work out on the consumer end.

The only thing to look forward to now is upgrading to a bigger drive as things finally are settling down where we can continue on with the cost per gig going down. If you can upgrade to the 512GB model that's about as good as you can get, otherwise save your money. It'll be a few more years before we start seeing speed wars. Right now we're just waiting for everyone to catch up to maxing SATA 3.0 which is just about there.
 
There is no drive better than an 840 Pro so any move will be a side grade at best.

Edit: I meant consumer SSD. Obviously enterprise drives like the fusion IO are better and faster than an 840 pro but that comes at a price.

Progress is really slowing due to SSD's blowing there load and tapping out SATA 3.0 within months of it going mainstream.

There still is a lot of room to grow in low queue depth 4K reads and writes. However I believe this will have to be done with something other than flash.
 
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If you really want to get higher performance, PCIe OCZ Revodrive. I don't know if they are reliable but performance is pretty good
 
I'm surprised Asus doesn't make a high end motherboard with the equivalent of RAIDR tech built in. If it came with 120GB but was expandable with a daughter card to 240 with your choice of raid config possible ... 240(120x2) 480(120x4) raid 0, 240/480 raid 1, or [(240 raid 0) raid 1'd]. Take their top AMD and Intel board design, and add this to it.

On the low cost BANG end, a micro atx board with 780M video and onboard 120GB SSD using the pcie x4 for the controller.

Is the Sata III the bottleneck, or is it the controllers being inside the motherboard chipset SB running off only a PCIe x1 connection? Would a built in Sata III controller with a PCIe x4 connection allow standard SSD Sata III drives to get the same performance as the RAIDR is capable of?
 
Nothing else in my system is worth upgrading. I was surprised my GTX 680 didn't get choked by BF4 at 2560x1440. Runs it like a champ.

I'll replace my H80i with a nice air cooler and get a new case. Not overclocking anymore and don't really want to wait for the H80i to start leaking. That will give me something to do.
 
I'm surprised Asus doesn't make a high end motherboard with the equivalent of RAIDR tech built in. If it came with 120GB but was expandable with a daughter card to 240 with your choice of raid config possible ... 240(120x2) 480(120x4) raid 0, 240/480 raid 1, or [(240 raid 0) raid 1'd]. Take their top AMD and Intel board design, and add this to it.

On the low cost BANG end, a micro atx board with 780M video and onboard 120GB SSD using the pcie x4 for the controller.

Is the Sata III the bottleneck, or is it the controllers being inside the motherboard chipset SB running off only a PCIe x1 connection? Would a built in Sata III controller with a PCIe x4 connection allow standard SSD Sata III drives to get the same performance as the RAIDR is capable of?

SATA 3 is the bottleneck in terms of bandwidth. Most drives are within a few % of the maximum theoretical speeds (550-600MB/s) at this point. Unless you're going to buy a quality controller (LSI, Adaptec, etc), a cheap generic PCIe x4 card isn't going to beat integrated Intel/AMD controllers. Besides, what integrated SATA controller would be bandwidth limited like that at this point?

To the poster who mentioned the Revodrive - considering that OCZ is in bankruptcy, it is a huge gamble to buy any of their drives right now.
 
Get a bigger Pro. They have faster write speeds. Sell the other or use it as an OS drive.
 
256. I'm am insanely surprised that my 1 year old ssd is still the top of the line. What sad times we live in :(

Also, only thing RAID will get me is king of the storage benchmarks and swapping files between an equally fast RAID setup. I thought the RAID topic has been fully beaten to death ... is it making a comeback?

Dropping my money on a NZXT H series case to replace my CF HAF. Love the HAF, but its a eye sore.
 
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If you really want to get higher performance, PCIe OCZ Revodrive. I don't know if they are reliable but performance is pretty good

The Revodrive is quite a bit slower than an 840 Pro in 4K low queue depth reads and writes which makes the 840 pro a better drive for most desktop usage.
 
256. I'm am insanely surprised that my 1 year old ssd is still the top of the line. What sad times we live in :(

Such a statement seems to lack a great deal of perspective about the amazing times that we live in. Have you considered that technology is moving so fast that your SSD has 16GB more storage than you can even remember? I can remember when 16MB seemed like a lot of storage.
 
LOL, when games are taking up 20-30+ GB it's easy to forget the older times.
 
Such a statement seems to lack a great deal of perspective about the amazing times that we live in. Have you considered that technology is moving so fast that your SSD has 16GB more storage than you can even remember? I can remember when 16MB seemed like a lot of storage.

I never had to deal with that little amount of storage, but I can feel the limitations on software expansions.. ie writing codes etc to fit.. makes me appreciate how fast technology has grown..
 
Also, only thing RAID will get me is king of the storage benchmarks and swapping files between an equally fast RAID setup. I thought the RAID topic has been fully beaten to death ... is it making a comeback?
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Excess can be fun! I decided to buy a pair of Seagate 600s to RAID 0 for VMs. Admittedly, I'm aware I will probably not see any appreciable difference versus a single larger SSD for my uses.
 
problem with having a great ssd drive is you pretty much need another one for true file copying performance.....if its copying to a non ssd driver then the other driver would bottle neck...does this make sense?;)
 
yes it does...makes perfect sense. I have a number of slow HDDs and a 840 pro...if you need the ssd for anything else than the OS you're pretty much fucked for speed.
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