Samsung 850 EVO 1TB = $389.99 @ Newegg

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but this seems like a crazy low price for a 1TB 850 EVO.

$389.99 right now over at Newegg.
 
Yea, that's a great deal.

The 1TB 850 EVO has the triple-core MEX controller as opposed to the newer dual-core MGX. It seems to be a little better.

Looking at all the numbers from Anandtech, the 1TB 850 EVO is much closer to the PRO than I realized (performance is nearly the same under many scenarios, esp with 25% OP enabled). I wish I could justify the expense.

For now I have my sights set on a 256GB 850 PRO deal (It's $160 + tax for me now. I'll bite when it's $150-160 shipped... a few months maybe).
 
Soo tempting. Ohh I would love to have two of these in R0 for my Steam library but I simply can't justify that right now, even with a tax refund and annual bonus around the corner. Just seems so frivolous.

Nice find OP.
 
I just checked my Steam folder and its at 800 GB and I dont even have 30% of my games installed. Plus there's Origin and Uplay where I have another 300 GB or so in games.
 
misterbobby said:
I just checked my Steam folder and its at 800 GB and I dont even have 30% of my games installed.
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Yup. 1.6GB Steam folder here but I'm at roughly 60% installed.

If I'm honest with myself, there's no way that I need to put every single one of my games on an SSD because it's not like I actively play hundreds of different games at any given time, plus there are some games in my library that I'll likely never play at all, but having them all on one SSD or SSD volume is a cool concept.

When are the mainstream 2TB SSDs coming, anyway? I haven't heard a peep. Seems like we've been at the 1TB cap for a long time now.
 
I'm tempted but the 840 evo had issues with old data that read really slow, supposedly a firmware update helped some people but for others it didn't. I'll wait a little longer before I try out TLC nand.
 
misterbobby said:
I just checked my Steam folder and its at 800 GB and I dont even have 30% of my games installed. Plus there's Origin and Uplay where I have another 300 GB or so in games.
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1.4TB Steam folder here :/ I end up Symbolic Linking my most popular games.
 
I've been impressed with my 850 Evo 500gig after owning my 240 Pro, I couldn't justify the price difference after seeing the benchmarks of the 850 Pro
 
USE Steam Mover and take all the games you play Online keep them on the SSD
and use the HDD for offline game or single player games.
 
i have about 10 ssds over 3 generations. you will justify the price difference for pro when the evo starts to lose read speed overtime. i bought a 500 gig 840 evo over xmas for 180 plus free game. it came with the latest firmware. the read speeds did not drop to 50 or 100 like some before the latest firmware but it did drop by 100 after 2 months, and it only has games on it that i frequently use. after applying samsung's fix which rewrites all the data, read speed increased by 100 again. My pros are fine. don't take the chance with tlc nand.
 
WetMacula said:
i have about 10 ssds over 3 generations. you will justify the price difference for pro when the evo starts to lose read speed overtime. i bought a 500 gig 840 evo over xmas for 180 plus free game. it came with the latest firmware. the read speeds did not drop to 50 or 100 like some before the latest firmware but it did drop by 100 after 2 months, and it only has games on it that i frequently use. after applying samsung's fix which rewrites all the data, read speed increased by 100 again. My pros are fine. don't take the chance with tlc nand.
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My 2 year old 840 Evo only had 2.5 Terabytes written and it was perfectly fine, so I don't use my SSD's hard. But feel free to send me an extra $100 and i'll get the 850 Pro. If not, don't cry about my part choices, m'kay?
 
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Damn. I don't need one, but at the rate these are going I'll never need another spinning disk :D
 
The smaller sizes are also on sale, I ended up going with a 250GB from Amazon. Can't wait to migrate my server's boot drive from an old WD Black to this thing.
 
Does the 850 Evo have same speed degradation issues like the 840 Evo?
 
Keep in mind that all 840 EVO drives don't have the slow down. I have a used one that hasn't showed the issue at all.
 
I looked at the reviews and prices again. Even the smaller capacity 850 EVO drives are still nearly as fast as the PRO under Anandtech's 2011 heavy workload tests, which are already more demanding than anything I'd be doing. I can try to ignore the 2013 workload test... probably not as applicable (though I'd want the service time to be better in the 2013 test, maybe it would be in the 2011 test, if measured... not sure if that figure varies with load)

I think I'll try for a $200, 500GB EVO. Amazon has it for $200, but then there is tax. $200 shipped will be my target threshold then.

That is a good sweet-spot and an upgrade to the usual 512GB MX100 option
 
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