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Damnit. Missed it. Any other 256 m4 deals?
The drive will be long outdated well before you wear it out, even if you "fill it" more then 60%...C'mon Cecil, I expected more outta you then this..You usually tend to be right on the mark, but you missed the target completely here..
One aspect of the utility that is particularly helpful is the ability for users to easily adjust the over-provisioning level of the SSD. Extra over-provisioning helps to level out long term performance and brings the huge benefit of increased endurance that is especially pertinent with the type of NAND employed on the Samsung 840
Ouch, performance takes a big hit. Usually 20 minutes isn't enough to put 256GB drives on their knees but it definitely is for the 840. Write speed drops to as low as 25MB/s, although it's nearly restored before all user-accessible LBAs have been filled. The way to avoid this worst case state is to keep as much free space on your drive as possible. We typically recommend around 20%, however with TLC NAND it might be advisable to bump that up to 30%.
You can brick sandforce drives in all sorts of ways. The only way to be sure you won't brick a sandforce drive is to not purchase/install one in the first place! There's some real advice.I have a Samsung 840 non pro. On my phone and can't link it, but check out the anandtech review and testing the durability of TLC nand.
Also, telling someone to fill an SSD without knowing which one is very bad advice, since you can literally brick some sandforce drives by doing that.
Risk?! The drive in that review didn't break. All that happened was the write speeds slowed down as the drive was filled to capacity then tortured by 4k random Erase/Write cycles for 20 minutes. Read speeds remained quite fast throughout. And again: In your usage scenario you won't encounter a situation where you're performing 4k random erase/write ops for 20 minutes.http://hardocp.com/article/2012/12/19/samsung_840_series_tlc_250gb_ssd_review/10
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6337/samsung-ssd-840-250gb-review/11
Even with TRIM and GC, it doesnt easily fully recover from being filled up. TLC NAND is not like SLC or MLC. The Intel 335 drive also has issues from it (which I expieranced first hand and had to return it.)
Overprovisioning 10%, and leaving 30% available space should ensure there are no issues with it. Im not going to risk a $350 drive just to have a few more games installed, when the 15 or so I have installed right now are plenty.