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Samsung 840 EVO Performance Restoring Firmware Only Partially Effective

the snake said:
well i did run disc fresh and it helped some, what else can i try to restore this drive ?

i have never noticed any issues with the evo, seemed fine to me untill i ran hd tune :(

i bought a 500GB 850evo and will put the 840evo into a trash disc for downloads and what not and then retire the old corsair V128 drive from it's duties
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Given the problem is apparently with only old data, do a fresh install and reload everything up. I do this 6 months-yearly and have never experienced this problem with my drive. (see screenshot of hdtune above, no issue other than slow in general, probably AMD issue)
 
wdeydwondrer said:
Given the problem is apparently with only old data, do a fresh install and reload everything up. I do this 6 months-yearly and have never experienced this problem with my drive. (see screenshot of hdtune above, no issue other than slow in general, probably AMD issue)
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i imagine doing a re-image from acronis true image would do the same thing ?
 
FnordMan said:
Reaffirms my decision to never buy another Samsung SSD again if they're going to pull that crap.
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I for sure will not be buying another Samsung SSD. All of the SSDs I've owned have had problesm (OCZ, Crucial, and Samsung). I'll try Corsair's Neutron GTX next.
 
so with the fix, is it worth to upgrade my son's laptop with it?

It is i5, win8.1 laptop and he uses it for homework, internet etc...
I bought it with an idea to replace it in the first place.
 
I used that Samsung Magician on the two 840 Evo 500GB drives in my PC, yesterday. Everything is running smoothly. However, I should mention that I wasn't having any problems before upgrading the firmware.
 
Just did the update and my evo appears to have gone down in performance about 10% from just before the update. Not exactly sure that's effective, but ok
 
wdeydwondrer said:
Just did the update and my evo appears to have gone down in performance about 10% from just before the update. Not exactly sure that's effective, but ok
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Did you run the performance optimization under the new Advanced tab? Takes awhile to finish but you can skip it and just wait for it to be done automatically. Test it with HD Tune in a week or two. Performance on mine went up after the update and manual optimization.
 
The magician software pointed out that I wasn't even using AHCI, which I was unaware of, so there's that.
 
Yes, did the manual advanced optimization. After which is when I lost about 10% performance. I'll check again in a couple weeks. Should add though that I wasn't seeing any of the issues this was supposed to fix though as I don't have old data on my drive passed about a month.
 
I updated mine a few days ago and have had nothing but problems. Out of no where my system will just lock up and the C:\ drive will show 100% utilization and 25000 ms latency. The drive then has file system corruptions (found when doing an SFC and other application issues) and I will have to repair the OS installation. Sometimes after one of these "flare ups" the the motherboard doesn't even detect the drive when I reboot.

Could this be a symptom of a bad firmware or is it possible the drive is dying?

I am using GPT partition on the SSD. I've secure erased and re-installed a few times with 8.1 and it keeps happening.
 
bigdogchris said:
I updated mine a few days ago and have had nothing but problems. Out of no where my system will just lock up and the C:\ drive will show 100% utilization and 25000 ms latency. The drive then has file system corruptions (found when doing an SFC and other application issues) and I will have to repair the OS installation. Sometimes after one of these "flare ups" the the motherboard doesn't even detect the drive when I reboot.

Could this be a symptom of a bad firmware or is it possible the drive is dying?

I am using GPT partition on the SSD. I've secure erased and re-installed a few times with 8.1 and it keeps happening.
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Could you please tell us how you are measuring this?
 
S-F said:
Could you please tell us how you are measuring this?
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Task Manager.

The system is almost completely unresponsive, but I keep task manager up and when it happens I can alt tab over and it usually comes up so I can see what's happening before the system dies.

Going to swap sata cables and reinstall as MBR and see if it still happens.

Only 4 months away from Skylake ... why now :(
 
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