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That is bad news. I assume all four of them are completely unresponsive now? Not detected by the BIOS or anything?
Did you happen to open any of them up? One theory is that the power circuit is failing.
Will you be returning them to Samsung directly, or going through a reseller for the RMA?
I know it mentioned, it had 2 lines at the end in small font.
I said did it display a big warning?
Thanks for your feedback, can you let us know what was the firmware number of these 840 Pro ? Thanks
Yeah, they are all bricks now, don't post to either the Areca or just a regular motherboard SATA port. These came as advance release versions from a Distributor (we weren't NDA'd though) , so they will go right back to them. Since these are <30 days old I don't want to break a seal and risk having a problem with the warranty or our advanced test rights just to look inside.
Perhaps you got an older firmware than retail drive, it will be interesting to check that
" Samsung is claiming that the issue is a firmware bug and they already have a fix for it (supposedly no retail drive should have shipped with the broken firmware). We'll be getting samples with the new firmware soon. "
http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=34254866&postcount=131
Well, I popped into the office today to do work on something and took a look at the drives. Unfortunately, there is nothing on the label (I miss that where HDD's used to have it) which had the initial firmware printed and these 4 are bricks, so I can't say for sure which fw rev they had. I would tend to believe that since there was a known issue with early drives and that all 4 of ours failed in essentially the same way that we had the oldest of the firmware releases.
Hi, you can use the following method if you have one system where you had the drive installed, and that you have not wiped:
ATA-9: Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series, DXM03B0Q, max UDMA/133
Good idea.
I'm not sure what OS his test machine was running. If it is linux rather than Windows, I noticed that my kernel log did catch the 840 Pro firmware version:
Code:ATA-9: Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series, DXM03B0Q, max UDMA/133
Now anandtech has had two (out of two) Samsung 840 Pro review samples die. This looks bad for Samsung. Hopefully it is a firmware problem and not a hardware problem (that would require recalling thousands of units).
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6328/samsung-ssd-840-pro-256gb-review/8
All the broken drives were not retail, had no label, and had a known bad firmware?
You are running tests on your active OS drive. That colors everything depending on what the system is doing when benchmarking. If you want to match benchmarks like you see online, secure erase the drive and test it when booted off another drive for the OS.
4k QD1 reads are SMOKIN'.
May have to do 2 240s in R0.
^^ that's great for benchmarking but could you eloborate on real time performance...How is navigating the operating system and opening internet explorer, etc. 2 me, that is what I really care about...Synthetic bmarks are kewl, but if i'm spending $$, I want to see a difference in usage....
^^ that's great for benchmarking but could you eloborate on real time performance...How is navigating the operating system and opening internet explorer, etc. 2 me, that is what I really care about...Synthetic bmarks are kewl, but if i'm spending $$, I want to see a difference in usage....
real use none to any difference between ssd´s.
You are obviously a light-use case. I actually use my storage. I beat the hell out of it at home and at work. There's a huge difference between SSDs and single/R0 SSD setups. All depends on usage. For a casual user, yeah, there's little difference.
real use none to any difference between ssd´s.
if you dont have one you missed out on the biggest and best upgrade ever.
Anyone know what version the retail firmware ended up being and if any retail disks died?