samsung 840 ssd

[garih]

i have just bought a new ssd from amazon, the non pro samsung 840 250gb. i know that the pro has better performance, but when the pro was almost £200 and the oine i ordered is only £130, have i made a mistake or will this be decent? better than my 60gb vertex2 anyways

 

[Josh Weston]

It's still a great SSD from one of the leading manufacturers - you made a great choice.

 

[Blaze]

Well I have the 830 128gb and it's awesome so I can't imagine the 840 is any worse than the pro.

 

[garih]

Well I have the 830 128gb and it's awesome so I can't imagine the 840 is any worse than the pro.

from the reviews i have seen, the 830 256gb is faster than the one i got, but the 830 is still £200

 

[| raVen |]

Good choice, its still gonna be MUCH faster than normal HDD.

 

[garih]

ok. ssd in use now. speed not quite as fast as my old vertex. windows reports it as 5.9 primary speed. where as the vertex 2 was over 7, not the end of the world. at least this one is big enough for most of my games so i can benefit from ssd response times more often

 

[SuB]

Im surprised it's slower than the vertex?

can you rebench using crystal disk on the old one and the new one?

 

[garih]

i have not got the vertex wired up atm, but here is the bench for the 840

 

[SuB]

silly question incoming (gotta cover all bases)... is it on a 6GB/s port and cable?

The standard 840's should be around double some of those numbers I believe?

 

[garih]

silly question incoming (gotta cover all bases)... is it on a 6GB/s port and cable?

erm, i dont know... im using the black ports on my z68 extreme 3 gen 3, ill have to dig out a manual to check

EDIT: just checked the manual on website. silly me, its on a sata2 port... oops, been in queue for ea customer support for the last 2 hours, once this is resolved i shall change the lead to the other port.

 

[SuB]

Might be worth a look, I believe your read speeds should be higher, this is my Pro main drive

 

[garih]

just looked some other reviews and they agree with you, reads should be 500ish.
i will find out soon i hope, when i do i will re-post bench results

 

[garih]

ok, so the numbers are a little better,

 

[airdeano]

ok, so the numbers are a little better.

and? what did you do differently to get a 47% gain in speed for seq read?

 

[garih]

plugged it into a 6gbps port...
it turns out that i was always running the vertex2 on 3gbps also... DOH!


EDIT: re-ran the windows assessment, and its now 7.9 for ssd. phew

 

[SuB]

Excellent I didn't think that seemed right!

Glad you sorted it mate! (see sometimes the 'is it plugged in' question does work! hehe)

 

[garih]

yeh. thanks for making me feel like an idiot.... (just kidding)
but my thoughts are you gotta make mistakes to learn what to keep an eye in in future

 

[Jeff_s510]

makes me sad when i run CDM 3 on my revodrive 3 to c numbers well below those lol!