Samsung 830 drops to $170, thanks 840

[Pneumothorax]

It is better, but also more expensive. I bet in real life applications you would be very unlikely to see any performance difference between 830 and 840 Pro. Personally I'm watching to pick up 830 if the price drops around BF/CM.

Yup, plus I'd take the 830 over the TLC 840 any day. Don't have much trust in that 'cost-saving' flash memory type.

 

[fleshconsumed]

Yup, plus I'd take the 830 over the TLC 840 any day. Don't have much trust in that 'cost-saving' flash memory type.

If you're talking about 3bit cells in 840, then that is correct. 840 Pro will use 2 bit MLC, so that one will still be good. However, as I said in one my previous posts, I doubt anybody will actually notice speed difference between 830 and 840Pro. That's why I'm looking to get 830 256GB on the cheap by the end of the year, and move my X25-G2, which is still lightning fast into HTPC.

 

[Emulex]

PNY has a SF-2282 (with/wout caps) 16 channel using intel HET emlc. 3K writes with conditioning for TLC, or 10K writes straight up with eMLC.

The 830 is great but worst than the 320 is the forced GC without 20-40% OP that causes massive timeouts.

I'm going to actually raid dissimilar drives so the GC processes can happen at different times PNY->830 and then 830->SF in raid-1 then SPAN them or use them as simple volumes at 10,20,30,40% OP.

I wish ANAND would do this and show how weaksauce almost every SSD RAID controller worth a crap poorly handles this.

But how adept some cheap M5014/BBU[9260-8i] are good at doing cachecade and how fastpath overclocks the cpu to increase iops lol

 

[bankster55]

just saw Samsung 840 for preorder
$275 Oct 15