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Samsung 840 Evo Performance Restoration Tool

Following a thread on /g/ right now. An anon ran it, it BSOD'd him between step 1 and 2 of the performance restoration process, restarted twice and brought him to a desktop with the default wallpaper and desktop icons/pinned items gone. Now he says it finished, he rebooted, and he's at the ASUS splash screen and it's "attempting repairs." (not sure if Windows or the Samsung software)

So use caution.
 
I ran it, completed the process fine. I ran the Samsung magician performance benchmark and it looks like all the values are now in range where as before I was down to half of where I should have been. Lets see if it lasts.
 
Ok, several others have run it without issue and their HDTune's look great -- a few small spikes at the previous transition areas, but definitely fixed.
 
Can I use it in windows to update firmware in a Hackintosh installation? Windows boots in a MX100, Hackintosh is in a 840 EVO, same computer. I obviously mean without having to reformat the drive.
 
asendra said:
Can I use it in windows to update firmware in a Hackintosh installation? Windows boots in a MX100, Hackintosh is in a 840 EVO, same computer. I obviously mean without having to reformat the drive.
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Can't see why not. It doesn't care what's on the drive. That the software is (usually) ok with doing its work while hosting an active Windows partition doesn't mean it needs to be hosting the Windows partition.
 
DominionSeraph said:
Can't see why not. It doesn't care what's on the drive. That the software is (usually) ok with doing its work while hosting an active Windows partition doesn't mean it needs to be hosting the Windows partition.
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Well, It's complaining it doesn't have any NTFS partition, so no dice for my Hackintosh installation I guess. Maybe the performance problems are NTFS related, so no really need in updating?
 
I had to destroy my 5TB array of five 1TB 840 EVOs in order to use this tool. It's OK though since I can just restore from a backup afterwards.

I first tried to just switch to AHCI from RAID and see if the tool would detect the drives. It didn't work. Even in AHCI mode Windows still saw the array. I then switched back to RAID mode in order to get into the RAID utility and delete the array. The array was deleted, but the utility still did not see the drives. After that I initialized the drives and started the utility once more. Oddly, the utility said that the drives needed to be initialized before running. Hmmm... so lastly I created a simple volume on the drives and started the utility. This time it worked.

Long story short, each of the drives need to be initialized and apparently need a partition.
 
asendra said:
Well, It's complaining it doesn't have any NTFS partition, so no dice for my Hackintosh installation I guess. Maybe the performance problems are NTFS related, so no really need in updating?
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No, there shouldn't be anything about NTFS that would in any way create this problem. The tool looks designed to move files around and, as a Windows tool, it's probably only designed for NTFS.

Also a Mac and Linux version is in the works, so there's your answer there.
 
The software ONLY works if the Evo is under NTFS only. You must remove the OSX HFS partition in oder to use the performance restore software now. Or wait for another 2 weeks to wait for the OSX / Linux version.
 
Samsung have emailed me:

"The firmware will not work in RAID mode so please switch the SATA mode in to AHCI or IDE"

However, as Windows 8.1 is on the SSD and there is no ACHI or IDE driver, only the RAID driver, Windows will not boot and so I cannot run the EVO Performance Restoration tool.

I have explained this to Samsung.

All Samsung could suggest is to insert the SSD in another PC, running with SATA mode as AHCI or IDE, and run the EVO Performance Restoration tool OR RMA the drive and they will fix it that way for me. Either way, Samsung say you WILL lose the data on the drive.

Good grief. I don't have another PC!!

Anyone got any better ideas?


 
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mville said:
Samsung have emailed me:

"The firmware will not work in RAID mode so please switch the SATA mode in to AHCI or IDE"

However, as Windows 8.1 is on the SSD and there is no ACHI or IDE driver, only the RAID driver, Windows will not boot and so I cannot run the EVO Performance Restoration tool.

I have explained this to Samsung.

All Samsung could suggest is to insert the SSD in another PC, running with SATA mode as AHCI or IDE, and run the EVO Performance Restoration tool OR RMA the drive and they will fix it that way for me. Either way, Samsung say you WILL lose the data on the drive.

Good grief. I don't have another PC!!

Anyone got any better ideas?
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You'll need to tell Windows that you'll be booting in AHCI mode by doing some registry edits.

http://superuser.com/questions/471102/change-from-ide-to-ahci-after-installing-windows-8?rq=1

That's for IDE to AHCI transition but should work for RAID to AHCI as well.
 
Hellhammer said:
You'll need to tell Windows that you'll be booting in AHCI mode by doing some registry edits.

http://superuser.com/questions/471102/change-from-ide-to-ahci-after-installing-windows-8?rq=1

That's for IDE to AHCI transition but should work for RAID to AHCI as well.
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SATA port 1 has a Samsung 840 EVO 120GB connected.

I also have 2 HDDs connected to SATA ports 3 and 4, configured as RAID 1 (mirror). Changing the SATA mode to AHCI means I lose my RAID 1 configuration and so the data on these drives.
 
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mville said:
SATA port 1 has a Samsung 840 EVO 120GB connected.

I also have 2 HDDs connected to SATA ports 3 and 4, configured as RAID 1 (mirror). Changing the SATA mode to AHCI means I lose my RAID 1 configuration and so the data on these drives.
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In my experience the array isn't destroyed even if you boot in AHCI mode, although I can't guarantee that. If you have a backup then it's not really a problem because you can recover the data, and you don't have many options anyway unless you have another computer that you can use to do the update.
 
Hellhammer said:
In my experience the array isn't destroyed even if you boot in AHCI mode, although I can't guarantee that. If you have a backup then it's not really a problem because you can recover the data, and you don't have many options anyway unless you have another computer that you can use to do the update.
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Windows may try to initialize the RAIDed drives or do something to them when booting up in AHCI mode. I've had it happen to me and it destroyed the array.

The safe thing to do would be to unplug the RAIDed drives and boot with AHCI mode.
 
I find it weird that Magician is saying my firmware is the latest when it's still on EXT0BB6Q. I gather the update and restore process will be outside the design of Magician, but to not even point you to where the new firmware is is quite odd.

I am in no rush at the moment. My drive is affected, my old files read at ~50MB/sec but I am going to wait for the dust to settle first. Can't afford my PC to go down at the moment.
 
I ran the tool without any issues, it did improve performance for me. I ran AS SSD Bench and here are my results:

Before

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After

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