Samsung 840 Series SSD 250GB-$149.99

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DesiPower

DesiPower

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It is actually VERY HOT!

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Couldn't resist, went in for one... Finally all my games can now swim in SSD :D
I guess I could easily CL or ebay it if I was hit by buyer's remorse :biggrin:
 
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ImpulsE69

ImpulsE69

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Thanks OP. I grabbed one too even though I really didn't need it. Hadn't bought any new PC gear for awhile now ;p
 
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Interesting to already see quite a few on ebay priced ~$180... :)

Deals like this make me think of Morgan Freeman's dialogue when trying to decide it he should cut open the box or not in the movie Se7en... :)
 
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coloumb said:
Interesting to already see quite a few on ebay priced ~$180... :)

Deals like this make me think of Morgan Freeman's dialogue when trying to decide it he should cut open the box or not in the movie Se7en... :)
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Actually a quick google before I made the purchase showed that most places had it for around $180. I figure $140 is still a damn good price for it.
 
daveybrat

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Damn, can't believe 250GB SSD's are now $149, really need to upgrade my 128GB soon.
 
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Even has the migration kit. Very tempting.
 
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Sequential Read Speed Up to 530MB/s
Sequential Write Speed Up to 240MB/s
Random Read Speed Up to 95K IOPS
Random Write Speed Up to 44K IOPS

SSD's still coming down...
 
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I saw this about two days ago and meets my threshold of <=$150 for a 250GB SSD, not to mention it is a Samsung. But after all those shopping during the last holidays, I need a break. However, I agree it is aggressively priced. Maybe next month I can afford one without breaking the bank.
 
ImpulsE69

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Mine arrived yesterday. It comes with a USB dongle so you can just plug it in to do your cloning. I used EaseUS Todo Backup cloning and once it was copied just swapped the drives out and was up. Total time took maybe 20 minutes from copy to boot.

Speed testing wise...I was only seeming to max out at around 365MB/s reads which seemed kind of low.

Whats odd is in feedback on Newegg I see alot of mention of no brackets or screws. Mine came with everything.
 
DesiPower

DesiPower

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ImpulsE69 said:
Mine arrived yesterday. It comes with a USB dongle so you can just plug it in to do your cloning. I used EaseUS Todo Backup cloning and once it was copied just swapped the drives out and was up. Total time took maybe 20 minutes from copy to boot.

Speed testing wise...I was only seeming to max out at around 365MB/s reads which seemed kind of low.

Whats odd is in feedback on Newegg I see alot of mention of no brackets or screws. Mine came with everything.
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neat idea, will try, btw, what mobo/CPU do you have?
 
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DesiPower said:
neat idea, will try, btw, what mobo/CPU do you have?
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2500k with a ASRock Z68 Fatality Pro Gen 3. They have ASmedia 106x SATA controllers (which I'm reading are slower than average). I updated drivers etc.

I checked alignment, which everything I read says if it is divisble by 4 or 64 it should be good, so I thought everything was fine --- except my system reserved partition was 86mb instead of the source 100mb. So I found a program called Alex Intelligent Software and ran it and it does show my C partition as being unaligned. Going to try a restore later and see if that fixes it, if not I'll swap to the original drive and try another method of cloning.

Also, there is a firmware update. I actually did it afterwards and didn't lose any data, but I would suggest doing that before (it's version 1.0, which I would have thought any normal brain would say is the FIRST firmware, but alas)...
 
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ImpulsE69 said:
Mine arrived yesterday. It comes with a USB dongle so you can just plug it in to do your cloning. I used EaseUS Todo Backup cloning and once it was copied just swapped the drives out and was up. Total time took maybe 20 minutes from copy to boot.

Speed testing wise...I was only seeming to max out at around 365MB/s reads which seemed kind of low.

Whats odd is in feedback on Newegg I see alot of mention of no brackets or screws. Mine came with everything.
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FYI, it also comes with Samsung's own drive migration software. No need for Ghost or anything like that. I was able to copy my old hard drive onto the SSD in about 40 minutes and just popped it in and was up and running. Plus it works while you are still in the OS, which is nice.
 
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Ok here's an update so that maybe it will help others if they have issues:

Don't use EaseUS Todo Backup to do your cloning. I tried it again and verified that it doesn't create the service partition correctly which makes the C partition misaligned.

I ended up using Macrium Reflect to clone and it did it perfectly.

Now the bad part was, I was still maxing out at around 370MB/s reads. I went through the process of hunting down and updating all my drivers with unofficial updates and still saw no improvement.

Finally, at one point I went into the BIOS just to verify there wasn't some setting I had wrong. I already knew I had AHCI set, but after some digging, I found that my motherboard has 2 different types of 6GB SATA 3 chips. One is ASMedia 106x and the other is Intel Rapid Store. I had all my drives hooked to the ASMedia which share the workload on the chip (and are apparently overall just slower in general). I hadn't realized this prior because my previous SSD wasn't that fast so I wasn't missing any performance. It had always been wrong because I had not realized that on the board the 6GB ports are all red, while the 2GB are black...what they didn't mark clearly is that only 2 of the red ports were the faster Intel ports, and the other 4 red were the ASMedia.

After switching them around and booting up I am now getting my full ~520MB/s read speeds!

Fun times lol.
 
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Can I get two of these and use the mobo to RAID 0 them easily? Like no needed extra software? Just plugin, configure it in the RAID screen and good to go?
 
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Informant X said:
Can I get two of these and use the mobo to RAID 0 them easily? Like no needed extra software? Just plugin, configure it in the RAID screen and good to go?
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Don't see why not, as long as your motherboard supports RAID 0. Or otherwise, you can use Windows RAID (probably not recommended by many).
 
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ImpulsE69 said:
Ok here's an update so that maybe it will help others if they have issues:

Don't use EaseUS Todo Backup to do your cloning. I tried it again and verified that it doesn't create the service partition correctly which makes the C partition misaligned.

I ended up using Macrium Reflect to clone and it did it perfectly.

Now the bad part was, I was still maxing out at around 370MB/s reads. I went through the process of hunting down and updating all my drivers with unofficial updates and still saw no improvement.

Finally, at one point I went into the BIOS just to verify there wasn't some setting I had wrong. I already knew I had AHCI set, but after some digging, I found that my motherboard has 2 different types of 6GB SATA 3 chips. One is ASMedia 106x and the other is Intel Rapid Store. I had all my drives hooked to the ASMedia which share the workload on the chip (and are apparently overall just slower in general). I hadn't realized this prior because my previous SSD wasn't that fast so I wasn't missing any performance. It had always been wrong because I had not realized that on the board the 6GB ports are all red, while the 2GB are black...what they didn't mark clearly is that only 2 of the red ports were the faster Intel ports, and the other 4 red were the ASMedia.

After switching them around and booting up I am now getting my full ~520MB/s read speeds!

Fun times lol.
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Which board do you have?
What's your H/W profile?
 
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