Ssd samsung 840 evo or intel 530

[hojnikb]

You should look up false equivalency.

It has problematic controller (just like everyone else -- its not like sandforce is making a special revision just for them) so thats a good enough reason to avoid it, even though it may have intel badge on it.

 

[hojnikb]

While Intel's SandForce 2nd-gen controller-based drives are probably the best of the bunch, and the most well-validated, they're still SandForce, and that controller seems to have intrinsic bugs.

I would rather get a Marvell controller-based driver over SandForce any day.

Sandisk Ultra Plus is Marvell, isn't it? As is Plextor, and of course, most Crucial drives. (Except for the V4, which uses a Phison and is crap slow.)

My point exactly. Having Intel badge on it (and their flash) doesnt make it any less broken. Intel dropped the ball on consumer ssds after 320. I mean, company as big as intel and they couldn't make a sata6g controller for their consumer line ? yeah that tells you alot. :sneaky:

 

[Puffnstuff]

My Samsung 840 pro bit the dust last night after less than two years service. I'm having a time getting Samsung to issue an rma so I can send it in for replacement. The drive controller is frozen aka controller panic just like on the original sandforce ssd's. I lost two sandforce ssd's to controller panic and neither drive lasted very long.

Needless to say I just ordered an intel 520 120gb from amazon for $65 to be my new boot drive. I'm using an old velociraptor 600gb right now as I continue to restore my windows build. I no longer hold Samsung in such high regard after my 840pro just stopped working. No smart messages, even magician said my drive was healthy and then poof it froze up. Intel has a painless rma process, hell I had to email Samsung support directly to get an rma started. Their website won't allow for it once you register a ssd but everything else I've ever registered with them is available for a service request like my TV's, blu ray players even my dishwasher but not my 840 pro which doesn't sit well with me right now. I hope they at least replace it with a 850 pro.