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Two Samsung 840 Pro's & 1 840 have failed, 4 at [H]ardOCP (Early review sample SSD's)

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I Know RAID0 is faster than a single drive but the 256GB version of Sammy 840 Pro has significant gain over the 128GB
 
fov001 said:
Newbee question....will the RAID0 x2 128GB be faster than a single 256GB for this model???
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Depend on the drive, mobo, and drivers it can go either way; especially if it is a drive that loses significant performance from lack of trim. SSDs have built in load balancing which increases speed as drive size increases. There is also a question of connector (is there a SATA bottleneck which can be bypassed via RAID)
Also, did intel release the RAID0 trim driver already? IIRC they haven't yet and when they do it would only be for latest gen mobos.
 
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taltamir said:
I bet this is intentional. Why give out free features to older boards
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Dufus has a thread on the board in which he has "modified" a few bytes of the OROM to allow a P67 board to work. Just waiting for him/her to spill the beans! :biggrin:
 
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Dufus has a thread on the board in which he has "modified" a few bytes of the OROM to allow a P67 board to work. Just waiting for him/her to spill the beans! :biggrin:
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Well then, that is proof of the matter than. it is driver based DRM just like with the nvidia drivers. I bet it would be possible to make cracked drivers that would work without need to modify the orom at all
 
Hmm wonder how long it will take to get the update. Been eying one at ncix as it come with ac3 free as well.

seen anand's waiting on some last confirmation here
 
Someone on hardforum just posted a good idea that hopefully Anand can use to find the firmware version of the dead 840 Pro:

http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1039341064&postcount=89

Basically, you run these commands:

Code: 
set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1
cd %SystemRoot%\System32
start devmgmt.msc

and then use the mouse to choose: View > Show Hidden Devices

and you will have the usual device manager window except it will show devices that are no longer attached to your system.

Expand "disk drives", double-click "Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series ATA Device" to open the Properties window, select the Details tab and choose "Hardware Ids" from the pop-up-list. The firmware should then be displayed. Mine shows DXM03B0Q.
 
videoclone said:
So 830 vs 840 ? .. what are you guys going to buy?
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I have two 840 Pro SSDs, a 128GB and a 256GB, purchased from newegg. They both have firmware DXM03B0Q. I have been hammering them for more than a week now and they are both fine.

I have not seen any new reports of 840 Pro SSDs failing, beyond anandtech's and the poster on hardforum.com. The newegg reviews of the 840 Pro SSDs do not mention any units failing.

I think the evidence is accumulating in support of Samsung's claim that the 840 Pro SSDs with the shipping firmware (DXM03B0Q) are not at risk for the same failure that anandtech.com saw.

I still would not recommend for anyone to buy the 840 Pro to use for anything important until some more time has passed and/or we get more definitive news from Samsung. But unless someone reports an 840 Pro failure with firmware DXM03B0Q, it is looking like the shipping 840 Pro SSDs are doing okay.
 
videoclone said:
So 830 vs 840 ? .. what are you guys going to buy?
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I just steered a friend to the Crucial M4 actually, precisely because of the dying 840 Pros.

However, I also told him to note the Crucial M4 firmware, since some of those have serious issues too.

Geebus, it almost seems like SSDs are trying to compete with floppy drives and zip drives for unreliability.
 
Both of our 840 Pros had the firmware DXM02B0Q in them, just got a confirmation from Anand. That's not to say that the retail units are issue-free, but they do have a newer firmware that supposedly fixes the issues we've been having.

We now have an 840 Pro with the new firmware as well, lets see if we can kill that one...
 
I do hope you redo all the tests, specially the power usages tests.

It was terribly wrong of Samsung to send to the reviewers a drive that has a different firmware from the one sold at retailers, when different firmwares could have different performance or have different issues.
 
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