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Hey people, I have read about alot of people having issues with doing a clean install of windows 7 with the Samsung 840 Evo SSD. I was just wondering if anybody here has expierenced any problems???

 

I have bought a 840 Evo ( 500GB ) and a MX100 ( 512GB ) as I'm not entirely sure which to use as my OS drive.  Actually i have bought all the parts to build a desktop and havent started building yet. When I install my OS on one of those SSD's I will return the other one. I'm not really interested in which one has the better performance, I just want the install of win7 to go as smooth as possible.

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I have encountered zero issues clean installing the 10+ eve's I have used for builds so I'm not sure what that's about. The evo will also have a better boot drive.

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I have installed Windows XP through 10 on my 120GB EVO. It'll work.

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All the Samsung 840 EVO have a problem, they decrease performance after being used or filled, but Samsung released software and firmware to fix that. :P

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All the Samsung 840 EVO have a problem, they decrease performance after being used or filled, but Samsung released software and firmware to fix that. :P

I'm aware of the issue and of the patch to fix it..

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Hey people, I have read about alot of people having issues with doing a clean install of windows 7 with the Samsung 840 Evo SSD. I was just wondering if anybody here has expierenced any problems???

 

I have bought a 840 Evo ( 500GB ) and a MX100 ( 512GB ) as I'm not entirely sure which to use as my OS drive.  Actually i have bought all the parts to build a desktop and havent started building yet. When I install my OS on one of those SSD's I will return the other one. I'm not really interested in which one has the better performance, I just want the install of win7 to go as smooth as possible.

As others have mentioned, generally there are no issues.

 

Anyone who has issues are in the very small minority, and are likely to have issues with any SSD. Not to say that it couldn't happen to you, but it's INCREDIBLY UNLIKELY!

 

I've used various sizes of the 840 Evo a fair bit with absolutely no problems.

 

Honestly, either will be totally fine as your boot drive, but I personally trust Samsung SSD reliability, so I'd probably choose that (or whichever was cheaper, if I was poor).

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All the Samsung 840 EVO have a problem, they decrease performance after being used or filled, but Samsung released software and firmware to fix that. :P

All SSDs do that though... The issue with the EVO's was long term and was resolved.

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I have encountered zero issues clean installing the 10+ eve's I have used for builds so I'm not sure what that's about. The evo will also have a better boot drive.

 

I have installed Windows XP through 10 on my 120GB EVO. It'll work.

 

As others have mentioned, generally there are no issues.

 

Anyone who has issues are in the very small minority, and are likely to have issues with any SSD. Not to say that it couldn't happen to you, but it's INCREDIBLY UNLIKELY!

 

I've used various sizes of the 840 Evo a fair bit with absolutely no problems.

 

Honestly, either will be totally fine as your boot drive, but I personally trust Samsung SSD reliability, so I'd probably choose that (or whichever was cheaper, if I was poor).

Just for reference, google " 840 evo windows 7 install " and read the first 2 blue links from tomshardware. Those are the issues I am referring about.

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SSD: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB HDD: WD Blue 1TB GPU: EVGA GTX 970 FTW 4GB PSU: EVGA Supernova G2 750w 80+ Gold Fully Modular CASE: Fractal Arc Midi R2

OPTICAL DRIVE: Samsung DVD Burner OS: Win 7 64bit   Please do some research of your own before asking questions. Google and Youtube are your friend.

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Just for reference, google " 840 evo windows 7 install " and read the first 2 blue links from tomshardware. Those are the issues I am referring about.

I believe you that those problems exist for those specific people.

 

What I'm telling you, is that you have like, a 1 in a thousand chance of any issues happening to you.

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I believe you that those problems exist for those specific people.

 

What I'm telling you, is that you have like, a 1 in a thousand chance of any issues happening to you.

Ok, i just didnt specify what the issues i have read about were.

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SSD: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB HDD: WD Blue 1TB GPU: EVGA GTX 970 FTW 4GB PSU: EVGA Supernova G2 750w 80+ Gold Fully Modular CASE: Fractal Arc Midi R2

OPTICAL DRIVE: Samsung DVD Burner OS: Win 7 64bit   Please do some research of your own before asking questions. Google and Youtube are your friend.

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Just for reference, google " 840 evo windows 7 install " and read the first 2 blue links from tomshardware. Those are the issues I am referring about.

Those are fairly isolated issues.

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Those are fairly isolated issues.

Correct and you'd run into way more issues cloning than with a clean install.

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