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Should I get a 840 g5 that has a 8250u, 8gb ram, 256gb SSD for 350eur. Or is a 840 g4 7300u, 8gb, 256gb ssd for 180eur a better deal? They both have a 1920x1080 panel driven by Intel (U)HD Graphics 620. EDIT: The G5 has type-c charging.
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So I recently switched from a single SSD to of them 4 in a raid 10 array. I was able to use a feature called RAPID in the Samsung magician software. Inside the software, it says that the array is an unrecognized drive. Is there a way to get the software to recognize it? FYI I am using 4 samsung 840 evos with the onboard raid controller on my motherboard.
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Found an old AW-840 sound board I never used. The box is beat up but the board is pristine with CD. Should be great as someone's looking to rebuild an older PC. Edit: Will ship to lower 48 for free.
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Hi y'all, Does the Samsung 850 evo/Pro has International Warranty? My friend is at Bangkok now, he is about to buy that SSD (hopefully he'll find). Can't find any info about International warranty on their sites. Thanks!
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I've made a new build and kept my old ssd's which are a 256gb 840 evo and a 500gb 850 evo. The 840 evo is my os drive but it has been giving me trouble. I've installed samsung magician and used the benchmark tool and I get very look read/write speeds which are around 50/mbs and when I look at the driver under task manager, the speeds vary from 0-200mb/s but are usually around very low speeds. I've done the firmware update and did the advanced performance optimization to no avail. I've also noticed that I couldn't even load into a game of league of legends without getting bugsplats/errors even after multiple reinstall and cleanings with ccleaner. Once I installed the game onto my 850 evo however, it works fine. What is wrong?
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I have an MSI laptop(GP60 2QE Leopard) that I carry around with me to clients for which I create websites, and to college for study reasons* - I use it as an extension of my desktop, really. It holds an OS (obviously), programs that I use frequently, frequently played games (hearthstone, war thunder, etc - things I can have a quick match of or play on a daily basis) and of course all the website files that I plan to synchronize with some sort of cloud storage. I've had it for a little while now, and the boot times are reasonable compared to my desktop with an SSD. Although, considering my desktop boots in about 20s, I want this to match that. So, I'm planning to a clean install of Windows 10 on this machine and fresh installing all the things I need on it. What's my best option? 250GB SSD or 500GB? I barely use the 1TB HDD, so I'm wondering how far I need to go and how much money I could save. A 250GB 850 Evo is about £50. I'd be perfectly happy spending that. A 500GB 850 Evo is about £110. It's double and more, but it may be about the minimum I'd ever need. A 1TB 850 Evo is about £230, and it's far more than I need and way over what I'd ever be happy spending on a laptop upgrade. *Not gonna lie, having to log in to a school network and google every time I want to do some work is a piss take. My laptop connects to the wifi and then thats that. And I have all my work and free reign over what I insall and do on this computer. Thanks!
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I have kind of a noob question, but i'm not sure about this. I have Samsung 840 EVO 120GB as my boot drive and i want to buy a second SSD fo storage etc. Is it ok to buy Crucial MX100 256GB? I heard that eg. Sandforce and Marvell can't run together in the same system. So is there any problem running Samsung MEX and Marvell controllers together?
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Right so I just bought an used Samsung 840 series SSD 128Gb. Now i want to transfer the OS and a the programs I have onto and keep games on the Hard-drive. My question is how do I do this? I've always heard linus talking about if you need help go on the forums, so I decided to give it try and see if you guys live up to the rep. Thanks in advance.
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Hey guys. I just got a Samsung Evo 840 250gb ssd for Chirstmas and installed windows on it. I found out that there is a tool I need to run to update the firmware and improve the performance. Will running this tool wipe my drive? It has my OS on it and a few games/software. Thanks!
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Hey guys, Apologies if this is long, just want to make it clear I've tried many, many things to remedy this before posting here. Recently built my first PC and I'm encountering multiple errors trying to install Windows 8.1. Used my girlfriends Windows laptop to download the legit ISO and make a USB (Since I only have a Mac). The first time trying to install via USB I got to "Getting files ready for Installation" before an error prompted me and I had to restart. Now ever since it's been quite erratic, giving me many errors. Most of the time when the USB is set as the priority boot, it doesn't even enter the Windows setup. It displays the "Your PC had a problem" BSOD after boot with "IRQL not less or equal" as the reason. Sometimes it gets a couple of seconds into the setup before it displays "The instruction at 0x7a713300 referenced memory at 0x000cc78b. The memory could not be written". Once while navigating setup, as I clicked Install, it displayed BSOD with "NTFS file system" as a reason.I also get multiple "Windows installation encountered an unexpected error. Verify that the installation sources are accessible and restart the installation. Error Code: 0xC000005". Here are the trouble shooting steps I've taken with to no avail: 1. I've tried to use another USB drive. I've also tried the USB 2.0 port with a USB 2.0 drive. I've created an ISO file on the Windows laptop, transferred it to my Mac and tried to make a bootable USB drive via Boot Camp. Nope. Burned to CD, tried install from USB DVD drive. Still same thing. 2. I've re-downloaded the ISO and torrented a Windows 8.1 ISO incase my download was corrupt and tried that. Still same thing. The torrented ISO actually completed the initial installation, but after the required restart, Windows refused to install. prompting "Windows could not be installed". 3. I've replaced SATA cables and power cables to the SSD. I've changed the SATA port. Same thing. SATA mode is set to AHCI, Legacy+UEFI. No difference. 4. I've switched the DIMM slots of the memory. I've even taken each stick out and tried it with each individual stick in a different DIMM slot only reading 4GB, no dice. I've tried the memory at 1333MHz stock, used XMP and 1600MHz. Same thing. Ran memtest86, no errors found. 5. Disabled Intel Rapid start and Smart Technology(?), along with every possible option, same thing. 6. Updated Motherboard BIOS/UEFI to latest version. 7. Formatted the SSD through Windows installer command line (on the odd times it didn't prompt errors), cleaned and converted to MBR. No dice. 8. Pulled the GPU and tried. Nada. 9. Secure boot is disabled. 10. I've successfully installed Ubuntu via USB... I have a internal SATA DVD arriving next week, but my hopes are minimal for that method. Access to PCs are limited, which makes it more tricky (I only have a Macbook). Anybody have any ideas why Ubuntu installs, but not Windows? Here are the specs: CPU: Intel Core I5 4690K 3.5GHz LGA1150 MOBO: MSI Z97S SLI Plus ATX LGA1150 Z97 RAM: Corsair Dominator Platinum 8GB (2x4GB) 1600MHz (CMD8GX3M2A1600C7) SSD: Samsung 840 EVO 500GB PSU: Corsair HX650 GPU: EVGA GTX 970 FTW Thank you to anyone who takes the time to read this and try help!
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So, I got my Samsung 840 EVO a few months ago and benchmarked (with the Samsung Magician Software) it then. The benchmark showed results around advertised performance. Today, I ran the benchmark again (cause I was bored) and it shows this. Is the Samsung benchmarking utility known for screwing up? Just asking. (Or maybe my SSD gots mad speedz )
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Over the past week or two, there have been growing rumblings from owners of Samsung 840 and 840 EVO SSDs. A few reports scattered across internet forums gradually snowballed into lengthy threads as more and more people took a longer look at their own TLC-based Samsung SSD's performance. Source: PCPerspective https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSrfOkr5hCc
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I had bought a Kingston 120gb ssdnow v300 and that was a HUGE mistake. Apparently Kingston put asynchronous nands in the consumer drives and synchronous nands in the reviewer drives. Inevitably the drive died and I lost all my data. So now I am looking to get a new drive, size is not the matter here but reliability and cost is. I am looking for a reliable drive under $250. I was looking at the Samsung evo 840's and the crucial mx100's. The evos apparently have a problem with slowing at a fast rate unless you defrag almost weekely. The mx100's are plagued with blue screening because of the pre installed software. So if anyone could help me decide or find a better drive (I am open minded about this) that would be great. Thanks for taking the time to read. - LkMMoDC
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Hello I just bought the 840 120gb... Was it a good choice? Just would like some opinions on this ssd thanks
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I was looking into getting a ~250GB SSD for my rig, and I am stuck between the A-Data SP900 and Samsung 840 Evo. From what I can tell, the SP900 is just as good as the 840 Evo, and it's much cheaper. They both have about ~550mb/s read speeds and ~530mb/s write speeds. Does anyone know the quality of the flash chips used in the SP900? My guess is they can make it cheaper than the 840 Evo because they are probably using "lower end" nand flash chips and will likely die before the 840. But, I haven't really looked into it, so I have no clue. They both use the SandForce controller, so they are equal there. I have heard that the 840 pretty much the best, if not the best 2.5" SSD you can buy. So should I go with what is considered "the best", or go with the A-Data that looks just as good?
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This is going to be quite long and boring to read... I am currently using Windows 8.1 Pro and I am having problem with the 512GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD - when moving from one place to another on the same drive I get around 10MB/s - 100MB/s most of the time and some times it can be KB/s. I used Crystal Disk Mark to check the speeds and they were around 350MB/s on read and write. I checked Samsung Magician and it says AHCI is disabled, but I checked the BIOS and AHCI is enabled. Then it hit me. I must have put the SSD into a 3Gb/s slot *derp*. changed it to a 6Gb/s slot, but that just made things worse... Normally it takes about 5 seconds to boot into the login screen, this time once 20 seconds has pasted I get a BSoD, then it keeps rebooting into auto repair, meanwhile the Linux distro was completely fine. I moved it back and everything seemed fine until I got into Windows - it was so slow that is struggled to switch back and forth from the start menu and the desktop. after 2 mins everything I tired to open while on the start menu just started all at once with the error 'Remote Procedure Call Failed'. I tried restarting normally, but it couldn't open the setting menu, so just pressed the reset button. After the restart it did the same thing again, only this time after the errors it worked perfectly normal, until I attempted to restart a second time when Windows Host Process refused to close. I again, plug the SSD into a 6G/s slot which just takes me back to square one. Not sure what to do, I did a system restore which did nothing. I tried refreshing the PC, but apparently the drive needs to be unlocked. At that point I have no idea what to do, apart from reinstalling Windows though I really would prefer to avoid that option. Help will be appreciated!
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I just ordered a samsung 840 250gb to put in my sony vaio f22 laptop and want to install windows 8 on it and would like some advice how to format it in a fast, clean and productive way. I formatted my laptop before and a couple of others but it always took me way too long until everything was working properly... For example the drivers, just downloading all the bastards en clicking endlessly drives me nuts... I do know about http://ninite.com/ for the basic software. So do you have any tips or tricks ?
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Want to buy the Samsung 840 120GB for $90, but is the 840 Pro @ 128GB worth the extra $40 bucks for the boost in read/write speeds? Will be using it as a boot drive, hold my programs, etc. Maybe for small projects in Photoshop/AE/Premier/Sony Vegas I will use it to store footage/images and render out (then move it onto my HDD). So is it worth it to go pro? Literally about to order it! (yeah 40 bucks is a little knit picky but I'd like to throw that at a gpu or haswell/mobo)
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hey guys, A few months back i got the Samsung 840 ssd and replaced a hdd in my laptop with it, and performance when i got it was ok... Around the 20 second boot up without many services in the startup and the ssd configured properly, but even with trim lately the boot times have gone sour exceeding the 30 second mark which was the boot time of my old hdd,although in benchmarks the ssd has always been getting a solid 530 mb/s ish on the read and 130 mb/s on the write
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Should i be concerned about these numbers?
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Hey guys, I'm just going to get straight to the point - my Samsung 840 Evo SSD boots to Windows 7 64bit in about 50 seconds. From what I understand, the drive should be a lot faster than this. My motherboard only has SATA 2 headers, so understandably the boot time will not be as fast as the same drive in a SATA 3 header, but surely it shouldn't decrease the performance by that much. I've installed Samsung Magician to try and optimize the drive and have done everything possible in the software to improve it, however this made no difference; I even enabled RAPID mode which practically doubled my read/write speeds but made no difference in boot time. After looking through many other forums, I've enabled AHCI and made sure trim is also enabled, updated my SATA driver to the latest available for my motherboard and made loads of tweaks in the BIOS which other people have claimed improved their boot time; yet still there is no improvement what so ever. Surely I must be missing out a crucial setting somewhere that is causing the boot time to be this slow. This only other thing I can think of is that I have an additional 2 HDDs connected to my motherboard, which may have something to do with it decreasing boot time even though my OS is installed to the SSD. My system specs: ASUS M5A78L-M USB3 Motherboard AMD FX-4170 Processor 16Gb Ram EVGA GTX 660 2gb Samsung 840 Evo 120Gb SSD Seagate Barracuda 1Tb HDD Old Seagate 150Gb HDD Any solutions that you think may help will be greatly appreciate. Thanks in advance for your time. All the best, Pugizimo
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Hey guys! I'm planning to buy an SSD and I'm caught up between these two SSD's. I wanna know which one is going to perform better/faster and will be more reliable in the long run. Maybe give me some pros and cons of each product? And if you can, suggest me a better one. I'm planning to get a 256GB/250GB model just to store my OS and some games and apps. Thanks!
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Link I don't think I'd get one, since I don't have much of a need for that much SSD space right now. If you do, then go for it. EDIT: Looks like all capacities of the EVO are on sale, between 21% and 36% off depending on the capacity.
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I have a Samsung 840 evo 1TB and I have noticed as of late it seems sluggish. Stuff like opening the file explorer and launching some applications is just not as quick feeling. I have had the drive since Christmas last year and it has about 3.4TB written according to the Magician software. The AS SSD bench marks seem good but I am not really sure. So I was wondering if these speeds are normal and if anyone has any suggestions on fixing the sluggish feel.
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With the 840 pads installed, how much closer is the 440 to the 840?
