Samsung 840 Pro

[unknowngamerfreak]

Does anyone own a Samsung 840 Pro and can give real life benchmarks on this drive. Does it really read/write at 500+ MBPS? Have you raided these and if so what was preformace from raid 0? Any stats or screenshots will help.

 

[Maskot]

Don't get an 840 Pro 128Gb, they're slwoer than the 256Gb and 512Gb, which are at the same speed, I put a 256Gb 840 Pro in a system, let's just say the PC booted windows 7 pro in the blink of an eye.  Sorry that I don't have any screenshots or benchmarks that I remember.

[FloRolf]

Don't get an 840 Pro 128Gb, they're slwoer than the 256Gb and 512Gb, which are at the same speed, I put a 256Gb 840 Pro in a system, let's just say the PC booted windows 7 pro in the blink of an eye.  Sorry that I don't have any screenshots or benchmarks that I remember.

 

and guess what, the 128gb is only half the price! Not everybody buys an ssd for 250bucks lol.

 

Edit: I just relised, that he wants to do raid0, so he needs at least 256gb. But two 128gb would still be faster in raid0 than a single 256 or not?

[iWearKiltz]

when looking for how fast a drive actually does perform, theres lots of reviews out there, but you do need to remember that different setups will yield different performances...

 

samsung will have a Q&C limit, which the drive must before to or above (So a drive must be able to read/write at certain speeds, before being sold), so the drive itself may perform differently, worse or better then others..

 

luck of the draw im afraid, but SSDs are quick as hell, so at the end of the day, unless you're transferring TBs of storage a day, it wont matter if one drive is +/- 10MB/s quicker then another, you wont save much time for casual gaming/home use :)

[TorguL]

How about using the 120gb NON-pro, just as a boot drive/installing programs on... is that adviseable or is the PRO better?

[unknowngamerfreak]

I'm just looking for small load times and extreme preformance. Just want to make sure the 840 Pros will make me happy.

[Theo]

I have it, when I get home I'll post some scores!

[nishank93]

The 840 Pro and the OCZ Vector are the best drives around. Can't do much better than either of those.

[unknowngamerfreak]

I have it, when I get home I'll post some scores!

If you could that would be great. : )

[Theo]

If you could that would be great. : )

Any benchmarks that you have in mind?

[unknowngamerfreak]

Any benchmarks that you have in mind?

Honestly just read/write speeds and maybe load times for current game titles? Just anything that shows me that its a fast drive for everyday use. Make Sense?

[Theo]

Honestly just read/write speeds and maybe load times for current game titles? Just anything that shows me that its a fast drive for everyday use. Make Sense?

This is from samsung magician 

As for games i dont know since i install them on another SSD. but windows loads up really fast, programs really fast, ( IE10 opens as fast as chrome ) Its pretty fast and in raid well itll be even faster, i have no complaints with it!

[Glenwing]

Here's mine:

 

[unknowngamerfreak]

This is from samsung magician 

As for games i dont know since i install them on another SSD. but windows loads up really fast, programs really fast, ( IE10 opens as fast as chrome ) Its pretty fast and in raid well itll be even faster, i have no complaints with it!

Perfect thanks for that I feel better making this purchase x2. : )

[KOtech]

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/545/koresponse.png/

There :D

Comp spec: Samsung 840 pro 128 GB, i7 930 OC @4.0 Ghz, 12gb DDR3 ram, Asus GTX 680 DirectCU II TOP, ASUS Rampage III Extreme :)

:D

[unknowngamerfreak]

Here's mine:

 

Thanks for the Benchmarks Guys this helps me a lot. :)

[unknowngamerfreak]

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/545/koresponse.png/

 

 

There :D

 

Comp spec: Samsung 840 pro 128 GB, i7 930 OC @4.0 Ghz, 12gb DDR3 ram, Asus GTX 680 DirectCU II TOP, ASUS Rampage III Extreme :)

 

 

:D

Benchmarks and Specs of PC ran on... NICE TY TY TY

[KOtech]

Benchmarks and Specs of PC ran on... NICE TY TY TY

 

Np!!

 

 

:D

[Maskot]

and guess what, the 128gb is only half the price! Not everybody buys an ssd for 250bucks lol.

 

Edit: I just relised, that he wants to do raid0, so he needs at least 256gb. But two 128gb would still be faster in raid0 than a single 256 or not?

If you're doing a raid 0 array of 840 pros, I think you can spare a few extra bucks, if you look at the R/W speeds of each pro SSD, the 256 & 512 perform better than the 128, so it makes sense that they would be faster in a raid configuration, correct me if I'm wrong, haven't dabbled around with raid arrays too much to give accurate advice on specific SSD's.

[Blackterror25]

If you're doing a raid 0 array of 840 pros, I think you can spare a few extra bucks, if you look at the R/W speeds of each pro SSD, the 256 & 512 perform better than the 128, so it makes sense that they would be faster in a raid configuration, correct me if I'm wrong, haven't dabbled around with raid arrays too much to give accurate advice on specific SSD's.

 

Could you share some source on that? because I'm planning to get the 128gb version.

[Maskot]

Could you share some source on that? because I'm planning to get the 128gb version.

 

 

This is the back of the retail 840 Pro series box.  In the bottom left you can see the stats as followed:

128GB: 530MB/s read speed, 390MB/s write speed

256GB: 540MB/s read speed, 520MB/s write speed

512GB: 540MB/s read speed, 520MB/s write speed

[Glenwing]

Don't RAID 0 SSDs, the difference is so small it's pointless unless you have like an 8 drive array or something.