Samsung Evo 840

[TravisTea]

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!

[yourdad165]

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!

 

I read that stuff for my SSD as well. I didn't even bother installing it. It's a waste of time and I'm pretty sure it does nothing. I installed the OS on my drive without it and it boots up instantly anyway so I wouldn't bother with it.

[Geekazoid]

I read that stuff for my SSD as well. I didn't even bother installing it. It's a waste of time and I'm pretty sure it does nothing. I installed the OS on my drive without it and it boots up instantly anyway so I wouldn't bother with it.

If that firmware update is the one that I'm thinking of then it is quite important, it helps fix the performance degradation issue over time with older files that's an issue on all Samsung 840 and 840 EVOs that Samsung fixed with that update if I'm correct.

[Peter Vaughan Truslow]

it depends on which version of the firmware you are on. I did the performance restoration and noticed slightly improved performance, but nothing drastic. if you notice it slowing down over time you might need it

it involves updating the firmware then reconditioning your whole SSD, which takes a very long time and risks the data on your drive. I did a clone of the SSD before I started, but I didn't lose any data myself, and was prepared for the risk if I did.

[yourdad165]

If that firmware update is the one that I'm thinking of then it is quite important, it helps fix the performance degradation issue over time with older files that's an issue on all Samsung 840 and 840 EVOs that Samsung fixed with that update if I'm correct.

 

There was no firmware update for mine. It was just some application that would run in the background on my PC and I didn't want to install it.

[Geekazoid]

There was no firmware update for mine. It was just some application that would run in the background on my PC and I didn't want to install it.

Well then maybe you already have it.

[yourdad165]

Well then maybe you already have it.

 

Hopefully, I did just buy it this month.

[Geekazoid]

Hopefully, I did just buy it this month.

So, do you also have the Samsung 840 EVO or 850 Pro? Just clarifying.

[TravisTea]

I ran the test and everything went smooth. Didn't notice any improvement though. I'm getting (in my opinion) poor performance than what I expected. I do not have sata 3 on my motherboard, so that's probably why.

 

[TravisTea]

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[DirkW]

Didn't notice any improvement though.

With a brand new drive you wouldn't notice the problem anyway. The problem was that old files, which had been written weeks or months ago, would suffer from really low read speeds. Newly written data was never the problem. The fix solved this for existing data and prevents it from happening again.

 

I do not have sata 3 on my motherboard, so that's probably why.

 

As long as you mean SATA 2 (3Gb/s) and not SATA 3 (6Gb/s), not just probably. It's exactly why. Remember: modern SSDs are pushing SATA 3 (6GB/s) and even beyond - if you have an older SATA generation, speeds will drop by up to 50%. (Which is still way faster than HDDs - and only concerns max bandwidth. Access times - where SSDs shine even more over HDDs - are not limited by SATA generations)