840 Slow Down

[AndyRN]

I have the plain non-evo 840. I have heard the 840 suffered the same slow down as the evo version, as the nand flash and controller are almost identical.  I use this drive as an overflow game storage (games I don't play often), which is about the worse thing for this slow down issue.  The drive is currently empty so I can't benchmark the data on it.  There were rumors that the 840 evo fix from Samsung would work on the 840, however, Samsung's literature does not list it as a supported drive.  Has anyone been able to update their vanilla 840 or heard that this is possible?  p.s it is a PITA searching for this answer because I type in 840 and all i get are evo responses, ugh.

[JefferyD90]

If you don't have any data on it then shifting isn't a issue

[Enderman]

it doesnt matter if the drive is empty...

just install crystaldiskmark and benchmark it

[AndyRN]

It benchmarks fine; however, the issue with the 840's is old data on the drive will read at slow speeds (50Mb/s). You can benchmark it all day and it will show good results even on bad drives. My remark with the drive being empty was only to keep someone from telling me to read an old file and see what the read speed is, at this time i don't have any old files on it but i might in the future. I have 2 concerns: I would apply the update but i don't want to brick it (i have heard this happen with evo drives) 2. I would like to do the update now while there is no data on the drive, because i do now Pcper lost data when doing the update. Just wondering if anyone tried the update on an 840.