850 EVO SSD

[FrenziedComet]

I was going to buy an 500GB 850 EVO for my system as it currently just has a standard HDD but i found this review on amazon.

 

"IF YOU RUN AN AMD BASED SYSTEM DO NOT RISK BUYING THIS INCOMPATIBLE DRIVE!

I bought one of these for my new setup which consists of an ASUS AMD 970 chipset motherboard (M5A97 R2.0), AMD FX8350 CPU, R290X GPU and 16gb of RAM. I noticed after correctly setting up the drive that the IOPS performance for random read and write was about a 1/3 under what Samsung claim to be the drives performance. I trawled many a forum and website trying to find the reason for this, updated all my drivers etc but to no avail.

After a two (+) week email conversation with the advisers at Samsung (and around 20 screenshots of various elements of my setup) I received this email.
"Dear Mr. Handley,

thank you for your email.
Unfortunately the SSDs have lower performances on AMD chipset than with Intel chipset, and the 850 EVO seems to be more sensitive than others. Unfortunately it is not possible to change it and we cannot refund the drive. Please return the SSD to the shop where you have bought it from to get a refund or a replacement.

Kind regards".

If I had known this at the time of purchase I would not have bought this drive. There is no warning or indication regarding this important (in my eyes?!) information and now I have to clone the drive to an old hdd so I can remove it from my system and send it back to where I purchased it. With not even the slightest hint of an apology! Nightmare. In my eyes this drive is being mis-sold (to purchasers running AMD based systems).

Please save yourselves the bother of buying one of these if you run an AMD system and want a top performing SSD."

 

And i was wondering if anyone else has come across this issue as i have an AMD based system. Also in the recommended section i saw that i could buy two of the kingston V300

 240GB for about £20 cheaper. What would you guys/girls recommend?

[ZetZet]

Don't buy kingston v300.

 

If you decide to change over go for bx100 or mx100 from crucial.

 

@FrenziedComet follow your topics. 

[FrenziedComet]

i was going to get the bx100 originally but a few people from the forum recommended the EVO 850

[Kyuubixchidori]

welp, if you want I can throw my 850 in my bros budget fx6300 build. it has some free mobo from microcenter, so probably bottom of the barrel stuff there. so if anything on the board is a issue, it should be present on his

[Nikeshp79]

Don't buy kingston v300.

 

If you decide to change over go for bx100 or mx100 from crucial.

The reason being? I thought Kingston was a reputable brand, I'm just intrigued cos I know every company can have their faults.

 

Also to answer the question, I have an intel SSD and it's good for me - so I recommend that (730 series). First one I've had, no problems so far but I can't really compare it to anything. All I know is it's great from actually making use of it and what other people say about it, I think it's one of the faster SSDs in its generation (however I don't know if it makes that much of a difference).

[ZetZet]

The reason being? I thought Kingston was a reputable brand, I'm just intrigued cos I know every company can have their faults.

 

Also to answer the question, I have an intel SSD and it's good for me - so I recommend that (730 series). First one I've had, no problems so far but I can't really compare it to anything. All I know is it's great from actually making use of it and what other people say about it, I think it's one of the faster SSDs in its generation (however I don't know if it makes that much of a difference).

They straight up tried to scam people, why support a company that messes up especially since their products are nothing special. 

[vandanved]

Well i certainly doubt about this issue with the 850 EVO, if something this big of a issue is there with the drive it would be a big news in the industry as well as on the internet. My advice would be to ask a question here in this forum, the best place on the net...

[SeanBond]

All I can say you will be wasting your money if you get the v300. The specs are a flatout lie. I can't believe they are STILL selling that drive without someone suing them or making them change the name or something. 

[FrenziedComet]

Also when i get an SSD how do i move all my stuff onto it preferably without losing everything?

[Nikeshp79]

They straight up tried to scam people, why support a company that messes up especially since their products are nothing special. 

That's really bad! I've always thought they were a good brand, sad to see companies turn like this!