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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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It could be the SATA port the 840 EVO is connected to is acting up.

 

Your actual SATA cable could be damaged...but I doubt it.

 

Your 840 EVO is actually dying....

 

It's possible you might have connected the 840 EVO to a SATA 2 port...

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It could be the SATA port the 840 EVO is connected to is acting up.

 

Your actual SATA cable could be damaged...but I doubt it.

 

Your 840 EVO is actually dying....

 

It's possible you might have connected the 840 EVO to a SATA 2 port...

well there's no way that i could of hooked it up to a SATA 2 cause my mobo only has SATA 3 ports

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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?

what firmware are you running?

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like 6.2TB

 

Can't find the TBW rating for the 840 Evo but 6.2TB should be far from close to causing any kind of real wear.

 

840 PRO Series 128GB/256GB/512GB 5 years (73 TBW for enterprise applications)

840 EVO Series 120GB/250GB/500GB 3 years

850 PRO Series 128GB/256GB 10 Years or 150TBW 512GB/1TB/2TB 10 Years or 300TBW

850 EVO Series 120GB/250GB 5 years or 75 TBW 500GB/1TB 5 years or 150 TBW

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also, according to hwmonitor my 840 evo is running at 54C while my 850 evo is running at 34C

 

You able to backup the data on the disk and go in to diskpart and run the clean command on the drive then re-setup the partitions etc? I had a similar issue on my 840/850 Pros when I used them on a hardware RAID controller and they spazzed out, performance was rubbish like yours. The clean fixed it for me but they weren't OS disks like yours so yea...

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You able to backup the data on the disk and go in to diskpart and run the clean command on the drive then re-setup the partitions etc? I had a similar issue on my 840/850 Pros when I used them on a hardware RAID controller and they spazzed out, performance was rubbish like yours. The clean fixed it for me but they weren't OS disks like yours so yea...

I mean, my 850 evo is my games drive and idc about the data on my 840 evo cause i just installed windows 10 a few days ago, but it would be a bitch to have to reinstall, but atm, games that are installed on the 840 evo were acting up like an error on csgo and lol being unplayable/repairable until installed onto the 850.

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I mean, my 850 evo is my games drive and idc about the data on my 840 evo cause i just installed windows 10 a few days ago, but it would be a bitch to have to reinstall, but atm, games that are installed on the 840 evo were acting up like an error on csgo and lol being unplayable/repairable until installed onto the 850.

 

Personally I would see if It could be fixed, like you are now and if not warranty replace it. Continuing to use a potentially faulty disk could lead to many more annoyances later. Most of the performance issue articles I have seen only mention read speed problems not write speed and only on old data so does sound faulty.

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Hey there T1GERTEA,
 
I would try these tests and benchmarks on a whole different computer to eliminate potential bad cables, ports, settings or other hardware or software limitations and see if the problem is within the SDD or somewhere else on your system. According to the raw values of the S.M.A.R.T. the drive should be operating properly given its age and usage. 
Do test it on another build and post back the results. :)
 
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