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Is Samsung 850 EVO a Good Buy?

TheBomb
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I recently purchased a 850 EVO 250GB ssd and i was wondering if i made the right choice because i later found out that it uses TLC nand.

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Yep. I bought the 500GB version a while ago and it's been great.

I actually couldn't underclock my 5 year old GPU to make it as slow as a next-gen console.

#pcmasterraceproblems

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Practically nothing can go wrong if you bought an 850 Evo. I need one too lel.

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Samsung is serious value for money....

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Very good.. I am still rocking an 830 in my laptop and it hasn't missed a beat in all the time I have had it :)

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The thing that bothers me is the slower nand flash and the 300mb/s write speed on it.

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I've had one as a primary boot device (and program storage) for a couple months and I can't imagine going back to an HDD vs the speed and silence that comes from an SSD. The 850 Evo 500GB I picked up is so awesome, I want another one to fully replace HDD's in my rig

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