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Chrispy_ wrote:Arvald gets it; It's not that installing a utility is difficult, it's that in a corporate environment everything has to be hardware-agnostic, since you never have the luxury of tailoring an OS to a specific box. You tailor the OS to a specific user group and then push that out to a variety of hardware types across a company.
Chrispy_ wrote:I'm not surprised; Samsung spew out products so fast that when they make a faulty one the answer is to faff about and look busy whilst actually achieving very little until the product leaves the limelight because the next new Samsung thing is all over the news.
Chrispy_ wrote:Well yes, but the vanilla 840 took almost four years for a proper firmware fix and before Samsung finally applied a firmware (non-Windows) fix for the faulty 840 EVO, the 840 EVO had gone EOL and the 850 EVO had already been selling for months.
Saying that samsung have now fixed it is truly a case of locking the stable door after the horses have bolted.
Palorim12 wrote:To Just Brew It, its gonna be hard to ignore TLC, alot of Manufacturers are moving over to TLC.
just brew it! wrote:Palorim12 wrote:To Just Brew It, its gonna be hard to ignore TLC, alot of Manufacturers are moving over to TLC.
It was actually The Egg who mentioned TLC, but I'll weigh in too. I think planar TLC (as used in the 840 EVO) is indeed a dead end; but V-NAND (and similar 3D flash tech) makes TLC viable by allowing the cell size to be increased enough to mitigate the voltage drift effect.
Palorim12 wrote:To Just Brew It, its gonna be hard to ignore TLC, alot of Manufacturers are moving over to TLC.
just brew it! wrote:It was actually The Egg who mentioned TLC, but I'll weigh in too. I think planar TLC (as used in the 840 EVO) is indeed a dead end; but V-NAND (and similar 3D flash tech) makes TLC viable by allowing the cell size to be increased enough to mitigate the voltage drift effect.
heinkam wrote:Hi, I still have an 840 with the old firmware and Samsung Magician 6.0.0 doesn't offer any updates for it anymore. Does anyone still have the new firmware and can provide me with the DXT0AB0Q.enc file, please?
Igor_Kavinski wrote:EXT0DB6Q seems to be newer than what you are looking for so try it.
just brew it! wrote:Igor_Kavinski wrote:EXT0DB6Q seems to be newer than what you are looking for so try it.
He's looking for the last firmware released for the vanilla 840. EXT0DB6Q is for the 840 EVO. Different drive.
heinkam wrote:I've searched the whole internet (twice) and contacted Samsung support. The drives "aren't produced anymore" and so they "have no firmware updates for those models". Guess I have to stay with the old version then.
Igor_Kavinski wrote:Get a new, faster one and use the 840 for the paging file/temp folder/scratch drive etc.
Topinio wrote:Why the f would you put a potentially flakey drive in production IDEK. Binware.
heinkam wrote:Hi, I still have an 840 with the old firmware and Samsung Magician 6.0.0 doesn't offer any updates for it anymore. Does anyone still have the new firmware and can provide me with the DXT0AB0Q.enc file, please?
just brew it! wrote:Even with the patches I wouldn't trust my 840 EVO drives with anything important. I do still use them as scratch drives though.
Glaring_Mistake wrote:use Puran's DiskFresh anytime you feel that the drive needs a tune-up.
Igor_Kavinski wrote:just brew it! wrote:Even with the patches I wouldn't trust my 840 EVO drives with anything important. I do still use them as scratch drives though.
How many 840 Evos do you have? Estimated life remaining on them if that's not too much to ask? I'm curious because scratch use would subject them to much more writing than usual.