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Re: Samsung 840 & 840 EVO Bug

Wed Apr 29, 2015 7:17 am

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Something is definitely fishy with the HD Tune results people have been posting. The reported Burst Rate is sometimes lower than the Minimum and Average rates, which should be impossible?


Both HDTune and HDTach are legacy spinning disk programs that don't really have updates for the modern SSD era. You should probably be worrying more about the -1% CPU usage ;)

The exact nature of the details is not really that relevant - what matters is that in real-world usage, users are reporting awful performance; Pre-Diskfresh (or Samsung's new firmware doing the same thing), the HDTach/HDTune benchmarks are all over the shot with some staggeringly low numbers to back up the lousy real-world performance that users are whining about. After the Diskfresh or firmware-based refresh, real-world performance is good and the HDTach/HDTune benchmarks are a nice straight line again.

All these old benchmark tools do is pick a random series of blocks at that position on the drive and measure how fast the read of those blocks is. With SSD's it all over the place because the physical location of the blocks no longer corresponds to a single physical location - it's up the SSD controller where in the NAND cells the virtual block pointers are pointed at.

The graph plot tools are just secondary evidence to support awful read speeds on these defective drives. The concern is not with the exact output of the tools, just that the tools are an easy visual representation of an obvious problem that goes away after a Diskfresh. Straight line = good, drive is working within spec. Erratic line = unmistakable performance inconsistency to back up user claims of slow SSDs.
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Re: Samsung 840 & 840 EVO Bug

Wed Apr 29, 2015 7:38 am

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I ran hdtune on my M500 in the 6530b (SATA II). The results look like the drive's write speeds (120GB M500's are slow at that), not the read speeds. Huh? http://i.imgur.com/IAYZLQY.png


I think this comes down to the age of the graphing tools as mentioned in my post above - these tools are not SSD-aware and don't have a concept of partition alignment, page vs block, Trim, etc. You can't really treat them with the same level of confidence as results from a tool that is SSD-aware like CrystalDiskmark.

Whilst they don't give accurate quantitative results (the exact MB/s numbers coming out of HDTune/HDTach don't correspond with the results of a properly SSD-aware, alignment-aware, page-aware benchmark tool), they do give qualitative results showing that performance is massively inconsistent - both erratic and slow before any kind of refresh. Regardless of what the absolute read speeds are, the tools should at least show consistent performance in vaguely the right ballpark - in other words a straight line with no major dips into low write speeds.

Here's an ancient JMicron controller SSD. It's a cheap drive using a cheap controller and low-cost NAND. Even on SATA3, it's not even able to reach SATA2 speeds. It's one of the worst drives I've used, but it's consistent:
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Then there's this Intel 330-series which is hardly a high-end product, but again it's perfectly capable of delivering a consistent experience:
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These are old, heavily used drives that were low-budget, low-performance options when they were introduced (long before even the original 840-series). Comparing these plots to any of the 840 or 840EVO plots in this thread, you know that something's seriously wrong with the Samsung drives.
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Re: Samsung 840 & 840 EVO Bug

Fri May 01, 2015 6:34 pm

Oh. My. God. I'm transferring a bunch of my stuff off the 840 evo in the t440s and onto the second drive in the 8200 via gig-e. (I just bought a WD Blue 1TB. Gets ~170MB/s reads and ~130MB/s writes sequentially on benchmarks.) And some of it's going at ~10-15MB/s (smaller files mainly). Guess what the bottleneck is? Yep, the SSD... the hard drive seems to be handling it just fine. Never thought I'd see that - a hard drive and an SSD, from about the same time period, where a transfer between them is bottlenecked by the SSD. What the hell? I've seen pathetic read speeds on the 840 evo before, but never tested it in an embarrassing manner like that.

I'm also beginning to wonder if the t440s is defective. It just locked up on me when I plugged in the power brick, acted like nothing happened when I unplugged it, and locked back up when plugged in. Inconsistent. I just asked my mom to ship the original t440s HDD and my 840 evo box up to me. I might just call Lenovo on the warranty if this continues, and at any rate, I'm probably going to sell both and find a different config. What a bunch of garbage. (Meanwhile, in a land a desk's length away, a bunch of HP equipment running in the same way is humming along happily, enjoying the nice Oregon spring weather. OK, maybe not the last bit, though I am. :lol:)
 
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Re: Samsung 840 & 840 EVO Bug

Fri May 01, 2015 8:34 pm

I'd be a bit leery of those speeds your seeing. Small files never have the oppertunity to get up to the full speed of the drive in question before the drive has to handle a new request for another file. How big are the files your talking about that are reading that slow?
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Re: Samsung 840 & 840 EVO Bug

Fri May 01, 2015 9:26 pm

Hey, for kicks, here's my current 840 (vanilla, non-EVO) HDTune results. Is this pathetic, or what?

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What's that about only the EVO's being affected, Samsung? If they just owned up to it and allowed the tool to work on the normal 840's, even if they didn't update the firmware, I wouldn't be so pissed. It's for repeatedly denying it that they've lost my trust. It's dishonest and disrespectful, and I'll be looking elsewhere in the future if that's what they think of their customers.

Well, off to try diskfresh! (edit: yes, diskfresh seems to be doing the trick. Thanks, everyone. It's 5% done, and my first 5% has gone from 25-50MB/sec to 400+MB/sec.)
 
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Re: Samsung 840 & 840 EVO Bug

Sat May 02, 2015 12:34 am

WOW I think that is the most anemic score I've seen yet. Agree, no reason they couldn't enable 840 Vanilla to be able to run the restore utility at least.

Have you ran DiskFresh before? You've known about this issue for how long now? How often if multiple times, does it take for performance to degrade to that level again?
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Re: Samsung 840 & 840 EVO Bug

Sat May 02, 2015 5:53 am

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WOW I think that is the most anemic score I've seen yet. Agree, no reason they couldn't enable 840 Vanilla to be able to run the restore utility at least.

Have you ran DiskFresh before? You've known about this issue for how long now? How often if multiple times, does it take for performance to degrade to that level again?


That graph looks like about 6 months to my eyes, based on the various 840's I'm keeping an eye on.
My drive is due for an auto-scheduled Diskfresh this Sunday night so it has gone almost a month without one and my performance graph has already dropped from a 520MB/s straight line to a 125-450MB/s wild squiggle with a 290MB/s average. It's bad, but it's not 9MB/s bad.

My advice to Samsung-related Diskfreshers: Change your scheduled task from quarterly to monthly (or even more frequently!). They're already in pretty terrible shape after a month.
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Re: Samsung 840 & 840 EVO Bug

Sat May 02, 2015 6:15 am

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They're already in pretty terrible shape after a month.

And *that*, right there, is a pretty darned serious indictment of Samsung's product validation and testing procedures. How the heck could they possibly have missed this?
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Re: Samsung 840 & 840 EVO Bug

Sat May 02, 2015 8:56 am

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Hey, for kicks, here's my current 840 (vanilla, non-EVO) HDTune results. Is this pathetic, or what?

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What's that about only the EVO's being affected, Samsung? If they just owned up to it and allowed the tool to work on the normal 840's, even if they didn't update the firmware, I wouldn't be so pissed. It's for repeatedly denying it that they've lost my trust. It's dishonest and disrespectful, and I'll be looking elsewhere in the future if that's what they think of their customers.

Well, off to try diskfresh! (edit: yes, diskfresh seems to be doing the trick. Thanks, everyone. It's 5% done, and my first 5% has gone from 25-50MB/sec to 400+MB/sec.)


Wow that's so bad it's slower than the ssd in my original latitude xt (well for a pretty big percentage of the drive) and it had a ziff drive. :lol:
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Re: Samsung 840 & 840 EVO Bug

Sat May 02, 2015 9:09 am

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Chrispy_ wrote:
They're already in pretty terrible shape after a month.
And *that*, right there, is a pretty darned serious indictment of Samsung's product validation and testing procedures. How the heck could they possibly have missed this?

Are you sure they missed it (says my inner cynic)?
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Re: Samsung 840 & 840 EVO Bug

Sat May 02, 2015 11:02 am

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Are you sure they missed it (says my inner cynic)?

Exactly what I thought. You don't miss things like these. Every tester reports them but the project goes ahead for a release anyway.

See also: EA, Ubisoft,...
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Re: Samsung 840 & 840 EVO Bug

Sat May 02, 2015 4:57 pm

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WOW I think that is the most anemic score I've seen yet. Agree, no reason they couldn't enable 840 Vanilla to be able to run the restore utility at least.

Have you ran DiskFresh before? You've known about this issue for how long now? How often if multiple times, does it take for performance to degrade to that level again?


I've only been loosely tracking the issue, as I took messages about "EVO only" at face value for a while. The machine hasn't seemed as snappy as it used to, but not so bad that I took the time to investigate. Some occasional things that took really long, but could blame it on running in a VM or something else. (And even then, I thought the symptom was 100-200MB/s instead of 400-500MB/sec, which wouldn't be so apparent, so I wasn't thinking it could have been this issue anyway. And some early things I heard that leaving it on, which I do, would prevent it.) It's my home machine, so it's not heavily used anyway.

Never run DiskFresh before, it's been running as my OS drive for about 10 months.

After DiskFresh completed, I'm back at 380MB/s or higher across the whole drive.
 
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Re: Samsung 840 & 840 EVO Bug

Sat May 02, 2015 8:31 pm

Before & After firmware update/advanced performance optimization
Pretty dramatic. We'll see how long it lasts.

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Re: Samsung 840 & 840 EVO Bug

Sat May 02, 2015 9:10 pm

And here's my "after" result. I gotta say, it's the slow access times that worry me possibly even more than the slow reads. At some point I suspect it will have degraded so far it won't be able to read that data at all. I'm happy that the access times are fixed as well.

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As per Chrispy's advice, set DiskFresh to launch once a month.

(And thanks, all, for the moral support and advice!)
 
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Re: Samsung 840 & 840 EVO Bug

Sat May 02, 2015 9:49 pm

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And here's my "after" result. I gotta say, it's the slow access times that worry me possibly even more than the slow reads. At some point I suspect it will have degraded so far it won't be able to read that data at all. I'm happy that the access times are fixed as well.

And viewtopic.php?f=5&t=111578


This, my friends, is why I'm selling my 840 evo and getting a Crucial drive (decided to get an MX200 this time), even though some suggested keeping it for the new laptop.

Though one interesting thing - I recall someone mentioning that the burst rates from hdtune seem a bit funny. Take a look at a result from my HDD: http://i.imgur.com/mMQi19q.png Burst rate is a decent bit slower than the max, though a bit better than the average. Huh? Though this drive is actually pretty decent for speeds. I'd still rather have SSDs for boot drives though, particularly for laptops (physical durability).
 
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Re: Samsung 840 & 840 EVO Bug

Sun May 03, 2015 8:36 am

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Chrispy_ wrote:
They're already in pretty terrible shape after a month.

And *that*, right there, is a pretty darned serious indictment of Samsung's product validation and testing procedures. How the heck could they possibly have missed this?

Are you sure they missed it (says my inner cynic)?

While possible, that would be a pretty stupid move. It is impossible for an issue of this magnitude to go unnoticed for long. And regardless, it would still be an organizational failure for Samsung as a whole; it just shifts more of the blame from the engineers to management.
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Re: Samsung 840 & 840 EVO Bug

Mon May 04, 2015 9:43 pm

Okay, and I thought my vanilla 840 result was bad? Here's my 840 EVO result before:

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... and after:

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Holy crap, look at that 'before' result -- most of the drive is less than 5MB/sec?!

WHAT THE HELL, SAMSUNG? HOW THE HOLY FLIPPING PANCAKES DID YOU NOT NOTICE THIS BEFORE RELEASING THIS DRIVE?
 
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Re: Samsung 840 & 840 EVO Bug

Mon May 04, 2015 10:13 pm

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Okay, and I thought my vanilla 840 result was bad? Here's my 840 EVO result before:

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... and after:

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Holy crap, look at that 'before' result -- most of the drive is less than 5MB/sec?!

WHAT THE HELL, SAMSUNG? HOW THE HOLY FLIPPING PANCAKES DID YOU NOT NOTICE THIS BEFORE RELEASING THIS DRIVE?


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Re: Samsung 840 & 840 EVO Bug

Mon May 04, 2015 11:10 pm

That "after" result is still a little wonky too... WTF is with the weird spikes? Any chance something else was accessing the drive during the "after" test?
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Re: Samsung 840 & 840 EVO Bug

Mon May 04, 2015 11:57 pm

Yikes... *looks up the speed of a 3.5" floppy disk* And this is WITH the previous firmware they pushed out?

At that point, I have to wonder how close the drive is to loosing the data entirely, like some people were finding/speculating with theirs. Confused error correction left and right I suppose? Makes my spinning rust drive (mass data storage) look insanely fast by comparison. Or any hard drive I have lying around, for that matter. How slowly was that machine booting? I mean, a Windows 7 32-bit VM boots from that spare drive in ~40 seconds (VM's POST is way quicker than a real machine though).

Well, at least these drives seem to be holding plenty of value on ebay. Must be the Samsung name. (seriously)
 
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Re: Samsung 840 & 840 EVO Bug

Tue May 05, 2015 3:36 am

But... but... only a small subset of users were reporting the issue. Compared to exactly ZERO people having any issue what-so-ever with their vanilla 840.......

/sigh, Cobalt, if I had any cake to give, you would have taken it with that before shot. God knows you deserve it you poor bastard :lol: .
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Re: Samsung 840 & 840 EVO Bug

Tue May 05, 2015 4:33 am

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Yikes... *looks up the speed of a 3.5" floppy disk* And this is WITH the previous firmware they pushed out?

In which case, the firmware does nothing much, which means without "Magician" running its periodic DiskFresh-alike data refresh you're toast. Brilliant for non-Windows users, that.

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Well, at least these drives seem to be holding plenty of value on ebay. Must be the Samsung name. (seriously)

Isn't it kinda unethical though, don't think I could inflict it on someone else so mine will just go to being a scratch drive.
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Re: Samsung 840 & 840 EVO Bug

Tue May 05, 2015 5:45 am

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Yikes... *looks up the speed of a 3.5" floppy disk* And this is WITH the previous firmware they pushed out?

In which case, the firmware does nothing much, which means without "Magician" running its periodic DiskFresh-alike data refresh you're toast. Brilliant for non-Windows users, that.

Well, the new NEW firmware is supposed to fix that, provided the drive isn't left powered off for extended periods. I guess I will get to find out.
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Re: Samsung 840 & 840 EVO Bug

Tue May 05, 2015 7:48 am

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That "after" result is still a little wonky too... WTF is with the weird spikes? Any chance something else was accessing the drive during the "after" test?

Nah, that looks like the sort of thing you'd expect on plenty of SATA3 drives running over a SATA2 interface. Some of them are capable of capping the interface at an even 235MB/s or so, others try to burst too much data and then dial it back a bit which is what I'm seeing here (and have seen on many drives from numerous vendors). My hunch from witnessing this pattern several times over is that the spikes occur roughly every x gigabytes where x = available free nonpaged memory on your PC at the time of the benchmark. It's probably a windows quirk rather than an SSD quirk.

No matter how bad the 840 vanillas are, Welch's EVO result is a new low, As I've said, the worst I've seen is 9MB/s over the majority of a drive; His is an order of magnitude worse.
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Re: Samsung 840 & 840 EVO Bug

Tue May 05, 2015 8:31 am

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That "after" result is still a little wonky too... WTF is with the weird spikes? Any chance something else was accessing the drive during the "after" test?

Nah, that looks like the sort of thing you'd expect on plenty of SATA3 drives running over a SATA2 interface.


Thanks for the SATA3/SATA2 explanation -- that's exactly the setup I've got. This was an old C2Q system, given new life as an HTPC.

(Which means it runs nothing but WMC, reads and writes from a spinning disk, and is never rebooted, so at least I have an excuse for not having noticed anything weird.)

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No matter how bad the 840 vanillas are, Welch's EVO result is a new low, As I've said, the worst I've seen is 9MB/s over the majority of a drive; His is an order of magnitude worse.


I think both the 840 and 840 EVO results you're referring to are mine. I'd hate to implicate anyone else in not running DiskFresh before now -- based on what I've seen, it almost feels like neglect at this point! :oops:
 
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Re: Samsung 840 & 840 EVO Bug

Tue May 05, 2015 2:40 pm

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I think both the 840 and 840 EVO results you're referring to are mine.

Yep, Dunno why I thought they were Welch's
I've only recently upgraded my Core2 SATA2 HTPC to an Ivy/SATA3 setup but SATA2 was never the bottleneck; An SSD's 0.1ms access time is the thing that actually matters.

What is scary about your HDTune plot is that there are lots of little yellow dots up above 20ms, which makes it slower than the slowest, oldest hard drives that qualify as "SATA" that I can find, even down the back of the "really old junk" drawer at work.
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Re: Samsung 840 & 840 EVO Bug

Tue May 05, 2015 2:53 pm

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I think both the 840 and 840 EVO results you're referring to are mine.

Yep, Dunno why I thought they were Welch's
I've only recently upgraded my Core2 SATA2 HTPC to an Ivy/SATA3 setup but SATA2 was never the bottleneck; An SSD's 0.1ms access time is the thing that actually matters.

What is scary about your HDTune plot is that there are lots of little yellow dots up above 20ms, which makes it slower than the slowest, oldest hard drives that qualify as "SATA" that I can find, even down the back of the "really old junk" drawer at work.

I've dealt with earlier Core 2 laptops (ex. HP 6510b/6710b) that use earlier SATA drives, and those are hardly any faster than laptops I've seen with IDE. ~40MB/s sequential. Not sure about the access times.
 
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Re: Samsung 840 & 840 EVO Bug

Wed May 06, 2015 1:26 am

Probably thinking of me because I keep posting lol, that or it must be my handsome boyish looks....... or not.

Anyhow, Chrispy, great observation about the SATA 2 and SATA 3 bursting "issue". I don't recall if the SATA controller or the drives controller is responsible for link speed negotiations? It would seem this is a simple driver or firmware bug, not necessarily a Windows issue or we should mostly all be seeing the same issue. I've ran lots of these 840 EVOs on SATA 2 interfaces unfortunately and have never seen them break over the 300 MB/s mark. Most of them cap out around 289ish, which leads me to believe that they are being limited to SATA 2 speeds in the first place on drive controller.

Cobalt, what sort of system are you running that on? Could you by chance give us a motherboard/controller model #, and heck, while your at it grab the driver version and date. With the speeds your seeing I'd almost wonder if Chrispy isn't onto something. You said it was an old system, curious how old. Unless the system your running is THAT old... even running on SATA 2 you should be pretty much be close to 270-285ish. It's possible that your SATA controller is just junky and holding back the already funky 840 EVO.
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Re: Samsung 840 & 840 EVO Bug

Wed May 06, 2015 7:31 am

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even running on SATA 2 you should be pretty much be close to 270-285ish.


I have found over the years of running SATA2 SSDs that anything over 250MB/s is rare. I couldn't cite the reasons but Indilinx, Sandforce, & Intel drives of the SATA2/SATA3 switchover era would never usually get more than 235-250MB/s depending on the accuracy of the test.

Peak sequential speeds really don't matter that much though, especially on an older SATA2 system. An SSD needs to be able to deliver sequential speeds in the hundreds and access times in the <0.5ms category. Even ancient JMicron devices like the one I posted an HDTune for a while back is perfectly capable of this, desite being (by any modern standard) a terrible SSD. To put it this way, I'd rather have a 50MB/s drive with 0.1ms access times over a 1GB/s drive with 5ms access times for client workloads.

Cobalt's EVO is reporting plenty of access times in the >20ms category. That's clearly the biggest problem here. Not only is it 400x slower than a typical, correctly-functioning SSD, it's also notably slower than even the slowest of spinning disks. Most of us SSD converts lament having to use a laptop with a 5400rpm drive, but even those manage to average 15ms access times. Having an SSD that feels 2-3x slower than that is a real, real-world problem.
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Re: Samsung 840 & 840 EVO Bug

Wed May 06, 2015 9:58 am

Let's see -- poking through old ordering records since I'm not in front of the thing, I believe this is the:
Gigabyte GA-EG45M-UD2H. ICH10R, so hopefully not too junky! :D I don't think there's another SATA controller on there; the JMicron 368 onboard only provides IDE.
(Decent board, but just the slightest hint of flakiness in the Realtek LAN that I've stuck with Intel LAN GigE controllers since. And went back to ASUS, too, though I don't have anything against Gigabyte.)
Core 2 Quad Q9550 with 4GB Corsair XMS2 (2x2GB) DDR2-800.
Should be running in AHCI, and NTFS is that matters.

Can't check drivers until tonight -- you're looking for the Intel storage driver version?
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