Windows 7: Show us your SSD performance 2

the 840 pro is good but has a huge price permium, in the uk its 60-100% more than the 830. I think samsung have realised now their reputation will sell these units regardless of price.

I would avoid the basic 840 (no pro version) it uses cheaper shorter life TLC nand chips. So I would just get a discounted 830. The 840 pro whilst better I doubt will give a noticeble improvement.

I agree, but I'd be willing to bet the 840 Pro will be around $120-130 at release for the 128GB model. The Samsung 830 is still a HUGE upgrade from a HDD though.

The new Samsung 840 SSDs are available with release dates starting next week.

SAMSUNG 840 Pro 128GB is at Newegg for $149.99.

I would think after a month or two the prices will start coming down.

That is also the MSRP, which may or may not be the actual price on 10/23/2012........we'll see soon enough!

lol,simply out of my budget if that's the case......like WAYY out! They really should make something affordable for students...
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Its 128GB from samsung,going for about 80$ new here. The shopkeeper is getting rid of the older models in preparation of new 840's too i think -_-

If you guys are looking for a SSD to place the OS, you do well buying one of the good cheap older models. For an OS installation there will be very little difference between those and the new super high speed models. That is because the OS works predominantly with small 4K blocks and the good performance comes from the very fast access time.

The superfast SSDs make only sense if you use them as data storage with large data blocks. But that will require big SSDs of 512GB and up - and who can afford those.

Ok.....I have been looking firmwares for my SSD´s (OCZ - Vertex4) and I found inside the OCZ website a new version avaiable to download. My firmware is version 1.4.1.3 and the new one is 1.5.
Looking some notes inside the website I realise that I will need save my files before run the process (update).
I never have been had that process. Some one can explain if it´s really needed to get better performance on my SSD´s .
I spent to much time to config my machine and just now I realise that I forgot to make that process with my SSD´s, and I have all my stuff´s installed and setted like I want. I can belive brothers.....more than 3 days working on my machine to make everything correctly and now .....!!@@!!!@@@!
Ohhh man...The instruction I got on website said to put the configuration out of RAID ...and everything.....I have done that on bios....What I need to do......if some one have been making that process, give me a help if possible.

Thanks anyway everyone!!!

@47box, Unless the new firmware addresses a problem you have, leave it as it is. There is a slight rick of losing all of your data. The instructions on the OCZ Vertex site will govern how the process is carried out.

Hum WHS am just wondering what is meant by super high speed cos my 830 is a pocket rocket I just can't see why I (personally) would want anything that is faster I can only see it being a plus for a business or some extreme gaming (for example).

That is my point. The 'normal' SSDs that are on the market today are as good as a home user needs. There is nothing to be gained for the OS if you install an expensive new SSD that provides faster transfer rates for large blocks (which the OS does not use).