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[whs]

The Samsung nums are clearly better. Will you notice the difference in real life - probably not.

 

[cheezz]

Thanks for the feedback, guys. Sure appreciate the help.

 

[JerometheGiraff]

I'm hearing some info that the Samsung 840 are not as good, is this someone personal experience or is there some truth to it ?

 

[theveterans]

There are 2 versions of the Samsung 840 series: the regular 840 and the 840 Pro. The 840 pro from what I heard is much faster than the regular 840 albeit much more expensive.

 

[whs]

There are 2 versions of the Samsung 840 series: the regular 840 and the 840 Pro. The 840 pro from what I heard is much faster than the regular 840 albeit much more expensive.

The Pro is faster in the benchmarks. In real life that will hardly make any difference for the OS. If you are price sensitive, the 840 will do. Other good options are the Crucial M4 or one of the OCZ Vertex models.

 

[theveterans]

The Pro is faster in the benchmarks. In real life that will hardly make any difference for the OS. If you are price sensitive, the 840 will do. Other good options are the Crucial M4 or one of the OCZ Vertex models.

That's true since the OS uses mostly very small blocks of data and benchmarks like CrystalDiskMark will show that the 840 and the 840 pro have similar numbers in that regard.

 

[Snakeyeskm]

There are 2 versions of the Samsung 840 series: the regular 840 and the 840 Pro. The 840 pro from what I heard is much faster than the regular 840 albeit much more expensive.

The Pro is faster in the benchmarks. In real life that will hardly make any difference for the OS. If you are price sensitive, the 840 will do. Other good options are the Crucial M4 or one of the OCZ Vertex models.

Don't forget the OCZ vector. I have 2 of these in Raid 0 that continuously face heavy read/write activity and their performance has been consistently good. I run both ATTO and AS SSD once a month with no special adjustments to Windows. The results are consistently very strong.

 

[whs]

Those nums look great. I myself would never Raid SSDs, but that maybe just me.

I have 1 Vector. But it is still sitting on my desk. Don't know yet which machine I am going to put it in.

 

[Britton30]

Good grief Wolfgang, pick one.
Send me a ticket and I'll come and help you.

 

[whs]

Good grief Wolfgang, pick one.
Send me a ticket and I'll come and help you.

I think I'll use it on my desktop in Germany (which currently has an older Vertex) - maybe even in an external enclosure for my VMware Player systems. But I am only going to be there in May.

 

[Snakeyeskm]

Those nums look great. I myself would never Raid SSDs, but that maybe just me.

I have 1 Vector. But it is still sitting on my desk. Don't know yet which machine I am going to put it in.

I used to believe exactly that. I experimented on one system with the Revodrive3 X2 but initially set up this system with a single Vector. To experiment, I then set up the identical system with the vector Raid 0 and noticed a clear and distinct improvement. Normally moving from a traditional hard drive to an SSD is the most obvious and dramatic improvement, however the Raid 0 of the vectors (note the 4K speeds) is distinctly faster and more responsive than a single vector. I have confirmed this by breaking the raid and loading an image onto a single vector. The difference was even more apparent when doing that. The loading of the Intel raid during boot adds minimal time to the boot process (27 seconds total boot). Obviously, daily disk images are the price paid for any Raid 0 set up.

 

[whs]

I hear what you say. But 27 seconds boot and daily images is a big price to pay. I get 18 second boot from my single M4 and make images only when needed.

 

[Snakeyeskm]

Given your enormous contributions to this forum and your obvious knowledge, I will not even try to argue with you. I should have also looked at: –

"Keep it as simple as possible – that keeps you out of trouble "

Only an idiot would argue against that. Thanks as always

 

[whs]

Thanks for the kind words. And yes, keeping things simple and straight forward always helps.

 

[Britton30]

You could rework that a bit to KISS, Keep It Simple Stupid.

 

[whs]

You could rework that a bit to KISS, Keep It Simple Stupid.

Nah, I want it to sound nice, not agressive.

 

[Snakeyeskm]

You could rework that a bit to KISS, Keep It Simple Stupid.

Us stupid people resent that.

 

[A Guy]

You could rework that a bit to KISS, Keep It Simple Stupid.

Us stupid people resent that.

Us simple people liked it

A Guy

 

[Britton30]

Well, it could be Keep It Stupidly Simple.

 

[essenbe]

Samsung 840 Pro with about 50 GB just written to it