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[essenbe]

Very good, Bill. Now just enjoy it. Benchmarks are for bragging rites and occasionally to make sure there is nothing wrong. Actually using and enjoying the performance gains quickness of it are for fun. nice scores anyway.

 

[Sxcd1]

Samsung SSD 840

Are these numbers appropriate for this drive on a 6 Gig/s SATA 3 connection?
Samsung Magician set to maximize performance and Samsung performance restoration 1.1.

 

[A Guy]

The SSD Endurance Experiment: Two freaking petabytes

More than a year ago, we drafted six SSDs for a suicide mission. We were curious about how many writes they could survive before burning out. We also wanted to track how each one's performance characteristics and health statistics changed as the writes accumulated. And, somewhat morbidly, we wanted to watch what happened when the drives finally expired.

Our SSD Endurance Experiment has left four casualties in its wake so far. Representatives from the Corsair Neutron Series GTX, Intel 335 Series, Kingston HyperX 3K, and Samsung 840 Series all perished to satisfy our curiosity. Each one absorbed far more damage than its official endurance specification promised—and far more than the vast majority of users are likely to inflict.

The last victim fell at 1.2PB, which is barely a speck in the rear-view mirror for our remaining subjects. The 840 Pro and a second HyperX 3K have now reached two freaking petabytes of writes. To put that figure into perspective, the SSDs in my main desktop have logged less than two terabytes of writes over the past couple years. At this rate, it'll take me a thousand years to reach that total.

So, yeah. Pretty insane. It's time for another check-up.

Source

A Guy

 

[RicePG]

Although..I don't even think it's active...I'm not sure.

 

[JerometheGiraff]

Although..I don't even think it's active...I'm not sure.

Ah you have a 850 I want to buy one, my 128 gig is doing alright I want a little more space

 

[Golden]

My old OCZ Vertex 2:


Samsung 840 EVO:

 

[essenbe]

Nice Colin. I know you'll like that. Nice increase there.

 

[thanostsimo]

Hey guys! That's my SanDisk Ultra II 120GB

 

[essenbe]

Nice score and welcome to the Forums,

 

[Layback Bear]

Just for S & G I did a test. My old work horse Inte 530.

 

[essenbe]

Nice one, Jack.

 

[Layback Bear]

Intel's were never known to be the fastest dog in the race.
First time I have ever tested it. It works great and the Intel Tool box gives a 100%.

When I get in the mood I will test my Samsung.

 

[Skylais]

This is what i got, speeds actually increased after i enabled rapid drive in the Samsung software, and also after i used the same software's performance optimization.
is this software's benchmark reliable though?
pretty sure this is incorrect
updated with thread's suggested software

 

[A Guy]

Rapid mode uses system Ram as well. I don't think people report a "seat of the pants feel" increase when using it. Tests seem to say it works in some cases, but not others.

A closer look at RAPID DRAM caching on the Samsung 840 EVO SSD - The Tech Report - Page 1

Samsung Magician 4.5 RAPID Mode - Evaluated With Demonstrated Speed Increase | The SSD Review

It won't speed up boot, and may slow it a bit. I didn't enable it myself. A Guy

 

[essenbe]

In my opinion, Bill is exactly correct. It will give some terrific benchmark scores, but I did not find any difference in actual usage. I think the reason is that the speed of an SSD is in the 4kb read speed and the access times. Those numbers do not change much, if at all. The rest of the numbers on benchmarks go up tremendously, but 99% of us will never see those numbers. That's my take on it.

 

[COMPUTIAC]

Did anyone run this test on a Intel 730 yet ?
I looked back a few pages and did not see any so far.

 

[LarryA]

Intel 730 Series Bench Mark_Utility AS-SSD

Found this entire thread a very interesting read.

Larry

 

[LarryA]

Did anyone run this test on a Intel 730 yet ?
I looked back a few pages and did not see any so far.

Just ran a bench on the Intel 730 Series

 

[whs]

This is an article worth reading. And let's retain it for those that still have doubts about the SSD reliability and those that shut off all kinds of services because they are afraid of the writes.

The SSD Endurance Experiment: They're all dead - The Tech Report - Page 1

 

[essenbe]

Good article, Wolfgang.