Topic: Samsung 840 SSDs

Offline 3viction

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If anyone was after one of these amazon currently has a sale on them. I picked up a 120gb for about $110 with shipping and a mate got the 250gb one for $210 with free shipping. Reviews I read they seem to be pretty good. Should speed up my BF4 loading a bit :D.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=samsung+840&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Asamsung+840

Posted: January 28, 2014, 11:03:19 am
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I might get another. This is my vid I posted the day I got it, with HDD vs SDD (before install and after install comparison).



BF4 load up (from shutdown) with HDD vs newly installed SDD Samsung 840 Evo Pro 128GB

Ignore the title, there is no such thing as an EVO PRO, it's either EVO or PRO, mine is a PRO. I think the PRO is slightly higher spec, or the newer model? I can't remember now.

Reply #1 Posted: January 28, 2014, 01:05:20 pm

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That's pretty quick. Yeah I think the pro ones are slightly quicker and are supposed to last a lot longer than the evo ones. I'm considering buying the 250gb for my laptop. It only has one hdd slot but apparently its not too hard to remove the dvd drive and chuck another hdd in there if needed.

Reply #2 Posted: January 28, 2014, 02:16:49 pm
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Why do you feel the need to post it as a referral url?

Reply #3 Posted: January 28, 2014, 03:05:44 pm
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Had two 840's died on me... working one day turn the computer on the next and dead :\

Reply #4 Posted: January 28, 2014, 03:07:36 pm

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Quote from Matt: January 28, 2014, 03:05:44 pm
Why do you feel the need to post it as a referral url?

?? me or OP?

Reply #5 Posted: January 28, 2014, 03:17:03 pm

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Quote from Matt: January 28, 2014, 03:05:44 pm
Why do you feel the need to post it as a referral url?
mines just a search in amazon and I copied the link? Maybe its ref for reference not referral?

Reply #6 Posted: January 29, 2014, 11:03:39 am
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http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Electronics-EVO-Series-2-5-Inch-MZ-7TE250BW/dp/B00E3W1726/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1392246235&sr=8-1&keywords=samsung+evo

Jeez its now over $75 cheaper than buying from the cheapest pricespy store. Probably should get one for my laptop..
Around $175nzd for 250gb.

Reply #7 Posted: February 13, 2014, 12:06:14 pm
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I got one in my PC. Works a dream no issues.

My boot time record from off -> having chrome open is 8 seconds. That's straight after a reformat with UEFI fine tuned though...

Significantly longer on that time when a re-enabled my password.

Reply #8 Posted: February 13, 2014, 11:15:24 pm

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Mines about the same on my PC, ultrabook has 2xssd's in raid0, boots from bios to login in about 3-4 seconds at most, it's insane haha

Reply #9 Posted: February 14, 2014, 09:21:41 am

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That is tempting.  Have one, but who couldn't do with more space...

Reply #10 Posted: February 15, 2014, 08:04:25 am

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That is tempting.  Have one, but who couldn't do with more space...
Do it friend! You won't regret it!

Reply #11 Posted: February 18, 2014, 03:23:55 pm

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Quote from Scopey: February 13, 2014, 11:15:24 pm
I got one in my PC. Works a dream no issues.

My boot time record from off -> having chrome open is 8 seconds. That's straight after a reformat with UEFI fine tuned though...

Significantly longer on that time when a re-enabled my password.

I was amazed when I had something pretty similar, think it was closer to 10 seconds once I had all my stuff installed.

Hasn't really been much close to that at all since then but still at least a minute quicker than my old SSD/ PC.

Reply #12 Posted: February 18, 2014, 11:04:25 pm
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