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New Samsung SSD 840 EVO Read Performance Fix Coming Later This Month

Posted by Soulskill on from the slower-than-fastest-but-faster-than-slowest dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The Samsung SSD 840 EVO read performance bug has been on the table for over six months now. Initially Samsung acknowledged the issue fairly quickly and provided a fix only a month after the news hit the mainstream tech media, but reports of read performance degradation surfaced again a few weeks after the fix had been released, making it clear that the first fix didn't solve the issue for all users. Two months ago Samsung announced that a new fix is in the works and last week Samsung sent out the new firmware along with Magician 4.6 for testing, which will be available to the public later this month.

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  1. Too late; already sold my EVO's on eBay by SplatMan_DK · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Six months is not an acceptable time to wait for a performance fix for an SSD drive. The very essence of an SSD is "speed".

    I offloaded the EVO's on eBay (being honest about the reason) and got myself a couple of Plextor Pro drives. Running in RAID0 they are a bit slower at random reads than the EVOs, but faster at sustained transfer rates.

    An SSD with slow/degraded performance is like a burger without the beef... something is missing...!

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    1. Re:Too late; already sold my EVO's on eBay by davester666 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Good. Fast. Cheap.

      You bought Samsung, so you picked cheap.

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    2. Re:Too late; already sold my EVO's on eBay by SplatMan_DK · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Not quite. The specs on the EVO 840's are actually very good ... if only they lived up to them!

      If this new fix actually works, the EVO's will be a very good buy. Pretty reliable too according to tests. I just couldn't wait (and had no idea if/when a fix was ever going to surface).

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  2. Re:Raises a point about tech reviews by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Unfortunately, most of the sites that do reviews survive thanks to their readers. Which means they can't afford to wait 6 months after product release to publish. By that time, most of their competition has taken their views.