Thread: SSD Opinion

o.O I'm glad I didn't get any Samsung SSDs when I got mine then. I'd have been cursing as well.

Originally Posted by BrokenApe

You know, I thought I'd never exhaust my vocabulary of invective but today the profanity flowed freely.. 509 sequential read, 468 sequential write... and it would have never happened unless I'd come across an article from someone else with a Gigabyte motherboard like I have using a Samsung SSD which said to use the Standard AHCI 1.0 Serial ATA Controller instead of whatever Gigabyte provided (which btw blue screened and wouldn't work) Before it was in IDE mode and AHCI wouldn't work, posting this here as a reminder to others hopefully it prevents someone else from wanting to beat their head against the desk

Broken, I'm a little confused by your post. Are you now running in AHCI mode? When I installed my 250 GB Samsung 840 EVO, I couldn't get it to install in AHCI mode, and had to install in IDE mode (I also have a Gigabyte MB). I later used the registry edit that allows switching to AHCI mode, which worked and improved my read and write speeds. I have been running around 280/270 sequential read and write, but my dated MB is only SATA II, so I was OK with that.

Just last week I decided to try RAPID mode in Samsung Magician (uses system RAM caching), and sequential read/write (per Magician) are now roughly 3000/1900! I thought this had to be inaccurate, but a web search indicated the benchmarks are legit. Whether this results in a perceptible difference in computing speed is debatable. Example article: Samsung Magician 4.5 RAPID Mode - Evaluated With Demonstrated Speed Increase | The SSD Review

Something to consider, anyway.

I use a Samsung 850 Pro 1TB and have to say it's phenomenal. Fast and reliable and not a single Samsung SSD I have owned has ever gone bad. Had problems with PNY, Patriot, Corsair and Kingston. No problems with Crucial or Intel either.


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