Advise on an SSD

**Merritt** · 03-20-16, 06:54 PM

Thanks fellers. I picked up the Crucial MX.

Amazon.com: Crucial MX200 250GB SATA 2.5 Inch Internal Solid State Drive - CT250MX200SSD1: Computers & Accessories

**roadhog0** · 03-21-16, 11:20 AM

Originally Posted by [CoFR]SirMoo

Samsung 840EVO Performance Degradation Follow-Up -- Latest Firmware Update and Magician 4.6 Software Now Available | The SSD Review

On the 840 EVOs, the data only degrades as it ages, so if you just wrote files to it, you will benchmark ok. But leave some data on it for a few months (like say BF4 game files) and that is when the problem appears. The latest firmware that "prevents" the problem is: EXT0DB6Q. Note There are issues with that firmware on old linux versions (since it also advertises NCQ TRIM for some reason when the drive does not support it and some older version of linux kernels barf when they try to NCQ TRIM; not a problem on Windows since Windows does not NCQ TRIM at all https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...m/+bug/1449005).

My final 2c: The conservative choice would be a Crucial MX200. Otherwise 850 EVO. If you gots the cash, the 850 Pro beats both of them.

After reading this thread I went ahead and updated my firmware. I've had the BF4 stuff on this machine for about 9 months now and they're still pretty snappy (first few to load in). Maybe I just got lucky or I just don't notice it. Either way I do appreciate the heads up on the firmware.

**HeavyG** · 03-22-16, 12:05 PM

I had two Samsung drives with issues, both were 840 Evo drives. One just flat out died and I had to RMA. It is still working, but was disappointing that I had to go through the trouble. The other 840 started to have errors, so I had to go through the pain in the ass steps to update the firmware and then repair the drive. Again, huge pain because I had to take the little APU box in my bedroom offline while the drive was being updated and reformatted.

Those drives aside, I have a Samsung M.2 that has been running strong for 10 months, and I just installed a Samsung MSata 850 Pro drive into a small MiniITX build, and I like the performance on it. Boot times seem great.

Intel SSDs are extremely solid. I have a single 530 drive that has been an absolute tank, and I am running 4x 730 drives in a single RAID 0 array that hasn't had a single error yet (knocks on wood).