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General => Technology & Hardware => Topic started by: 3viction on January 28, 2014, 11:03:19 am

Title: Samsung 840 SSDs
Post by: 3viction on January 28, 2014, 11:03:19 am
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 (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=samsung+840&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Asamsung+840)
Title: Re: Samsung 840 SSDs
Post by: benlav on January 28, 2014, 01:05:20 pm
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 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXxUmCs1flI#ws)

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.
Title: Re: Samsung 840 SSDs
Post by: 3viction on January 28, 2014, 02:16:49 pm
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.
Title: Re: Samsung 840 SSDs
Post by: Matt on January 28, 2014, 03:05:44 pm
Why do you feel the need to post it as a referral url?
Title: Re: Samsung 840 SSDs
Post by: ArtanisNZ on January 28, 2014, 03:07:36 pm
Had two 840's died on me... working one day turn the computer on the next and dead :\
Title: Re: Samsung 840 SSDs
Post by: benlav on January 28, 2014, 03:17:03 pm
Why do you feel the need to post it as a referral url?

?? me or OP?
Title: Re: Samsung 840 SSDs
Post by: 3viction on January 29, 2014, 11:03:39 am
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?
Title: Re: Samsung 840 SSDs
Post by: 3viction on February 13, 2014, 12:06:14 pm
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 (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.
Title: Re: Samsung 840 SSDs
Post by: Scopey on 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.
Title: Re: Samsung 840 SSDs
Post by: Codex on February 14, 2014, 09:21:41 am
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
Title: Re: Samsung 840 SSDs
Post by: BeNZene on February 15, 2014, 08:04:25 am
That is tempting.  Have one, but who couldn't do with more space...
Title: Re: Samsung 840 SSDs
Post by: Codex on February 18, 2014, 03:23:55 pm
That is tempting.  Have one, but who couldn't do with more space...
Do it friend! You won't regret it!
Title: Re: Samsung 840 SSDs
Post by: Spork on February 18, 2014, 11:04:25 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.