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    SAMSUNG SM950 PRO NVMe SSD

    1st, i'll be the first to admit i'm not that computer literate and have stated that in earlier posts. But i'm not sure what difference it makes, as long as it's the 840 doing it, even if in combo with software - all i know is i ran the 840 as my OS drive for over a day, and it really surprised...
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    SAMSUNG SM950 PRO NVMe SSD

    after i installed the 950 PRO, someone on another forum posted about or how samsung magician's Rapid Mode actually blocks off some of your system's ram to use as Ramdisk, and posted a screenshot showing some outrageous numbers. So i tried it - nearly flipped me out - don't remember why i had...
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    Intel 750 cooler clearance

    if you want to watch your temps, download the free version of Hard Disk Sentinel 4.60.13 beta - then you can quit wondering here's a screen capture of it showing my 950 PRO's temps - the paid version will save days of temps, the free version only today's data
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    Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB cloning

    i used to really dislike samsung's data migration software, until i used it to clone my OS drive to a 950 PRO - got to say i was impressed. Really simple GUI - if you try it be sure to hit the "+" button to add all the partitions to the clone task fwiw
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    SantaTech Giveaway Contest! *Updated*

    hey, twist my arm why don't ya!! i'm in for all of the prizes thanks
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    850 EVO life span question

    This might make it easier to relate to - i render video files for a hobby, and typically render 30 to 80 GB a day, 2-3 days a week to my 840 EVO i use as a "worktable" SSD - this hard drive is right at 2 years old, note the total TB written - I generally upgrade my computer every 6 years -...
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    SAMSUNG SM950 PRO NVMe SSD

    fv - there are 26 screenshots already on or in PCDIY's - just follow those the only selection my board did not have as pictured, was on or in the 26th screen, showing "PCI Express X4_3 Slot (Black) Bandwidth" shown highlighted the only other exception, as i stated above, i left CSM enabled
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    SAMSUNG SM950 PRO NVMe SSD

    i just tried those settings, leaving CSM enabled - the sequence of screenshots in that PCDIY link is a little confusing on CSM - it shows "enabled" being selected, then in next screen shows it "disabled", and then wraps up with a shot of it enabled anyway, wow, my boot time dropped from 18-19...
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    SAMSUNG SM950 PRO NVMe SSD

    fwiw, i tried dis-abling CSM as well (running win 7 x64 Ultimate) w/950 PRO - it wouldn't boot , or rather during boot it would re-enable csm automatically
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    Can anyone suggest an external blu-ray RW for a Mac laptop?

    take a look at this one LG External BD Rewriter BE14NU40 i render a lot of videos - a couple of retired TV production engineers on another forum recommended this one for playing / writing blu-ray disks i was having some problems with BD disks that were too scratched to be read or copied -...
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    Music for long term storage...

    i was showing you how i keep my SSDs from loosing data over time due to lack of power, which SSDs will do
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    Music for long term storage...

    fwiw, on the subject of unpowered SSD storage i've been using one of these for a few years now, for that very purpose one of the bays is powered + the data cable is connected, the other is only powered, with no data connection I'll clone the OS drive, and then move the SSD to the bay w/o data...
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    SAMSUNG SM950 PRO NVMe SSD

    if you have a samsung 840 or 850, run samsung magician and enable Rapid Mode and see for yourself for actual tasks involving large files, according to johnnylucky's post, i need to look into the available ramdisk programs and see what that does to my video rendering times - i suspect it won't...
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    SAMSUNG SM950 PRO NVMe SSD

    after running those video rendering tests after enabling rapid mode on a 2 yr old 840 EVO, the benchmarks i saw on the 840 had me wondering how the computer would run with the 840 as the OS drive. Just as a reminder, below are those benchmarks Last night i cloned the 950 PRO to the 840...
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    SAMSUNG SM950 PRO NVMe SSD

    I'm running win 7 x64 as well. Installing the samsung NVMe driver is pretty simple - i forget who, but someone earlier in this thread detailed installing the driver on his system first (the 950 PRO will have to be installed on the motherboard first, or the driver will not install if it doesn't...
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    SAMSUNG SM950 PRO NVMe SSD

    I noticed that and that's the part that has me scratiching the bald spot at the back of my head - would have thought the hard drive would be something of a bottleneck, but that didn't prove to be the case
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    SAMSUNG SM950 PRO NVMe SSD

    if you're using HandBrake, i'd love to know approx times to compress a given size file, whatever the size - curious what kind of time advantage a 6 core/12T cpu gives
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    SAMSUNG SM950 PRO NVMe SSD

    actually i do have MakeMKV - got tired of the junkware DVDFAB i had been using. I use MakeMKV to rip the video file, but it rips 1:1, so i end up with a, well in this case, a 42.3 GB file, which wouldn't let me store 25 videos / TB. Time to copy the entire BD disk with MakeMKV was about 24...
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    SAMSUNG SM950 PRO NVMe SSD

    Well, i ran a number of different trials rendering the 42.3 GB video file from one drive to another, trying different combinations. I rendered to the 50% mark in Handbrake, and noted the volume of the file rendered as well as the time. In all the below results, the OS resided on the 950 PRO...
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    SAMSUNG SM950 PRO NVMe SSD

    Frankly, i'm not sure right now - someone over on tom's pointed out that enabling "RAPID" mode in samsung magician seems to crank the read/write numbers up quite a bit - apparently RAPID stakes out a portion of your ram to use in conjunction with your sata SSD - i just enabled it and ran a...
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    confused about m2 ssd connector

    Most M.2 SSDs are "M" keyed, with the notch on the right (right if you were standing on the ssd looking at the socket, and some SSDs are keyed for both (M+B). in the link, the SSD on the far right of the picture is M keyed...
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    What are some ways to clone a hard drive of different sizes?

    i just cloned a 512 gb drive to a 256 gb drive the 512 didn't have a lot of data, in fact about 100 gb, so i reduced the main partition (C) in size in disk management and left 358 gb as "unallocated" cloned without a hitch - worked with both EaseUS ToDo Backup and samsung's Data Migration...
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    SAMSUNG SM950 PRO NVMe SSD

    thanks - i'll look into it the samsung migration software did clone the 950 to the samsung 810, and i'm sure it'll clone it to one of my 840 SSDs
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    SAMSUNG SM950 PRO NVMe SSD

    something else i've learned about the full meaning of non-support for an "OEM" product vs "retail" version: While the samsung data migration did copy or clone my OS drive, a 256 gb samsung xp941, to the 950 PRO, it won't clone from the 950 PRO back to the xp941, and it's not an issue of the...
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    SAMSUNG SM950 PRO NVMe SSD

    i like the design - and brass would definitely be a better material choice. If you wanted a product to sell on the web, that one would sell on looks alone. If you built it in aluminum as well, and did some tests and showed those results, offering both versions (obviously the aluminum one would...
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    SAMSUNG SM950 PRO NVMe SSD

    a mentor of mine used to say "old age ain't for pu**ies" - i appreciate that stmt more and more each day
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    SAMSUNG SM950 PRO NVMe SSD

    if you check, you'll find brass & copper both have a higher rate or co-efficient of thermal conductivity than aluminum - that was reason mfgrs like Henry Ford used brass for their radiators back in the early 1900s. CF isn't hard to machine once laid up and cured, but it can be mold injected...
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    Have memory prices bottomed out or should I wait a bit longer?

    yeah, that's a strong possibility, but i suspect DDR3 is "yesterday's news" and DDR4 is the flavor du jour. Still, a drop of nearly 50% of their peak price is kind of a signal that this isn't a bad time to buy
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    SAMSUNG SM950 PRO NVMe SSD

    NICE - i like and as to SSDs in the M.2 socket - you're right - i'm tunnel visioned on SSDs mounted on an expansion card because my M.2 socket was x2 and, in addition, killed or dis-abled 2 sata ports when the M.2 socket was in use what i'm waiting for is for someone to come out with a carbon...
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    Have memory prices bottomed out or should I wait a bit longer?

    how much lower do you want them to go? the same DDR3 i paid $156 for 9 months ago is now $85
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    SAMSUNG SM950 PRO NVMe SSD

    nice rendition - someone works with or in solidworks the advantage to placing the fan parallel to the ssd is it blows air across both sides of the controller, ie front and rear This isn't a critical heat situation, so fv's approach will work, but in general, blowing directly or perpendicular...
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    SAMSUNG SM950 PRO NVMe SSD

    the part that gets hot is the controller, and it's an approx 3/4x3/4" square near the end of the ssd that's mounted into the socket. The memory chips or NAND do not get very warm at all i've been using a 40mmx10mm noctura fan and it's doing fine, ran Prime95 for 20 minutes and never saw a temp...
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    SAMSUNG SM950 PRO NVMe SSD

    i bought off ebay - the same seller has returned with the asus board for $19.99, and $2.xx for shipping that's cheaper than i've seen the addonics board or the lycom dt120 board (both the same board) http://www.ebay.com/itm/321873311934?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
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    SAMSUNG SM950 PRO NVMe SSD

    not sure what you mean by "back end" - if you mean the back side, no small capacitors, diodes or whatever components on the surface
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    Need a 2TB or 3TB storage drive.

    i've got six WD Green 4TB HDDs, had 4 of them over a year, no issues i've gotten lucky twice, catching them on sale for $99 shipped, but normal price is $135, which still = $33.75 / TB
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    SAMSUNG SM950 PRO NVMe SSD

    that's why i was asking - i mounted a small 40mm fan directly over the controller and am seeing nearly identical temps Picture below showing the xp941 installed - it's since been replaced w/950 PRO
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    SAMSUNG SM950 PRO NVMe SSD

    curious what you're doing in the way of cooling that 950 - have you got a fan on it, or a heatsink?
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    SAMSUNG SM950 PRO NVMe SSD

    "... It cannot boot NVMe,..." have you tried the samsung nvme driver for the 950 PRO? http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisite/SSD/global/html/support/downloads.html?CID=AFL-hq-mul-0813-11000170
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    SAMSUNG SM950 PRO NVMe SSD

    "...really dating myself aren't I...lol" that would make you almost as old as i am sorry - i was confused, promo code was for newegg, and apparently they're already sold out taken from johnnylucky's post "Newegg special promotion today. Select Samsung ssd's 10% off with coupon code...
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    SAMSUNG SM950 PRO NVMe SSD

    johnnylucky posted a promo code for 10% off on amazon, the other day in his thread over on Tom's - don't know if the promo code is still good, but that's still $15 or $17 more than your discounted Fry's price. Don't know if the satisfaction of buying from amazon is worth the extra to you
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