No, I'm sorry, I meant they use a serial based warranty, meaning you don't need to show proof of purchase.
I didnt know MSI has this kind of warranty. Do they also send you a new one and you can mail them the faulty one all for free?
They better have low RMA rates, otherwise with the thin margins as they have they would be bankrupt in no time
I have to agree with you on this one.Nothing with sandforce is reasonable. Unless you want to live on the edge.
I have to agree with you on this one.
Yet HP uses Intel Sanforce drives exclusively. Probably Dell also.
Yet HP uses Intel Sanforce drives exclusively. Probably Dell also.
Yet HP uses Intel Sanforce drives exclusively. Probably Dell also.
Because HP is such a synonym for reliability
Not Dell also... they use, perhaps among others, Lite-On SSDs with the Marvell controller.
Dell and probably HP uses whatever is available and cost-effective, rather than any specific type drive.
You won't find anything HP in my house...
I have the MX100 512MB. I do not use it as my primary but I do run most of my VM's off of it. So far it has worked flawlessly.
From what I saw of all the BSOD issues, the problem occurred if you used Acronis to clone your existing drive to the MX100.
I don't recall anyone using fresh installs or other methods having issues.
Since I got burned with the 840 EVO performance degradation my next SSD will be a crucial.
I hope they can fix the issue for good though.
In all fairness, Samaung has a fix for the slowness issue. Of course they can't make everyone apply it.
Not sure which fix you talk about, but the one they released couple months ago apparently isn't a permanent fix.. today on anandtech news they will release a new "fix" in march or something like that
are the 850 Evo's also affected by this btw??
Yep they had one temporary fix to hold users over to a more permanent one. One suppose you could argue that the issue shouldn't have made it to production, but at least they are trying.
I have not seen anyone report that the 850 is having performance degradation issues.
But the fix you referred to in the first place, did that help with stale data or not?
As I understand it, it did with some but not others. Luck of the draw...
I don't believe the 850Evo is seeing this problem.
I don't want to spread FUD because Samsung probably paid attention to avoid this issue in the newer SSDs since it's quite dangerous marketing-wise unless they're stupid, but the problem is that the issue sprung up like one year later. Plenty of other brands have sold SSDs with issues, this is relatively minor IF they can get it solved for good.
850 evo is still using some kind of tlc memory which seems to be the drives affected.. there more expensive pro's have mlc which don't have this prob..
nobody has the 850 evo or maybe it's not around long enough but i expect the same problems
No, EVO is using a completly differend kind of memory. While it has 3 bits per cell, its using 3D NAND, built at 40nm class fab. That means much much bigger cells and thus lower possibility for that kind of leakage.
Problem with 840evo is small cells (19nm) and triple level cells. That means its much more sensitive to cell leakage, as it needs to differentiate more voltage states.
I have the MX100 512MB. I do not use it as my primary but I do run most of my VM's off of it. So far it has worked flawlessly.
From what I saw of all the BSOD issues, the problem occurred if you used Acronis to clone your existing drive to the MX100.
I don't recall anyone using fresh installs or other methods having issues.
Isn't the main downside with the MX100 that it uses quite a bit of energy, so heating up more then the Samsungs.. meaning your laptop fan will spin up more?
Still would like to know if 850 Evo with 3D NAND TLC mem won't have the same degradation probs as 840
No, EVO is using a completly differend kind of memory. While it has 3 bits per cell, its using 3D NAND, built at 40nm class fab. That means much much bigger cells and thus lower possibility for that kind of leakage.
Problem with 840evo is small cells (19nm) and triple level cells. That means its much more sensitive to cell leakage, as it needs to differentiate more voltage states.