Samsung 840 Evo Discussion Thread

[Freddy1765]

Ordered the 120GB, should arrive tomorrow! First SSD for my desktop, looking forward to it..

 

[BlueBomber]

So I pre-ordered the 500GB Evo from Newegg and the site said it'd be available on the 14th, but then on the 14th it said out of stock with an ETA of the 19th (today). But now it's out of stock again. I can't tell if there are just that many pre-orders or if Newegg isn't actually being supplied any units so they keep bumping the ETA out.

I have no clue when they'll actually get any in stock, which sucks since it's the last component I'm waiting for do to my build.

 

[TazFTW]

So I pre-ordered the 500GB Evo from Newegg and the site said it'd be available on the 14th, but then on the 14th it said out of stock with an ETA of the 19th (today). But now it's out of stock again. I can't tell if there are just that many pre-orders or if Newegg isn't actually being supplied any units so they keep bumping the ETA out.

I have no clue when they'll actually get any in stock, which sucks since it's the last component I'm waiting for do to my build.

I think Samsung hasn't shipped them out yet. This seems to apply to the 500GB and the 1TB.

 

[Coup27]

They have shipped some out because one of the UK largest etailers has stock.

 

[yours truly]

Ordered the 750gb for £379 at dabs. I wanted the 1tb but it worked out to be £100 more expensive. I'm going to ditch one of my 64gb M4's and give to my brother.

Sweet, I finally can consolidate all my games onto one drive. Should be here tomorrow..

 

[Shmee]

look like nice drives, at reasonable prices! May buy one of these to augment my M4 as it fills

 

[Remobz]

Not everybody is a gamer. I think most non-gaming people have several hundred GB of personal photos, vacation movies and that sort of things. They definitely need space, but for those people a 1 TB EVO would make no sense, just stick to a WD Green or similar. However, this group of people tend to rely on laptops, and you have a hard time using multiple drives in those, so a large SSD is the way to go if you can afford it and do not want the hassle of external HDDs.

Personally I want as large SSD as possible for professional reasons. I move ~1 TB a day, and I know that sticking my files on an SSD makes my postprocessing 3 times faster, so there is some real productivity gains to be made in my case.

Would you believe I never filled any HDD over 200GB of data. Long story there, but I am shocked at how many GB's some of you guys can fill up here.

 

[Cerb]

200GBs is a fair music collection, <20 games, and basically no photos and videos. It's easy to fill up more space, with videos at up to 5GB/hr, 2MB+/ea. photos, 300+MB/disc CDs (I average just over 360MB/disc), 5-40GB games, OSes, and so on.

You're not going to use up 200GB with email and office documents, even with XML-based formats.

 

[SexyK]

Got a 750GB model set for delivery today. Can't wait to ditch the spinners in my gaming rig.

 

[Coup27]

I just ordered mine along with my new Haswell rig to replace the system in my sig. w00t.

 

[yours truly]

I just ordered mine along with my new Haswell rig to replace the system in my sig. w00t.

did you order via dabs? They're doing 20% off at the moment + 2% quidco

edit: oops meant £30 off

 

[Coup27]

Really? Where does it say that?

http://www.dabs.com/products/samsun...6gb-s-2-5--solid-state-drive-8WCF.html?src=15

I get most my parts from either Scan or Ebuyer. I went with Scan this time for everything except my case. I wanted a Lian Li PC-Q28B which nobody sells in the UK so I've had to get it from Case King Germany. I used to use Overclockers a lot but think they've gone down the pan in the last few years.

 

[yours truly]

Enter code: BTS30 at checkout

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/sam...es-sata-6gb-s-2-5-ssd-for-377-54-dabs-1634989

with quidco, £369.99

I normally use scan and ebuyer too. Haven't used dabs in ages but thought it was worth a punt. Mine didn't arrive today. Free delivery via Royal Mail, so not too worried. Hopefully tomorrow.

 

[Koing]

IMHO once you've used a ssd you won't want a spinner and the prices keep falling all the time as newer models hit the market.

One of my best purchases tech wise ever.

I got a 830Pro for my 2008 Macbook (already up the ram to 4GB) It makes it much faster and I'll never get a laptop without an SSD.

Koing

 

[Coup27]

Enter code: BTS30 at checkout

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/sam...es-sata-6gb-s-2-5-ssd-for-377-54-dabs-1634989

with quidco, £369.99

I normally use scan and ebuyer too. Haven't used dabs in ages but thought it was worth a punt. Mine didn't arrive today. Free delivery via Royal Mail, so not too worried. Hopefully tomorrow.

I had no idea Dabs had an offer on. I've only bought the 120GB version anyway.

 

[yours truly]

Got my Evo 750GB installed. Finally manned up and stuck Windows 8 on my other drive. I kind of like it.

I'm using the Evo purely as a games drive so I was slightly annoyed I've only got 698GB of free space. I've lost 52GB straight off the bat.

Oh well.

 

[Engineer]

Got my Evo 750GB installed. Finally manned up and stuck Windows 8 on my other drive. I kind of like it.

I'm using the Evo purely as a games drive so I was slightly annoyed I've only got 698GB of free space. I've lost 52GB straight off the bat.

Oh well.

You didn't lose it. Windows reports it as 1024^3 per GB and drive makers report it as 1000^3 per GB.

750,000,000 / 1024^3 = 698.xx GB (as reported by Windows).

 

[yours truly]

oh, ok. Thanks.

So far, so good..

cheers

 

[Engineer]

Samsung Magician 4.2.1 available now:

http://www.samsung.com/global/busin..._skim355X561X8a1e748bd4d032d0d3d15dabb290b6a6

 

[yours truly]

Thanks. I installed the update straight away. I like Magician. It's quite slick.

To be honest, a little disappointed with steam. Not sure what I expected. Maybe for it to be very snappy and I suppose it's a little faster than my Spinpoint F3 but the difference so far is negligible.

Not liking Windows 8. Trying to install Borderlands 2 and it's hung on Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistribution. Cancelling it does nothing. 3 games I've tried playing and none of them will start.

 

[Hugo Drax]

When 1TB SSDs are selling for 50 dollars then you will see them replacing 1TB HDDs for 90% of the end user population.

The 10% power user will pay the 60cents a GB for fast I/O

 

[GlacierFreeze]

Where can I get a $50 1TB HDD?

 

[Engineer]

Where can I get a $50 1TB HDD?

Does external count?

(I've seen internal drives at this price too lately).

Your Price: $49.99
With Promo Code
EMCXMVT33

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822178115

Edit: Actually, there were quite a few 2TB internal drives on clearance at Staples last week for $36.50. A little YMMV but there were enough of them to make it worth looking.

 

[Puffnstuff]

I for one welcome the larger capacity ssd's and would like to replace all of my spinners with them.

 

[Coup27]

Where can I get a $50 1TB HDD?

You can't. The entire post made no sense.