Samsung 840 Pro SSD: More Speed, Less Power, And Toggle-Mode 2.0

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I'd much rather spend the extra bucks on Samsung with their stellar trackrecord than betting on OCZ's SSD reputation not affecting me, the fact that Samsung makes all their SSD parts and OCZ soon to be annexed by Seagate(say bye bye to your warranty, joke is on you if you think OCZ warranty is dependable, voiding warranty with merges is basically their MO) plays a part too.
 
The list of competitor SSD's you have previously tested that you compare it to is missing any and all Mushkin SSD's, yet the Mushkin Enhanced Chronos Deluxe 240GB unit has long been a Toms recommended unit? What gives?
 
Reading past SSD articles mentions that the higher capacity drives can usually outperform lower ones with the sheer virtue of saturating the lanes easier. Will the 256GB 840 perform on the same level as the 512GB model?
 
i had just committed to a Samsung 830 128GB and a Samsung 830 256GB and now THIS comes out?? Still, I can't say enough about how great the 830's are. I returned two Intel 520's because they were BSODing and freezing. The 830's have been ROCK SOLID, and reliability is job #1. Samsung's vertical integration is paying superb dividends!
 
[citation][nom]niknikktm[/nom]The list of competitor SSD's you have previously tested that you compare it to is missing any and all Mushkin SSD's, yet the Mushkin Enhanced Chronos Deluxe 240GB unit has long been a Toms recommended unit? What gives?[/citation]

Chronos performs roughly identically to the Vertex 3 and the Chronos Delux performs roughly identically to the Vertex 3 MAXIOPS, so there's no reason to have them on the charts too. SandForce SSDs with the same cache, controller, and NAND interface generally perform almost exactly identically.
 
[citation][nom]RedJaron[/nom]Reading past SSD articles mentions that the higher capacity drives can usually outperform lower ones with the sheer virtue of saturating the lanes easier. Will the 256GB 840 perform on the same level as the 512GB model?[/citation]

The 240/256GB models usually perform similarly to the 480GB/512GB models. Going even further beyond often actually has a negative effect on performance rather than a positive one.
 
What impresses me most (as a consumer user) is the rather significant drop in power requirements. While it'll be much more obvious going from a typical HDD to an SSD, I have to believe that this increase in efficiency will give a little more battery life for laptops. I have no idea how much... but if it's at least 15 minutes, that's definitely decent.
 
[citation][nom]Anonymous[/nom]What impresses me most (as a consumer user) is the rather significant drop in power requirements. While it'll be much more obvious going from a typical HDD to an SSD, I have to believe that this increase in efficiency will give a little more battery life for laptops. I have no idea how much... but if it's at least 15 minutes, that's definitely decent.[/citation]

It probably won't make a noticeable improvement over the 830 in battery time. The 830 already uses so little power and the 840 doesn't use greatly less.
 
maybe it's me but why compare 512G models to 128G & 256G versions? seems a bit slanted as the bigger drives in SSD do tend to perform better imho. Personally I think OCZ vertex 4 because of the price & perfomance at that dollar point. I think newegg had it for $99.00
 
It doesn't make sense to me to compare 512GB model to 128, 240 and 256GB models. Even two models (let's say 120GB and 240GB or 128GB and 256GB) from the same manufacturer have different bandwidth.
 
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