Samsung Fixes 840 EVO SSD Performance Drop With Firmware Patch

[mark0718]

Typical for SSDs is that the data lasts 6 months to 1 year power off.

Typically, rewriting all the active data on a powered on device every
month would be reasonable, compared to only rewriting stuff
just before is is likely to disappear. Perhaps a good frequency
is 1/month, rather than, at best, never. Over a 10 year live
this would at most "waste" 120 out of the 1000 or more average rewrite
lifetime of cells.

 

[cliffro]

Anyone have it fail on step 3? It was cruising along till step 3 then failed at 80% I hit retry and its atleast made it to 81% now.

 

[lookanlearn]

Well, (the link ~ Update) it worked on my rig.

But why not already on the Magician software update I checked hours before finding this out (on this site) and doing it....?

 

[The_Icon]

I just ran through the utility, checked the firmware update restoration utility now?

 

[The_Icon]

Ok, my firwamre got update to that.

 

[dgingeri]

Mine worked well. I noticed a bit of a difference in certain portions of WoW and STO, but both of those games have been patched so much recently that there isn't much that is more than a month old. Diablo 3 loaded a lot faster.

 

[dgingeri]

Now I understand what all they did, and this is a true fix. I originally thought the firmware would just rewrite old data once in a while to keep it fresh and keep the performance up, at the sacrifice of drive durability. It's not. It's a real fix with a utility to rewrite the drive on the data once, putting it and keeping it at full performance. I applaud Samsung for this complete fix. That's the way to do it.

 

[The_Icon]

Now I understand what all they did, and this is a true fix. I originally thought the firmware would just rewrite old data once in a while to keep it fresh and keep the performance up, at the sacrifice of drive durability. It's not. It's a real fix with a utility to rewrite the drive on the data once, putting it and keeping it at full performance. I applaud Samsung for this complete fix. That's the way to do it.

Really liking this SSD, the only problem is their magician software causes some issues when launching some games like Metro Last Light, BF4. Metro LL kicks you you out to the desktop while the game is still running and BF4 always starts at windowed mode. Closing the magician software fixed it for me.

 

[B16CXHatch]

Hmmmm, I have a Samsung 840 Evo in my PS3. I wonder how I'm gonna go about dealing with it. I'm running the utility right now on the 840 Evo in my gaming PC.

 

[BrushyBill]

@B16CXHatch, I think they said that it will fix itself over time anyways. Just update the firmware. The restoration just speeds things along because it rewrites everything now, instead of over the time you use the SSD and rewrites happen normally (slower process).

 

[bjmarler]

FYI, my 849 EVO would not upgrade with the Magician software. I had to go download the update and install in manually. I worked perfectly. I did a benchmark before and after. My Sequential read speed increased from 389 to 535. My Random read IOPS increased from 59113 to 61657.

So, all in all I would say it's a successful patch.

 

[Swede69]

and this is why I only buy Intel SSD's.........

 

[cliffro]

Anyone have it fail on step 3? It was cruising along till step 3 then failed at 80% I hit retry and its atleast made it to 81% now.

It took well over an hour for my 500gb EVO, but it did finish successfully and the few games I have on it e.g. Battlefield 3 load much quicker. Battlefield was always a quick load compared to games on my other drives (BF4 for example) but now it's noticeably much faster loading maps 45 seconds+ vs 15-20 after. Windows boots a bit faster as well.

 

[fufuzela]

Anyone having issue with the fix? trying to use it but cannot pass 15%, always the same error stating that i have a third party storage driver, and to update windows drivers. everything update same thing..bit annoying although did everything written in their manual

 

[dgingeri]

Anyone having issue with the fix? trying to use it but cannot pass 15%, always the same error stating that i have a third party storage driver, and to update windows drivers. everything update same thing..bit annoying although did everything written in their manual

Intel or AMD CPU?

 

[fufuzela]

Anyone having issue with the fix? trying to use it but cannot pass 15%, always the same error stating that i have a third party storage driver, and to update windows drivers. everything update same thing..bit annoying although did everything written in their manual

Intel or AMD CPU?

AMD CPU on 990FX Gigabyte UD3 rev 3.0

 

[op8]

This has made a huge impact on my boot times and general snappiness of my OS drive. Really happy.

 

[dgingeri]

Anyone having issue with the fix? trying to use it but cannot pass 15%, always the same error stating that i have a third party storage driver, and to update windows drivers. everything update same thing..bit annoying although did everything written in their manual

Intel or AMD CPU?

AMD CPU on 990FX Gigabyte UD3 rev 3.0

Well, I know Samsung's site on that tool stated you needed the latest driver from AMD for this tool, but I am unable to find the download for that chipset. It might be integrated into the Catalyst drivers. Try downloading the latest Catalyst driver and see if it installs the chipset driver.

 

[Tanquen]

I guess I was not holding it wrong! *&@&%!!!! I had this issue from day one.



I'll have to try it out as for me it slows down the moment you write data to the drive not after 30 days.

http://www.kitguru.net/components/ssd-drives/matthew-wilson/samsung-has-fixed-840-evo-performance-crippling-bug/

 

[penn919]

"Anyone have it fail on step 3? It was cruising along till step 3 then failed at 80% I hit retry and its atleast made it to 81% now."

Mine did the same thing. It failed once and then when I hit retry it completed the second time. But it does take a while like others have mentioned. 30-45 min seems about right.

 

[Spad7]

I have the 840 EVO 250GB. Fix went without a hitch. Non destructive and took less than an hour. Tests show it has improved drive read speeds back to when it was new.

 

[BobRoberts363]

Seems to me this is just putting a band-aid on the problem.

 

[sparkygroover]

Is there a difference between EXTOBB6Q and EXTOCB6Q? Apart from the obvious letter difference will upgrading the new firmware make any difference to the performance. I did just try an install of the new firmware and it failed? Any reason for that? Thanks.
Update...tried more than several times but got as far as 82% and then said installation failed. Any one else get this problem?

 

[sparkygroover]

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Anyone have it fail on step 3? It was cruising along till step 3 then failed at 80% I hit retry and its at least made it to 81% now.

Yeah same here. Failed at 82%. Tried it 3 times and same result.

 

[dgingeri]

I guess I was not holding it wrong! *&@&%!!!! I had this issue from day one.



I'll have to try it out as for me it slows down the moment you write data to the drive not after 30 days.

http://www.kitguru.net/components/ssd-drives/matthew-wilson/samsung-has-fixed-840-evo-performance-crippling-bug/

For those who have the restoration function of the utility fail, you can try it this way:

1. backup your entire drive to a different source using an imaging software utility
2. update your firmware separately through the Magician software
3. use the Magician software to secure wipe the drive, if possible. (If your EVO is your boot drive, this won't be possible. Use a bootable secure erase utility like the one from this page: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/securely-erase-ssd-without-destroying/)
4. use your backup software to restore your data from the image made in step 1

It's longer, but it should work if the Samsung utility doesn't.