Samsung 830 Series SSD Review

[Julio Franco]

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https://www.techspot.com/review/443-samsung-830-ssd-series/

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[captainawesome]

Hmm I wonder if the drivers/software could be the culprit of the average performance on some of the tests? Also I think I prefer the Vertex 3 when you take performance per dollar into account.

 

[Guest]

I have one of the very first generation SSDs from Samsung (the ones with the brushed metal look) and I absolutely love it.

Served me very well for the past couple years, but its 120GB is running low and these new drives definitely look like a worthy successor.

I'd much rather buy from a large company like Samsung that makes everything in-house than a far smaller company like OCZ or Corsair (they probably use Samsung components anyway).

 

[Mictlantecuhtli]

Large SSDs are usually faster than smaller ones due to memory chips working in parallel - so comparing 512 GB drive to 128-300 GB ones isn't really a fair comparison.

 

[Guest]

I get ~560/520 MB/s max read/write in the ATTO (default) benchmark with my Kingston HyperX 120GB SSD. That's on a P8P67 motherboard, with a i7-2600K CPU and 16GB Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600Mhz CL9 memory. So, that 240GB version doesn't seem to perform very well in these graphs for some reason.

 

[Steve]

What size sample data? 128K or larger?

 

[Guest]

Yeah, that's right. That was at 1024-8192 sizes. I didn't notice the graphs stopped at 128.

 

[Steve]

Yeah, that's right. That was at 1024-8192 sizes. I didn't notice the graphs stopped at 128.

Yeah 1MB+ performance is much greater.

 

[Guest]

There absolutely needs to be an addendum to this test.

Crucial released firmware 009 over a month ago. The m4 128gb now reads at over 500 sequential and almost 300mb in the 4k-64thrd marks in as-ssd.

Anyone taking the time to do a review should be making sure that all drives are updated to the latest firmware. That is the only way to give the end user a fair assessment.

 

[Guest]

Would this drive work as a replacement of a HDD in a Dell laptop? Any comments appreciated.

 

[Guest]

Yes it would. I did it in latitude e6220 without any problems