250GB Samsung 840 Series 2.5" SATA Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) with Notebook and Desktop Installation Kit (MZ-7TD250KW) $150 + Free Shipping

I was a bit sceptical when this Drive first came out and we avoided deploying them until earlier this Month.
So far the couple we did deployed have been solid.
What sold me was a Samsung Distributor (Avnet) we deal with who even though his Division(enterprise)does not distribute the Consumer Line he felt that Samsung is very aware of their reputation for Product performance and reliability and they would not risk releasing a product that could damage all the good will they get from being the leader in the Computer Component Market. Samsung's Company Philosophy is to be # 1 in every Market they compete, so they are very careful with reliability of every product they sell. In just the fourth quarter of 2012 they moved up 8 places in the rankings of total SSDs shipped.

Quote from Ananke : A good deal today is $150 for 256GB 840 Pro. That's what I meant. Samsung marketing just created from thin air the new name, inflated the price double the 830's, and now is selling something that is worth at most $70-80 /like the BS old generation OCZ drives/ on a "deal" at $150...It is still a BS drive, that I will not use at all, but some people may take the risk. However, the risk is definitely not worth $150 today.

Can you give an example of an 840 Pro 256GB that was $150? I am curious as I own one and paid significantly more for it, even though it was on sale and free shipping.

Quote from lucill22 : Samsung is the largest maker of SSDs in the World.

Not to mention that they control every portion of the manufacturing, from fabing the NAND to designing the firmware. They are the only company that has start-to-finish control of everything that goes into their SSDs.

In my opinion this means that they are going to get a lot better QC and tighter firmwares that are written for their drives.

Quote from Arreo : Not to mention that they control every portion of the manufacturing, from fabing the NAND to designing the firmware. They are the only company that has start-to-finish control of everything that goes into their SSDs. In my opinion this means that they are going to get a lot better QC and tighter firmwares that are written for their drives.

I made a mistake there are Companies that shipped more, but Samsung is the fastest growing.
# 1 in volume is a company most of us never heard of Fusion-io
They make PCIe Storage Products.

Titles says 256GB, but its a 250GB. Im assuming most ppl have caught this. You will be few more GB short.

Quote from m00ky : Can you give an example of an 840 Pro 256GB that was $150? I am curious as I own one and paid significantly more for it, even though it was on sale and free shipping.

You can't because it doesn't exist. Just like my suggestion of a deal for buy 1 get 20 free Samsung 512GB 840 Pro @ $150 (but you have to pay for shipping, /kills the deal). If you are giving a price point that doesn't currently exist and has never existed then of course it's a deal, but that doesn't help anyone because the price has simply never come down that low.

(camel shows that the best price on 256GB 840 Pro is $215, I got mine for $225)

Quote from Arreo : Not to mention that they control every portion of the manufacturing, from fabing the NAND to designing the firmware. They are the only company that has start-to-finish control of everything that goes into their SSDs. In my opinion this means that they are going to get a lot better QC and tighter firmwares that are written for their drives.

Quote from lucill22 : I made a mistake there are Companies that shipped more, but Samsung is the fastest growing.(this does not include NAND that they sell to other OEMs just units) # 1 in volume is a company most of us never heard of Fusion-io????????????????? They make PCIe Storage Products.

There are some unknow Companies that sell SSDs to embeded Systems & Server Builders who ship a lot of Volume, because one Server can use multiple Drives.

I jumped the gun on the 256GB Samsung 840 Pro series earlier this week for $210.

I was looking to upgrade my 2010 Macbook Pro that only supports SATA 2. Should I return the 840 Pro and get the regular 840 instead? The only difference for me would be 3 year warranty vs the 840 Pro's 5 years, correct?

IIRC, using a SATA 3 SSD on a computer that only supports SATA 2 is akin to using a USB 3.0 device on a computer that only supports USB 2.0.

:/

Quote from m00ky : Can you give an example of an 840 Pro 256GB that was $150? I am curious as I own one and paid significantly more for it, even though it was on sale and free shipping.

Nope yet , hence no deal has happened yet. When it happens, I will TU. My suggestion is just to wait. This regular 840 today, is not worth.

The forum below has been doing continuous daily stress tests for a while.

The 840 was able to withstand a total of 432 TiB of continuous data writing at an average speed of 101 MB/s, over 52 days before dying.

Whereas the 830 was able to withstand a total of 6.22 PiB of continuous data writing at an average speed of 300 MB/s, over 261 days before dying.

Basically, the samsung 830 was able to write 14 times more data total, and lasted >5 times the lifetime of an 840, while also writing at speeds 3 times faster than the 840. Supposedly the 830 could've kept going, had he not had to remove power from the computer.

In conclusion, for the average user, one would not really expect to reach 432 TB of (re-written) data in a short period of time. Personally, I feel like it would probably take me at least 10 years to reach that, probably more.) So the 840 in that sense is okay. Considering a few months ago you could've bought an 830 for around the same price, well first of all it makes me regret not getting one then; But overall it makes me feel like the value isn't quite there yet for an 840.

Samsung 840:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/foru...ost5163560


Samsung 830: (Note: for some reason this isn't linking correctly, I tried to link it to posts # 5393 & #5400 for those that want to look)
http://www.xtremesystems.org/foru...ost5157369



(For reference: 1 PiB ≈ 1000 TiB. 1 TiB ≈ 1 TB ≈ 1000 GB)

P.S. These stress tests are performed by continuously re-writing different size blocks of data onto the harddrive. No one will ever expect to have this done in a practical situation. Also for a long period of time before the deaths of each unit, they also were prone to some errors (read/write/etc.) but overall were still able to function.

Quote from lucill22 : I made a mistake there are Companies that shipped more, but Samsung is the fastest growing. # 1 in volume is a company most of us never heard of Fusion-io They make PCIe Storage Products.

Fusion IO doesn't make NAND. They buy from Samsung and Micron and put it on PCIe cards. There are only 4 fabs in the world. Toshiba, Samsung, Intel, and Micron. Sandisk buys from Toshiba.

What happen to OCZ Agility 3 and 4 ???

I thought they are the pricing leader in this many months back.

All of a sudden, it seems they have stop their sale.

Quote from Ananke : Nope yet , hence no deal has happened yet. When it happens, I will TU. My suggestion is just to wait. This regular 840 today, is not worth.

It's called threadcrapping when you come into a thread (such as you have done here) and state that is is not a deal, but you are unable to produce a better deal. This is the best deal on this drive right now, the deal I got on my drive was the best deal at that time and so I bought it. Wait 10 years and I bet you can pay $50 or less for these same drives. Does that mean that me paying less than retail now is not a deal? No. Your logic is flawed.

Quote from meridian8 : Fusion IO doesn't make NAND. They buy from Samsung and Micron and put it on PCIe cards. There are only 4 fabs in the world. Toshiba, Samsung, Intel, and Micron. Sandisk buys from Toshiba.

I was not stating NAND Manufacurers, just SSDs in any form.
I am aware that they are just an assembler, but they lead in Units shipped.
They were the first Manufacturer to get into the SSD PCIe Form and have been a leader in volume of Drives shipped since 2010.
HP & Dell use them in some Servers.