256GB Samsung 840 Pro Series 2.5" SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive SSD (MZ-7PD256BW) $200 + Free Shipping

Quote from jakeup52 : I just installed Windows 8 on this. Long story short I'm super bummed that my 256gb SSD is now like 218GB after installation. it says my drive holds 218gb out of 238gb, and i havent installed a single thing on the PC yet. I deleted windows.old which freed up space, but thats what brought it up to 218GB.. can someone help me figure out why i have such little space after the installation or is this just how it works? kind of new to the SSD world.

This is normal for a 256GB drive (roughly 7% less than what is advertised). Unfortunately this false advertising is true for ALL hard drives (SSD and traditional mechanical drives).

I always turn off hibernate since I don't use it. This should give you several gigabytes back.
1. Open Command Prompt with Administrator rights. To open Command Prompt, type CMD in Start menu (Search on W8) and then right click and select "run as administrator" (at bottom on W8).

2. Next, type the below command and hit enter:
powercfg /hibernate off

Here is an explanation of what is happening with your hard drive space:
Since consumers don't think in base 2 mathematics, manufacturers decided to rate most drive capacities based on the standard base 10 numbers we are all familiar with. Therefore, one Megabyte equals one million bytes while one Gigabyte equals one billion bytes. This isn't too much of a problem with fairly small numbers such as a Kilobyte, but each level of increase in the prefix also increased the total discrepancy of the actual space compared to the advertised space.

Here is a quick reference to show the amount that the actual values differ compared to the advertised for each common referenced value:

Megabyte Difference = 48,576 Bytes
Gigabyte Difference = 73,741,824 Bytes
Terabyte Difference = 99,511,627,776 Bytes
Based on this, for each Gigabyte that a drive manufacturer claims, they are over reporting the amount of disk space by 73,741,824 Bytes or roughly 70.3 MB of disk space. So, if a manufacturer advertises an 80 GB (80 billion bytes) hard drive, the actual disk space is around 74.5 GB of space, roughly 7% less than what they advertise.

Quote from SeattleScott : No, although I have never updated via USB. It will either work or not work but wont hurt anything either way. If the Magician software can see the drive then it will probably work.

You will probably need to make a BOOTABLE USB stick. This is a little tricky. See below for an example:

http://www.nooto.com/2011/02/upda...g-470-ssd/

Creating a Bootable CD is probably easier. The easiest way is to connect the drive to a desktop via a spare SATA connection.

Quote from viper1337 : Just got my code and ordered Far Cry 3 for free. Make sure you ask for the specific game because the code wont work for Assassins creed 3. I was going to buy Far Cry 3 before, but now i got the drive for only basically $149.99.

How long does it take to get the code? I emailed them on 1/31/2013

Quote from faxedexcel : How long does it take to get the code? I emailed them on 1/31/2013

I got the code in a day.

I'd hate to bump up old threads but this was my email word for word starting with title, body and response. i emailed support@totalts.com

"title" far cry 3 promotion code request for http://shop.ubi.com/samsung attached with proof of purchase of samsung 840 pro

Jan 28
"body"
called customer service and they told me to email you with serial number and invoice for the far cry 3 game
thanks in advance


My name
Serial Number S12XXXXXCX0XXXW
Invoice is in PDF file "i attached a pdf file from newegg invoice"



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"response" this was what Samsung replied

Jan 29

Dear Customer,
We apologize for the inconvenience as well as the packaging error. Please follow this link http://shop.ubi.com/samsung with the following game code:
uaXXXXmzy
Please understand that these game codes are to be generated through Ubisoft as their team is the one in which provided us the codes.
Thank you for choosing Samsung

Lxxxx Gxxxxxxxx "hide the name for privacy issues"
Total Tech Solutions, Inc.
Samsung Factory Service - SSD/ODD/RAM
support>@totalts.com

hope you and the other 2 who pmed me can get in on this.