Samsung 500GB 840 Series 2.5" Solid State Drive (SSD) $295 free shipping!

Very tempting, but I'm waiting for about $150 before I can replace the platter drive in my desktop, nice deal though.

Great price! In for 1! Thanks and repped!

Quote from iHeartFreeMoney : whats wrong with this drive?

Basically the two issues people have are the fact the 840 has a slower write speed than the 840 pro as well as the fact it is TLC instead of MLC.

Average users will not really notice a difference.

Quote from zazon : Very tempting, but I'm waiting for about $150 before I can replace the platter drive in my desktop, nice deal though.

And at that point you are going to be wondering why it took so long to upgrade to SSD

Later,
pjdavep

Comes out to about $0.59/GB.

Quote from iHeartFreeMoney : whats wrong with this drive?

Nothing is "wrong" with it. In automotive terms, the complaint is that people coming from cars that can go 80mph shouldn't upgrade to a car that's capable of 190mph because others that are available for more money go 200mph.

TLC? $300? No thanks. I don't want 500GB of my stuff sitting in TLC.

Can anyone prove that TLC fails more quickly under normal uses?

So much TLC > MLC, but I have yet to see ppl on here prove anything. I'll say it again, TLC 840 non-pro drives can withstand 400TB of writes.


If anyone is using these as storage, get an HDD as back up. You should be backing up your data anyways!

good $$/GB, but just wondering what would once possibly do with a 512GB SSD? Well, the only "useful" application I see is in laptops where you want to store significant amount of media such as music/videos... right?

Quote from Synthetickiller : Can anyone prove that TLC fails more quickly under normal uses?

Nobody can because it doesn't. Read the primary literature on this type of memory.
Google scholar and scifinder scholar are your friends.

I would not use this drive for enterprise use, but for anything home or enthusiast related it will be fine.
Instead of chasing TLC ghosts, the skeptics here should focus on firmware issues and H77 compatibility that have been reported with this drive. These are issues that will actually put a damper on the SSD party.

holding out for the 512gb PRO at $300...

really disappointing the 830's perform better than the 840 (non-pro).
Going backwards...
~S

Yes the prices keep comin down on these.. Keep comin

http://www.anandtech.com/show/645...f-tlc-nand

This is an interesting article. It estimates a conservative figure of daily writes that a 256gb drive will last 23.4 years. So theoretically the 500gb drive will last around 50 years with those writes. Realistically, they will be much shorter, but still fine for consumers.

Reading the comments, some very good points are brought up. Usually a drive like that will be filled up to almost max capacity with whatever applications and games are used. If a majority of the drive is written with data that doesn't change, there may be a remaining 20% that gets written to on a daily basis. The former majority of the drive remains stagnant and undergoes less wear and tear, whereas the latter portion of the drive endures more wear. This produces uneven useage. The drive is warrantied for 3 years though, And most of us will have upgraded to something else by that time.

Anyone support this theory?

Quote from tojo_m : good $$/GB, but just wondering what would once possibly do with a 512GB SSD? Well, the only "useful" application I see is in laptops where you want to store significant amount of media such as music/videos... right?

You basically answered your own question, but replace "media such as music/videos" with "whatever it is that fills up your HD". I have very few videos on my computer and still have used 400GB on my platter drive, so any SSD replacement would have to be at least the 500GB of the OEM unit.