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It's cheaper to manufacture and consumers should see prices dropping. Advancement in controllers/firmware can negate the nand endurance issue. Ultimately only an issue for high write situations which...
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The 840 Pro has better endurance/performance than the 830 with smaller nand size(21 vs 27mm). The regular 840 series is a "value" SSD
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The 840 sips watts compared to the 830 and it's ilk. For a laptop, I'd go with 840.
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830s just 3 weeks ago $149.99 so they need to go lower on these 840s
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DON'T BUY is the only way I guess LOL. TLC is cheaper for the manufacturer to make from what I've read. If Samsung is successful with TLC I'm pretty sure everyone will follow in their footsteps. ...
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Whats being done to solve this? Seems every generations expected life time gets lower and lower due to the shrinking of the nand I think it is. I understand junking smaller drives like a 64 or even a...
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oops...fixed thanks
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Thread created 11-19-2012 by poetuan
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J&R has the Samsung 840 Series 250GB 2.5" SATA III Internal SSD - Bare Drive for $164 after coupon code TURKEY10 for pre-order. It's not in stock yet but you can still use the code to pre-order. ...