If it's a regular 840 (i.e., not an EVO or a PRO), then an upgrade actually very well may be worthwhile. The 840 was notorious for severe slowdowns on reading old data. Samsung tried several times to fix it, but it was never completely resolved.
-----Original Message----- From: Hardware [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2019 11:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] 870 EVO SSD vrs 920 PRO V-NAND At 08:36 PM 11/16/2019, you wrote: >Do you mean 860 EVO or 970 EVO? >Acturally, I just checked and it is the 840 so it is even older and >slower then I thought. I figured it wouldn't be worth it. So much hardware is like that now. Unless you have a real dedicated need for it the numbers never make sense. P.S. but I may buy it anway! >Assuming you have working TRIM and sufficient free space on the EVO, >the difference should be pretty minimal unless you regularly do >sustained writes of more than 12/13GB (that's the SLC cache size for either drive at 250GB). >You'd see more of a bump going to an Optane 905P, but even then it >wouldn't be night/day. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Hardware [mailto:[email protected]] On >Behalf Of Winterlight >Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2019 5:25 PM >To: Hardware Group <[email protected]> >Subject: [H] 870 EVO SSD vrs 920 PRO V-NAND > >My OS drive is a Samsung 870 EVO 250GB. I have six core I7 running at >4.2 GHz with 64GB of Crucial Ballistic DDR3 and a Nvidia 1070. I'm >not a gamer but I do video and media editing. When working with media I >use my RAM = a >32 GB RAM DRIVE to work from so no drive should be as fast as that. >However, I see a deal on a 512 GB V-Nand SSD 970 PRO. and I know this >is one of the fastest drives available. If I install it, and use it >as my OS drive instead of the existing 870 EVO will I even notice a >difference? Thanks w
