![]() TRIM is now up and running on the Samsung 840.The Bat! offers a number of security and privacy features. TRIM was not active after drive installation, but TRIM Enabler did the trick. On the Kingston, uncached random writes are much slower. On the Samsung, uncached random writes are about the same speeds as uncached sequential writes. However, the Samsung wins with 4K random writes, and there's really no comparison. The Samsung actually has slower sequential write speeds than the Kingston, and indeed, max write speeds are the Achilles' heel on the 120 GB Samsung 840. Xbench's disk bench on the Kingston V+100 was 252, and it is 292 on the Samsung 840. So I repartitioned the old drive to < 120 GB and did the copy. Nope, it didn't work because it wouldn't let me install my 128 GB partition on the old drive to this 120 GB partition. ![]() Then I tried to install my Mac OS X 8.3 onto it. It took me an hour to figure out I didn't need to go through this process. It's just some shortened version, so you don't know if the thing needs an update or not.įinally I connected it up to another Windows machine via eSATA and then everything was detected properly. Furthermore, the full firmware version number is not displayed via USB. the Windows updater doesn't work over USB. So, I plugged into my laptop and it was seen fine. Tried other ports and dual-power cables, but still nothing. So I plugged it into a Windows 7 desktop via USB. However, the firmware update process is kinda stupid. ![]() And a bonus surprise is that it's much, much lighter than the Kingston, and much thinner too. Even though 120 GB is supposed to be slow (half the write speed of the 250), it's an improvement over my old Kingston V+100 128 GB.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |