Thank you OP for posting this. I have a 840 500GB EVO sitting in my drawer for pending PC rebuild. How often does this tool need to be run then?
Whew, I have the pro.
Good guy OP, nice PSA.
Now that I thought about it, I think I have an 840 EVO in my pc here at work, but I just updated the other day so I should be good. Using it to run Windows 10.
I read that the non-EVO drives are affected too but Samsung said they aren't and they don't offer a fix right now. If someone finds more info please share.
Just to mention this, before anyone with a PS4 just takes out their drive. If you disconnect your HDD you effectively wipe it.
This is absolutely false. On PS4 you can swap the drives freely, and I've done so on a few occasions going back and forth between the two drives. What you're saying was sort-of true on PS3, You could disconnect and reconnect the same drive on PS3 just fine, but if you connected the 2nd drive in the meantime, you wouldn't be able to reconnect the 1st one without wiping it.I think he means that if you take out your PS4 drive, putting it back in requires a initialization process which resets everything. I'm not sure it is true (don't remember for my SSD), but that is the reasoning.
I've got an 840 EVO (250gb) very recently, like in the last few weeks. Is there a particular cut off batch for this issue or is it safer to assume that there will be a problem and just run the utility?
Will this get fixed in future batches? I don't have one of these now, but it's going in my next build
However, OP should include the warning that this tool would wipe the drive with the PS4 data on it, because the tool operates only on NTFS filesystem, which is of course not what PS4 drive is formatted with.
850 EVOs are coming soon. Should be better more or less all around - unless you need it very soon.
I have a Samsung 840 SSD series does this mean this whole time I've been getting less performance out of it than I should have? And Samsung isn't going to do anything about it?
Failed at 85%. "Restoration failed, try again."
Is Basic on of the types of partitions covered by this update? That's the only thing from the limitations list that I can immediately identify as a possible problem.
Specs
Mobo: Asus M5A99X
CPU: AMD FX-8320
Generic memory
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
Two other harddrives as secondary storage. One has a Windows partition but isn't on the BIOS boot list.
Everything up to date, drivers wise, as far as I know. What should my next steps be? Is it safe to use as normal and revisit at another time? Thanks a ton guys.
4) Performance Restoration will not work on SSDs that are locked with a user
password.
ok the requirement to reformat the drive blows, thats it for me and Sansung.
What if you do a drive image, using linux dd or other block tool, run the fix then restore the image? would the ps4 accept that?
redownloading my library even of "games that i play this month" would blow my isp cap.
Press "Start" again. It failed for me the first time ax well, started it again and it completed the process successfully.
850 EVOs are coming soon. Should be better more or less all around - unless you need it very soon.
I don't need it very soon, so thanks for the insight! Didn't know there were new ones coming out
But will the new ones be the same price as the 840s? $500 for 1TB?
Done. What about the X1, what file system does it use?
Correct, they should announce the new EVOs any day (or week) now.
I have no idea what the situation with the 840 'pure' is, you could run some benchmarks and compare them to the results posted here to make sure yours aren't abnormally low. Okay, found these comments: http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Storag...eview-Getting-EVOs-back-speed?page=1#comments So all you can do is wait. :/
Should I run the performance restoration program even if I'm not seeing any problems yet?
Yeah I have a normal 840 SSD Series.
What benchmark program would you recommend to see if I'm affected?
Should I run the performance restoration program even if I'm not seeing any problems yet?