32TBW across 6 years isn't terrible. That's about 0.06 DWPD or 15GB/day. On the higher side for consumer use, but still not egregious.
TR's report of the even older 840 TLC drive, with planar NAND that has a lower P/E rating than the V-NAND in your EVO, got 900TBW out of a 250GB drive. -----Original Message----- From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Monday, November 18, 2019 10:42 AM To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] 870 EVO SSD vrs 920 PRO V-NAND Well, while mine is six plus years old Samsung Magician reports Latest Firmware and drive condition good with a surprising 32 TB written. At 11:10 PM 11/17/2019, you wrote: >It was actually a really big deal at first > >https://www.extremetech.com/computing/199673-second-patch-for-ongoing-840-e vo-ssd-performance-issues-being-prepped-by-samsung > > >The absolutely newest firmware for the 840 Evo might actually have sorted >the problem, for a while they were a complete disaster. > >On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 at 05:23, Winterlight <winterli...@winterlight.org> >wrote: > > > > > It's a Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB. I imagine the 970 Pro is much > > faster but does it really matter for a OS drive that only boots once > > every couple of weeks, or whenever there is an update requiring a reboot. > > > > At 05:26 PM 11/17/2019, you wrote: > > >I myself have gone from 860 Pro to a 970 Pro and the 970 Pro is much > > faster. > > > > > >Something you might want to keep in mind. The 970 Pro is not a SATA HD. > > > > > >Do you mean from 970 EVO to 970 Pro? > > > > > >Tim Lider > > > > > >Red Belt at Cardenas School of Arnis > > ><https://www.facebook.com/CardenasArnis/> > > >Anime Enthusiast > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 3:25 PM Winterlight <winterli...@winterlight.org> > > >wrote: > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > >