[Discuss] SSD Drives

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

Thanks Richard

On 06/20/2015 09:36 AM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> On 6/20/2015 9:27 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> At last Wednesday's BLU meeting a discussion was started regarding some
>> issues with the Samsung SSD drives and some bugs in their firmware.
>> In my case I didn't have my laptop, but I have an Intel SSD not that it
>> matters.
>
> There is a design flaw in the Samsung 840 EVO drives. Only the 840 EVO 
> drives are affected; the flaw does not affect 840 PRO or any 850 
> series or any other vendor's drives. The 19nm NAND chips in 840 EVO 
> combined with buggy firmware caused the drives to go into error 
> correcting mode when reading data more than 8 weeks old. Samsung has 
> since released a firmware update that appears to correct the problem. 
> This is based on early reports 8 weeks after the firmware release 
> indicating that the performance degradation is no longer an issue.
>

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