timbo343 Posted September 3, 2014 Posted September 3, 2014 Just seen on HUKD that amazon have the samsung 120gb evo 840 at £50 again. http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00E3W15P0/ref=redir_mdp_mobile Just thought i would share with everyone. 3
rich_tech Posted September 3, 2014 Posted September 3, 2014 I paid a little over that for mine on ebuyer recently, excellent device
Arthur Posted September 3, 2014 Posted September 3, 2014 www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00E3W15P0 ^ Non-mobile link. It's good to see SSDs getting cheaper.
featured_spectre Posted September 3, 2014 Posted September 3, 2014 Perfect timing, especially as we want to be shifting everyone to SSD here
zag Posted September 3, 2014 Posted September 3, 2014 1TB for £290 is not bad either!! They work great in backup servers!
localzuk Posted September 3, 2014 Posted September 3, 2014 (edited) They work great in backup servers! Lol, I think I'll wait till they come down a bit more! The amount of backup data we have would mean we need about 30 of them to start. Quick back of packet calculation would put our next generation of backup solution at £23k, compared to £7.2k for a spinning disk solution of the same size. Edited September 3, 2014 by localzuk 1
Sunnyknight Posted September 3, 2014 Posted September 3, 2014 Just seen on HUKD that amazon have the samsung 120gb evo 840 at £50 again. http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00E3W15P0/ref=redir_mdp_mobile Just thought i would share with everyone. May have to buy 2 of these, throw them into my other 2 pc's, and use the x2 240gb ssds as storage. Merci!
mac_shinobi Posted September 3, 2014 Posted September 3, 2014 Just out of curiousty performance wise is there much difference between the 840 Evo and the 850 Pro ?
Sunnyknight Posted September 3, 2014 Posted September 3, 2014 Just out of curiousty performance wise is there much difference between the 840 Evo and the 850 Pro ? About 15% in write speed
sonofsanta Posted September 3, 2014 Posted September 3, 2014 SSDs are all limited by the SATA interface at this point, so read/write speed is a fairly meaningless comparison because they're all equally bottlenecked. Saying that, performance difference in the architecture is irrelevant when they're all equally bottlenecked... 850 Pro has higher random IOPS - 100k/90k across the board where the 840 EVO doesn't really ramp up until higher capacities. Also a good deal: 256GB MX100 for £75.
zag Posted September 3, 2014 Posted September 3, 2014 I want to put the 1tb SSDs in a NAS at some point. Might wait for the 2tb ones though. Mmm silence!
Arthur Posted September 3, 2014 Posted September 3, 2014 amazon have the samsung 120gb evo 840 at £50 again Price has increased to £59.99 now.
localzuk Posted September 3, 2014 Posted September 3, 2014 Price has increased to £59.99 now. £55.50 for me!
abillybob Posted September 3, 2014 Posted September 3, 2014 SSDs are all limited by the SATA interface at this point, so read/write speed is a fairly meaningless comparison because they're all equally bottlenecked. Saying that, performance difference in the architecture is irrelevant when they're all equally bottlenecked... 850 Pro has higher random IOPS - 100k/90k across the board where the 840 EVO doesn't really ramp up until higher capacities. Also a good deal: 256GB MX100 for £75. Yeah this is why I had to think really hard before buying my rig. I did eventually go for a 840 500GB SSD but I'm really eyeing up the PCI SSD Cards at the moments which has write speeds of around 1200mbps which is more than double the performance. Though it's big £400 price tag and small capacity put me off, hopefully we will soon see PCI SSD's come down in price and I can use one as a boot drive. SPEED SPEEEEEEED!
mac_shinobi Posted September 3, 2014 Posted September 3, 2014 Yeah this is why I had to think really hard before buying my rig. I did eventually go for a 840 500GB SSD but I'm really eyeing up the PCI SSD Cards at the moments which has write speeds of around 1200mbps which is more than double the performance. Though it's big £400 price tag and small capacity put me off, hopefully we will soon see PCI SSD's come down in price and I can use one as a boot drive. SPEED SPEEEEEEED! Two or Three SATA 3 ( 6Gbps ) SSD's in a RAID 0 Config ?? Two should give you around the 1gbps read and a slightly slower write speed ?
Norphy Posted September 3, 2014 Posted September 3, 2014 SATA Express is just round the corner too and while the cables look like a nightmareish frankenbodge job of the worst kind, performance should be a lot better!
sonofsanta Posted September 3, 2014 Posted September 3, 2014 I'd say hold off on PCI-E SSDs until Skylake (the Intel CPUs 2 generations from now, so the i3/5/7-6xxx models). Rumblings are that Skylake will have 20 PCI-E lanes on board, so you can have 4 for the NVMe interface (i.e. the designed-for-SSD interface, unlike AHCI) and still have the full 16 lanes for your GPU. Skylake will also bring DDR4 support and is generally the next exciting update from Intel. Skylake is supposed to be next year, though I wouldn't be surprised if it was more like 18 months.
abillybob Posted September 3, 2014 Posted September 3, 2014 Sounds good never heard of Skylake before but sounds very interesting! Will keep my eye out next year. @mac_shinobi true about the RAID configuration but hopefully you see my point two PCIE SSD's in RAID 0 will give you 2gbps... That's why I was so interested and I'm not one to have more than one main storage drive in my computer at the moment it just has 1 840 SSD at 500GB and that does me because my server has 3TB of space for media files and the rest of it.
mac_shinobi Posted September 3, 2014 Posted September 3, 2014 (edited) Haswell-E Series ?? Haswell-E Debuts: Intel Core i7-5960X Processor Review - HotHardware Intel Core i7-5690X Extreme Edition Processor Specifications & Features Core Frequency: 3GHz (Up To 3.5GHz w/ Turbo) QPI Speed: 6.4GT/s TDP (Thermal Design Power): 140W Number of CPU Cores: 8 (16 Threads w/ HT) Intel SmartCache: 20MB L2 Cache: 2MB (256K x 8) Processor input voltage (VID): ~.7v .022-micron manufacturing process Shared Smart Cache Technology Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology (EIST) Extended HALT State (C1E) Enabled Execute Disable Bit (XD) Enabled Intel 64 Technology AES-NI: Processor instructions Intel Virtualization Technology (VT) Packaging - Flip Chip LGA2011 v3 Total Die Size: Approximately 355.5mm2 Approximately 2.6B Transistors Price - $999 - Find It @ Amazon Eight Core Processing: Runs 8 independent processor cores in one physical package Base Processor Frequency: 3.0 GHz Massive PCI Express Bandwidth: 40 lanes of PCIe supported through the processor Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0: Dynamically increases the processor frequency up to 3.5GHz when applications demand more performance. Speed when you need it, energy efficiency when you don’t. Intel Hyper-Threading Technology: 16 threads provide unprecedented processing capability for better multi-tasking and threaded applications. Do more with less wait time. Intel Smart Cache: Up to 20MB of shared cached allows faster access to your data by enabling dynamic and efficient allocation of the cache to match the needs of each core significantly reducing latency to frequently used data and improving performance. Overclocking Enabled: Core (Turbo) and DDR4 ratios are unlocked for ease of overclocking Integrated Memory Controller: Supports 4 channels of DDR4-21330 memory with 1 DIMM per channel. Support for XMP memory. Read more: Haswell-E Debuts: Intel Core i7-5960X Processor Review - HotHardware Edited September 3, 2014 by mac_shinobi
Arthur Posted September 3, 2014 Posted September 3, 2014 SPEED SPEEEEEEED! What about a Samsung XS1715 or Intel DC P3700 NVMe PCIe SSD?
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