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Unlucky7 posted:I know everyone says to ignore the OS optimizations in Magician, but what is this RAPID mode thing? I can't use it since I am on Windows 10, and apparently they do not offer support for it, yet. Is it actually useful? It's not worth it and it's snake oil. It'll also rob you of 4GB of system memory. Magician will show the drive getting unworldly benchmarks, but they don't stand up to real world scrutiny.
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Unlucky7 posted:Finally got an 850 EVO. Once I got everything set up and turned on AHCI, starting up windows now works like a dream. Can't determine game speed loadup though: Most of my (Steam) games are off on a partition on my HDD, and the one game I had that was on my main disk partition (Witcher 3) stopped working after I copied it over to the SSD, and hasn't been working even though I redownloaded it. I am using GOG Galaxy though, and I am suspecting it is just that program being a piece of poo poo. I will get a copy of the game from GOG itself sometime today. I can say that WoW felt a bit snappier loading though. Nice! Looking forward to grabbing an 850 EVO 500gb, hoping to get some good Black Friday deals.
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# ? Oct 1, 2016 19:39 |
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Unlucky7 posted:I know everyone says to ignore the OS optimizations in Magician, but what is this RAPID mode thing? I can't use it since I am on Windows 10, and apparently they do not offer support for it, yet. Is it actually useful? It's glorified ramdisk, don't turn it on.
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# ? Oct 1, 2016 22:15 |
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Should I be expecting a bunch of deals on ssd's come Black Friday?
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# ? Oct 1, 2016 22:19 |
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It's funny that Samsung Magician is so named. Smoke and mirrors.
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# ? Oct 3, 2016 00:11 |
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Potato Salad posted:It's funny that Samsung Magician is so named. Smoke and mirrors. Evidently the version coming out that supports the 960s will be "vastly improved." Which probably means it'll wipe out your MBR to save space on the first release, or have the performance tweak and secure erase buttons switched. Whoops!
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# ? Oct 3, 2016 00:16 |
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Chelb posted:Should I be expecting a bunch of deals on ssd's come Black Friday?
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# ? Oct 3, 2016 00:46 |
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quote:MBR Out, demon!
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# ? Oct 3, 2016 00:57 |
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Anime Schoolgirl posted:The x400 if people still don't realize it's a good drive I was thinking of the Mushkin Reactor 1tb, actually
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# ? Oct 3, 2016 03:04 |
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Chelb posted:I was thinking of the Mushkin Reactor 1tb, actually Mushkin Reactor 1TB has a rated write endurance is 144TB with a 3 year warranty at $240. The Sandisk x400 1TB has 320TB write end. with a 5 year warranty at $240.
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SlayVus posted:Mushkin Reactor 1TB has a rated write endurance is 144TB with a 3 year warranty at $240. The Sandisk x400 1TB has 320TB write end. with a 5 year warranty at $240. If you looked at the second post in this very thread, you would know that a typical user writes only a few dozen GB's onto their hard disk every day. Never mind that SSD's regularly outperform their endurance specifications. and the Mushkin just performs better, while costing about the same. Chelb fucked around with this message at 06:26 on Oct 3, 2016 |
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Is having faster SSD write speed worth losing 2 years off of your warranty? I don't think so. But to each their own.
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# ? Oct 3, 2016 07:01 |
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Unless you're using an application that could benefit from a slight bump in IOPS, benchmarks for SSDs aren't worth poo poo. As numerous people have said, even the SSDs we'd never be caught dead using are usually 'good enough.' Hell, I'm using a 240GB Intel 730 as my boot, even with the gimped writes, because I wanted an MLC boot drive and didn't feel like paying for an 840 Pro at the time.
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# ? Oct 3, 2016 10:53 |
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td4guy posted:Is having faster SSD write speed worth losing 2 years off of your warranty? I don't think so. But to each their own. I would say so. Are you really going to be using that same SSD after 5 years? 5 years ago I had an 80GB Intel X25-M. Great drive but I have no use for an 80GB SSD today. 3 years ago I had a 240GB Mushkin Chronos that's still kicking, but today I'm only going to use a 512GB drive (which I picked up for $99 on Slickdeals) or a 1TB drive (which I could get for $150-$200) The drives are faster and bigger, so who wouldn't upgrade? And I throw my old 256GB drives into family members machines or my PC at work where they aren't going to punished with heavy use.
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# ? Oct 3, 2016 13:24 |
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The Wild West days of SSDs are over, and with some caution you can buy bargain devices just fine.
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# ? Oct 3, 2016 13:55 |
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Do be mindful of the customer service track record of the brand you're buying.
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# ? Oct 3, 2016 13:56 |
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Question about m.2 connectors. If something takes a 2280, should that mean that it can also take a 2260 or 2242? It's the 22mm connector that matters, right? And the length just matters for fitting in the box? I don't want to assume and mess up a thing.
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# ? Oct 5, 2016 09:24 |
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Ork of Fiction posted:Question about m.2 connectors. If something takes a 2280, should that mean that it can also take a 2260 or 2242? Most boards have the holes for the smaller sticks as well, and newer boards even have holes set for 22110 drives. But the answer to your question is yes, so long as you look at the board and notice more than one screw retention hole.
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# ? Oct 5, 2016 11:10 |
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Bob Morales posted:I would say so. Are you really going to be using that same SSD after 5 years? Well, I am still using two of my 840 Pro 256GB SSDs. They are wonderful for an OS drive. Probably 4 years old now?
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# ? Oct 5, 2016 11:11 |
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22xx is the length of the drive in mm: 2280 is eighty millimeters long.
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# ? Oct 5, 2016 11:37 |
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Oh, and be sure you're not buying an MSATA drive. They might look similar but they're incompatible. Similarly, part of the confusion with M.2 is that the slots can be linked to the SATA interface or your PCIe interface, and you can only find out which by double-checking your board's manual. Most SATA-linked M.2 slots are in 1-2 year old laptops. People getting all excited to plug a 960 into those are going to get a rude surprise. Open boxes for everybody!
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# ? Oct 5, 2016 11:49 |
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If they're lucky those slots have a PCIE x2 mode
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# ? Oct 5, 2016 12:48 |
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Anime Schoolgirl posted:If they're lucky those slots have a PCIE x2 mode Isn't the keying different? This is going to be shoving in DRAM modules backward all over again.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:But the answer to your question is yes, so long as you look at the board and notice more than one screw retention hole. So worst case scenario is that I buy or make a slide-on bracket to extend the board, I guess? Just did a micro ITX build and come to find out that the 2242 SSDs are cheaper and faster than the, I assume, less common 2260 spots the board is set to take.
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# ? Oct 5, 2016 13:43 |
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Rastor posted:Isn't the keying different? I'm not sure about the keying, but on my Z97 board I have two M.2 slots. One is a Gen3 x4 slot, and the other will do SATA or a Gen2 x2 slot.
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# ? Oct 5, 2016 13:49 |
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There are different keys but it's a mess. B key is usually used for SATA or PCIe x2 SSDs, M key usually used for PCIe x4 SSDs. However it is permissible under the standards to make a SATA SSD with M keying. Also I believe a lot of motherboards have sockets that are both B and M keyed, regardless of the actual compatibility. m.2 is confusing http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/02/understanding-m-2-the-interface-that-will-speed-up-your-next-ssd/
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Oh, and be sure you're not buying an MSATA drive. They might look similar but they're incompatible. Similarly, part of the confusion with M.2 is that the slots can be linked to the SATA interface or your PCIe interface, and you can only find out which by double-checking your board's manual. Most SATA-linked M.2 slots are in 1-2 year old laptops. People getting all excited to plug a 960 into those are going to get a rude surprise. Open boxes for everybody! The spec allows M.2 sockets to support both PCIe and SATA (the two interfaces are assigned different pins on the connector), and most laptop chipsets should have the free SATA and PCIe lanes to hook both interfaces up, so there's no excuse for something ~1 year old not having a dual mode socket. This being the PC industry, lots of them will be single mode anyways. As you say, hooray open boxes!
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# ? Oct 5, 2016 18:48 |
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What are the odds of a PCIe SSD completely dying? I have a Sandisk SSD here that I pulled from a dead 2013 Macbook air and I'm not sure what to do with it. I bought a cheap $5 adapter from china that adapts it to 4x pcie but it doesn't even enumerate on the PCI bus, but does get a tiny bit warm. There are other adapters in the ~$30 range but I don't know whether it's worth trying again or not. SSD Model: SD6PQ4M-256G-1021 I know the device isn't bootable on my motherboard's chipset, but it should at least show up in the device tree right?
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PS. Love the cabin posted:What are the odds of a PCIe SSD completely dying? Show us what adapter you bought
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# ? Oct 6, 2016 20:33 |
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This one: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Adapter-Con...hIAAOSwFNZWzsk~
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# ? Oct 6, 2016 20:39 |
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It's possible. I had a Crucial SSD 4 years ago that blue screened on boot. Same model swap worked fine.
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# ? Oct 6, 2016 20:51 |
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If it was in a Macbook Air, it may have killed itself. ...yeah ^^ what they said, and you should at least have an unknown device on the pcie bus.
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# ? Oct 6, 2016 21:02 |
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Ordering a 512GB 950 tonight Between this silly fast SSD, 4x4GB of RAM, a 4790k, and a GTX970 I'm thinking this build will be done for a while The thread consensus is still either format the drive to capacity and leave space open, or format to smaller than capacity and go hog wild, right?
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metallicaeg posted:Ordering a 512GB 950 tonight http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-970-vs-GeForce-GTX-1060 just a thought
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# ? Oct 6, 2016 21:10 |
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Presumably they've already had the 970 for a while, upgrading from a 970 to a 1060 seems like a waste of money and effort.
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# ? Oct 6, 2016 21:15 |
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Yeah it's not new. Previously had an H97 board and an i5 that were sold, switched to a Z97 board with 2x M.2 slots and the i7, and the 970 was from February that replaced a donated 550Ti.
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metallicaeg posted:Ordering a 512GB 950 tonight Dude the 960's should be out within weeks.
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# ? Oct 6, 2016 21:37 |
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Yeah unless the 950 Pro you got was on sale you might want to cancel that order if you still can
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# ? Oct 6, 2016 21:58 |
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Yeah, if anything, the 960s have a built-in heat spreader. The 950 got pretty warm, especially in those slots under the GPU. The 950 might get marked down once the 960s are in channel, too.
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Looks like I'll be waiting then
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