Hello All
I wanted to reach out to the community with a warning about Samsung 840 EVO SSDs. A while ago I posted in a thread saying that I was having problems streaming Dimension Strings, and that reinstalling the libraries fixes the problem:
http://community.vsl.co.at/forums/t/37517.aspx
Well I've been running into problems again and it seems I now know why: these drives suffer from performance degradation on old files. I am not the only one experiencing this problem:
http://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/2g1jfi/seems_that_the_samsung_840_evo_ is_notorious_for/
http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1229617-samsung-840-evo-ssds-suffer-from-perfo rmance-degradation/
http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/214537-samsung-840-evo-ssd-performance-degra dation/
http://www.edugeek.net/forums/hardware/142142-samsung-840-evo-read-speeds-found- degrade-old-data.html
It has caused serious problems for me. Loading a simple Battery 3 kit that I never use reads at 10mb/s. I run into voice stealing problems with VSL sometimes at 2000 voices, sometimes at 1000 voices, and sometimes as low as 500 voices-- when playing the same sequence. As has been noted, erasing the sample libraries and reinstalling them fixes the problem...but for how long?
I really hope Samsung fixes this issue because I have 5 of these drives.
Cheers
MOH