Samsung 840 EVO SSD; anybody using it with classic MP?

[zephonic]

Thread title says all.

The 840EVO seems to be a pretty good deal and gets predominantly rave reviews. I wondered if it will work out-of-the-box in my '09 MacPro? How about TPM?

Thanks.

 

[RoastingPig]

yes the evo works i have one of the 500gb ones working just fine at sata 2 speeds as my boot drive.

 

[koban4max]

Thread title says all.

The 840EVO seems to be a pretty good deal and gets predominantly rave reviews. I wondered if it will work out-of-the-box in my '09 MacPro? How about TPM?

Thanks.

get 750 gb at least.

 

[m4v3r1ck]

Out of the box certainly, but don't forget a dock to easily install in the HDD bay of you cMP. Best boost for your cMP will be a SATA-III PCIe card and one or two 840 EVO's in raid-0.

GL & Cheers

 

[rueyloon]

I'm using it,
I bought a PCI data card so I can get full speed, else it will run at the older slower sata speed. Don't know if there is any difference in real world usage though.

 

[Gav Mack]

2 840 Evos in my 3,1 hooked up to Solo X2, 250/750Gb for OSX/bootcamp. One stuck on top of the other using the Solo's second SATA port with a splitter from the optical power extension leaving all four sleds for spinners.

Very happy chappy here with them.

 

[bekhh01]

It's an adequate SSD. Not as fast as the Accelsior PCIe SSD but good enough.

I'm using it to speed up my virtual machines in a MP 4.1 2.93 Ghz.

 

[teeck2000]

I am running the 1TB with the velocity X2 in my MacPro 5,1 . Works Great!

 

[Gav Mack]

It's an adequate SSD. Not as fast as the Accelsior PCIe SSD but good enough.

I'm using it to speed up my virtual machines in a MP 4.1 2.93 Ghz.

At SATA 2 speed it's adequate in a sled but in SATA 3 only the 840 pro edges it slightly. Real life use I can't tell the difference between the evo and pro unlike the m500

Class leading consumer SSD, regular firmware updates and the least troublesome SSD I've had running even with older chipsets.

 

[NOTNlCE]

Using an 840 EVO SSD with my Velocity Solo x1 as the SSD aspect of a Fusion Drive. Performance is light years better than a mechanical hard drive. Trim Enabler command works for TRIM as well.

 

[teeck2000]

I noticed a performance drop going from the Velocity Sata III to the internal Sata 2 sled when I tried it. It was noticeable in regular use, not much but enough. I would suggest running it on a Sata III.

 

[slughead]

I'm using two 250GB in a RAID0 with a SATA III card

Benchmarks:
-Single Drive
-Logical RAID-0 with Highpoint card
-Apple's Software RAID-0

Here is my review of my SATAIII card.

 

[Stephen Dowling]

I've got a 250GB 840 EVO attached to a Velocity Solo X2, and its very fast. I also have a regular 840 250GB in an Icy Dock adapter in drive bay 1; while it isn't as fast as the 840 EVO (limited mainly by SATA II) I can't tell much of a difference with most things.

Either way, they're both MUCH faster than any mechanical drive.

 

[brdeveloper]

It's an adequate SSD. Not as fast as the Accelsior PCIe SSD but good enough.

I'm using it to speed up my virtual machines in a MP 4.1 2.93 Ghz.

You're writing pretty fast. I'm getting similar read speeds at SATAII with my 250GB EVO, but only around 200GB/s when writing.