How co check health of an SSD and also performance issues?

Miguel2013 · Aug 2, 2017

hi I just bought a samsung 850 evo 256gb and I want to see if I can improve anything?

-does the sata cable has to be rated sata3 or any sata cable from 10 years ago?
-what about optimization software settings, what software from samsung or other?
-no defrag?
-how to check it's smart health.
-any other thing? like dust or change OS? I'm on windows 7.

Jetster · Aug 2, 2017

SATA cable is a SATA cable. (but 10 years it might be fragile)
If you want to use samsung magician you can it will tell you everything you need to know. But you don't have to
Do a clean install. Correct you never defrag a SSD

Is this for your ASRock 970 motherboard?

Miguel2013 · Aug 2, 2017

Jetster said:
SATA cable is a SATA cable. (but 10 years it might be fragile)
If you want to use samsung magician you can it will tell you everything you need to know. But you don't have to
Do a clean install. Correct you never defrag a SSD

Is this for your ASRock 970 motherboard?

yes still with it. probably won't upgrade for another 2 or 3 years with some improvements like this.

Wastedslayer · Aug 2, 2017

http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html

Light weight and easy to understand information regarding SMART info and past drive usage.

arbiter · Aug 2, 2017

Since you have a Samsung drive, there is also their Magician software for it that can show status as well as firmware updates.

http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/download/tools.html

Miguel2013 · Aug 2, 2017

arbiter said:
Since you have a Samsung drive, there is also their Magician software for it that can show status as well as firmware updates.

http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/download/tools.html

that website shows driver and firmware for 840evos and others like 850pro but not 850evo which is what I have. Does this means there is no firmware upgrade for mine?

jboydgolfer · Aug 2, 2017

Ubuntusario said:
does the sata cable has to be rated sata3 or any sata cable from 10 years ago?

A lot of people will tell you that the sata3 cable is required, but many tests will show that it makes no difference really.

I tend to just use newer ones generally the sata3 has a latch on it (a little metal clasp that locks the cable in). And the older ones tend to just be plastic that are held in by friction fit.

fullinfusion · Aug 2, 2017

Ubuntusario said:
that website shows driver and firmware for 840evos and others like 850pro but not 850evo which is what I have. Does this means there is no firmware upgrade for mine?

I clicked the Samsung link and I found the magician software with my cell.. install the SSD, install magician and forget about it.. enable rapid mode of you like in the software and your done and off for dinner

I've got the same drive plus the 960 Evo nvme drive and the software works for the entire thing.

erocker · Aug 2, 2017

Here's mine for reference:

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Motherboard	ASRock 970 PRO3 AM3
Cooling	Corsair H70 for CPU
Memory	64GB DDR3 1333mhz 16GBx4
Video Card(s)	NVIDIA 1080 with stock fan
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Processor	AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz
Motherboard	ASRock 970 PRO3 AM3
Cooling	Corsair H70 for CPU
Memory	64GB DDR3 1333mhz 16GBx4
Video Card(s)	NVIDIA 1080 with stock fan
Storage	1TB GIGABYTE SSD NVME PCIE 2.0 + Samsung SSD Evo 850 250GB with Ubuntu + Samsung SSD 860 500GB win7
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Case	Big Black Tower
Audio Device(s)	Realtek
Power Supply	CORSAIR RM850X
Mouse	wired chinese gaming mouse
Keyboard	Microsoft ergonomic keyboard
Software	Windows 10 64bit
Benchmark Scores	+

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Processor	i7-13700k
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Power Supply	Corsair RMx Series RM850x (OCZ Z series PSU retired after 13 years of service)
Mouse	Logitech G502 hero
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How co check health of an SSD and also performance issues?

Miguel2013

Jetster

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Wastedslayer

arbiter

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fullinfusion

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