Samsung 850 PRO vs 840 EVO

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Hey everyone, I'm considering buying a 850 PRO for my MBP 2012. What I'm planning on doing is programming and running xcode. Therefore, I was wondering if it was worth it to pay extra to get the 850 PRO over the 840 EVO.
 
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Honestly, you will probably not notice much a real world difference. Once my computer gets past the BIOS screen, it boots Windows in less than 5 seconds. I use the 850 Pro and have built machines using the 840 EVO. You will see a difference in synthetic benchmarks but honestly you will not see that much of a difference in real world applications to justify the price increase to the 850 Pro if you can get the 840 Evo on a killer sale.

Also, what size did you get?
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If you plan to keep the SSD for any length of time (will probably outlast its usefulness anyways), the 850 Pro comes with a 10 year warranty and uses 3D NAND which should have quite a bit more endurance according to Samsung. Most drives will fail within a relatively close period of time to the purchase date, but at least it is there if you need to use it in the future. I have the 850 Pro and it runs like a champ. However, if you can get the 840 at a distinctly better price than the 850 then go for it as it is still a great drive.
 
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I got the 840 EVO last night because it was on sale for 118 at bestbuy. I then went home and saw that the 850 ran faster than the 840 but I have no clue how much faster. I looked at some read/write programs runs using a certain software but I have no clue what those numbers represent. I would like to know how the 850 runs in real world applications vs the 840 EVO
 
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Honestly, you will probably not notice much a real world difference. Once my computer gets past the BIOS screen, it boots Windows in less than 5 seconds. I use the 850 Pro and have built machines using the 840 EVO. You will see a difference in synthetic benchmarks but honestly you will not see that much of a difference in real world applications to justify the price increase to the 850 Pro if you can get the 840 Evo on a killer sale.

Also, what size did you get?
 
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