Help:- Samsung ssd 840 evo performance restoration Failed at 80 % !!!

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Hi , I have followed the guide on this forum , so the firmware updated , Step 1 went fine , Step 2 , went fine , Step 3 , failed at 80 % tried again and its failed again at 83 %

My drive has around 80 gigs of free space (250 gig version)

Help please , any advice ?

 
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Does it actually say "failed", or is it just hanging? Mine (also 250GB) took about an hour and often spent a very long time at certain percentages. Are you running 3rd party AHCI drivers? If so, try reverting back to Microsoft drivers. If all else fails, you always can use the 3rd party tool, DiskFresh (http://www.puransoftware.com/DiskFresh.html), which does the exact same thing as the official Restoration Tool (i.e. rewrite every sector on your drive).

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Does it actually say "failed", or is it just hanging? Mine (also 250GB) took about an hour and often spent a very long time at certain percentages. Are you running 3rd party AHCI drivers? If so, try reverting back to Microsoft drivers. If all else fails, you always can use the 3rd party tool, DiskFresh (http://www.puransoftware.com/DiskFresh.html), which does the exact same thing as the official Restoration Tool (i.e. rewrite every sector on your drive).

 
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Hi , thank you for your reply , yes i changed the drivers to the standard microsoft ones , i started it again and it is currently on 89 % fingers crossed !
 
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Cool , it completed ,for any other users who step 3 fails , do not fear , just rerun and continue mine made it all the way to 100 %
 
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Yes it actually said failed , it did not just hang

 
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The Restoration tool also updates the firmware. Without the firmware update which is what corrects the algorithm error that brought this issue on in the first place, every few months you'd have to run DiskFresh again. I tried to update my firmware via the Magician software, and it wouldn't work. I had to use the performance restoration tool. If it passes just the firmware update portion you would probably be ok, I guess . . . but Samsung doesn't break down what each step in the process actually does, so maybe just the firmware update isn't the complete "permanent fix" for this issue?
 
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The firmware update is the very first thing (Step 1) the restoration tool does. I have not heard of anyone who has failed to get the firmware update. It's Step 2 and especially Step 3 that is causing trouble, i.e. just because the Restoration Tool hasn't finished, you will still have gotten the new firmware. DiskFresh will effectively complete the rest of the process, if the Restoration Tool fails on Step 2/3.

 
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Right - that is step one and I've not heard of anyone having an issue with that either. I was just pondering whether or not the other steps involved more then simply rewriting/refreshing all the data on the drive. If so, if the tool fails after step one, and the user is forced to turn to a program like DiskFresh, is the drive truely "fixed" in that case?

Odds are, all you really need is the firmware upgrade and a rewrite of old data on the drive to be good to go . . . but it's something to think about (and to check) in a month or so to verify the drive is maintaining it's rated speed.

Actually, that's a good idea whether the tool failed or not!
 
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i ran the performance restoration (completed successfully -- said "Completed" and a tick appeared next to Completed). Absolutely no performance gain, still slow, and not coming close to other benchmarks shown by other users on the internet.

Will try clearing out some of my data and rerunning, but i do have 20% free....
 
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How do I know if I am using 3rd party drivers or MS ones?

I am getting stuck also...
 
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Had previously updated the firmware to the latest version before running the perfomance restorer. It was unable to complete the very first step, which is the firmware update itself, that was unecessary on my case.

It still fails even if I change the drivers to the standard AHCI ones.

I'm now trying to run DiskFresh and hoping the best. My Samsung 840 EVO 256GB SSD has a crappy performance and each day gets worse. I wish I could return it.

Update: Ran DiskFresh, the performance got a little better, but still a crap. Don't know what to do. Garbage ?

 
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