Re: Samsung 840 Pro SSD Crashing

2013-02-19 Thread Digimer
On 02/19/2013 08:23 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On a completely separate note: I'll mention that I had lots of fun problems with my Crucial SSD drive which needed new firmware to fix. The most ironic being a bug in the firmware for SMART support that made it start failing after some specific number o

Re: Samsung 840 Pro SSD Crashing

2013-02-19 Thread Tom Horsley
On a completely separate note: I'll mention that I had lots of fun problems with my Crucial SSD drive which needed new firmware to fix. The most ironic being a bug in the firmware for SMART support that made it start failing after some specific number of hours of operation (if they hadn't tried to

Re: Samsung 840 Pro SSD Crashing

2013-02-19 Thread Gordan Bobic
On 02/20/2013 12:43 AM, Digimer wrote: On 02/19/2013 07:03 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote: On 02/19/2013 10:54 PM, Digimer wrote: On 02/19/2013 05:41 PM, Noah Cutler wrote: I have the 830 and was researching whether or not fstab "discard" option was still necessary for SSDs with ext4 partitions. Appa

Re: Samsung 840 Pro SSD Crashing

2013-02-19 Thread Digimer
On 02/19/2013 07:03 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote: On 02/19/2013 10:54 PM, Digimer wrote: On 02/19/2013 05:41 PM, Noah Cutler wrote: I have the 830 and was researching whether or not fstab "discard" option was still necessary for SSDs with ext4 partitions. Apparently it is for most SSDs, except for t

Re: Samsung 840 Pro SSD Crashing

2013-02-19 Thread Gordan Bobic
On 02/19/2013 10:41 PM, Noah Cutler wrote: I have the 830 and was researching whether or not fstab "discard" option was still necessary for SSDs with ext4 partitions. Apparently it is for most SSDs, except for the Samsung 840 Pro, which apparently uses a new technology that conflicts with "disca

Re: Samsung 840 Pro SSD Crashing

2013-02-19 Thread Gordan Bobic
On 02/19/2013 10:54 PM, Digimer wrote: On 02/19/2013 05:41 PM, Noah Cutler wrote: I have the 830 and was researching whether or not fstab "discard" option was still necessary for SSDs with ext4 partitions. Apparently it is for most SSDs, except for the Samsung 840 Pro, which apparently uses a n

Re: Samsung 840 Pro SSD Crashing

2013-02-19 Thread Digimer
On 02/19/2013 05:41 PM, Noah Cutler wrote: I have the 830 and was researching whether or not fstab "discard" option was still necessary for SSDs with ext4 partitions. Apparently it is for most SSDs, except for the Samsung 840 Pro, which apparently uses a new technology that conflicts with "disca

re: Samsung 840 Pro SSD Crashing

2013-02-19 Thread Noah Cutler
I have the 830 and was researching whether or not fstab "discard" option was still necessary for SSDs with ext4 partitions. Apparently it is for most SSDs, except for the Samsung 840 Pro, which apparently uses a new technology that conflicts with "discard" In the event that you are using it, disc