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12 Valentine's Day Cards That Don't Suck: An Awesome Etsy Roundup
From your significant other to your best friend to your mortal enemy, we've got you covered with Valentine's Day (and Anti-Valentine's Day) cards that don't suck.
-Lucia Peters
Oh wow, you guys. If you haven't noticed, it's February. How the heck did that happen? And you know what it means, of course? It means that the most dreaded of holidays is almost upon us. That's right: Valentine's Day.
Love it or hate it, it's all about the greeting cards—which, by the way, usually suck. Or at least, the ones that you buy in the store tend to suck. You know who has tons and tons of Valentine's Day Cards that DON'T suck? Etsy. For Etsy is a marvelous place, and odds are if you can dream of it, odds are someone has made it—by hand!—and put it there for sale. So from cute to quirky, from nerdy to dirty, from "I'm so in love with you I feel like I could die happy right now" to "I hate you," and from Singles Awareness Day to all-out Anti-Valentine's Day, here's your guide to Valentine's Day Cards that don't suck. Happy carding!
1. Cute:
Just because it's cute doesn't mean it has to be sickening, right? And hey, let's face it: nothing is cuter than robots in love. Bonus: You can also get one with the boy robot giving the heart to the girl robot. ($4, JulieAnnArt)
2. Romantic:
Not only is this one romantic, even better, it's unconventionally romantic. Graffiti can be beautiful—just like this, which was snapped on a street somewhere in France. Perfect to give to someone you love more than life itself. No one does romance quite like the French, n'est-ce pas? ($3.65, made4aid)
3. Dirty:
This card is awesome for a couple of reasons: 1) It's incredibly dirty, and 2) It's also simultaneously extremely classy. How does it manage to be both at once? Easy. It's Shakespeare. The creator of this particular Etsy shop, Geekcycled, found a battered, falling-apart copy of Shakespeare's Bawdy way in the back of a second-hand book shop, and, after spending hours looking at all the rude and naughty words Shakespeare used, decided that it would make a great source of greeting card material. This particular one features the many uses of the word "kind," though there are plenty of other options to choose from. Awwww yeeeeeah. ($2.38, Geekcycled)
Read 12 Valentines We Want to Send Our Celebrity Crushes
4. For Your Bestie:
Because that's what besties are for: Making your life not suck. ($3, letterhappy)
5. Mathematically Inclined:
I believe this lovely and elegant equation first appeared on GraphJam a couple of years ago, though you may not want to quote me on that. Either way, though, it's the perfect way to let the math genius in your life know how much you care. ($4, 4four)
6. Singles Awareness Day:
Singles Awareness Day is observed by single people the world over. Oddly enough, though, it's often got quite a negative connotation, something which reflects itself in many of the cards available that mark the occasion. So here's a thought: Why not celebrate being single instead? These are just a few of the reasons why being single is awesome. Go nuts. Monogamy is for chumps. ($4, creativitycards)
More awesome Valentine's Day cards, including ones for your partner in crime, up next!


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Government always follows the pointing fingers of the fourth estate, though usually in the wrong direction. It's been two days since I posted about the rising popularity of superfluous, unnecessary, and downright useless features and doodads coming out of the sweat-soaked R&D labs of the world's mobile device manufacturers. It can't be mere coincidence the government sensed which way the wind was blowing and jumped in -- albeit on a train moving down the exact opposite track.
On Friday, Mark Leno, a San Francisco senator on the Democrat side of the house, is seeking to surf the bottom of the legislative IQ bell curve by introducing a bill that would force manufacturers to put "kill switches" on all mobile devices sold in California. (In light of what I fervently pray is his perverse sense of humor, I hope he's a relation to a certain recently retired late-night talk show comedian.) The bill is co-sponsored by the city's district attorney, George Gascón, and would institute fines of up to $2,500 for each device sold that doesn't come equipped with this nebulously defined, ill-considered, and flatly cement-headed feature.
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For those who aren't familiar with the concept, a kill switch is a mechanism, physical or software-based, that would turn a device into an expensive paperweight, like some senatorial craniums, if certain criteria are met. Unfortunately, such a power can not be applied to our legislative bodies as the current Constitution stands.
The devil you know
Let's put aside the fact that asking global manufacturing companies to institute policies that satisfy only portions of certain countries sounds like the brainchild of people who attended elementary school at a Papa John's Pizza franchise. It's the mobile service providers we think are demonic baby-eaters, guys; the folks who manufacture devices are sweet, innocent multinational executives who attend Satanic mass only once or twice a year. Think about whom you're targeting.
But that's neither here, there, nor anywhere. The real issue is that two governing coneheads sat in the Forced Breach Pub and analyzed reams of evidence detailing malicious hacker attacks that exploit any platform vulnerability in order to cause mayhem, financial loss, and general sadness. They then presumably -- hopefully? -- took a swig of absinthe and decided the answer was to build a one-touch device destruction feature.

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Full Slate of Repair Projects to Commence at Bastrop State Park
BASTROP — A host of major repair and renovation projects are set to start Aug. 1 at Bastrop State Park, and while the park will remain open for day use and overnight stays, some cabins and campsites will be temporarily unavailable during construction.
Six of the park's 13 rustic cabins and roughly 10 of the park's 78 campsites being retrofitted to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act will be unavailable for reservation through at least the end of the year, according to project manager Tony Bettis. Five other campsites adjacent to the construction also will be shut down.
Bettis says, too, that the park's aging swimming pool and bath house, as well as the golf pro shop, will be undergoing improvements in coming months as part of the more than $2.6 million in repairs and renovations slated for Bastrop State Park, a National Historic Landmark built in the late 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps. The pool will close after Labor Day and repairs will begin shortly after for leak repairs and for complete resurfacing. Repairs are slated to be completed by March 31, 2011.
"We don't want to blindside anybody with these repair projects," Bettis says. "Some people don't go through our reservations center to book a campsite, but just show up. I would hate for them to drive two hours and arrive to find no campsites available."
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department crews already this year have made $317,000 in electrical system upgrades to Bastrop's pro shop and replaced the roof of the CCC-era warehouse.
The Bastrop State Park renovation projects represent another checkmark on a long list of major Texas State Parks rejuvenation projects underway this year, all aimed at making the parks more fun, safer and customer-friendly. Texas State Parks general obligation bonds have been sold to fun more than $44 million in repairs and renovations to park cabins, bathrooms, electrical and water systems, and other state park infrastructure. In addition to fixing up more than 40 state parks, the bonds provide $25 million to dry berth the Battleship Texas, protecting this proud veteran of two wars from the corrosive seawater in the Houston Ship Channel.
In addition, the park's iconic dining hall, built by the CCC of native sandstone and timber, will undergo a modernization of its outdated electrical system. Just down the road, Buescher State Park's popular recreation hall, also built by the CCC more than 70 years ago, is undergoing $913,000 in renovations, including the stabilization of the structure and the expansion of the restrooms to comply with the ADA. Construction should wrap up before the end of the year.
ADA upgrades are a large part of the Bastrop State Park improvement projects, affecting not only cabins and campsites, but also picnic areas, parking lots, the playground and the scenic overlook. The pro shop and caddy shack for the 18-hole golf course also will be made more accessible to the mobility-impaired.
In addition, the pro shop will be closed Nov. 1 to undergo a total facelift. The roof, exterior siding and windows will be replaced, making it weatherproofed again. A temporary building is being installed nearby to handle golf operations until the renovations are completed early next year.
Among the six cabins slated for rejuvenation are Cabin 6, which has long remained closed due to foundation problems, and the park's largest cabin, Cabin 12, which is retrofitted to comply with ADA standards. Cabin 12, also known as the Lost Pines Lodge, should be back on line by the end of the year, but Cabin 6 won't reopen until spring of 2011. Persons seeking to rent a cabin, which have full kitchens and fireplaces, should make reservations well in advance.
A number of campsites in the Deer Run, Piney Hill and Copperas Cove camping areas will be adversely affected by nearby construction or ADA projects in fall and winter months. For advance camping reservations, please contact TPWD's Customer Service Center at (512) 389-8900 or make online reservations: http://tpwd.texas.gov/business/park_reservations/web/.
Bastrop State Park, located in the legendary Lost Pines of central Texas 35 miles east of the state capital, draws 150,000 visitors a year to its sylvan setting amid an ancient loblolly pine forest that is home to the endangered Houston toad. In addition to swimming and golf, visitors to the 5,926-acre park enjoy fishing, hiking, picnicking and biking on the 12-mile road joining Bastrop and Buescher state parks.
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Unseasonably warm temperatures above water drew an enthusiastic group of divers today. Water temperature was a balmy 39F. A small amount of debris was retrieved from this site much to the pleasant surprise of everyone! The site is located within city limits and most believed more debris would be present. The dive had some very interesting aspects to it, such as whether a large structure was a barge or a wreck. We had several items which divers debated on whether or not to remove; you could see the debate on there faces. A rather large glove that had a large clump of eggs an kelp attached. As well as a seat cushion that had several starfish attached and kelp growing from it. In the end these items were left on the bottom in the interst of not disturbing the growth.
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Local First Arizona (LFA) is collaborating with fellow LFA members The Country Maiden and Papa Ed's Ice Cream to host Glendale's first ever Glendale cash mob. The Glendale cash mob is a fairly recent phenomenon, having grown from the desire to show support for small, independent businesses. The idea is simple: gather a large group of people to descend on a business in a short time span, and have each person spend $20 in cash at that business.
"It's like a cash injection for a small, independent business," says Kimber Lanning, Director of Local First Arizona. "Our goal is to bring the community together to support these great local businesses."
Cheryl Kappes, owner of The Country Maiden, expressed enthusiasm for bringing the cash mob to Glendale: "I don't think the average customer realizes how much difference a big group can make on a small business, spending just $20 each, especially during our long, hot summers."
Linda Moran-Whittley, owner of Papa Ed's Ice Cream, agreed, saying, "Honestly, having Local First Arizona sponsoring the first Cash Mob in downtown Glendale is simply amazing."
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Local First Arizona is planning a series of cash mobs in preparation of their annual summer event, Independents Week (July 1-7, 2012). Independents Week is a week-long celebration of independent businesses across the state of Arizona, where consumers will be able to use the Golden Coupon at participating LFA member businesses to receive 20% off of purchases. Golden Coupons will be distributed to participants of the cash mob to use in the following week. Cash mobs are also being planned for Mesa and Tuscon, where Golden Coupons will be distributed as well.


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Dillon Gee, the scheduled second-half starter for the Mets Friday in Atlanta, was admitted to the hospital with numbness in his fingers, according to Adam Rubin. Terry Collins said he is to undergo an angiogram to determine the cause.
The Mets had already elected to pitch Gee Friday, and move Johan Santana back, because Santana's ankle was still bothering him following an awkward catch and tag of first base in his last start.
Both of these injuries could be minor, so it is important not to jump to any conclusions. The Mets have been calling Santana's push back precautionary. And we simply don't know what is going on with Gee.
But for a team with no margin for error in the starting pitching department, and one reliant on its superior starting pitching to help outpace a terrible defense and bullpen, these pieces of news are disconcerting at best. So hold your breath and hope this is just a couple of brief scares, not anything more.
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To review: The Rangers have one regulation victory and two skills competition victories in their last nine games, and in that one regulation victory they scored seven goals and allowed four. They went 2-3 in that stretch of five games in eight nights (tonight makes six in 10). They allowed 13 goals in their last two.
To say tonight is an important test of character, let alone ability, is an understatement.
Larry Brooks wrote today that it's time for Tortorella to show us something, too, and I agree.
Will it get ugly? With Matt Cooke suspended, that's doubtful … unless the score gets lopsided again.
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New PC (warning: overkill specs ;)
As I'm now finished upgrading my old computer, it's time to look into the (far) future.
I've got quite a lot of money saved, but don't mind waiting a bit for it to drop in price. As you might notice on the components below, I like to be up to date and am willing to spent quite a bit.
In no paticular order (well, in the order Tweakers.net puts it in my wishlist):
Soundcard: Asus Xonar D2
HDD: Western Digital Caviar Black WD2002FAEX, 2 TB
Monitor: Samsung Syncmaster B2430HD, 24"
DVD-writer: Samsung SH-S223C black
OS: MS Windows 7 Home
Case: Silverstone Fortress FT02S
Speakers: Creative Inspire T6160
CPU cooling: Thermaltake Frio
CPU: Intel Core i7 2600K
PSU: Cooler master silent pro gold 1000W
SSD: OCZ RevoDrive X2 PCI-E SSD 240 GB
Memory: Corsair Vengeance CMZ8GX3M2A1866C9, 8 GB DDR3-1866
Cardreader: HP 22-in-1 black
GPU: Gigabyte GV-N580D5-15I-B, 1,5 GB GeForce 580
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD7-B3
So, now my burning questions:
1) Is this stuff compatible?
2) Am I neglecting certain areas big time?
3) I'm currently missing the keyboard/mouse/headset. Any recommendations? (Really don't have much of a clue in all three)
4) I'm on the fence whether or not to go for 2 GPU's.
4a) Is it worth it?5) How easy/hard is it to built this PC myself?
4b) What about heat?
4c) Is it something I can be bothered with later on (for example in 2013?)
6) Did I miss something?
Many many thanks in advantage for your answers!
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As mentioned in this thread and This article, the i7 is currently an ineffective way to spend your money. The i5-2500k will do all you want and give you the money to spend elsewhere.
I notice you have a 3rd party cooler for the CPU specced. What is this for? Only bother with one of these if you plan to either overclock or make a quiet PC (I'd say a bit of money for quiet was well spent). For either of these you're going to need to do your research, look up specialist review sites and forums, see what actually does the job for a good price.
The graphics card you picked again gets a bit of a bashing for being not enough bang for your buck, but perhaps isn't quite as clear cut as the processor. I've not ever bothered with multi-GPU solutions myself, on the grounds that A: people I know have found them a bucket load of difficulty, admittedly a few years ago and B: loads of games don't actually benefit - this includes real resource hogs like Crysis (1) and I think The Witcher 2 when they launched, although I believe both later supported it.
You'll find RPS's opinions on 24" monitors here and their opinions on nice headsets here
If you could handle the upgrade process we went through before, then you shouldn't have any trouble building this beast. At the end of the day, building a PC is just pushing stuff into the matching slots, then spending the rest of the day downloading drivers from the net.
With all the money you're spending W7 Pro might be advisable.
I like Logitech mice, but mouse preferences tend to cause something of a holy war. I currently run an MX600 and like it, although wireless range is dissapointing - the new MX705 looks nice, and like a solid remake of my old love the MX700 (mine eventually got old and unreliable after many years). I've either broken or been disappointed by a long string of keyboards, varying between cheap and fairly pricey. The zboard and saitek being the most dissapointing, the OCZ Elixir 2 being the least bad "cheap" keyboard that I smashed through 2 or 3 of, and my current Razer Lycosa being the only one that's never let me down while gaming, but feels ridiculous overpriced for the construction quality and stupid aesthetic decisions.
Also, any specific parts advice will be out of date in a few months time. But stuff like Tom's Hardware's best for the money charts. PC Pro's A List and speciality review sites keep current.
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As Cmaster says a 2500K and a 2600K aren't very distinguishable for gaming so go for the 2500K. Do go for a custom cooler. I have the stock one and only 2 weeks into its life it is due for the chop. Not the loudest thing is the world but the noise it makes is peculiarly annoying.
Graphics wise it is usually best to go for the best single card you can afford given performance scaling in SLi varies hugely from game to game. It is often an attractive upgrade option and as your mobo supports it, it would always be an option in the future. Though I hate to think of the cooling required for two 580s. Also gaming at 1920x1080 shouldn't really push a 580 at all and will be future proof for a good few years yet. My 6870 pretty much handles anything at high at that res and is much lowlier GPU.
As for mice there are good and bad ones but if you can go somewhere to try them I really would. What suits you will depend on the size of your hands, the way you hold it etc. For example I love my Deathadder and find it incredibly comfortable. My girlfriend on the other hand can barely grip it and hates using it.
Finally that PSU is massive overkill I'd have thought. Even a system with 580 in will struggle to pull 500w under load so I'd have thought a good 600w PSU would be plenty. A 1000w is more what you'd need for two of them.
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CMaster and Comrade Penguin have the right suggestions. I'm only here because I realize they are saving you some cash. Which means you'll have extra. Cash.
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5) not difficult, most things only fit in one place, as always there are some pretty good tutorials available on the internet, but they are largely unnecessary, I think the hardest part is always hooking up the case usb ports to the mobo if the case has individual pins instead of a connector, same for case power and reset, but that is really just fine motor control and looking at a picture on the motherboard and case instruction books.[FONT=Fixedsys]Why are you wearing that stupid human suit?[/FONT]
I'd look at Logitech speakers before Creative's. Might even consider tossing the Xonar board if money is an issue. Unless you're an audiophile and/or doing audio work, embedded audio is more than adequate for gaming and listening to music. Where you're going to hear the difference is in the speakers, which is where I'd focus more money and get some good ones.
I just (personally) hate tinny cheap speakers, and since I don't have a home stereo, my PC is the source of my music listening. I'm very happy with the Z5500's I bought six years ago. They weren't cheap, but they were worth every cent (not necessarily suggesting them, there's probably better ones/more affordable out by now).
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I would just mention that for one GPU, a 1000W PSU is overkill. On the order of 300-400 W worth of overkill. If you're considering moving to two GPUs, you should still be OK with ~800 W, unless the GTX 580 is a dual-chip card, and I don't think it is.
Off the top of my head, anyway. If you knock down the wattage on the PSU, you should be able to save a decent wad of cash.
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Thank you all for the recommendations, highly appreciated!
- Regarding the coolers: I think I might change the Frio for a Thermalflake Silver Arrow or H2 (esp. the H2 is rumored to be really quiet)
- I'll switch the 2600k for the 2500k (though still have to take a good look at both)
- I'll change the 1000W for a 800W PSU. Still overkill, but less so ;)
- Regarding the speaker set: I currently have Logitechs, and I'm really not satisfied with them. Sure, they'll give nice enough sound for games, but when listening to music (I do that sometimes on my PC, I know....) the whole mid-section just ISN'T THERE! Only tweets and base. Though I realise that I haven't really looked into the Creative ones yet. To be continued.
- I won't be getting a 2nd GPU, at least not the coming years. And considering my previous PC, I think this one will also last at least 5 years, maybe even longer.
- I'll be looking in more detail at the mice, keyboards and headsets. And reconsider the 24" monitor if needed.
Thanks again all of you!
Re: PSU
I actually did some looking around. Here are some benchmarks for the 580 and 580 SLI. http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/305?vs=308
If you scroll to the bottom, you should see some items listed Load Power Consumption (Crysis) and Load Power Consumption (Furmark). These numbers are for the entire system, not just the GPU. I'm not sure what their test systems were, but they would be fairly high-end to match the GPUs.
Turns out the 580 actually sucks more juice than I thought it would. Load under Crysis is just under 400W for a single 580, and just over 600W for two. Crysis is going to be similar/close to what kind of actual loads you would get while running games. In Furmark, you're looking at 500W and 850W, respectively. Furmark, I should note, is specifically designed to bring the GPU to 100% load, IIRC. In normal use (including gaming), you should never get anywhere near as high as the Furmark numbers. Also, don't run Furmark. They probably fixed it, but it used to be capable of burning out your hardware.
So, shorter version: I was mostly correct. For a single GTX 580, the most power you are likely to suck down (short of installing 15 hard drives) is 400-500W. So you should be fine with 800W. However, when you add in a second GTX 580, you could technically break the 800W barrier, though you would be unlikely to. Still, 620W is closer to max than I would personally like.
Short version: If you are never going to add a second GTX 580, 800W is fine. If you are considering eventually adding in a second card, I would actually recommend bumping it back up to 1000W, just to be on the safe side.
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This thing is, for want of a better word, a fucking beast. I commend you sir!
My point was marrying a sound board to cheap speakers. The board is unnecessary, but if you're going for good audio, something that is often overlooked when buying a new PC, then get some good speakers. They are definitely a "you get what you pay for" item.
Happy spec'ing!
btw: is that case model the Tower or Mid-Tower? Can't tell . . . .
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Thanks for the explanation Kablooie, and it's something to consider when looking for a new set of speakers. My current on-board audio is pretty bad, so hence the new soundcard, but perhaps newer motherboards have better on-board audio. Going to look into it anyway.
The case is a Tower case by the way
@ Duff: Sure is a fucking beast. Mind you, a fucking theoretical beast at the moment ;)
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Middle of the road specs on many hardware enthusiast sites. ;)
Check out this thread for a REAL gaming beast; http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1588587
Most of the guys above gave you pretty sound advice, all I can do is echo their opinions.
Also, great choice of case. I personally own the black version of an FT02, absolutely fantastic case.


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What happened to the forecast this weekend ? :confused:
Specifically, the forecast for Virginia Beach.. ? :confused:
Because as of all week, and even through oh-dark-thirty on Saturday morning, the forecast on this website was for clean green & waist to better...and it was definitely NOT.
Yah, yah, I get the stuck record "forecasting is not a given, is not guaranteed, is not absolute." I get that.
However....when the forecaster calls for waist to better & improving conditions through Sunday, and the fact is that in VB it was knee high slop & did not improve by Sunday, my question is where is the accountability ?
There were a few rides at 45th Street. That was it. I know this because I literally walked on the sandbars - - walked ! - - in the water from 58th down to 42nd. That's how flat today in VB was.
Look....I respect the effort. But, people make plans & spend money, lots of money, to go surfing based on forecasts claiming to be from a perspective of expertise.
I realize that people are going to go ballistic, tell me to move to the coast, shut up, or they will spew-regurgitate the above excuses in p. 3, but save your breath this time.
If the forecast is botched, as it was this weekend, I'd like to see some accountability. Take credit & plenty of it when due. As well, take your bullet when it's your bullet.


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Samsung SSD 850 Pro (128GB, 256GB & 1TB) Review: Enter the 3D Eraby Kristian Vättö on 7/1/2014 10:00 AM EST
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Homeles - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkMan, the 850 Pro is killer. Samsung really knocked it out of the park. Those prices are just completely out of touch, though. Reply
Awful - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkYeah the prices are high for now. Game changing stuff though; and prices can only come down. PCIe V-NAND? Yes please! Reply
Hung_Low - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkEven better, Intel style NVMe controller + this v-nand!! orgasmic Reply
avyshue - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkyeah, i've been holding off on upgrading from my existing 128 boot drive + mechanical setup to a full 1TB drive. I think I'll keep holding out until PCIe is better supported/better priced. Reply
Angrychair - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkThe prices are in line for class leading performance and reliability.
The reliability is the critical part, these are drives that are unlikely to wear out in any system almost no matter how heavily taxed. Reply
Ken_g6 - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkI see these are MLC drives. Hopefully, Samsung will come out with consumer-level 3D TLC drives that have relatively good reliability, and a price at or below Crucial's drives. Reply
frenchy_2001 - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkReliability is a side effect of retreating to 40nm pitch technology.
Even if they decided to do TLC with the same cells, they would probably end up being more reliable than 2D nand MLC. Reply
joelypolly - Thursday, July 03, 2014 - linkThey already have drives in testing that has written over 8 petabytes so I think the reliability is there Reply
mkozakewich - Saturday, July 05, 2014 - linkOn that note, I'm wondering how 4-bit MLC would perform compared to 2D NAND. Reply
RaistlinZ - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkFantastic drives! That consistency is really remarkable. I don't know if most will pay the price premium for these over the EVO however. The average user probably wouldn't notice a difference in general day to day use. Reply
alacard - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkFascinating stuff, thanks for the in depth analysis. Reply
Iketh - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkGood read on the software not taking advantage of SSDs yet. Windows is the biggest offender. I have 8 threads and an SSD and I still have to wait for each of my startup programs to load like a snail 1 at a time after bootup... Reply
tetsuo77 - Monday, June 30, 2014 - link"There are some drops, although I am not sure what is causing them"
It looks suspiciously like your values overflowed an unsigned int (prior to being converted from B to KB). Just add ~4.3 million to the 4 mysteriously low values and you have a nicely shaped curve. Reply
tetsuo77 - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkOops.. I pasted the wrong quote. Meant to quote this: "It looks like read performance scales quite linearly until hitting the IO size of 256KB where RAPID stops caching"
I maintain that there is an error in the numbers on the graph :) Reply
Gigaplex - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - link32 bit unsigned integers support around 4.3 billion, not million. Reply
lyeoh - Friday, July 04, 2014 - linkif the values were being stored internally as bytes and not kilobytes it might overflow as tetsuo77 mentioned. 4.3 million * kilobytes per sec = billions of bytes/sec which could overflow. Reply
nirwander - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkI cant see how they aim at mainstream with these prices.
Crucial MX100 512 is already fast enough for SATA 6 Gbps and.. twice as cheap!
Technology geeks will probaly go for Intel PCIe NVMe drives. Reply
Gigaplex - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkAnd if you really need the performance, just get two of the MX100s and RAID 0 them. Reply
willis936 - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkUnless you care about storage latency at all. Reply
Gigaplex - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkFair point, but SSDs are so far ahead of hard drives in terms of latency that it hardly matters. Reply
Squuiid - Saturday, March 14, 2015 - linkPlus, the MX100 reliability is horrible. Just google MX100 BSOD, disappearing drive.
I have 2x MX100 512GB SSDs and I recommend you don't buy one, no matter how cheap they are. Reply
nightauthor - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkFor business purposes, I would rather pay twice as much and get a 10 year warranty vs the 3 year supplied by Crucial. Though, for my daily, I would probably go with the Crucial. Reply
TheWrongChristian - Wednesday, July 02, 2014 - linkNo current SATA drives push low queue depth random IOs to the point of saturating SATA II, let alone SATA III.
At high queue depths, perhaps. But then, that is not a typical workload for most users, desktop or server.
Plus, it's a new drive, prices will come down. Reply
jwcalla - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkUnless they're doing 5% OP the capacities are kinda... off. Reply
melgross - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkI think there's a slight misunderstanding of manufacturing cost. While the die size may be the same, or even smaller than a competing technology, the 32 level chip does cost more to make per area. There are more masks, more layers, more etching and washing cycles, and more chance of defects.
Right now, I do see why the cost is higher. I can on,y assume that as this technology progresses, that cost will drop per area. But it will always remain higher than an SLC, MLC or TLC chip.
So there is a balance here. Reply
Kristian Vättö - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkYou are correct. I did mention yield and equipment cost in the final paragraph but I figured I won't go into detail about masks and etching since those would have required an in-depth explanation of how NAND is manufactured :) Reply
R0H1T - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkIt would be great if Anand or you do a writeup on 3d NAND & deal with the specific pros & cons of it as compared to traditional 2d NAND & if possible include something related to manufacturing processes of these & how they're different OR more/less expensive, certainly as in case of V-NAND? Reply
MrSpadge - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkYou wouldn't need too much detail - just saying that the number of process steps increases by probably around an order of magnitude should make this pretty clear. Reply
frenchy_2001 - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkIt is probably more than that, as Samsung is currently manufacturing 32 layers of cells. Each layer requires multiple operations (deposit, etching, washing...). Their biggest advantage comes from regressing to 40nm: at that technology, each operation is *MUCH* cheaper than the equivalent one at 1X pitch (15~19nm).
So, total cost is an unknown, but should be very competitive, after recovering the initial R&D investment. Reply
Spatty - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkAnd not to mention 3D NAND is still basically bleeding edge. It's still in the stages of where a new DDR generation arrives, much higher costs then current gen. Reply
frenchy_2001 - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkthe 3D structure and design are revolutionary, but the manufacturing technology is actually a very mature one (40nm). This makes it *MUCH* cheaper than the 1X used by their competition.
Samsung has really struck gold with that design, as it allows them to scale in both dimensions, depending on the result and cost of each. While 2D NAND is facing really tough challenges to increase density, V-NAND is allowed to either scale up (more layers) or restart scaling pitch, as manufacturing is *very well* understood from 40nm->~16nm. They just need to experiment with it and see what makes economic sense and good trade-offs. Reply
toyotabedzrock - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkAlmost seems like it would be cheaper to ramp up the production of silicon ingots and drive that cost down further than the r&d for this. Reply
frenchy_2001 - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkSilicon ingots cost is marginal. The real cost for scaling is all the R&D necessary to make the pitch smaller. Even using bigger wafers (current ones are 300mm, there have been talks of 450mm for a while, but cost is a deterrent, as a whole fab needs to be re-tooled for the upgrade) only improves yields and costs marginally.
NAND scaling down is facing huge challenges, due both to process (who to image those ~15nm line on a wafer) and electrical limits (~3 electrons inside your cell at 15nm). 3D NAND allows to restart the growth by bypassing those challenges (step back to 40nm process and scale in the Z axis).
General SOCs are facing similar process limits (there is no solution below 10nm so far, despite the whole industry cooperating to find one), even if their design limits are more relaxed (SOCs are not trapping charges, but cross talk and interference are starting to be challenges too). Reply
UltraWide - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkWill there be a version with PCIe or M.2? Reply
Gigaplex - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkIf you'd read the article, you'd know the controller doesn't support PCIe. Reply
Gigaplex - Monday, June 30, 2014 - link"This further suggests that the issue lies in our tests instead of the RAPID software itself as end-users will always run the drive with a partition anyway."
Um, no. I don't care what the end user does, the software shouldn't cause a BSOD. If it can't cache without a partition, it should simply not attempt to cache. This is just a case of Samsung thinking that just because they do some nice hardware, that they're experts in software. They're really not. RAM caching of I/O isn't specific to SSDs anyway, why are they tying it to an SSD launch? Reply
Donuts123 - Wednesday, July 02, 2014 - linkYeah, that's a huge red flag for me, I definitely wouldn't use the RAPID software. Another layer to go wrong (and apparently it does). I hope Anandtech submits details of the BSODs they saw to Samsung.
RAPID probably just uses the Samsung SSD as a dongle. Presumably RAPID is derived from Samsung's acquisition of NVELO, see http://www.anandtech.com/show/6518/samsung-acquire... Reply
Guspaz - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkWait a minute, 150TB endurance on a 1TB drive? Only 150 cycles? That doesn't make any sense, that's absurdly low.
Then again, Intel's rating for the 335 doesn't make any sense either. They say 20GB a day for 3 years, or about 22TB... But they also rate it for 3000 cycles, and the media wear indicator on the drive is set to treat 3000 as full wear, and that represents 720TB... Reply
Kristian Vättö - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkThe endurance figures are usually based on a 4KB random write workload and are thus worst-case numbers. 150TB of random writes means a ton of more NAND writes than 150TB, that's why. I explained the calculation of TBW here:
However, as I mentioned in the article, in the client space the endurance is more for guidance (i.e. don't put these in servers!) than an actual technical limit. Reply
emn13 - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - link...but outside of server-like workloads, what's going to benefit from this performance? Reply
Cerb - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - link"cheese in in" -> "cheese in it"? Reply
Cerb - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkThe above was meant to not be a reply to yours. In general, there's isn't much, though, because with SATA, we're still stuck needing striped RAID to improve bandwidth. Assuming they can keep costs in check, the rapid shrinking,m and thus capacity increases over the next few years, will give us something much more useful. That said, it's nice that they caught up in terms of consistency. Reply
Donuts123 - Sunday, July 06, 2014 - linkMore relevantly, the 150TB warranty figure applies to all capacities. All things being equal, a 128GB drive with 150TB written will have the same amount of flash wear as a 1TB drive with 1200TB written.
So in practice the 1TB model will have far higher endurance than 150TB. But its warranty will expire when its flash is only 12.5% worn. Samsung aren't the only manufacturer to have low TBW warranty figures; Micron/Crucial does it as well, with the same TBW figure for all drive capacities. Reply
8steve8 - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkYawn. Another SATA 2.5" SSD.
How does this compare to m.2 PCIe drives like the XP941 and M6e?
Will we see m.2 PCIe NVMe drives before xmas? Reply
Kristian Vättö - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkThe 850 Pro is now in the Bench so you can compare the two easily:
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1201?vs=125... Reply
8steve8 - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkthanks, the XP941 demolishes this thing, why isn't it in the charts of this review? clearly PCIe m.2 would be on the radar for anyone looking for a high end SSD these days... ?
it may not be readily available in the channels, but it is a taste of what is to come... personally I just got a 256GB plextor M6e PCIe m.2 for $220. It's easy to find in the market. Reply
Kristian Vättö - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkI didn't want to put the XP941 in the graphs because the availability and support are relatively limited and it would have broken some of the graphs. Reply
zmeul - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkjust a quick dumb question:
the bandwidth for SATA 3.0 - 6 Gbit/s is 600 MB/s right? so, it's 300MB/s read and 300MB/s write
correct ? Reply
thesavvymage - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkno, its 600MB/s in total in either direction. you can max the 600 read if you arent doing any writes, etc. It isnt 300 max per direction, its 600 max for total data bandwidth Reply
zmeul - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkyes, I forgot to mention, duplex (at the same time) 300r+300w Reply
MrSpadge - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkNo, it's really "600 MB/s whatever". In reality about 550 MB/s seems to be the maximum. With 300r + 300w full duplex neither read nor write could surpass 300 MB/s. Reply
zmeul - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkwhy I ask this
I see a lot op people putting SSDs in RAID0, and I wonder why ... to me, it seems totally pointless
the system doesn't do only writes or only reads, so what's the point? well, except in the cases where you copy/move some huge files from one matrix to another Reply
Cerb - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkCopying large files, and loading large files. Realistically, you can copy from a new SSD to another at anywhere from 250MBps to 450MBps (including OS/filesystem overhead). That's halved, or worse, copying from an SSD to itself. RAID 0 gives you an approximately linear bandwidth increase. If you don't need a logical or physical separation of data locations, RAID 0 beats a separate drive.
When I'm backing up my Bethesda games directory, I wish I had more speed, as it could be done faster in a RAID. However, I only do that one or two times per month (all my saves for all my games are on automatic backup).
For typical light random IO, it very much is pointless. Reply
457R4LDR34DKN07 - Wednesday, July 02, 2014 - linkEasy, say you have 2 sata 2.0 SSD but want sata 3.0 speeds. Reply
Kevin G - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkTypo?
"I bet many of you would have liked to see the 850 Pro move to the PCIe interface but I understand Samsung's decision to hold on with PCIe for a little while longer."
I think the second PCIe should be SATA. Reply
stickmansam - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkof the "on" could be a "off' Reply
Solid State Brain - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkHow many P/E cycles does the NAND on this drive support, by SMART data? Reply
Kristian Vättö - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkI will test that as soon as I get back from Korea, as well as send you the Extreme Pro data. Sorry for not replying to your email earlier, I kind of lost focus on everything else when I started working on this review :) Reply
Solid State Brain - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkNo problem, thanks! Reply
extide - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkYou should actually put up a little pipeline article with all of this data, because it would be interesting to me, and I am sure lots of other users as well. Reply
beginner99 - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkSounds great until you see the price. Even for an enthusiast a crucial MX100 is probably the more reasonable choice. It's half the price... Reply
juhatus - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkYeah, the most important factor of a SATA SSD is the price, not how it will saturate the 550Mb limit in a scenario that will never happen for most consumers. Now even a mention on the first page, eh? Please put a little pressure for the manufacturers to move on to M.2 and NVME.
**In the Midnight hour, She cried more, more, more!!** Reply
boogerlad - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkAre you guys going to review the SM1715? Really curious to see how it stacks up against the Intel, especially in client workloads. Reply
pesho00 - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkI realy hoped to see 2,3,4 TB drives with this technology :(
But we will weith ;)
Nice drive, not so nice price ;) Reply
MrSpadge - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkNot much point in offering them now if you consider the price of the 1 TB version. Reply
Samus - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkThose Koreans...they're just killer engineers. Reply
trumanhw - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkI don't get it. I get about 505 read and 495 write on Evo. This goes up by TEN percent in performance and then all but DOUBLES the price?
I'm confident someone here has understanding of this I'm missing--please reply and just point me to the parts that change my view.
Thanks Reply
hojnikb - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkYour EVO has worse endurance, lower IOPS, lower consistency and most of all lower Write speeds (495MB/s write is due to trick called turbowrite).
Sequential speeds are only a part of the story. Reply
emn13 - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkI always wonder who this kind of drive is supposed to be aimed at. Yes, it's fast; but the competition is fast enough that I really can't imagine anyone *noticing* the difference outside of artificial extremely heavy non-stop I/O. And I don't mean light-load non-stop, I mean I/O's maxed out non-stop so the drives can't take time to garbage collect.
So... a power user is unlikely to notice much difference outside of short bursts of high-I/O apps, and as the rather heavy 2011 light load demonstrates, the drives are already maxing out there too. I just can't think of a real-world load where a human being would notice the performance difference and care about it; that would imply a performance difference of around a factor 2.
So we're left with a super fast drive (good for bragging rights, but what else?), but some apparently intentionally missing features like power-loss protection. Why would even a heavy user choose this over, say, samsungs own 840 EVO, or crucial's MX100/M500?
I just don't see the value here. To me this looks like microoptimization and losing sight of the bigger picture.
Price matters. Features matter. Performance - only until you're fast enough. Reply
hojnikb - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkKinga agree with this. If you REALLY need every bit of performance, you won't be looking for SATA drives at all.
This probobly has a nieche.
But mainstream drives are really fast enough these days for most people. Reply
TrackSmart - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkI second this. The Anandtech SSD tests were designed so that we could tell the difference between drives that are all so fast - that there is no way to tell them apart in ordinary usage scenarios. I see the value of testing the theoretical performance of drives as manufacturers push the technological limits.
That said, at the end of the day user-experience is what matters. I agree with emn13 that the "light workload" test is already more strenuous than anything the average user is likely to do, and looking at the chart, we see that almost every drive is within a range of ~280 to ~380 MB/s. I'm guessing that the range in performance gets even narrower for "real world" workloads.
So keep up the innovative SSD testing, but be sure to put these theoretical performance gains into a real-world context when you get to the Conclusions section of these articles. Not everyone will benefit from these theoretical increases in performance. Reply
hojnikb - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkIs Samsung planning on doing TLC based V-NAND anytime soon ?
It would be great for a mainstream drive, since endurance would be higher (due to older node), speeds would probobly also went up (so no need for gimicks like turbowrite).
Or is it not mature enough to scale down to TLC ? Reply
artifex - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkYou had me at 10 years warranty. I don't mind the slight premium if I'm not buying another one midway through the cycle. Sure, it will be obsolete well before it dies, but that term signals Samsung is really confident about their reliability. Reply
Gigaplex - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkSince it's twice the price of competition like the MX100, you're better off replacing mid way through the cycle. Reply
Arnulf - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkI must have missed this in the article - are these V.NAND cells as used in 850 Pro drives 2 or 3 bits per cell ? I got the "larger lithography improves endurance" part, I'm just wondering whether they opted for more conservative option (MLC) there as well. Reply
extide - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkThese are MLC, or 2 bit per cell.
It would be interesting if the non pro 850 comes out with TLC V-NAND! Reply
himem.sys - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkHeh, we are waiting for tests 850pro vs 840pro, because there are no bigger differences "on paper". Reply
sirvival - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkHi,
one question:
In the review the idle power consumption for e.g. the 850 128gig is 35 mw.
I wanted to compare that to my Samsung 470 so I went to Bench and selected the drives for comparison.
There it says that the 850 uses 0.29 Watt.
So how comes there is a difference? Reply
KAlmquist - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkAnandtech Bench has four SSD power numbers:
SSD Slumber Power (HIPM+DIPM)
Drive Power Consumption - Idle
Drive Power Consumption - Sequential Write
Drive Power Consumption - Random Write
The confusing things are that (1) the review only listed slumber power, not idle power, and (2) Bench lists both numbers but doesn't place the slumber power next to the other power values. Reply
mutantmagnet - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkI also find the lack of powerloss protection being a big negative over this hard drive. Until REFS has all the features it needs in Windows that you would get in Linux this is going to be an important feature for anyone who values data integrity. Even after that happens it still might be very important. Reply
Cerb - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkThe SSD just quitting could brick the drive, and could hose up the FS. Like ECC RAM, if you need power loss protection, you need it regardless of file system. IMO, they should all at least be equipped with enough to gracefully finish in-progress writes and shut down (not necessarily empty buffers, but set up a state that they can be guaranteed to be able to roll back from). Reply
sonicology - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkTypo?
"Scaling below 20nm was seemed as a major obstacle but the industry was able to cross that..."
seemed a major obstacle or seen as a major obstacle, but not seemed as a major obstacle Reply
Bladen - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkIs it just me, or does the "Performance Consistency" page have interactive charts, all of which are entitled "(SSD name and capacity) - 4KB Random Write (QD32) Performance", but with different results in each of the graphs for the same SSDs and capacities? Also, descriptive text is missing below the last two.
I'm presuming they are supposed to be a read and another read or write one, presumably at a lower queue depth. Reply
MrSpadge - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkThey're the same data in different scales. Reply
paesan - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkI purchased a 512GB MX100 when they first came out for $199. No way the extra speed from the 850 pro is worth over twice the price as the MX100. Nobody is going to keep that drive for 10 years anyway. In 10 years the drive will be obsolete. Most users won't even notice the difference in speed in their every day usage. Reply
MrSpadge - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkBTW: that image is surely not an X-Ray but "just" an ordinary SEM image (scanning electron microscope). Reply
Spatty - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkThis is correct. SEM image after a FIB. Reply
drwho9437 - Wednesday, July 02, 2014 - linkAs I mentioned elsewhere, it is probably a STEM bright field image after a FIB liftout of the gate stack. Certainly not an X-ray; he should be correct the article... Reply
Cerb - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - link"The wear out causes the insulators to lose their insulating characters" - shouldn't that be characteristic(s)? Reply
jann5s - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkI'm wondering If this technology will also end up in SD (XD) memory cards? Reply
Cerb - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkAs soon as it is cheap enough. But, don't get your hopes up about performance. SD cards are mostly limited by the controllers being slow, and in the tiny package they fit in, with the narrow margins they have, there's not a lot of room, physically and economically, to give them fast controllers, even if you get a big one that must have several NAND dies, and are talking about full-size SD, where multiple channels might be viable. It sucks, and I dislike shopping for SD cards as much as anybody, but today, that's how it is. Reply
frenchy_2001 - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkI think he was talking about V-NAND (3D cells) which is independent of the controller.
I would guess it will, as density will continue to scale up which will make it the cheaper technology.
It is cutting edge now, but will let Samsung scale higher densities very aggressively in the coming years, replacing all their 2D NAND production (they announced it when presenting the 3D cells). Reply
Harry Lloyd - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkPersonally I have no interest in this kind of performance, and I really hope they focus on reducing prices and increasing capacities. The MX100 is just great for home usage (system and gaming), and I would like to see a 512 GB equivalent for around 100 $ by the end of 2015. Reply
Spatty - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - link"Oftentimes when cell size is discussed, it is only the actual size of the cell that is taken into account, which leaves the distance between cells out of the conclusion."
Incorrect. Oftentimes what is being discussed is the half pitch. The 16nm, 19nm, 20nm, etc of the die. That is not the cell. The cell is Always defined as the repeatable structure in a memory device, and this includes the space between cells as described. The cell size is incorrectly referenced as being the half pitch.
Then there is marketing gimmick by companies who call their products 19nm when it is really 19nm by 2xnm. A rectangle and not a true 19nm square half pitch. Reply
Larry Endomorph - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkGood review. Bad charts. All of these are useless to color blind people:
http://images.anandtech.com/doci/8216/850%20Pro%20... Reply
Cerb - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkI never paid much attention, but you're right. If they changed the point shapes, and maybe dashed a couple of the lines, they could take care of that easily. Reply
fokka - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkit's great to see a new drive from samsung and even greater seeing them advancing ssd tech and performance in such substantial ways. keeping that in mind i'm not really surprised about the msrp sammy is asking for its drives. and as always when new devices hit the scene, we're comparing msrp with real market prices here, so the difference should be a bit lower in a couple weeks when enough stock is available.
that said, even if sata3 remains the most important storage interface today, it's kind of a shame seeing such a beautiful drive limited by this "old" interface. i know the new standards like m2, sata3.2 and pci-e-drives are still kind of a mess, but we already saw what higher throughputs in combination with more efficient interface protocols can do and seeing an expensive enthusiast drive like the 850 pro connected to sata3 just makes it seem more limited than it needed to be.
all that said, it doesn't change much for the average user, or advanced users even, since for most people a good sized evo or crucial is all they ever need in the years to come. upgrading to expensive drives like the 850 will only make sense for the most demanding users, for the rest it will only get interesting again when pci based storage gets more affordable. Reply
Daniel Egger - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkMinor nit: There's no such thing as "pentalobe torx" it's either one or the other but I'm guessing that it might have been torx security since pentalobe screws have only been used by Apple a couple of years back. Reply
iwod - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkIts great to see its doing well in power consumption area. Which is important in Notebook. I hope we could bring this down to 2W or even 1.5W during operation.
I really do think our SSD storage tier deserve a PCI-E lane direct from CPU. It would be great if the market just settle on 2x PCI-E 3.0 from CPU. We get 2GB/s out of it. That is plenty of headroom to grow until we move to PCI-E 4.0 Reply
hojnikb - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkThats what sata-express is doing Reply
extide - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkWell, kinda, I mean, some implementations come from the IOH instead of the CPU. I have heard rumors that future versions of Intel Desktop CPU's will have 20-24 PCIE lanes on them instead of 16. That would be perfect for storage! Reply
smithrd3512 - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkGotta love that warranty. 10 years on the drive. Might be worth the extra cost just for that alone. Reply
rahuldesai1987 - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - link"That is very aggressive because it essentially implies that the die capacity will double every year (256Gbit next year, 512Gbit in 2016 and finally 1Tbit in 2017)" - Does this mean a 8TB drive at $600 in 2017 ($75 per TB). Good bye hard drives by then :). What about a 850/850 Evo version? Reply
DarkXale - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkIt certainly does imply 8TB SSDs by 2017. By that point such a SSD will likely have a higher capacity than HDDs of that time.
Of course, price will be very significantly in favour of the HDD still; but if money is no object you could do bulk storage in a portable device if you wanted to. Reply
CalaverasGrande - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkThis may become an exhibit in some future dispute between Samsung and Apple. Those prices are easily Apple territory. Reply
extide - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkEhh, those prices were par for the course 18-24+ months ago! Reply
toyotabedzrock - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkDoes the height of these 32 layers make the cells more delicate when subjected to horizontal movement?
And is this mlc or TLC? Reply
MrSpadge - Wednesday, July 02, 2014 - linkDo, it doesn't. The height scale is still in the µm range, which is pretty much stable on macroscopic sclaes. Reply
emvonline - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkthanks for the article on VNAND SSD. I think the SSD analysis is good and shows the impact. The details of Planar NAND and VNAND are incorrect in many cases. The overall NAND takeaway should be Samsung VNAND is a 86Gbit device Die level with a very large effective cell size. I still want to buy one... where can I get it? Reply
Kristian Vättö - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - link"The details of Planar NAND and VNAND are incorrect in many cases."
Can you elaborate on that? I'm not saying that there can't be mistakes but it doesn't help me unless you explain what you think is incorrect. Reply
emvonline - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkis the die size for the NAND chip 67mm^2? I assumed you measured it (pretty easy to do). I would think it would be much larger than that Reply
Gigaplex - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkIt's difficult to measure the die when multiple of them are on the same package. Reply
emvonline - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linksend me the package... I promise to have exact die size in a week ..... TEM cross sections in two weeks :-) Reply
Kristian Vättö - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkSend me an email at firstname.lastname@example.com and let's work this out :) Reply
extide - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkYes, 67mm^2, but remember that is 32 "deep" Reply
emvonline - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - link@extide: so you measured the die to be 67mm^2? how was this measured ? CSAM? XRAY? that seems odd to use such a small dies for SSD. and that would make it even smaller cell size than the one at ISSCC since it was 134 for a 128Gbit with 24 layers (periphery doesnt shrink as fast with lower density) Reply
Kristian Vättö - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkNo I didn't because I don't have the equipment to do that. The method I used to calculate the die size is explained on the fifth page of the review:
I'm not claiming that it is an accurate figure, hence the "~" sign in front of it. However, Samsung wouldn't disclose the die size when I asked them during the Q&A, so at this point I don't know for sure. However, I have a picture of the 32-layer wafer and once I get back home I'll do the math of the wafer to figure out the exact die size. Reply
emvonline - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkGot it thanks. I am mainly wondering about redundancy, extra blocks and ECC overhead. Reply
drwho9437 - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkThe micrograph you say is an "x-ray", is almost certainly a transmission electron microscopy image. Given the oxides are light it is a bright field image. It could technically be a SEM image but the resolution is a bit to high, so it most likely is a STEM image with a bright field detector. Reply
GTVic - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkPerhaps time should be added as a cost efficiency factor. Presumably the die has to stay in the process much longer due to all the layers being added one at a time. Reply
GTVic - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkWondering if the 3D V-NAND has an effect on heat produced by each chip? Reply
Laststop311 - Wednesday, July 02, 2014 - linkIf only this drive would of been a pci-e 3.0 x4 interface with nvme. We would of finally had a worthy upgrade. Yes it's performance is better than the 840 evo but you can get the 840 evo 1tb for 400 dollars even less if you catch it on sale. So you can get 2x 1tb 840 evo for almost the same price as 1 850 pro. If you compare an 840 evo with 25% OP to a regular 7% on the 850 the 840 evo looks just as good so 2x 825GB drives with 25% OP on each drive costs you 750-800 depending on the deal you get vs 700 for 1000GB. I would rather pay 800 for 1650GB than 700 for 1000GB with performance being nearly identical. I get an extra 650GB (which at 50 cents per GB is another 325 dollars worth of ssd) and tons of over provisioning to give the drive equal or better performance for only 100 dollars more (possibly less as the 840 evo has often sales)
Sorry Samsung but 2x 1tb 840 evos with 25% provisioning gives me better or equal performance and a whole 650GB of extra storage for only 100 dollars more. At 50 cents per GB you get 325 dollars worth of more storage capacity for only 100 dollars more and thats with the 25% over provisioning which basically negates the performance increase of the new drives.
The only way samsung could of made this drive worth that money is if they had the drive on a pci-e 3.0 x4 interface with nvme instructions. I'm sure there will be tons of idiots who just buy it cause it's the latest drive. But if you use your brain you can see the 840 evo is still the best SATA drive when the cost/performance ratio is taken into account. 2x 1tb evo's in 25% OP mode gives you 1650GB and costs u 100 dollars extra or less and gives you the same performance or even better compared to 7% 850 pro 1000GB especially when raid 0 is taken into account. I'll take 1650GB over 1000GB if it's only 100 more and performance is equal or better easy choice. Reply
Laststop311 - Wednesday, July 02, 2014 - linkSince samsung is stacking vertically now what they should of done is made a super huge 2tb drive to differentiate themselves from all these other drives. A 2tb drive for 1400 is a little more acceptable than 1tb for 700 simply because it's the only single drive with 2TB capacity.
I can see great things happening with vertical stacked nand tho. When this process matures we should be seeing nand drives surpass spinning hard drives in capacity. When samsung has those 1tbit dies its planning for 2017 we should be able to have 8-12TB SSD's Reply
althaz - Wednesday, July 02, 2014 - linkIt's a new product and it's priced highly. Eager early adopters who want to move on to the latest and greatest will buy now, value-concious people will buy the 840s. Inventory of the 840s will get eaten up and the 850s will drop in price.
This is what happens whenever any product is released, basically ever. Reply
asmian - Wednesday, July 02, 2014 - linkSorry, but neither this nor the EVO will get my money. Performance is all very well, even if only a tiny handful of users with extremely niche workloads will ever notice any difference, but all this extra reliability at a price premium means NOTHING without simple power loss protection. Restricting something so basic to "Enterprise" class products is the real gouging here by Samsung, not the price.
If Crucial can provide that protection on the CHEAPEST drives in their class (M500/M550 and IIRC MX100 too) with performance that is not gimped as a balance, then there is no excuse for Samsung not to. This should be a no-compromise baseline for all SSDs going forward, and Anandtech should push hard for that - users should as well, by voting with their wallets and refusing to buy drives, however fast and powerful, that do not provide power loss protection as a basic feature. Reply
bsd228 - Wednesday, July 02, 2014 - linkThough I agree it is a highly useful feature, it is far less significant to those of us using a good UPS. So I can't agree that it's a no compromise feature. Reply
romrunning - Wednesday, July 02, 2014 - linkWhat you aren't taking into account is the fact that the 850 Pro has MUCH higher endurance, and it's also more consistent. Those two items bring it more into the Intel DC 3500/3700 series type of class. It's not just a sheer performance comparison.
...and if you thing the 850 Pro is expensive, price out the larger Intel DC S3700 drives. Reply
FunBunny2 - Wednesday, July 02, 2014 - link"Real" Enterprise SSDs don't even have an MSRP. You negotiate with the vendor, and hope for the best. Now that Texas Memory is in IBM, and Fusion-io in SanDisk, with Violin likely to go somewhere. The conundrum is V.NAND's impact on flattening the curve between Enterprise and Commodity/Retail. At one time, a mainframe had bespoke 14" behemoth hard drive subsystems (in the case of IBM, run by the equivalent of a PDP-x). In due time, binned commodity 3.5" drives are now used.
Samsung could well be the driving force to regularize solid state storage. The remaining issue is whether the file system hand waving will be dumped in favor of direct NVM persistence? Samsung, or whoever, likely couldn't care less. Reply
romrunning - Wednesday, July 02, 2014 - linkIt's been enjoyable to see a lot of "new" flash memory storage vendors pop-up. More competition is always good in that enterprise space.
I've been looking forward to having more SSDs options available to servers at much better pricing. Solid storage advances have a trickle-down effect. If I can put an array of these Samsung 850 Pros into a server and achieve near "enterprise" performance, then that forces Dell/HP/etc. to drop their own SSD pricing. Reply
watersb - Wednesday, July 02, 2014 - linkFantastic detail of 3D NAND design and why it matters. Thanks very much! Reply
Pastuch - Wednesday, July 02, 2014 - linkWhen will we see Vnand in smart phones? This 16gb Nexus 5 is brutal! Always out of space. Reply
ajlueke - Wednesday, July 02, 2014 - linkPage 1, "Scaling below 20nm was seemed", I believe you intended "Scaling below 20nm was seen". Reply
Automaticman - Wednesday, July 02, 2014 - linkCan current EVO 840 users upgrade to Magician 4.4 and get the benefits of RAPID 2.0 (assuming they have >16GB DRAM)? Reply
bsd228 - Wednesday, July 02, 2014 - linkjust as RAPID support was extended to the 840 PRO, I would expect this to support the 840 pro/evo soon, if not right off the bat. Reply
Automaticman - Sunday, July 06, 2014 - linkWell, I was certainly able to upgrade to Magician 4.4, and it did take a couple reboots while it was re-activating RAPID. I am going to guess and say yes it seems to be the new version of RAPID, but I don't see anywhere that it actually says RAPID 2.0 or any indication of how much memory it has available. Reply
sirvival - Wednesday, July 02, 2014 - linkAh ok.
When I select the 470 in Bench there is no slumber so I got confused.
Since power cosumption is a big thing in Mobile could you do the following:
Bench the impact on the Battery of a Laptop due to a fast drive.
E.g. drive A is fast but has the downside that it draws more under load as drive B which is slower. But since its done faster it returns to idle faster.
I mean impact on real world scenarios.
Or how much power was used for bench x etc. and have a average per hour or something like that. Reply
sirvival - Wednesday, July 02, 2014 - linkdamn this was to be a reply to
sorry Reply
Nickat - Thursday, July 03, 2014 - linkThank you so much. You explained everything so well. Reply
Stokkolm - Thursday, July 03, 2014 - linkNewegg still has them for preorder at the more expensive price, hopefully they drop those before the release date. Reply
skarthikeyan - Monday, July 07, 2014 - linkHi, How come random read is 106.8MB/sec and random write is 292.4MB/sec for the SSD 850 Pro 256 GB? Aren't writes supposed to be slower than reads? Reply
YazX_ - Monday, July 07, 2014 - linkPrices are not going down, good thing we have Crucial who have best bang for the buck, ofcourse performance wise is not compared to sandisk or samsung, but its still a very fast SSD, for normal users and gamers, Mx100 is the best drive you can get for its price. Reply
soldier4343 - Thursday, July 17, 2014 - linkMy next upgrade the Pro 850 512gb version over my OCZ 4 256gb. Reply
bj_murphy - Friday, July 18, 2014 - linkThanks Kristian for such an amazing, in depth review. I especially loved the detailed explanation of current 2D NAND vs 3D NAND, how it all works, and why it's all so important. Possibly one of my favourite Anandtech articles to date! Reply
DPOverLord - Wednesday, July 23, 2014 - linkLooking at this it does not seem to be a HUGE difference than raid 0 of 2 Samsung Pro 840 512GB (1tb in raid 0).
To upgrade at this point does not make the most sense. Reply
Nickolai - Wednesday, July 23, 2014 - linkHow are you implementing over-provisioning? Reply
joochung - Tuesday, July 29, 2014 - linkI don't see this mentioned anywhere, but were the tests performed with RAPID enabled or disabled? I understand that some of the tests could not run with RAPID enabled, but for those other tests which do run on a formatted partition (i.e. not run on the raw disk), its not clear if RAPID is enabled or disabled. Therefore its not clear how RAPID will affect the results in each test. Reply
Rekonn - Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - linkAnyone know if you can use the 850 Pro ssds on a Dell PERC H700 raid controller? Per documentation, controller only supports 3 Gb/s SATA. Reply
janos666 - Thursday, August 14, 2014 - linkI always wondered if there is any practical and notable difference between dynamic and static over-provisioning.
I mean... since TRIM should blank out the empty LBAs anyway, I don't see the point in leaving unpartitioned space for static over-provisioning for home users. From a general user standpoint, having as much usable space available as possible (even if we try to restrict ourself from ever utilizing it all) seems to be a lot more practical (until it's actually usable with an acceptable speed, so even if notably slower but still fast enough...) than keeping a (significantly more, but still not perfectly) constant random write performance.
So, I always create a system partition as big as possibly (I do the partitioning manually: a minimal size EFI boot partition + everything else at one piece) without leaving unpartitioned space for over-provisioning and I try to leave as much space empty as possible.
However, one time, after I filled my 840 Pro up to ~95% and I kept it like that for 1-2 days, it never "recovered" . Even after I manually ran "defrag c: /O" to make sure the freed up space is TRIMed, sequential write speeds were really slow and random write speeds were awful. I ha to create a backup image with DD, fill the drive with zeros a few times and finally run an ATA Secure Erase before restoring the backup image.
Even though I was never gentle with the drive (I don't do stupid things like disabling swapping and caching just to reduce it's wear, I bought it to use it...) and I did something which is not recommended (filled almost all the user-accessible space with data and kept using it like that for a few days as a system disk), this wasn't something I expected from this SSD. (Even though this is what I usually get from Samsung. It always looks really nice but later on something turns out which reduces it's value/price from good or best to average or worse.) This was supposed to be a "Pro" version. Reply
stevesy - Friday, September 12, 2014 - linkI don't normally go out of my way to comment on a product but I felt this product deserved the effort. I've been using personal computer since personal computers first came out. I fully expected my upgrade from an old 50gig SSD to be a nightmare.
I installed the new 500gig Evo 850 as a secondary, cloned, switch it to primary and had it booting in about 15 minutes. No problems, no issues, super fast, WOW. Glad Samsung got it figured out. I'll be a lot less concerned my next upgrade and won't be waiting until I'm at my last few megabytes before upgrading again. Reply
basil.bourque - Friday, September 26, 2014 - linkI must disagree with the conclusion, "there is not a single thing missing in the 850 Pro". Power-loss protection is a *huge* omission, especially for a "Pro" product. Reply
Krakadoom - Saturday, September 27, 2014 - linkI bought the 850 Pro 500 GB version. The transfer speeds are around (and just under) 400 MB/s and the IOPS are always around 55-60k. Not impressed - considering returning it just due to the huge gap between the rated specs and actual performance. (Of course Samsung Magician over-reports the transfer speed by quite a large margin). Reply
stealth_lee - Wednesday, October 01, 2014 - linkSomeone just tipped me that V-NAND in Samsung 850 Pro is actually TLC not MLC.
The first reason is the 86Gbit/die number is odd, if 850 Pro uses a TLC 128Gbit/die and emulates it to MLC then it would be 86Gbit/die, the numbers fit well.
The second reason is Chipworks confirmed it in the die shots:
I'm just the messenger here, I'm not expert.
So...I was wodering is it possible to hack Samsung 850 Pro to get extra storage space in TLC? Reply
wcatlan - Saturday, October 25, 2014 - linkWhy isn't the lack of power loss protection a showstopper for any of these drives? I love the speed and reliability benefits under normal operation, but how can anyone get excited about a drive that can get corrupted in an instant due to power loss or computer freeze, where a hard shutdown is required? Seems that these drives are more prone to massive data issues much more than HDDs under the same power fault conditions. I keep looking for a good answer, but it seems smart people are willing to look past this seemingly fatal Achilles heal. Not sure what I might be missing. Any thoughts? Reply
futurefilm - Monday, December 01, 2014 - linkToday, Cyber Monday deals on Amazon, the 850 Pro 256 is going for $150. The 128 for $100. Get it now while it's hot. Reply
saagar - Thursday, January 22, 2015 - linkDear Kristian Vättö,
Fantastic review of the drives and the technology behind it. This is what readers like me expect to see on Anandtech. Thanks for breaking it down. Keep up the good work! Reply
gsuburban - Wednesday, April 08, 2015 - linkAs of April 8, 2015, the 850 Pro 256GB SSD can be had for about $144 if you look hard enough. Reply
rockfella79 - Saturday, June 27, 2015 - linkI love my 850 Pro 128 GB SSD :) Reply
KDT - Thursday, March 24, 2016 - linkPlease update the endurance to 300TBW for 1TB model. This was my basis for buying this SSD. This is 2nd to Crucial MX200 (320TBW on 1TB model) in terms of endurance - for client/consumer SSDs. Reply
BimmerInd - Sunday, June 26, 2016 - linkSamsung is using 40nm over Micron's 16nm. Doing the math implies that for every 2.5 16nm Micron nodes in planar section, Samsung only does 1 40nm node. If we scale vertically to 32 layers, then Micron (or others for that matter) still do only 2.5 nodes for every 32 nodes of Samsung. Which means for every 16nm node, Samsung provides 12.8 nodes. Meaning the density scaling factor for every 32 layer increments is a multiple of 12.8. Assuming the current die size for 32 layers to be 128Gbit, then the density advantage for 256Gbit is 12.8x2 times, 512Gbit is 12.8x4 times and for 1Tbit in 2017 should be 12.8x8 times for 256 layers of nodes stacked on top of each other. So the density advantage is approximately 102.4% (theoretically). Samsung can theoretically produce a 1Tbit die at a cost advantage/space advantage of nearly 100 times compared to planar and manufacturers. It is almost like you are able to earn 100 times the profit for the same die provided the cost per bit is scaled along without passing on the price advantage to the end users until other players enter 3D market.
The same is the case with Intel's 3D Cross Point Technology. They are having a new tech in their hands that is faster than NAND and closer to DRAM. So they are also planning to price it exactly between NAND and DRAM. We are already paying high costs to shift from platters to NAND and are going to pay even more to make a shift from NAND to 3D xPoint. I just wish I can jump a few years to the future, grab a high capacity NAND/xPoint drive for cheap and come back to the present and use it. Sigh ! Reply
BimmerInd - Sunday, June 26, 2016 - linkBy the way this is just a rough calculation and is not to be taken literally. Reply


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IF it is was a movie, it'd be Groundhog Day.
And safety Ian Logan is sick of watching it over and over and over again. "It's extremely frustrating, it really is," Logan said in a stony-silent Winnipeg Blue Bombers locker-room Saturday afternoon following a 32-21 defeat to the Calgary Stampeders at Canad Inns Stadium.
"Just walking off the field with that same feeling. It just hits you right in the gut -- 'What's wrong? What are we doing wrong?' I don't know what it is... We make mistakes at inopportune times. All season, at crucial times, we make mistakes. That's the swing of the game."
With their playoff lives clinging by a thread heading into Saturday's game, the hope was the Bombers would not fall into the same trap that has dogged them all season -- a slow start followed by a fruitless attempt to catch up.
Instead, that's exactly what they did once again, falling behind 16-0 thanks to a pair of Calgary touchdowns off first-quarter Winnipeg turnovers.
"The nature of the season has been we don't come through in the clutch. And it showed today," said Logan. "They're a good football team, but there's no excuse in our house to lose that game."
IF you were looking for answers in the Bombers locker-room following Saturday's loss, there were none available at the locker of guard Steve Morley, who sounded as mystified as everyone else as to why his team cannot put together two consistent performances in a row.
"I was surprised. We beat Montreal at home and then today, we go out there and lay an egg. It blows my mind. It's a rollercoaster out there, up and down, up and down. Wow -- it takes a toll on you, that's for sure.
"It's horrible being on this rollercoaster all year."
The offensive line actually played pretty well against Calgary, yielding just one sack and working effectively when they got the opportunity to plow holes for tailback Chad Simpson, who ran for two touchdowns and rushed for 84 yards.
But with the Bombers falling behind 16-0, Simpson finished the day with just 14 carries and -- as so often has been the case this season -- didn't factor in the offence as much as Winnipeg planned.
"It was one of those games," said Morley. "We got down and we needed to pass the ball to win. They tee off on us and we've got to suck it up and keep trying to block."
ON the 145th play of the 15th game of his second professional season, Winnipeg wide receiver Jade Etienne registered his first CFL statistic -- an 11-yard fourth-quarter reception from backup QB Alex Brink on second-and-10.
The crowd at Canad Inns Stadium gave Etienne a nice ovation, although the receiver wasn't sure afterward whether it was for his first professional catch or more because the catch gave Winnipeg a badly needed first down as they tried to put together a late comeback.
"It's bittersweet, I guess. It's great I got it out of the way, but it sucks we lost," said Etienne. "I'm glad it's out of the way -- people can get off my back."


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PITTSBURGH -- The Reds staged a late-inning rally, but Andrew McCutchen snuffed out the comeback as he stroked a leadoff home run in the bottom of the seventh inning, lifting the Pirates to a 6-5 win on Friday night at PNC Park in front of 24,366 fans.
"It's not like he gave up the home run to a slouch," Reds manager Dusty Baker said. "This guy is one of the best players in the league, and we had chances to come back late, so it's a little deflating, but you can't get deflated in the seventh. You've got to come back in the eighth and ninth, and we've got to put that behind us. We came back once and we were coming back again and we had action. We didn't stop. We were one hit away from tying that game up."
The Reds had tied up the score in the seventh on Brandon Phillips' second home run, but right-hander J.J. Hoover surrendered the game-winning blast to McCutchen, his second home run of the season. Hoover was tagged with the loss, falling to 0-3.
"It seems like he's making that one mistake out over the plate, and they are not missing," Baker said. "When you're not going good, that happens, and when you are going good, they pop those balls up and hit them on the ground, but they are not missing. Like I said, he gave it up to one of the best players in this league. He doesn't like it, but if you're going to give it up, give it up to the best."
McCutchen was patient enough to get good wood on Hoover's pitch.
"I was able to stay on it, and get it up," McCutchen said. "I know if I get myself in a hit position, I know am able to hit whatever pitch that may come. Just using my hands. All I'm trying to do, be ready to hit. I was able to get a good pitch and ride it out."
Pirates right-hander Tony Watson was nursing a two-run lead in the seventh inning when Phillips smacked the tying home run. It marked the 10th time in his career that he has hit two home runs in a game. Despite giving up the Phillips clout, Watson wound up getting the win.
After giving up five runs on 10 hits in six innings of work, Mike Leake got a no-decision.
"They put me in battle mode right away, unfortunately," Leake said. "Luckily, right before it was too late, I was able to kind of gather some things together and fight them off for a few more innings."
The first in a stretch of 20 straight games for the Reds, Leake did a good job of saving the bullpen.
"It was getting there, and one more hitter and we would have probably had to go to the bullpen, which you didn't want to," Baker said. "But Leake settled down and you take away that four-run inning, he pitched an outstanding ballgame, and he battled back, and he was throwing strikes and throwing double plays and throwing ground balls like he had hoped to start out with. We didn't win the game, but he saved our bullpen, and that's a big thing right now."
The Pirates got a solid outing from right-hander A.J. Burnett, who tossed six innings and allowed three runs on six hits. Burnett notched eight strikeouts and he left with a two-run lead, but he also got a no-decision.
"Burnett's pitch count got extremely high for him," Baker said. "I figured if we got another big inning, we could have him out by the sixth or seventh, which is to our advantage, and try and get in their middle relief. He can pitch, and he can pitch without his best stuff."
The Pirates jumped on Leake in the bottom of the first inning. Starling Marte led off with a single and stole second base. Neil Walker drew a base on balls. With one out, Marte was cut down at the plate on a fielder's choice ground-ball hit by Garrett Jones. Walker scored on a two-out RBI single by Russell Martin. The first RBI of the season by Martin gave Pittsburgh a 1-0 lead.
The Reds came right back in the second inning when Phillips deposited an 0-1 offering from Burnett into the center-field bullpen. It was Phillips' third home run of the season, and it tied the score.
Leake ran into trouble in the second inning. Travis Snider singled and went to second on a passed ball. Clint Barmes lofted a soft single to center. Burnett sacrificed, putting runners at second and third. Marte was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Walker laced a two-run single to center, and McCutchen followed with a two-run single down the left-field line. When the smoke cleared, the Pirates had plated four runs and had a 5-1 lead.
The Reds nicked Burnett for a run in the fourth inning, slicing the lead to 5-2. Jay Bruce and Jack Hannahan stroked back-to-back singles and Bruce scored on a groundout by Devin Mesoraco.
The Reds cut it to 5-3 in the top of the sixth inning. Hannahan singled and came around to score on a two-out double by Mesoraco.
Pittsburgh's bullpen shut the Reds down in the eighth and ninth innings. Right-hander Mark Melancon pitched a scoreless eighth and closer Jason Grilli tossed a scoreless ninth to pick up save number four.
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EXCLUSIVE: O'Neill departs IFB to launch theatrical distribution outfit; strikes partnerships, deals at the EFM.
Irish Film Board executive Patrick O'Neill is leaving the agency after seven years to set up new Irish distribution outfit Wildcard Distribution.
The multi-platform distribution company is backed by Macdara Kelleher, Morgan Bushe and Lance Daly's production outfit Fastnet Films and will work with UK distributors to release Irish and International projects as a sub-distributor.
The 2013 slate includes Lance Daly's Life's A Breeze, starring Pat Shortt and Fionnuala Flanagan, which gets a theatrical release in Ireland this summer, EFM pickup The Swell Season from Elephant Eye, and day-and-date documentary Cyclone, about the 1985 world title fight between Barry McGuigan and Eusebio Pedrosa.
It is partnering with UK outfit Metrodome on a theatrical release in Ireland for Mark O'Connor's King of the Travellers.
LA-based Laurie Woodrow will consult on acquisitions for the Dublin-based company, which also has private equity backing. The company will add staff in the coming months.
"I am really excited to be working with Fastnet Films on Wildcard, and the distribution of these great films," said O'Neill.
"It's a fantastic slate of films and I'm sure audiences will love them as much as I do. It's been a great seven years at the IFB, and the staff and Board have provided me with wonderful opportunities, my heartfelt thanks to everyone who works there."
Morgan Bushe of Fastnet said: "We are excited to be embarking on this new venture and look forward to Wildcard Distribution working alongside leading Irish and international directors and producers in releasing their films to Irish audiences.
"The board is delighted that someone of Patrick's dynamic character and passion, with his wealth of experience and knowledge of the ever-evolving distribution landscape, will serve as CEO."
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DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: On Saturday night my boyfriend of two years and I were at a house party at his friend's house. Fairly early, I felt a headache getting worse and figured I should just go home to sleep. I asked my boyfriend to walk me to the bus stop, two minutes from the party. It was close to midnight -- three buses to get home. He complained about missing a few minutes of the party and going outside in the cold, and told me I shouldn't have been at his friend's party anyway! I got on the bus right then and went home angry and upset. He called me the next day saying he didn't remember everything that happened, because he was drunk. We've been on the outs ever since. He said getting together for Valentines was pointless as we'd argue the whole time. I love him and most of the time he is a good boyfriend. Do you think I'm being petty? What do you think I should do? -- Young Love Problem, Winnipeg
Dear Young Love Problem: If you had a daughter, would you want her to be with a guy who made her take the three buses alone late at night because he wanted to stay and get drunk at a party? Would you want your sister to stay with a guy who punishes her with silence and inattention and uses being drunk as an excuse to forget his mean actions? Why would you want less for yourself than for the females you want the best for? You say you "love" this guy? Love is 50 per cent personality and attractiveness, and 50 per cent how they treat you -- and your partner needs a 90 per cent grade to be in a relationship with you. It's time to find someone who treats you with love and care and is protective of your safety.
Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: A girl I used to be in love with for three years moved to B.C. and has already had sex with a guy there. She didn't have sex with me because she told me she wasn't ready, but she would wait for me until she was. We broke up a few times but always apologized and got back. I slept with other girls since she had sex, and have posted pictures on Facebook with me and them. She deleted me. But recently I posted a song I wrote on Facebook and she somehow heard it and thought it was amazing, Since then she changed all my thoughts again, I learned a lot from her. It's like I was blind but now I can see. I'm in jail now because I couldn't control my substance abuse. Should I forget about her? Does she feel the same or is it just a game? -- Need Advice Please, Milner Ridge
Dear Need Advice: She may love your song, but might not want you back. It's really hard to get anywhere in a relationship when you're in jail and several provinces apart. It all depends on how you have changed with the substance abuse problem -- and what you do and who your friends are -- when you get out. If you don't change the things that got in the way of the previous romance, you will have a few days of honeymoon-style happiness with her and then slide back into conflict. All you can do is ask her straight up what she is feeling for you and what she wants, when you get out of jail. I know it's hard to risk asking when you finally have contact with her again and it's lonely in jail, but if you build up a false relationship with her, and then get out of jail and find out she doesn't really want to be with you, you might be so upset you end up abusing substances again. It's probably better to know the truth now.
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