Unfortunately, the next challenge was to figure out how to install it. As a Mac user I naturally waited until the Mac version came out and fortunately it became available for download a few days before the end of October. The bug fix came out in October 2014, first as a Windows application, and with a Mac/Linux version promised by the end of October. Soon after, I read on Anandtech that Samsung acknowledged a serious performance bug with the 840 EVO SSD that would dramatically slow down read performance for data that had not been rewritten in a while. Anything involving disk access now seemed instantaneous. Replacing the original hard drive was quick and easy, and the improvement in performance was obvious and profound. In late 2014 Amazon had a great deal on the Samsung 840 EVO SSD, and I took the opportunity to upgrade my aging MacBook Pro with it.
