Undoubtedly the same issue happened to me on an 500GB 840 EVO with NTFS.
SSD zeroed out a part of the disk during runtime, as I watched this happen music was playing from this drive. It was mounted from Ubuntu MATE 15.04 and playing a music library through Audacious. Suddenly music glitched and IO errors began appearing. Rebooted to a DISK READ ERROR (MBR was on the EVO). Ran chkdsk from USB and it showed a ridiculous amount of orphaned files for ca. 1h. Once finished the most frequently accessed files had disappeared. Download folder, Documents folder, some system files. Of course, some of the files could've been recovered had I not ran chkdsk off the bat, bot nonetheless it's an approximate measure of failure impact.
I began being suspicious of 840 EVO when sorting old files by date became fantastically slow. If you have a feeling this has happened to you recently - buckle up for a shitstorm.
SSD zeroed out a part of the disk during runtime, as I watched this happen music was playing from this drive. It was mounted from Ubuntu MATE 15.04 and playing a music library through Audacious. Suddenly music glitched and IO errors began appearing. Rebooted to a DISK READ ERROR (MBR was on the EVO). Ran chkdsk from USB and it showed a ridiculous amount of orphaned files for ca. 1h. Once finished the most frequently accessed files had disappeared. Download folder, Documents folder, some system files. Of course, some of the files could've been recovered had I not ran chkdsk off the bat, bot nonetheless it's an approximate measure of failure impact.
I began being suspicious of 840 EVO when sorting old files by date became fantastically slow. If you have a feeling this has happened to you recently - buckle up for a shitstorm.
TL;DR Avoid 840 EVO.