Like somebody mentioned, it's not really noticeable. SATA III will have a slight benefit over a SATA II SSD but purely because it is newer tech.

Anyway, I like a few others here were also poisoned with the low price of the M4 and decided to get it for my notebooks which only has SATA II.

LOL Thanks to you guys, I also terbeli a U2412M. Have been very busy lately and the monitor is sitting on the floor of my room.

My SSDs also not installed yet. Hopefully I find time and get my lazy ass to transfer the files.

Anyway, I don't see the need to put the SSDs in RAID 0. Since I find myself working more on notebooks nowadays, I just need fast access and boot times and perhaps max out my 125 MB/s Gigabit connection for file transfers to my NAS.

Yes, I was surprised to see that the M4 was made in Singapore.

Can...

http://www.fuwell.com.sg/uploads/misc/Fuwell260911.pdf

But at what price?

Just like us, Singaporeans also have a choice of buying from US. In fact, because of their exchange rate and spending power, they buy more stuff online than us generally. If you look the other way around, dollar for dollar, Fuwell's prices are actually affordable. Imagine buying 128GB M4 for RM 348...

Incidentally, it has been very long ago since I last bought from bhphotovideo. I almost forgot that I already had an account with them. I used to buy a lot of camera stuff and slowed down a bit when I bought 2nd hand stuff from ebay.

That's too bad. It looks like they are not interested doing business in this region at all.

Seeing the case it is, why don't you buy direct from bhphotovideo instead?

How long did it take to get to the current state where 2TB drives are priced where it is now? How many merges / takeovers? Unfortunately, companies like Quantum and Maxtor never saw the chance to produce 2TB drives.

Anyway, I digress since this is teh SSD thread...

I decided last weekend to attempt and transfer one of my smaller drives to the 64GB M4 first. I'm a little rusty as have not done this for a while and after some reading and numerous failed attempts to transfer the OS from old HD to SSD, I was almost tempted to do a fresh Windows 7 reinstall which I finally did reluctantly in the end.

My original drive is 120GB and has 2 partitions but hardly anything inside. Seems that copying it to the smaller 64GB M4 gives problems. I was a little disappointed when I found out my old Ghost 15 only supports cloning via image files. Anyway, after imaging to a file and imaging it to the new hardisk, it did not boot. I tried to repair the OS using Windows startup but turned out the same. I tried one or two other programs to transfer and was still unsuccessful.

Anyway, long story short, my Tecra M9 now has a new lease of life ! It was hard to remember all the drivers to get since officially the M9 only supports up to Vista. Will now find time to put the 128GB M4 on my Acer 1410 which I think is more difficult compared to the M9 because the Acer has full of rubbish in the 250GB drive. A little wiser from this experience but I hope it does not take too much time.

I'm running a Crucial M4 128GB SSD on my Acer 1410.