i'm i the market for a 120GB/128GB ssd. i've been eyeing for intel 520, but a search in lowyat today showed out of stock. seems like i was too late in the ssd game

so i have to find an alternative. the only reason i wanted the 520 was because it has a write speed of 500+ MB/s, which most other ssd lack at that price point. not only that, a lot of positive reviews on its reliability

so any recommendation? the samsung 840 pro is out of rage as i have only a budget of rm400 max

thanks for the help guys

If you're on daily usage basis, having high speed write speed won't able to harness much unless you're merely using it for benchmark.

Recently I got myself the lowest ever price can get for Plextor M5S 128GB SSD for only RM 287 each! The cheapest and best controller chipset from Marvell. I bought it from Jayacom @ LowYat Plaza. Even one of forum member manage to get it RM 285 each, he end up buying two pieces.

HOLY F!
but the m5pro is better right? wonder how cheap can you get? if it's less than 400, i'll go lowyat again tomorrow
which jayacom btw?

This post has been edited by graphidz: Jun 8 2013, 10:07 PM

m5pro 128gb rm444 @ viewnet
probably can find cheaper somewhere else in lowyat but not sure

Go find the young bald chap, malay guy goes by the name KORI. Nice fella. Can bargain too

M5PRO of course is better since is direct competitor towards Intel 520

noted. thanks man. oh and which jayacom is it? the one beside the escalator is it? because there's also another jayacom somewhere at the same floor. at the back alley (as i usually call the ones not at the front)

Jayacom on third floor, beside escalator and beside VIEWNET and Kopitiam. Behind Jayacom shop is Elevator of 4 units not the 2 units.

NOTED~! thanks a lot! hopefully can nego and get a gooding price!

Just bought a Plextor M5S today. But i think the drive got problem. Once i shut down my pc, the drive cannot be detect anymore. Need on and off few times only the drive can be detected.

Check your BIOS setting and your cable connection. Try swapping another SATA cable.

do you have other HDDs on other sata port? try to disconnect other HDD and try again if got any...

Not bios problem or cable problem i think. Problem will occur in both desktop and macbook.

Tried and still the same.

Gonna RMA it later.

There's rumour about the drive can't be detected by some motherboards, looks like it's true.

Not really. The drive is really a faulty one. Changed a new one and now its working flawlessly.
Running smoothly on a macbook pro 13" early-2011...

Guys, what's the cheapest 128GB mSata?
My 256GB SSD almost full, and Lenovo Msia dont have HDD ultrabay yet.

cheapest wouod b m4 128

guys i got a budget rm450
which SSD is good?

plextor 128GB or 256GB if it is your first ever SSD, they are quite significant differencem however if you have used SSD before, then i cant advice you

actually i'm having intel 520 120gb

is there any better that this?

Hardly can feel any difference, you can only tell them apart by comparing them with benchmark software
I moved from Kingston 96GB SSD > Hyper X > and now the Plextor M5P, but only one conclusion, they are all faster than my old RAID0 HDD for sure