Read wont kill your SSD, only write(but it take a lot of time to wear out your SSD lahh), but normal user shouldn't worry that much, you will probably change the SSD to bigger capacity every a few years,
else ppl buy SSD for what? like buy a new car but worry tires and engine wear kah LOL
That piece of metal also that expensive? i think most SSD includes bracket one, ask the seller before buy one.
I bought 3 different model of SSD before, 3 of them also got bracket inside.
If not, use double-sided tapes stick to your pc, cheapest solution lah

Most ppl here recommends Intel, easy and fast RMA
Plextor aint bad too, with their new Marvel SSD controller, the mainstream M5S should be enough unless you aim for extreme IOPS, the rest are SandForce SSDs

This post has been edited by 1024kbps: May 3 2013, 06:23 PM

uTorrent does not have much impact as this program is pretty small, save it on slow thumbdrive/sdcard also can lol

And yeah, most ppl dont read older previous post, seriously, ppl use SSD because of the low latency and high IOPS, and average SSD lifespan might be longer than consumer desktop HDD. i've RMA many of my Western Digital HDD already.
This is how i use my Plextor 256GB SSD Everyday
(click reply to view original unscaled image )
If so takut SSD premature death, backup your data frequently

This post has been edited by 1024kbps: May 11 2013, 02:46 PM

In fact i stored my programs and musics on my USB thumbdrive lol cause i keep switching between new and old OS.

Green had aggressive head parking problem which led to many earlier batch premature death. Newer batch seems okay already, Black isn't good either. Thanks to lousy WD harddisk, i've RMA 4 of their HDD and now my comp have 9TB of useless storage space

No need Black unless you want longer warranty, Blue or AV-GP series is already good enough.
And there are no reliable HDD brand, scheduled backup/RAID1 your HDD is the rule of thumb to prevent data loss.

Earlier batch, i bought it right after green drive came out, and both showing abnormal smart status after a year of usage.

But aggressive head parking was actually not related to failure of the green hdd. my fault
Buy many of them still died anyway

Aint no body got time for tat, i got 6 HDDs
Okay seriously, no really needed for hotplug lah, what if suddenly hand slipped and dropped your HDD? or accidentally killed the chip on the PCB because of electrostatic discharge? it's even worst lol

This post has been edited by 1024kbps: May 12 2013, 12:37 PM

There are something called Solid State Cache too, \
http://www.corsair.com/ssd/accelerator-ser...che-drives.html
http://www.sandisk.sg/products/ssd/sata/readycache/

Works on any mobo but require third party software, not really a new tech stuff as SSC exist on market for quite some times already.

Plus one more thing, SSD require trim, unlike HDD, if mobo does not support trim on RAID0, you gonna suffer poor write performance later.
Plus 2, SSD does not imcrease FPS, but reduce loading time only.

Plus one, unless you got a lot of cash/adventurous , dont bother with performance SSD if you are just normal user, you cant tell the difference between high end SSD and mainstream one, unless comparing them with benchmark software,
even if you could, they are probably just a few second faster.

Be smart, tweak the msconfig and windows services to disable unused programs to reduce boot time.

Try to use native Driver from Intel or AMD, depends on your mobo.
Msachi = default AHCI driver from microsoft, its stable but it isn't optimized as much as Intel/AMD AHCI driver.

Native driver = AHCI driver made by intel. I think you should install Intel Rapid Storage Technology, the software probably will include AHCI driver from Intel as well.

For booting speed countdown, use bootimer http://www.planetsoft.org/
There are one more similar utility with more fancy GUI but i lazy to search lol

Dont start countdown after pressing the power button, some computer are extremely slow because too many stuff enabled, like how many SATA controller enabled(high end board comes usually with extra 2 SATA Controller.), how many optical/HDD drives/usb on your comp, ect

And if your booting start to slow down, optimize your boottime by disable useless auto-startup apps and services, instead of upgrading to faster SSD

I can buy it locally but its too freaking expensive here, honestly i would rather buy 2 cheap 128GB SSD then raid the hell out if it, but sadly im using AMD mobo
But then, its also too much for me as i only utilized 14% of my 256GB SSD lol, and the rest 50% still remain unpartitioned

Go a head if you got a lot of spare cash, if not, move those useless stuffs to harddisk,
Install your programs on harddisk too, but leave those essential one on SSD,
and clean up your disk, Windows always left a few Gigs of trash on our system disk.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/44317/shoul...-to-save-space/

This post has been edited by 1024kbps: May 22 2013, 11:39 AM

May be you should try this http://www.folder-size.com/
There are a few alternative folder analyzer but i have yet to try any of them.

Before you worry bout this, turn of the Windows system restore, it record almost every action(delete/modify ect) you do and stored in your SSD, it probably does more DAMAGES than antivirus scanning
And second, Windows 7 by default (iirc) does useless weekly benchmarking(WinSAT) on your machine including your SSD, you should try to find a way to disable it as well.


This post has been edited by 1024kbps: May 26 2013, 03:30 PM

7.4 is quite good already, my Plextor SSD also scored 7.4.
You need at least 2 SSD to do RAID 0, but your motherboard is AMD i suggest you just forget bout it, there will be no TRIM on RAID 0 SSD because AMD chipset does not support it, get an Intel z77 or better motherboard instead.
But if you got the cash you can ignore my advice

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

520 is old ssd already, Plextor m5p is newer and using newer Marvel SSD controller.

They made CD/DVD drive, probably one of the best CD/DVD rom/writer maker.
And the most important one, their SSD performane/price ratio is very good compare to other SSD maker, i bought the M5P 256GB at 289 SGD, the other brands were above 300 SGD and mostly 3 years warranty only iirc.

Nice result
Still waiting RAID0 TRIM update for AMD Chipset, too broke to switch to Intel side
Btw something on my system can pwn your RAID0 SSD !


This post has been edited by 1024kbps: Jun 25 2013, 01:31 AM

mSATA is smaller form-factor of normal SATA port, you are comparing apple and orange