Yes, but they're discontinued,

Main point is, get a new one, because old used SSD tend to have minor defects. (that's why they keep making new model of SSD to eliminate bugs and known defects)

This post has been edited by Yagami5159: Jun 14 2013, 03:46 PM

The IOPS mean how many operations per second can the drive do, the more IOPS the better.

A wise choice.

I've done a little research and found out that the motherboard you've stated contains 5 SATA III port, there's no SATA 1 port or whatsoever. If you're saying that your Intel SSD running on SATA II even though that you've have plugged it in SATA III port, then I have to agree that's really weird, because the SSD you've stated are capable of running on SATA III interface. The only suggestion that comes into my mind is that try swapping SATA ports with your other Hard Disk.

Your motherboard specification:
M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3

Intel 330 60GB specification:
Intel 330 Series

Finally for determine whether you're running ACHI mode, do open your command prompt and type the following:



If the results show 1 it's off, if 0, it's on.

Introductory price won't stay forever you know, it'll shoot back up eventually.

Why of course,

PLEXTOR SSD M5S 2.5" 128 GB SATA3, 256MB DDR3 DRAM CACHE [Read : 520 MB/s | Write : 200 MB/s ] (No longer RM299 )
PLEXTOR SSD M5P 2.5" 128 GB SATA3, 256MB DDR3 DRAM CACHE [Read : 540 MB/s | Write : 330 MB/s ]

Not to mention the price are roughly RM70 difference...

It depends, but some optimization are needed for me because my SSD (Plextor M5S) having issue of shutting itself before apply the optimization.

Yeap, same as mine, did you fix the auto shutdown and the mouse/keyboard hang issue?

It's normal, apply the benchmark again you might get yourself 510mb/s.

Ok, since you have been reading this thread, I'm guessing you also know that Plextor M5S are currently reliable and best buy for now (look carefully).

As for the 3 SSD you've mentioned, besides of Intel 330 that already discontinued in some countries, the rest I think it's okay. Sandforce controller were bad in the previous SSD but now they have been some improvements ( hope so ). But lets face it, not everybody willing to gamble right?

In the end, despite all the improvements that SandForce had made, I'm still sticking with Marvell, knowing that I prefer reliability rather than performance, and not much of a benchmark enthusiast.

Find a better price, some seller in Penang already increase the price ... Though I think there's still someone in LYN still selling as introductory price, that's why I said look carefully.

Plextor M5S was the bang for buck, WAS! Still there's still some people out there will to sell it as introductory price. Look around~