Here's some screenie for my 2 month old Corsair 240GB GS. I can nvr go back to normal HDD lol.

SPECs:

Asus P5Q3 mobo
C2Q Q9550 @2.8 stock
Asus 5870 GC
Kingston Value ram 4GB

As you can see, my rigg is like 3 year old nothing to shout about plus its a sata 2 mobo. But with the SSD upgrade, i can still push my total rigg rebuild for another year

Everything is silky smooth and BF3 loads so much faster.Nothing beats spawning early while others are still on loading screen


My humble benchmark,



This post has been edited by ashx: Oct 26 2012, 08:46 PM

Hi guys, please help a noob never use ssd before.

I plan to build a new rig, with SSD + conventional HDD together.
SSD for OS & games, HDD for torrent & storage.

If I set my torrent default download directory on HDD, then DL 24/7 (almost), will the SSD be stressed? (constant read/write?)

Hi guys , a shocking event happened to me last night . My Crucial M4 dead/kaput last night . BIOS didn't detect it at all , already try it in another PC , same result . Used it for 6 months , didn't expect this to happen I hope this is a isolated case . Now waiting for Cyntrix to reply to my problem ╮(╯_╰")╭

Died while u using it?

Sorry to hear that it just served u for 6 months only.
Time to grab Vertex4 or Samsung 840s:)

This post has been edited by primaroti: Oct 27 2012, 09:39 AM

Kinda , suddenly the laptop run very slow , cannot open all applications , and then I restart , windows won't load " no bootable drive found " . Restart again , go to bios and shown at primary drive : NONE . Reconnect the SSD , same result

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Added on October 27, 2012, 11:53 amU think how long cyntrix take time to replace it? Need to RMA?

This post has been edited by skycrawler: Oct 27 2012, 11:53 AM

Hi,

Any good guide to install SSD as Intel Rapid Storage in a system that is already running Win7? Do I need to reinstall Win7 from scratch? I am using the ASUS P8z77-v

I upgraded it to the latest firmware on the day the latest firmware was release .

Nope
That is the setup i am using now
Intel 320 Series 80GB + Samsung 1.5TB HDD

thats a good news to me

thanks for reply

There is bug on the latest firmware. try google around. last time i read about it and he managed to revive back the Crucial SSD.

Thanks bro , managed to revive my SSD and revert back to 000F firmware

This post has been edited by skycrawler: Oct 28 2012, 03:05 AM

Congrats! How did you do it?

I thought Crucial was quite stable already? Was considering the m4 for a Macbook, but decided to take a risk with the Vertex 4.

Glad to hear that your SSD is back to life.

Crucial was stable but the latest firmware had issue with UEFI mobo. just stay with 2nd latest firmware and you are good to go. i think vertex 4 was a good choice either. other brand you can consider is intel, corsair and samsung.

damn 010G firmware, my M4 cannot detected last night after my house suddenly blackout. Recover few minutes later.
I need to revert back to 000F.

Luckily it's not permanently bricked yet.
I will revert to older firmware tonight, before any disaster happen.

what's the best performance to budget ratio SSD currently ?


looking to get 1 and reformat my pc to win 8

I power cycled the ssd Enter bios , left idle for 20 mins , I also changed AHCI to IDE . Shutdown laptop , unplug SSD > On laptop > Enter Bios > change back to AHCI > restart and walah !! u got back ur ssd