Crucial M4 use marvel chip .

Changed strategy. Decided to get 120GB first for my work laptop, then when price cheaper I'll migrate my ssd on my laptop as my desktop , then purchase bigger ssd for my laptop.

Bought a USB to SATA converter as well, for future use and troubleshooting tool.

Benchmark numbers don't matter as much to me as real world performance. Got the 120GB intel 330 today and will post results later tonight once migration is done.

What I really want out of ssd is fast seek times when I search for a specific email within my archived email of over 2 years on my outlook pst file. Which is now over size of 12GB

First annoyance: Unable to migrate only one partition to new ssd. They did include a "powerful yet simple" Acronis Data Migration Tool for intel SSDs but it doesnt allow you to be very flexible. Just resize partition and migrate. Cannot delete partition.

This post has been edited by slickz: Aug 22 2012, 06:54 PM

there is an ssd in garage sale that sold for 190 a brand name pyro or is it patriot
can anybody identify whether it is a reliable ssd?

Patriot pyro. Pretty much well known company.

really?
because it has high read and write and i thought that the price is quite cheap for a 60bg ssd
thanks for the information

Just got Vertex 4. Haven't install yet

I just sold my Crucial M4 to 1 of my fren, now plan to get replacement........boleh recommend one with max budget RM400 (120+GB) ??

still thinking should i get ocz vertex 4 128gb or crucial m4 128gb

Since the different of speed in real life situation is unnoticeable , u can just go for Crucial M4 or Intel 330 plus , save some bucks . If u have extra money for fun , u can go for either Intel 520 or Vertex 4

Of course la cheap lor , SandForce chip

Quite a headache when choosing a SSD. Which point are to be look into when choosing one?

Budget

sorry but i have no knowledge on ssd at all
all i know about ssd is that its important to look for fast read and write and toms hardware bess ssd for the money
what does sandforce chip means?

Hello,

I been using this SSD Intel G3 300GB for two weeks already. Not really a high end SSD, no, but much better than my previous HDD.

Question - may I know if my firmware is already the latest version?

For me warranty comes first. Which only Intel 520 offers 5 years warranty. Outside Malaysia, Vertex 4 comes with 5 years warranty as well, but sadly not Malaysia.

So far I'm very happy & satisfied with my Intel 520 180G. Everything loaded less than 3 seconds.

how abt M4? compared to 520 & others

I thought ocz has 5 years warranty here for the SSD too. no?

You mean in terms of performance? Might wanna search some benchmark tho.

I take back what I said about Acronys. There IS a utility do delete partitions. It's not under the start now button but listed under "more tools" as a separate utility. It's called DriveCleanser. Confusing. Cakapla something like "deletes partitions" under descriptions. Siao.

Oh and updated with results :

Laptop specs :

Dell Latitude E6400
Intel Core 2 Duo P8700 / 2.53 GHz
SATA II 3Gbps Controller
2GB DDR2 SDRAM

Real world tests summary:

From cold boot it hit the desktop screen in 24 seconds, startup programs operational ~30 seconds. Most importantly, seek times for outlook email searches for my email archive of 12GB spanning over 2 years, took a drastic improvement of a maximum of only 2 seconds maximum to search; often giving search results instantaneously. ABSOLUTELY.SICK. All the trouble to get this was worth it!

Outlook 2007 took 3 seconds to do first start up from cold boot. 1-2 seconds for subsequent openings.

Oh and here's some numbers. I know we aren't pushing this baby to its 6Gbps limit, but hey it doesnt matter to me. This is already awesome.


This post has been edited by slickz: Aug 23 2012, 06:47 AM

Intel 520 -> 120GB @ RM478 - http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2435660/all

Intel® SSD 520 Series 120GB SATA MLC 80 & 85 Microsecond SATA 6Gb/s 550 MB/s / 500 MB/s = RM459 @ http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1293022/all

INTEL 510 SERIES 120G RM 450/210 RM 899 - CZONE

Intel SSD 510 (120G-265MB/200MB) RM 899 - PC ZONE

Intel SSD 510 Series 120GB (R-400MB/s W-210MB/s) RM 950 - STARTEC

INTEL 510 A2K5 120GB 2.5" sata3 450M 210M RM 889 - viewnet

why is the price difference so much? , could someone explain ?

This post has been edited by tanmcjiann: Aug 23 2012, 01:49 PM

Disable login password would speed the start up a little but I don't think it will bring the start up from 17 seconds down to 6 seconds.

Yes, it makes "old" notebooks workable again. Note that the 6Gbps limit is only reached during synthetic benchmarks. In real world operation, no difference between SATA II and SATA III and would probably not hit the limit of SATA II even.