Manufacturing prices of NANDs dictactes that 256GB SSDs won't be dropping down to <RM350 this year, that'll be the story for next year.
<RM550 is a possibility, but only for lower-end SF models and perhaps the popular M4.

This post has been edited by SSJBen: Aug 20 2012, 10:28 PM

The Corsair Neutron series isn't really such a bad SSD. If only its price can be lower ($10-$20 lower in fact), I think it could be a good new direction for Corsair.

Will be keeping an eye on its reliability and any issues over the next few months though.

Yeah, bought over by SK Hynix already. But LinkA still has their branding over their products, it's not a whole swallow take over where even the name changes.

Maybe in a year's time, we'll have Hynix controller on the mainstream market.


Putting games on SSD is subjective.
For games which are texture heavy where the engine renders everything in real-time (not a pre-load), an SSD will help significantly. These are games like RAGE, GTA4, and Skyrim.

For games which loads the whole level on the RAM before the start like the COD or Battlefield games, you'd probably shave a couple of seconds here and there (depending on the level load) over normal HDD. But not a huge difference really.

You already answered your own question... lol.

Just set the directory to your HDD when you install games and that's it.

No problem, why would there be a problem?
For save games, they are usually saved in My Documents which on your C drive on default. Just move the My Documents folders to your D drive.

Check google for guides on how to do it.

I am.


Hardware mostly.

I've used Corsair Force GT, Crucial M4, Intel 330, OCZ Vertex 2 and Agility 3 SSDs in the past (and present).
Compared to them, the Samsung 830 proved to me it is the fastest drive of them all but that only matters when I'm doing real-time video recording and recording.

This is where I save a huge video file (usually .tp/.ts mpeg-2, which could go up to 15GB for a 1 hour clip), and the Samsung 830 proved to be the snappiest.

So yes, to me at least personally.. it is the best SSD I've used so far.

This post has been edited by SSJBen: Aug 27 2012, 07:08 PM

If you count 2 seconds being a difference then yeah... I guess that's the difference, in terms of boot up speed.

Setting a script to open all my most used programs when Windows start — Chrome, PS6, Sony Vegas 11, StaxRip, Steam and loading the usual drivers — my Samsung 830 > Agilty 3 by roughly 3~4 seconds, give or take.

For games load time, I can't test that as my Agility 3 is only 60GB in size and it's already touching 50GB in space used. So no space for installing games there and compare it with the 830. But I reckon, the difference wouldn't be any more than 2 seconds either way.

Okay, the first main issue for LAMD drives now is that we don't know how reliable it is. Whether if firmware issues will bog the drive down or not in the near future, since it's only been released, we can't get enough feedback yet.

I'm not trying to defend Corsair, but the positive thing is that they don't like having any bad track records in their history of products.
Corsair learnt their lesson with their Force 3 and Force GT drives, jumping onto the SF bandwagon too quickly.

They did their homework for their Performance Pro SSDs, but too bad they cost too much in comparison to other Marvell SSDs and isn't readibly available in most regions. Didn't really took off.

So with their new Neutron drives, I think they're really trying to put all of those behind them and hopefully change their face around like how OCZ did with their Vertex 4. Depending on the price, I think if you can secure a good deal then why not? Bringing some in wouldn't be a bad idea.

Doesn't matter either.
I don't see why it would hurt lol. SSDs aren't just made for speed you know...

1. Getting an SSD won't remove your D3 lag. D3 loads its entire level onto your RAM, doesn't stream from HDD/SSD unlike games such as Skyrim or RAGE.

2. Good choice.

The Intel 330 is using Sandforce controller, but Intel's firmware has been pretty solid for it thus far. Don't have to worry too much.
So I'd still recommend an Intel 330 for your budget, otherwise the Crucial M4 is always a good alternative pick.


It's faster yes, if that's what you're asking.

Storing pagefile on SSD won't shorten its lifespan by much (if at all, really).
But realistically, you're just gonna store 512mb - 1024mb... just for programs that uses pagefile, for stability.

Doesn't make a difference really.

I'd stick with the Samsung 830 if I were you.
RM335 for a Samsung 830 128GB is a very good deal, I don't see why you'd want to save RM20 to get an Intel 330 instead.

Considering when (even if you don't need it) the Samsung 830 > Intel 330 in performance.

You can ship from Newegg.
Intel 330 can be bought for as low as RM310 in LowYat Plaza now btw, not RM360-RM400.

The thing with getting from Newegg is, certain manufacturers require that you send your product back to the place of origin for any warranty purposes. Not everyone provides global warranty.

The Corsair Neutron comes with 3 years warranty, the Neutron GTX comes with 5 years. No difference from us and the rest of the world.

For video encoding, you'd want something other than a Sandforce controller.
I'd suggest a Samsung 830.

45 idle and 50 max is pretty typical for HDD temps in a laptop, nothing to worry about. As long as it doesn't go above 55c for long periods of time (and by this, I mean days) then there shouldn't be any problems at all.

If possible, you can wait until the end of the year (Nov-Dec) for another rather substansial price drop by most manufacturers.

120/128GB SSDs under RM300 is a given.

That's pretty fine. If you are paranoid, get a laptop cooler perhaps.


The RAID0 with another Agility 3 will be faster in this case, much faster in fact.
But if you aren't going to use it for the applications that utilizes that much sequential speed, then I'd suggest you don't bother at all.

More over, you only have 60GB of space... and most applications that needs the speed requires a much larger amount of space.

And finally, no — you aren't going to feel much of a difference in normal usage between RAID0 and the Vertex 4.

RM235 for a 128GB SSD... hell of an amazing deal which ever way you put it.
Anyone ordered it?

Sold out already now.

If you need the extra SSD space, then yes... get the Vertex 4. No point RAID0 on a 60GB drive IMO.

Sell.
Or... set it as a drive to install games only (assuming he plays games that is). 60GB alone without any OS should be more than enough for 4 or 5 games at a time. More even, depending on what is installed.