Guys, Pros, Sifus, Gurus I need your help!

I currently have the cash to buy one SSD but I can't decide which!

These two caught my eyes...
1. Plextor M5S 128GB
2. Crucial M4 128GB

Crucial M4 cost about RM36x with 3 years warranty while Plextor cost about RM29x with 3 years warranty as well...

Reliability and performance wise, which one is better?!

Plextor using marvell controller, which it's good at reliability, while other SSD like OCZ, Corsair etc using SandForce, which it's good at performance but stability wise....not so much...

You won't notice much difference for both controller in real life ...unless you benchmark all of'em

Or purchase 2 M5S 128GB x2, raid 0 it...and enjoy...DAT SPEED! (For PC)

Hello guys,

So I've bought the Plextor M5S few days ago, the installation was fine, same goes to the OS. The speed was good as I expected as well.

But there's slightly some problem which I don't know whether it's the OS or the SSD.
So here's the problem:

1. I left the PC for 30 minutes, when I came back, my PC was completely shut-down without my knowing.
2. After I realized the PC was shut-down, I turned it back on, when it log in to my windows, my whole Window Start Bar froze...the Antivirus and stuff won't load up which made me forced to re-start it. After restart, the problem was gone. But I'm sure it'll be back soon.

Is there anyway to fix these issues?

Thank you for the fast reply,

I'm glad that It can be fixed without RMA it...you said only the necessary one, could you define necessary one?

Like I stated below:
I'm having some problem after the installation, but after the tweaks all is fine...for now. Will update if anything happens.

As for this...I read the reviews from neweggs, overclockers forum, anandtech, etc...loads of users complained about sandforce controllers for being shitty, even now too. The reason I bought the m5s it's because of the $$$, and I prefer reliability first performance second.

I agree with you on reading the other and all but that's the only way to know whether the M5S is either a stable SSD or a piece of dung. There're some reason why I chose M5S over the other brand like OCZ Vertex, Kingston 3k, Crucial M4 and Intel 520.

You may or may not agree, but these are my POVs.




As for this I'm not quite sure all of the tweaks are working, As for now I din't experience any unwanted shut downs any-more, but my SSD are quite slow on terminating my programs while I want to shut-down. But no biggie. I can always click on Force Shut-down

Well the pricing are different now...everything went sky high.

That's probably the main reason why I chose Plextor. :\

IKR, probably due to the floods in Thailand or something. For what I know right now is that never buy new released hardwares. The hardware sellers mostly gonna slit your throat dry.

:/ Yeah, silly me. True, most of the 3RD GEN hardwares are indeed cheaper than the previous one, which makes me regret for deciding to build a rig on 2011.

As for the SSD price, I compared between 2012 December and 2013 April, most of the SSD price increased RM4x~8x.

Er...which part are you implying? That I bought the 2nd GEN Rig or the SSDs?

Like Corsair Force 3 for instance, last year a friend of mine bought it for RM38x, but now the price increased to RM450. Which means, it cost about RM3.75/GB, the price were bloody outrageous.

Could you define enterprise standard ?

Apologies for the trouble.

Edit:
Do you mean SSD for company use?

This post has been edited by Yagami5159: Apr 20 2013, 11:13 PM

2 version for each capacity?

CSSD-F120GB3A
CSSD-F120GB3

For what I've heard both of them having some lifespan issue...

Never knew that the price could drop so much in a year.

All except Plextor, which it drop from RM3xx to RM29x. Still, I'm not quite sure why they're selling that cheap.

Heard of it but rarely seen it being applied on hardware products.

+1

The M5S 128GB for RM295 seems ok to me, same goes to the M5S 256GB...
Performance and realiability seems fine, just need to do some settings in the power option that's all.

But honestly I can't guarantee on this, only time will tell.

+1
But still...research is still reuqired, you don't want to buy a SSD that only last for a week now do ya?

If you excluded the BIOS POS check, you can achive 40ish sec boot time by using a normal HDD (mine's green). As for plextor M5S I managed to made it below 40sec if I disable Non-Gui Boot which also include BIOS POS check (mine takes a hell of time)

Sorry if I'm asking a foolish question but...what do you mean by fast boot in power settings?

This post has been edited by Yagami5159: Apr 23 2013, 10:09 AM