Which region you connected to? It can be also the server is packed thus lag, play at Asia during day time and America at night time is smoother, it's the non-peak hour.
Just to let you know SSD won't improve your gaming experience, and only those who seeking for faster "loading" in games will find SSD for gaming worth while, Diablo 3 does not has many "loading" screen, it loads while you play so SSD won't improve your experience. Games like Crysis may have faster loading between chapters and save games.

So, SSD won't improve your gaming experience (overall).

Good!! Next year can buy at half-price
Aim for 240GB+ at RM400--

It's normal if it's below 100%, when it's below 70% that's where you should be worried.

Marvell or Intel's Sandforce is fine, they're both reliable, as for now.

Go straight a larger capacity if you does not care about bandwidth.
RAID0 if you needs the performance that it delivers (twice the bandwidth of one), others such as access time remain the same, Windows might boot up just 1~2 seconds faster.

Bandwidth "hunger" applications such as video encoding and huge graphics rendering require high storage speed will benefit from RAID0, cause it'll double the bandwidth.
Take an example normal Intel 330 is 480MB/s (could be higher), double it will reach more than 900MB/s for sequential read/write speed.
Or maybe a high I/O server will benefit from the increased I/O as RAID0 increases that as well.
In the end, it's all about bandwidth for RAID0, access time still pretty much unchanged, cause it's so darn fast already. (less than 1ms)

This post has been edited by wildwestgoh: Sep 6 2012, 11:16 AM

Theoretically, no.
In practice, if your TRIM is activated then you probably won't feel the "slowness", so flip to the first page and have a look on what/how about TRIM.
Best practice is always less than 50% of the total capacity, so the SSD has space and time for the TRIM to work efficiently (IMO, correct me on this).
Always buy bigger capacity , it's getting cheaper~~

1) I'm not sure what's inside the primary partition but I guess that's needed for your Asus recovery purpose.
2) If you feels that you won't need the recovery partition then you can do a manual re-installation of your Windows, there you can cut loose that 2 factory generated partition that usually come with the recovery disk auto installation. Manual installation involve only Windows setup disk and not the factory recovery disk.
3) 512,000,000,000 bytes advertised, divide by 1024 (3 times) and you get around 476GB. Still can't understand this? Remember the HDD space lost theory? It's the very same thing.

Note: Manual installation also require you to DIY all the drivers and Asus bloat-ware that usually come with the recovery disk. Drivers are easy to find nowadays, as long as you have Internet.

This post has been edited by wildwestgoh: Sep 14 2012, 07:51 PM

Chips will produce heat, in a way, just like your pendrive, but the heat is not as constant and high as normal HDD.

Am I seeing thing or is the Samsung 830 slower than Crucial M4 in the 4K Read (Random??)?

This post has been edited by wildwestgoh: Oct 7 2012, 07:24 AM

Are you building a question to an answer?
I think you need to do some reading by google "RAID 0".

HD Tune is for HDD not programmed for SSD, for SSD to have bad sectors is normal, means that 1 sector is considered as worn out and replaced by spare sector.
SSD does carry more sectors than normal HDD would, normal HDD only carries around 1024 spare sectors so for HDD to have bad sectors could means physical damage, also means it's faulty.

Intel 520 for the warranty, 330 for value. Pick your choice.

Good performance, for enterprise anyway, but for consumer stand point, the price tag come first. USD4xx for only 200GB of space almost feels like back to few years back where the SSD just started to bloom.

If you initially already has AHCI enabled then you won't need to do anything on the BIOS, just make sure the TRIM is enabled in the Windows Registry, lookup first page for more info on the TRIM.

What's the spec for the Gigabyte and Asus I wonder?
And what's that PCI-E card and he used on both Gigabyte and Asus board?
Are they skipping the hardware check to acquire faster boot time?

Your Internet Explorer temporary files, Google Chrome cache, Firefox cache, programs' settings, etc. will also ate up those space, you can however change the My Document's directory to another drive (partition/volume) by follow steps below: (Note: Windows 7/8 only)
1. Library > Documents, right-click > Properties.
2. Left-click "Include a folder", choose the folder you want, click "Include folder".
3. Click on the included folder to highlight (select), click "Set save location".
4. Click on other folders, click "Remove" to remove them all.
Use above steps for your Picture and Video as well so the default folder will be on other drive than your C drive.

For Internet Explorer (7 and above)
1. Tools > Internet option.
2. At Browsing History (I.E. 7 might be slightly different), click "Settings".
3. Click "Move Folder", select the folder that you want to reside, click "OK".
4. Re-login (log off and login again) to activate this setting. (System will copy all the temporary files over to the new location)

For other browser, I'm can't find such options to move the cache, unless you use the Portable version of the browser.

Hope these help you reduce the usage of the C drive.

Intel's Sandforce is much reliable, less firmware issue which is the SSD worst enemy.

Should be no problem, as long as it's SATA port.
But I'm not too sure if that'll help much cause your laptop overall performance is quite the bottleneck.

No issue there I guess, some people here even upgrade on their Pentium 4 system (feels great eh?)
Anyway just make sure to look at the first page for guide on optimizing the performance of the SSD.