Easy spoilt as in? Physical abuse? or Benchmark Write abuse?
If physical abuse, it'll depends on the severity, if just a knock or vibration won't be able to kill it (even under operation), if you use hammer or dip in water then it'll void the warranty right away.
Benchmark is usually done few times to confirm your performance optimization, other than that, you won't need benchmarks all the time, so Write cycle of the NAND should last you decades to come with normal daily usage. Downloads and BT will be another story.

We've got even lower.

From Hikari85, but I think the promo ends already, still the normal price seems lower.

1. I believe this is the small size only SSD, as small as the size of laptop wireless card.
2. This is the full lane PCI-E SSD meant for desktop/tower chassis only, mostly enterprise and/or high-end server.

If you want the faster, definitely the 2nd, no doubt, uses Enterprise grade NAND and full lane bandwidth.
But you're bound to only tower chassis, M.2 is usually for laptop especially those very slim type which can't fit the normal SATA SSD.

https://www.google.com.my/search?q=x99+m.2+...iw=1280&bih=923
M.2 slot, FYI

It will probably shares the same lanes or has its own controller over different lane(s), most likely (IMO) it should be different controller, doesn't want too much interrupt to decrease the overall GPU performance.

I just ordered from lingloong for Intel 730 for 1 of my customer, probably on its way.

Erm, if your posted link is your actual mainboard, it's unfortunately you don't have any SATA3 (6Gbps) port.
SATA2 won't have much difference with your boot time, SSD is always faster than HDD.
The only difference is only the max speed, which is the sequential read/write speed which is advertise by every vendor.
Your best bet is the 4K read/write, that's the most important, it determines your daily usage speed, without compression.

According to the link, Intel only provide 6x ports, blue color, connect to that for optimum performance, the black one is JMicron, may slow.
If you do can install your Windows fresh into the SSD and still having BSOD, best is to unplug all other connected devices, like other HDDs, other USB devices other than your necessity, try with the most basic hardware and report here again.
If all fail... erm... maybe try to access and format your SSD using your installed OS on your HDD, it could be just a bad SSD.
And do benchmark from there... Well, rare case, need more white ratz experiments testing...

Erm, is it successfully boot into your freshly installed Windows?
What Windows you installed? Windows 7? 8?

Please do let us know how many seconds from pressing the power button to your Desktop.
And after booting, runs some benchmark on it, and (notice it's Kingston HyperX ) do post the result here.

Yes, he's selling under his Intel thread (for every Intel products).

Many suggest MLC and many higher end products still using MLC is because it's a matured technology, it has been proven so with all the products released out there, 840EVO is probably one of their white ratz (sorry no offence here) for their next 860 Pro offering? Till they're mature enough, then those vendors will dive into it hard and deep.
If you don't care little differences of those performance, Intel 530 is the way to go, you won't miss those few hundred of miliseconds in everyday's task, not until you're doing IO intensive task (database testing anyone?).

p/s: You can use [quote] to minimize multi-replies in a thread, click [+quote] of the posts then click [Add reply] at the bottom.

MX100 is the lower-end, M550 is the higher-end, just like Samsung EVO and Pro, each with their own advantage, MX100 is definitely a good choice for performance/value.

This post has been edited by wildwestgoh: Nov 7 2014, 01:44 PM

10 seconds? Slow? Alright... I think my SSD is now darn slow...
Benchmarks software can be found on first page of this thread.
Btw, it's best to set as AHCI for TRIM (long term performance gains), you can set in the registry setting first before turn on at the BIOS, hope this help, and erm... try to look at the first page for more detail on this.

Good luck.

Seriously some ppl can't read even the last post?

This pretty much sum it up, Kingston is pretty darn slow... kidding aside, that's what you get for using SATA2, still pretty decent for booting and running office programs (Microsoft Office) and light usage on graphics and 3Ds programs.
You won't get the maximum speed, but you're utilizing the potential of response speed, that's the latency between each IO, almost 10x faster than using normal HDD, getting small files over the sea of scattered data is one of the SSD main objective over HDD.

According to Review, it's a good buy.
http://proclockers.com/reviews/storage/tra...view?page=0%2C2
If it is a 512GB that you're looking for, it is definitely bang for buck.

This post has been edited by wildwestgoh: Nov 25 2014, 07:44 AM

I think I can only find 1 seller with cheap price for Samsung, but the Pro is definitely high priced.

256GB or 512GB will depends on your usage, if you're going to install many games at once, choose the bigger brother, otherwise 256GB should suffice for most current titles (i.e. COD:AW, Ryse of Rome, MMO, some other programs...)
And not to forget that SSD's Trim also depends on the space provisioning, 15% for optimum performance, so max you can use is around 210GB (256GB) and 420GB (512GB) respectively.

This post has been edited by wildwestgoh: Nov 27 2014, 08:26 AM

1. Fresh install? Clone?
2. Have you installed any other running programs, try "msconfig" to check your startup.

Ok, that was plenty of left over, you're fine with 256GB, can install 2 more latest title...

If your laptop has disc drive, you can convert it to put your hard disk in, dual storage.
But if no, you can just buy USB3 SATA (not sure if hard to find one ) to plug it in as external.

You can never turn back now... using other PC loaded with only HDD will make you or .

No.2, no doubt, fastest among all 3, if no then go Plextor M6S, if no choice baru go Kingston...
Oh, if you have choice of Intel also not bad, the 530 is good, same price range and got 5 year warranty.

Now this one have to ask Samsung sifu the method to check the firmware upon booting the SSD, then flash if the firmware is not updated.

If you setup the workspace all into the SSD, then it should be fast, not sure if pagefile will affect the speed or not.
If you don't wish to re-install the OS, there's migrating tools to help you move from HDD to SSD.

Most of the Samsung sifu had already reported the firmware does fix the issue, just know the firmware upon installing it, check if it's updated, if it's not then just flash update it, simple as that, it's even faster if you're flashing an empty SSD, then forward to installing whatever you want on it.