Hi there. Anyone here interested in getting a HDD caddy to put an extra hard drive on their laptop?

I've got one to let go. do pm me for more info .

Cheers!

not all laptop support that size caddy of urs.

Just received my Plextor M5S 128GB from Hikari85, though a bit slow but still waiting for the caddy bay so I can slot the 1TB for the extra capacity to my new laptop... Yay! Yay! Yay! Can't wait to use my new laptop with SSD!

congratz on ur purchase. Had upgraded to SSD for quite some time.

The reason for my slow in adapting SSD is the price/capacity, now with the price drop, and the time to change to a faster laptop, I have good excuses to put SSD in my laptop.
I don't think I can ever return to the HDD, well.. except for my desktop as it's still the old BIOS so it'll probably be another year or 2 before I switch my desktop to SSD (primary boot disk) as well, with UEFI the boot is even faster by hell lot.
New laptop boot speed now with 1TB 5,400rpm HDD is less than 15 seconds to desktop, switch to SSD? Unthinkable speed.

This post has been edited by wildwestgoh: Aug 5 2013, 01:23 PM

does anyone heave any idea where else can i get the samsung 840 pro from other than the person from garage sales?

i wondering since samsung 840 pro is so good, why isn't shops in lowyat stocking it?

why bigger player like seagate and WD dont want to produce SSD in large volume? It will reduce the price.. or they want to concentrate on hybrid hdd..

Samsung 840 price still high..

its not that high if you compare it to other brands. its nearly within range with other competitors.

Business is always complicated regarding distributing/bringing in the products. Or maybe the price tag is too high for retail price and the risk will be high in case local market not get used to it.

Seagate do have SSD lineup, u can view it at the first page latest news section.
WD is on their way...
Everything is related to the cost bro, u need to test the market value and see how's the sale go on to decide massive production or not.

based on my siggy...can i use ssd?

will my setup bottleneck the ssd?

any suggestion for model should i go?

U should look at hmwgbworld's siggy.. core2 duo also.. I think ur rig can use ssd.. Plextor for speed and money..

This post has been edited by nuekkacak: Aug 6 2013, 05:43 AM

Just wondering, any heat issue if using hdd caddy? Anyone with experience with it?

I am not sure why too. And I got mine from ebay u.s., adding shipment fee is around rm800

Yes, people will pay a bit more for its quality if it is advertised properly.

The demand is quite crazy based on the only Samsung SSD seller's thread in garage sales lol.

Wondering as well about that issue but the heck with it, since I'll be using it for data and the burden for it to seek & write will be less so probably it won't generate so much heat plus it's running on 5,400 rpm so the heat won't be too high.
My current laptop is using the good old Scorpio Black, darn hot and fast but after long years of torture it's facing the old age already...
Speaking of Seagate, his SSD are in the market very late and their pricing isn't so much of talk about, except in the enterprise arena, hope WDC will bring down the price even more (for normal consumer).

I also have one hdd caddy but till now i still dont use it..

You haven't experienced how poisonous SSDs are yet?

You really don't need to wait for a UEFI motherboard. UEFI only takes care of the pre-boot. SSD takes care of the boot and everything else afterwards. Take your SSD poison today!

From 15 seconds down to 0 seconds isn't as unthinkable as coming from > 1 minute down to 20+ seconds...

One, SSDs was a highly lucrative business, which is great for publicly-owned businesses driven by profits. Reducing the price, and thus the profits, will make their shareholders very unhappy. And unhappy shareholders can potentially destabilise their businesses.

Two, both Seagate and WD do not have the infrastructure required to build NAND chips, particularly chips in the 20nm or the 10nm range. They must buy their NAND chips from NAND manufacturers. And there are limited NAND manufacturers in the world, who are already selling everything they can make.

This post has been edited by everling: Aug 6 2013, 02:37 PM

I already has my SSD, just waiting to be installed to my laptop and never turn back, now just waiting for the caddy bay to arrive... kinda slow

Hi just bought a mew SSD Plextor M5S... I tried for more than 3 hours plus trying to install Windows 8 on this SSD but after finished install it rebooted and just stuck at Windows logo and getting ready... Is my SSD failed??? stuck for more than 1 hour...

Why not??
Regardless of your platform,you will feel significant speed boost
Been using LGA775 with SSD for 1 year +
You can use SATA 6 SSD on SATA 3 port with no issue at all
Just grab it,you will feel like just injected new life onto your pc