yes, that's a good practice (ssd as boot drive and hdd as storage)

although it's good to allocate some space for over provisioning (10 to 15% should be suffice), you can use it as is for your usage.

all the best

good point

which ssd are you talking about? it never happened to me.

m5pro or m5s?

i never experienced any bsod myself, since day one. my laptop is running 2x plextor m5pro, 1x m5m, and 1x hdd.

what's your current firmware version for the m5? have you updated to the latest one?

do you have any hints about the error message from thet bsod?

the problem might be related to power plan settings. check your power plan, and set the hard disk option (turn off hard disk after) to never (meaning 0). also, someone use software to keep the hdd alive (http://keepalivehd.codeplex.com/). you might wanna use that too.

oh.. good luck :/

it's running at sata 3 speed.

as for health checking, crystal diskinfo should be good enough. or, you can get plextool from plextor website.

have you secure-erased it before? maybe it's at 'dirty state'. alternatively, leaving it alone/idle for a few hours might also help.

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when it slows down, just use disk management to delete all partitions to unallocated space. it will be like new again. given enough idle time (a few hours) and free space, the drive can maintain speed quite well.

i haven't had such problems with my 830. it's a storage drive but then i give it some 15% space as unallocated.

i mean delete all the partitions literally. if you have one partition only then delete that one partition. this means to say that you will recreate everything if your windows is on it. (you're correct, it means your windows and all data will be gone). of course there are other factors involved, for instance, the system will slow down because more and more apps were installed over time.

to recover the disk performance, normally people will do secure erase. deleting partitions with disk management on windows is one way of doing it. (alternatively, you could use magician's secure erase function)

oh.. normally i do two steps: delete the partitions using disk management; then use diskpart's clean to clear all attributes in the ssd. reboot the machine after that.

samsung 840 and 840 pro has a new firmware released (DXT09B0Q and DXM06B0Q). use magician to update.

changelog said "Improved compatibility with ultra-slim and mobile PCs."

afaik we only have full length msata not half length like that one in the picture.

it's a good ssd. you can enable rapid mode to boost things furthers if you want. you should have gotten 256gb. bf4 alone is about 34.7GB now (with 2 dlc's).

out of curiosity, how long did this m4 serve you?

Uh? Seriously? Whats the capacity? Whats your common usage? This is interesting.

Perhaps it's just a lemon. Good luck with the rma :/

both are fine. i think samsung 840 evo is better because of speed (with rapid mode). i personally use plextor m5m. so far so good.

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