is it my imagination, or is it that I see every time Samsung releasing a new SSD, they touted that it would be more "cost efficient", "cheaper to manufacture", "performs better with lower cost" etc etc but in reality, all I see is still their drives are still on the high side? Plus, Samsung is ocntroling all the process of manufacturing SSD, from the NAND production to the controller and firmware designs, and historically a company that can control all of the process by itself often manages to bring their products' cost lower compared to other collaborated manufacturers. But it just doesnt seem like it's the case here....   

Samsung, when can your drives with those awesome performances (on paper) can also matches the prices of those of MX100 or Ultra II?
Hmm.... I think rulling out that HDD are definitely going to die is a subjective matter, I think when talk about failing rate, yes, HDD has a higher falling rate, due to the spinning plater and the magnetic arm, there are also SSDs that failed, and there are HDD that really performs well.

So in my opinion, i still being conservative regarding the reliability of HDDs compared to SSDs. Just my 2 cents 

any possibility 850 evo price can drop till bout rm450 in the middle of the year?

using y50, single slot hard disk bay...120 too small...so going for 250 lo...if change new laptop can use the same ssd right

pcie 2 ssd
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thinking of getting this cause got 5 year warranty....or not might go for mx100 which is best for buck from what i read

no, if your mobo and os supports uefi, xp941 can boot without oprom. i am running one with w8.1 uefi and it works with m.2 or pcie slot (my current setup).

however if you don't have either support, yes you need the ones with oprom, like plextor drives.

edit: one more thing about m.2 ssd, there are 2 types of m.2 slot in laptops: sata-based and pcie-based. make sure you get the right one.

The ones popular here are Intel 530 and Samsung 840 Evo 128GB is selling round RM260. It's a good time to move to 256GB (~RM465) instead. More space for programs to run.

Ditto Plextor is on the Premium level. Malaysia market too small so Plextor rather give way for Samsung and Intel. Sigh... 

i dont think the price is "slightly expensive" when it costs 2x of SATA SSD of equivalent capacity 

but damn.... hope prices for SATA SSDs can come down faster abit...