Better buy @ UK
Samsung 840

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-Series-250...e/dp/B009LI7C9Y

haha yeah mang...hardware in UK is very dirt cheap...you work in mcdonalds part time 4 few months already can buy a decent ssd already

it's just the os creating temp files and things like pagefile/swap. it's common. it's just that you don't notice it when the free space is large enough.

it depends on your budget.

for general use, all mainstream ssds should work well. if you have a little extra, you can go for larger mainstream drives. performance drives are better but the price is premium. they do run at higher speeds, but you will not feel it in common usage because mainstream drives are already fine for that.

for 240gb (usually around MYR 450 plus or minus), if you wanna have newer drives you can go for plextor m6s and toshiba q series pro. if not you can get a 5-year warranty with intel 530 (an old performance drive. it's still fine for general use). if you wanna go for larger drives, crucial mx100, or transcend ssd 370 might be your choice.

it's better you also check out garage sales section in this forum. sometimes you can find cheap performance drives there. (like plextor m5pro/m6pro, crucial m550, samsung 840pro/850pro)

i didn't include samsung 840 evo because there are still issues reported and pending, while 850 evo is expensive relatively. i also don't include oem ssd because maybe the offered warranty is too short.

All your choices are on the pricier side.

May be you can consider Kingston HyperX, there's ongoing experiment with a lucky unit still kicking after years of abuse.
http://www.lowyat.net/2014/12/two-ssds-sur...-worth-of-data/

Another thing to note is Samsung's Pro line > EVO line (inb4 youdontsay).

For asking price of 850 evo, I still too paranoid to believe in the durability of TLC (with 3D NAND) and will opt for conventional MLC SSD which should have a similar durability as of TLC (with 3D NAND).

i will pick m6s. it's not the best drive of the three in terms of endurance (intel 730) and speed (850 evo) but it almost has the best of both worlds imo. (good mlc nand; decent controller; ram cache software)

intel 730 is essentially an enterprise-grade consumer ssd. like any other enterprise offerings, it's about relative endurance, rather than speed. 850 evo, well it's expensive.

i'm sorry i don't have charts to show you. it's better you check out benchmark charts from review sites. just know that reviews and performance charts are just for reference. for general use, imo they don't really matter.
about endurance, yes tlc is the lowest. however with the right use cases, i think it still work fine. a decent system setup today involves a ssd is used as a boot/app/game drive. hdd is used for data downloads and storage. this is the simplest yet better combo, leveraging on their respective strengths, not weaknesses. if you wanna use ssd solely for storage, you should pick enterprise ssds, not consumer grade.

i always suspect bad drives that involved even mlc nand might not be flash-related but other components in the ssd.
less people use doesn't mean it is not good (like corsair neutron gtx). unlike v300, hyperx 3k is a premium offering from kingston. if you looked at its total bytes written (tbw) within the 3-year warranty of a 240gb, it's about 3 drives written per day (dwpd). that means you can install and uninstall bf4 on the ssd for 9 times a day continuously for 3 years. (i know the right minds don't do that hehe)

i owned transcend 340 256GB and 370 512GB for almost a year.. WORTH  MY  EVERY  LITTLE  PENNY! 

y don't u take plextor m6pro instead of m6s?

right. that's the case in general, but there are few exceptions. the sweet spot to have small enough space (cheaper) yet have the similar speed of larger capacity drives is 240-256gb range. however, larger capacity drivers are relatively cheaper in terms of price/GB.

instead of going for performance drives, getting larger mainstream ssds are worth the money for general use imo. transcend ssd 370 should be fine. at least you have more space for stuff and you don't need to frequently uninstall them to free up space for new ones. (i.e. less write/erase cycles for your ssd)

yes

usually 1-partition layout is fine. afaik there is no performance slowdown or gain. i have 2x 960gb crucial m500 with the same layout.

no it's not that it's hard to achieve. consumer/client ssd is usually optimized for mixed work loads, e.g. as boot/app/game drive that requires more reads than writes. 130MB/s is acceptable, but it's really not that good because it's a ssd (that write speed is like for hdd). imo it should be at least 250MB/s.

i just noticed your rig specs in the signature. you have a decent rig (with 2x sata 3), so it's better to invest something more worthy.

by the way plextor ssds are decent. they're not the fastest, but one of the reliable ones.

haha

yes for general use, we don't need that much of writes.

i meant that you should get a larger and speedier drive

ah you have a small m5pro i guess. the 512gb version still can get 480+ MB/s read and 430+ MB/s after steady state. well it's not a big deal because it's fast enough.

i know, right? there are some differences between mainstream and performance drives. it's just that in common usage, mainstream is usually fast enough.

just think deeper of what you actually need. if a mainstream drive is good enough for you, just go for space.