The current best value for money? Felt a bit wasted staying with conventional HDD on i5 & 8gb ram.

https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=2661383&hl=

Anybody bought from him before?
The cheapest 128gb M5S in lowyat I guess?
Reliable seller? Very tempting.

When speed isn't your concern, just use back conventional HDD, cheapest and spacious.

My plextor is coming today. Both 128 and 256.
Hopefully no defects. Thought want to buy one and try, suddenly found out one of the pc using dinosaur age 80gb.

Your M5S in super dirty state already?
Btw, latest firmware 1.05 thought.

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Either one. But from internet reviews and those benchmarks, M5P is faster.

This post has been edited by Shengz: Oct 7 2013, 02:17 PM

http://www.plextoramericas.com/index.php/d...egory&catid=166

The file is iso file if I'm not mistaken, you have to burn them into CD and boot via bios.

After shutting off C1E, C3 and C6 states.
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This post has been edited by Shengz: Oct 7 2013, 05:42 PM

C1E, C3 and C6 State, volting & clock controller features in CPU, to reduce power when you are not utilizing the CPU.
Btw, not much differences in real life, unless you peep @ milliseconds.

I'm also kinda new to SSD, what I did is, follow the whole optimization guide thoroughly.
Through testing, I found out the most important ones are,

1. SSD must connect to Intel sata3 6gbps port for optimal performance
2. Use the Intel chipset/RST driver
3. Update the SSD firmware
4. Other than that, just follow the guide at first page

Bought this piece @ RM 595 without postage fee, satisfy with it at the moment, hopefully the high efficiency stays let say after 2 or 3 years of usage.

Edit: Wrong pricing stated.

This post has been edited by Shengz: Oct 8 2013, 12:21 PM

You mean PCIe x1 sata3 card?

I reckon that is not a good investment.
Read a lot on the web that, mostly are running Marvell chipset and Marvell does not support trim.
And a lot of PCIe x1 sata 3 controllers are junk, a good one PCIe x4 comes with hefty price.
Better keep the money for next upgrade and use the current native sata2 intel controller.

Unless you transferring GBs of data everyday.

Max dy. Read speed still can go, but need sata3.

This post has been edited by Shengz: Oct 9 2013, 11:19 AM

You using what mobo & proc now?
Its not that not good, there are pros and cons. See what are you doing with it.
If purposely setup for benchmarks only, then really not good.

That specs good enough la bro..
During boot, get up and stretch awhile before start gaming.
Faster by 2 to 5 seconds only, forget about the pcie card.