I think I want to buy OCZ Vector 4 but not sure where to get it? Doesn't seem to be selling in lowyat shops and couldn't find lowyat topic selling it also..

Ya I got it wrong, heard vertex 4 has good reviews is vector newer and faster than vertex 4?

I decided to get Samsung 840 Pro. It is fastest compare to rest and only OCZ Vector beats it.

However reading the reviews, Samsung seems to be all positive while OCZ Vector has quite a number of negative reviews that says that the harddisk is blazingly fast while it works... which is just 2-3 months before it fails and need to send for warranty.

Anyone know where can we buy Samsung 840 SSD? macam only got one seller in garage sales selling but he in jakarta now...

Does anyone know any shops in lowyat/digitalmall that sells it?

thanks!

This post has been edited by iori57: Jul 10 2013, 02:17 PM

Yup You bought from him as well?

He said that 256GB is out of stock don't know how to get

Yup

Will the samsung 840 evo cheaper or more expensive than the 840 pro of the same capacity?

Aiseh... just bought 840 pro (haven't even reached) now this announcement

Get samsung 840 pro 128gb, around RM450, best ssd with speed and reliability from all the reviews i read. My brother bought some corsair ssd from lowyat 128mb also RM400 already but not as good.

lowyat forum only got one seller for samsung 840 pro, but he seems like mia for quite a while d, check out his thread
https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=2645620&hl=

I ordered mine from ebay U.S. last week but till now still haven't reach lol.

My first SSD at the beginning of time... 40GB only lol install windows then no space for anything else already... but that time damn expensive

I think is corsair force series





Update: My Samsung 840 pro arrived!! quite happy with the write speed though I not sure why the 4KQD32 score so low.. but I don't know what is 4KQD32 also lol



This post has been edited by iori57: Jul 26 2013, 09:28 PM

Can explain more on how to check? clueless..

sifu, followed your advice and ran the benchmark.. seems like it is not aligned.. how to fix it?

screenshot below:



This post has been edited by iori57: Jul 28 2013, 02:53 AM

Weird, i did formatted the ssd during windows 7 installation on boot up. Didnt do any partition also it is just one big chunk.

Yesterday i googled on hoe to realign the ssd, found a guide with 3 different methods, easiest is to use mini tool partition wizard which have one button press auto align feature. After using it my windows explorer crashes on boot up and cant do anything lol. Now reformatting again... heard that every reformat damages ssd so now a bit worried.

After partition wizard did the magic, I reinstalled windows 7 again doing a quick format and now it is aligned

Thanks a bunch everling!!!

New benchmark results way better than before, this is great!!

Hehe.. make sure you aligned your ssd, that will give it max performance. The numbers doesn't mean anything as long as it is running its full potential while eliminating unnecessary writes -> longer life!

Usually higher speed comes with a price (for example overclocking runs hotter) but for ssd seems like speed and reliability is in the same direction..

what is ramdisk?

it will like ram, over time the same price will get you bigger and bigger ssd.. if you mean price to size ratio of course decreasing

Check out these:
http://lifehacker.com/5837769/make-sure-yo...ive-performance
http://www.overclock.net/t/1226963/how-to-...-hdd-partitions


Summary below:

The traditional rotating disks are divided into physical sectors. The Windows operating systems and their components operate according to this sector logic. Despite the fact that SSDs store the data in a completely different way, they are still being treated with this sector logic.

The alignment of the SSD is required to assure that a logical sector starts exactly at the beginning of a physical page of the SSD. Without the alignment, the sector boundaries and the page boundaries will not match and sectors will span pages. That would require for a Windows write operation to clear two blocks in lieu of only one thus reducing the write speed by 50%.

Situation

If you install Windows7 on a brand new SSD, you need not make any special arrangements because the Windows7 installer will do the alignment for you. For Vista you are lucky because the start sector happens to match a SSD page. For XP the start sector is 126 which would be in the middle of a SSD page, thus a prior alignment is required.
A similar situation is present when you clone an existing OS (including Windows7) on a new SSD.



no prob

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.

Hello, what's the cheapest 512gb ssd available in the market? Plan to buy one to replace super slow company laptop's 512gb harddisk by cloning it.

Thanks!

still so pricey.. maybe wait one more year