I found that the China homeland brand "KingFast" SSD are dirt cheap (I look at Taobao), I wonder what chip they using.

ohh, didn't know that u partitioned the single 1TB hdd... you can just wipe the C: partition and like Horns says included the hidden system partition (if u used wins 10, it usually 500MB in size), then leaft the D: partition untouched... if it was mine, i prefer to transfered all the remaining files in the D: partition and wipe entire HDD and make it as a single partition only... just take few times only to do so... but, like I said, if u dont wanna waste time and wanna get easier, just left the D: partition as it is

Yes you should do that. My point is that the system partitions might be reused by windows installer if the hdd is present when new installation takes place. This might not be what you want. By 'wiping' i don't mean just reformatting, but deleting partitions physically (and logically), leaving behind unallocated space. I normally use windows installer to do that, since you cannot remove any of them when they are in use. After that, shut down the computer, install new ssd, and boot it to do new install.

It sounds complicated but it's easy to do in practice.

so if I delete the C drive that exist on HDD and I want to make it as 1 partition only how to do it ?
in Disk Management can extend the volume for the D drive (example from 500gb to full HDD size) ?

yeah just use disk management to extend the volume.

alright thanks for the help
if got any question will ask again
going to buy ssd before CNY

lol ok

ALERT: although i like plextor drives, there is a high failure rate of plextor drives being reported recently (model and capacity unknown). the actual reasons of drive failure are also unknown. if you're an owner of one, back up your data from time to time from now on.

Using Plextor SSD since 2014 August, I guess I'm not affected?

lol ok

ALERT: although i like plextor drives, there is a high failure rate of plextor drives being reported recently (model and capacity unknown). the actual reasons of drive failure are also unknown. if you're an owner of one, back up your data from time to time from now on.

hmm... does this only applies to Plextor drives? Or does it also affects Liteon drives? 

not sure. i have found this 'fix': http://superuser.com/questions/887306/ssd-...ys-of-power-off

edit: mine was like since 2013. no issues so far (m5pro; m5m)

His SSD working again based on his last reply. Sound like his BIOS/motherboard acting up, not the SSD. Disabling IRST in BIOS will make the SSD unbootable (referring to one of his troubleshooting step).

Look at the changelog. There is possibility the drive (M6S) might freeze/hang under some circumstances. This is what you don't want to hear. Probably good idea to avoid Plextor for now. But at least they are being frank with what is going on with their drive. Other companies probably put "fixed bug" or "improve drive compatibility" in their firmware changelog.

I have a 512GB Samsung NVMe 950 Pro incoming but no motherboard as of yet. Is the Asrock motherboard still the one to get pair it up or should I look for something else? If I could, I would want to stay with smallish mATX.

if you referred to m.2 slot that can run pcie 3.0 x4, you also have plenty of choices from almost all brands now. just remember to check out their m.2 slot specs carefully because the slot usually share pcie lanes with pcie slots.

Samsung Magician Software 4.9.5

New in Version 4.9.5
- Security enhancement

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Samsung NVMe Driver Installer 1.1

The software for this "950 PRO NVMe Driver Installation" only supports the Samsung NVMe SSD 950 PRO.

http://www.samsung.com/global/business/sem.../downloads.html

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Crucial Storage Executive

Current Version: 3.24.082015.05
Momentum Cache version: 1.7.3.0

- The Crucial Storage Executive is compatible with Microsoft® Windows® 7 and newer versions, including Windows® 10, and supports Crucial MX-series, BX-series, M550, and M500 SSDs.
- Momentum Cache is an intelligent software driver that dynamically leverages unused system resources to enhance burst performance. This feature runs on supported drives containing a boot volume in Windows systems only. It is recommended to enable Momentum Cache on your system's boot drive. For more information on Momentum Cache, see the Enhancing Burst Performance with Momentum Cache Technical Note (TN-FD-32) available on micron.com. Before enabling or disabling this feature, save all work and shut down any running applications (in short, Crucial/Micron's very own ram-caching software for their drives)

http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/support-storage-executive

Thanks for the tips. Yes m.2 slot. I don't plan to run dual GPUs or anything but yeah, I ideally want to future proof and jump onto the LGA 2011 with entry level i5820k processor. The thing is mATX form factor severely limits my choices. The other reason wanting LGA 2011 is that I would get to have 4 x DIMMs available on the mATX form factor.

Thanks 4 the update