while i tried to refresh myself about your issues, i came across this little tool that might help you. i never used this before so please read about other most probable fixes also.

http://www.boyans.net/dual-boot-repair-too...8.1-update.html

good luck.

do it. a desktop rig is not a crap if its specs are much better than xps 13. take away that obvious hdd bottleneck and you will fall in love with it again hehe

both are good. however for common usage like what you have described, liteon ssd is already good enough.

intel, samsung, crucial, and plextor/liteon are my personal preferences hehe to me i am happy with any one of them with mlc chip.

between liteon ssd and 850evo, the only attraction for me to choose evo is the longer warranty.

scs is retail unit, lcs is oem. 256gb is much better. it's a sweet spot in terms of price/performance value.

go for liteon. get larger capacity if possible. performance wise, i don't think you can feel the differences.

3d nand is the new flash technology that has smaller foot print (hence you can have very large capacities, like 3.84tb, in a small 2.5" form factor), and is more durable (according to reviews).

these days, there are mainly 3 types of consumer sata ssds: value, mainstream, and performance. pick mainstream for common use if possible. to me, liteon s900 and samsung 850evo are mainstream drives.

haha sorry for the multi-quoting.

for general use, don't worry about it. the drive will still have a long way to go when you decided to get a new one.

This post has been edited by horns: Aug 7 2015, 02:16 PM

yes, and plextor/liteon never cut down internal components, like dram.

hm.. a good question. i have no clue about 120gb drives in terms of the best price/performance ratio. afaik transcend ssd370 fit into this range but i might be wrong. there are plenty of other choices. it's better to check out reviews for more insights. for very general use, i think any mainstream (or even value) drives should be fine. (as long as the seq. write speed is not below 250MB/s)

hm. it's much slower than i thought. yes, get liteon 256gb, put 15% op, and it will last you for a long time.

hehe i hope to play with some too. it's still like very rare in the market.

oh well :/

never regret about anything. czone is fine, at least there is no worry about warranty in general a ssd is still much better than hdd as a boot/app drive anyway.

oh this is good news from the blog post and patch, it seemed that data corruption occurred due to pointer from ata driver being set to wrong address when trim is used with raid (in linux kernel). i think only kernel gurus know what this means lol for us users, hopefully with the patch, the black list will be updated later. (not a big deal. we can patch that part manually) by the way which distro are you using?

if your hdd caddy cannot house ssd properly, you might need one to secure it in 3.5" hdd bays. (new casings usually comes with settings for ssd)

yes i use liteon oem ssds also. to me, they're good. liteon is a common name in major brands (mostly higher end laptops and workstations).

if you checked out previous posts (crawling or searching through the ssd threads), the main reason we recommend liteon s900 because it's one of the mainstream drives that have the best price/performance ratio (as of now). internal components wise, s900 uses toshiba toggle mlc nand, and its controller is the same as plextor mainstream drive, m6s (some said it's based on plextor performance drive, m5pro).

it's not that transcend drives are not good. iinm it's tagged as the recommended drive by some well-known review sites.

of course there are better choices, but it also means you need to pay more.

it shouldn't be. have you updated the firmware?

the correct sequence should be updating the firmware first. for w7 and up the install media will create default partition layouts and do formatting for you, so you don't need to do anything.

haha i'm fine with boot time under 20 secs. booting too fast makes me having no chance to rest lol!

maybe we all don't need that kind of speeds and iops. for user computing i don't think we can benefit from it. (many bottlenecks. hdd is one) if you wanna have smoother experience, it's better to use ram cache (if you have a good amount of ram).

i back up work files daily (weighted about 1gb each, normally less than that), i use ram cache (2gb each) to boost ssd-to-hdd transfers. when i copy files across drives, they are like the same speed for ssd and hdd (ram cache speed, not ssd or hdd). of course if the transfer involve huge files, it will not work. (speed will drop to match slowest bottleneck)

Crucial drives are good. Maybe you wanna get another 256gb to do raid0. (Double the speed and space. Hdd as download and storage) Preferably use the same model for a system. It's easier to manage (using the same manufacturer supplied software to manage all of them)

If you wanna go for capacity, there are not many choices for msata. Again it's m550 512gb, or samsung 850 evo (up to 1tb; rare, might need back-to-back order)

usually the price should be slightly higher than 2.5" sata. however i think you should do research first. i did a rough check here. check out mx200 500gb. it's lower.

note that you can also combine sata and msata ssd as raid, as long as the ports have the same bandwidth (e.g. sata iii for both) that's why for haswell laptops you can do 4x sata+msata raid0. (depends on the total compatible sata ports) with 4x mx200 500gb i can get roughly 1.7tb+ ssd space (15% op), and about 2GB/s seq. speeds + combined iops.

there might be a new nand called qlc. slc > emlc > mlc > tlc > qlc.

Toshiba Talks QLC BiCS FLASH for Archival SSDs, http://www.custompcreview.com/news/fms-201...val-ssds/25776/

nice

yes, scs is the retail version. don't mind the relatively low 4k thing, it's good enough for general use. let's just say plextor is a retail brand (originally japanese, but later became a taiwan brand) and liteon is mainly for oem. they use the same ssd technologies. you can read more about their relationship from wikipedia.

yes bro, imo scs-l9s is the better choice compared to other choices in terms of price/performance ratio.

btw i'm no sifu. we are all learning.

haha don't mention it bro knowledge is meant to share.

samsung showed off with its 16tb 2.5" PM1633a ssd, http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/08/sam...est-hard-drive/, http://www.extremetech.com/computing/21220...ith-new-3d-nand


This post has been edited by horns: Aug 15 2015, 01:05 AM

lol it's really getting interesting. hopefully all these techs will get matured soon.

er what's your expectation? maybe you can some more information to help us understand your question. sorry i don't have mac. i'm just curious.