yeah haha when you work i think ssd will be cheaper than now also. just treat it as investment (it saves a lot of my time) can earn back one

edit: i got hold of a kingston hyperx fury 240gb just now. maybe i will find some time to test it later.

If only got RM300 budget max, can buy which SSD?

pull trigger bought Samsung 850 EVO 250GB @ RM335

Hi guys, need some suggestion here. 

I'm thinking to get a 240GB SSD at lowyat, with a budget around 300. What drives are suggested at this price range?

haha nobody interested 2 join the 1TB SSD club here ya

i be jumping in the 1TB SSD pretty soon

when buy already going 2 post some pictures here

i bosan with 250GB already after 2 years and already looking ahead the 4x higher capacity

Below one
Haha smart

i am using 1x samsung sm841 and 2x crucial m500 960gb (all with op 20%; yeah pretty old ) in my aw18 for a few years now. for large capacity ssds, i suggest getting mlc drives. it will last you for a really long time.

for now i am eyeing sm961 512gb / 1tb hehe

you can either get it from outside, or just wait for some sellers to import it for you. yeah there are risks involved, to me it's worth it.

er.. not really in terms of speed. it's like 6x sata ssd in raid0. well if you can use most of them, that is hehe

for common usage, sata ssd is fine

well that's if you really need it. raid0 is not safe relatively in terms of long term data storage. i only use it for os drive (which i can recover easily), or scratch disk.

with pcie ahci/nvme ssd, you can reduce cables and free up sata ports and space for other purposes (e.g. additional storage; custom water cooling components). the system also boots relatively faster because there are less hardware connected to it. however, the real question is still whether or not it's worth to shave that few seconds of speed (in terms of common use) by paying more.

i tested samsung xp941 (128gb), and sm951 ahci (256gb, 512gb; didn't go for nvme version or 950pro because speed difference is not significant to me) for work they are much better (i create vms for testing very frequently); for home use, not really.

total host writes means how much data have been written to the disk, in general. for ssd, you can use it to estimate guaranteed shelf life of ssd. note that each hdd/ssd might have different formula to determine total host writes so the numbers can only be used to estimate stuff.

for the rest my guess is the same.

well yeah. i think the total host writes in sdd depends on how you set the system up. with ssd optimizations, including use of ramdisk and ram cache, and the ways you populate os, apps and data in the system, you can reduce writes to ssd even further.

that's why after about 3 years plus, my samsung sm841 is still read at 2.44tb for total host writes.

actually you shouldn't worry about these numbers. with the ssd+hdd combo, where you use ssd for os/apps/games, and hdd for downloads, cache, and data storage, your ssd might outlive even your system.

yup by that time you should be able to use nvme ssd or better hehe

yeah that would be nice haha tbh i like rigs more than laptops these days. it's much more fun to deal with

oo icic, thanks for trying that.

maybe i should try 1511 ISO, not sure where to find a clean 1511 ISO now. i know it's a small issue but it kinda bugs me when see red text like something is not working haha.

At last bite the bullet, and got myself a 850 evo 250gb. Lazada is selling cheap, 380, and even cheaper when applied the voucher

i suggest using this little utility, https://www.heidoc.net/joomla/technology-sc...o-download-tool

State your budget lar

Sandisk SSD Plus 480GB (RM477) - http://www.lelong.com.my/sandisk-ssd-plus-...7-01-Sale-I.htm
Kingston UV400 480GB (RM478) - http://www.lelong.com.my/kingston-ssd-int-...7-01-Sale-I.htm
PNY CS1311 480GB (RM479) - http://www.lelong.com.my/pny-cs1311-480gb-...7-01-Sale-I.htm
Apacer Panther 480GB (RM493) - http://www.lelong.com.my/apacer-panther-ma...7-01-Sale-I.htm
Kingston HyperX Fury (RM566) - http://www.lelong.com.my/kingston-ssd-sata...7-01-Sale-I.htm
Kingston HyperX Savage 480GB (RM578) - http://www.lelong.com.my/kingston-hyperx-s...7-08-Sale-P.htm
Samsung 850 EVO 500GB (RM689) - http://www.lelong.com.my/samsung-850-evo-5...7-07-Sale-P.htm

Thanks for the list 

Anyone have a list for cheap 512GB SSD?

Is it readily available in the market?

If so, I am interested to buy the older 950 pro at a cheaper price (hopefully).

yeah even 960evo is making people crazy haha

http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minis...mer/960evo.html
http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minis...mer/960pro.html

I am using 850 evo as well but a bit curious with 950evo/pro and now 960evo/pro.

yeah

i wanna get it for work purposes mainly. about the endurance, the 960pro 1tb model is 800tbw; 2tb model is 1.2pbw
just grab one haha
you should wait?