the obvious difference between the two is that hyperx fury use sandforce sf-2281 controller that is much slower when writing incompressible data (eg. movies, pictures, music; data that have been compressed; the performance hit can be very noticeable, something like 80MB/s vs typical 300+MB/s). note that os and software programs are usually compressible, so it's good to use it as boot drive.

performance wise, a ssd with sf controller can perform as good as a liteon drive at similar performance specs as boot drive.

interesting. what's your usage like?

to reset the ssd into fresh state, you can use diskpart > clean to clear everything on the ssd; reboot, and start from scratch (a faster way is to clone the drive, do diskpart > clean thing, then clone the drive with the backup image)

This post has been edited by horns: Apr 24 2016, 12:00 PM

no problem.

in general, in local market we have:
1. sata 2.5" ssd;
2. full-sized msata ssd;
3. 2280 m.2 sata and pcie ssd (if your device has a m.2 slot; check the mobo manual for the right type).

the sata 2.5" ssd is the most common one and it uses sata cable like hdd.

Intel Solid-State Drive Toolbox version 3.3.5

https://downloadmirror.intel.com/18455/eng/...0-%20v3.3.5.exe

The Intel SSD Toolbox supports firmware updates on the following Intel SSDs:
- Intel Solid-State Drive 310 Series Firmware 2CV102M3
- Intel Solid-State Drive 311 Series Firmware 2CV102M5
- Intel Solid-State Drive 320 Series Firmware 4PC10362
- Intel Solid-State Drive 330 Series Firmware 300i
- Intel Solid-State Drive 335 Series Firmware 335u
- Intel Solid-State Drive 510 Series Firmware PPG2 or PPG4 (120GB SSD)
- Intel Solid-State Drive 510 Series Firmware PWG2 or PWG4 (250GB SSD)
- Intel Solid-State Drive 520 Series Firmware 400i
- Intel Solid-State Drive 530 Series Firmware DC12
- Intel Solid-State Drive 710 Series Firmware 6PB10362
- Intel X18-M / X25-M SATA SSDs (34nm) Firmware 2CV102M3
- Intel X18-M / X25-M SATA SSDs (50nm) Firmware 8820
- Intel X25-E SATA SSDs Firmware 8850
- Intel X25-V SATA SSD Firmware 2CV102M3
- Intel Solid-State Drive DC S3500 Firmware 0355
- Intel Solid-State Drive DC S3700 Firmware 0265

What's New:

This version of the tool contains a firmware update for the Intel SSD 530 Series (to version DC32) with the following changes:
- Default Software Settings Preservation (SSP) for DIPM is changed from a default = on, to a DEFAULT = OFF. This addresses situations in older systems where the drive was not found after a warm reset causing blue screens.
- Corrects an occasional miss-reporting of SMART attribute E3h (Timed Workload Read/Write ratio).
- The drive no longer increments SMART 0Ch (Power Cycle Count) after a SECURE ERASE operation.

er what's the os? bootcamp thing? by right mac osx should take care of trim and all. not sure.

uh? seriously? what are they thinking?

Samsung Magician Software for PC 4.9.6

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

Magician version 4.9.6 features a number of improvements over version 4.9.5:
- Improved stability with some SSD models
- Minor bug fixes

The following Samsung SSDs are supported*.
Samsung SSD 750 EVO
Samsung SSD 950 PRO (M.2)
Samsung SSD 850 EVO (2.5”, mSATA, M.2)
Samsung SSD 850 PRO
Samsung SSD 840 EVO (2.5”, mSATA)
Samsung SSD 840 PRO
Samsung SSD 840 Series
Samsung SSD 830 Series
Samsung SSD 470 Series

of the two imo kingston hyperx savage is better (more space). for today's personal computing, it's better to have ssd as boot disk.

yes, of course. like everything, they all have shelf life. whether or not a ssd can live long or not ('long' here i mean more than 10 years), it's really up to you. in general the shelf life of ssd is shortened mainly with writes and deletes, not read. if you do writes and deletes frequently with it (like torrents), it will die faster (relatively speaking). if you use it as boot disk (which involves mostly reads than writes), it can live very long.

hence, it's better that you use hdd as the torrent drive instead. our internet bandwidth is puny, so hdd is never the actual bottleneck when you download stuff with torrent clients. if it's for work purposes, just treat it as a tool to speed things up. (the faster you work, the faster you can collect money) to give you an idea, i use ssd to create and use virtual machines for work. everyday i write and delete hundreds of gb data because i move them in and out of storage. it's been 3 years+, my storage ssds (oem client sata ssds only; not those expensive enterprise ssds) are still working fine, with no smart errors.

as for large file storage/games, most of the times the files are read more than written, so imo it's ok.

if it's a 256gb ssd, yes the space for users is 238gb (roughly). some space is reserved by os for its own use.

can you show us how your disk is partitioned? (you can print screenshots of disk management) to get rid everything and start over, it's best to do 'diskpart > clean' steps.

Your user partition is c: (single partition only) the first 2 are system partitions created by os.

Since your system bios is set to uefi, you need gpt disk.

All you need to do is to replace the 32gb cache ssd with a larger msata ssd, migrate current os partition and related system partitions to it. For the hdd, it's better to clean it up with diskpart > clean to avoid complications. Do the diskpart thing before the first boot to ssd (before diskpart > clean, back up all data first)

What I'm sure of is that samsung and trascend have migration software. Not sure about sandisk or other brands. When they don't provide you with migration tool, third party cloning tools can be used for the same purpose.

Edit: the performance of ssd cache is at best slightly better than plain hdd. Plain ssd as boot disk is much better.

This post has been edited by horns: May 10 2016, 12:20 AM

yeah there is nothing wrong

with ransomware also targetting mbr disks, use gpt disk if possible, eg. petya can encrypt the contents in mbr disks, it can only make gpt disk unbootable, while unable to encrypt contents.

No problem man. Yeah although petya has possible decryptor (for now), things might get ugly if trojan creator changed algos and make variants out of the original.

i got 850 evo 250gb (m.2 sata variant for laptops) for the extra 2-year warranty period. From my experience and tests for normal use it's slightly better than transcend mts800 256gb. Also, if you have some extra ram (the machines i tested is with 16gb) you can use rapid mode to have better user experience.

For most users, entry level ssd like sandisk ssd plus is ok for normal use, compared to hdd.

For torrents use hdd. Hdd speed is still many times faster than our internet speed. Not a bottleneck yet.

My steps of cloning os from hdd to ssd are:
1. Back up all data on hdd first; defrag os drive/partition;
2. Turn off pc and attach ssd;
3. Turn on pc and install migration tool on current os;
4. Use disk management tool to resize os partition to fit ssd;
5. Migrate os and relevant system partitions to ssd;
6. Turn off pc, take out hdd and boot from ssd. Adjust bios settings for boot orders if needed.

Connect hdd to pc via usb adapter and clear everything up on hdd with diskpart. This is important to avoid conflicts between os in hdd and ssd when you reattach hdd into pc. Alternatively at step 6 above, you don't take out hdd. Instead you boot the system with a bootable windows usb stick and press shift+f10 to bring up command prompt and do the diskpart > clean thing when you're in the first installation screen. This step is relatively risky if you're not familiar with diskpart, so i think it's better to just take the hdd out first.

This post has been edited by horns: May 11 2016, 08:39 AM

sudden death can happen to anything electronic. other than improper usage, it's kind of like luck.

ups is not for ssd only, but everything in the pc chassis. if your area is prone to random power trips, it's better to have one. (or use laptop)

Samsung Magician 4.9.7

http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minis...load/tools.html

Magician version 4.9.7 features a number of improvements over version 4.9.6:
- Improved stability with some SSD models
- Update typo

some latest insights about ssd return rates at hardware.fr:

http://www.hardware.fr/articles/947-7/ssd.html (check out the conclusion page also)

as always, take this with a grain of salt.

for mainstream sata ssd, and this is personal preference: samsung 850 evo; if possible go for at least 240gb range for relatively better speeds.

in general, entry-level/value ssd is good enough for common, casual usage. as a boot drive, it's still better than hdd.

now for the brand, it's a rare one tbh. not much information to tell if the brand is ok or not.

yeah i think so. ssd in general fail relatively less than other components. to my surprise, this time kingston is at the top. (usually it's either intel or samsung if you checked previous articles)

yes. the more ram you allocate as cache the better. i have bought several licenses for my work machines. for a typical i7 machine, it's about 12k sequential read/write if benchmark is your thing.

i will replace the current 64gb ram to 128gb later because of this also hehe (other than ram caching i use ramdisk too)

it's the obvious one. as long as the air flow is good there will be no problem