no idea.

liteon s900. relatively, hyperx fury should be slower i think.

yes it's fine.

it's likely international. (send back to the seller for warranty claims)

that's an interesting side effect about tp link stuff.

maybe he should remove the adapter first before shutting the computer down. it should be faster.

liteon s900 256gb. for general use, it's more than sufficient. it's a newer, good drive imo.

there are plenty, e..g plextor m6s/m6pro, crucial mx100/m550, and samsung 850 pro. the cheapest of all for now is transcend ssd370.

Alternatively you can opt for online sellers at garage sales.

Usually the box or ssd label have firmware version info. You can also use crystal diskinfo to get the firmware version.

You can download new firmware from goplextor.com. The update procedure is simple, and is normally non-destructive. For safety's sake, just do a data backup first. Create a usb bootable with the iso via rufus/pendrivelinux tool and use it to boot and apply the update.

The need to update the firmware depends on issues on the current firmware. it's optional if your drive works well.

1) for warranty claims, just put stock parts back in their original places. honestly when i modify my laptops, i keep stock parts untouched. i then buy new parts (ssd, hdd, ram, wifi card, etc.) and replace them.

2) usually it can be a boot drive, but you should wait for a more definitive answer from other y510p owners.

if you still used the stock os with stock bloatwares, that might be the case. normally bloatwares will add services in the background and they might add more reads/writes to hdd. also know that even a plain, non-optimized os can cause 100% usage of hdd. you should do some system optimizations, and throw away bloatwares that you don't use. the better way is to do a fresh os install and build your system up from scratch.

m5pro, m5m.

yes, it's better to avoid potential issues like mixing up boot orders of your computer.

first back up your stuff first before you do anything else.

then use disk management to do it. alternatively at administrative command prompt run diskpart, select disk that you wanna make changes (sel disk x, where x is a number), and issue the command clean.

there are plenty of tutorials if you googled about it

it's very rare (like none) to see a user with that ssd. it's better you checked online user comments from other sources about it before purchase, particularly local warranty.

lol! we can see how patient we were in those days, compared to now, after having ssds

kingston, despite their previous fiasco of 'bait and switch', has released in the market their pci-e 2.0 x4 m.2 ssd, hyperx predator, featuring marvell's controller and toshiba toggle nand (i don't think they will switch this combo. this is a premium stuff after all)

if you cannot find xp941, this one is a good option. it's said the overheating issues of its controller is not a serious concern even without heat sink. it's much better than xp941.

normally it's better to use the software published by manufacturers. to get a general idea of health status, you can try crystal disk info, or hdd guardian. both are based on smart information.

maybe call the number in the listing at kingston and ask about it? http://www.kingston.com/en/company/warranty

after kingston hyperx predator, intel 750 is coming. pcie 3.0 x4 nvme!

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9090/intel-s...-for-the-client
http://techreport.com/review/28050/intel-7...-drive-reviewed
http://www.thessdreview.com/our-reviews/in...e-the-industry/

write caching can be enabled because it helps to boost performance. for client systems, it's good to have it. for a safer side, do not enable the feature that turn off write cache flushing. disabling indexing reduces writes to ssd. it's good too.

it's better you check the ssd optimizations at the first post.

uh? it's more like sata1 to me. what's your mobo?

checked the specs of your mobo, now it makes sense that the ssd can only run at sata1 speed max even if it's connected to sata2 ports. the bottleneck is from the mobo.

you can try sata3 addin card, but i am not sure if it works well for your system, especially when you put ssd as boot drive.

sorry i should have stated clearly, yeah my thought was what clawhammer said. running sata2 in ide mode. with ahci you should get about double the speed, but there is no ahci option in the mobo.

i spent some time to google the similar issue. while most of them are bad news, this might be a good one. there were people saying that there were success running ssds at sata2 speed. the trick is using msahci driver, by uninstalling nvidia chipset/stoage controller driver. http://www.overclock.net/t/828683/looking-...-750i-sli-board

try that out and see if it helps.

edit: here is another one. http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows...c4-947ad1b47243

This post has been edited by horns: Apr 4 2015, 06:16 PM

oh worst haha

yes, it's good to change the platform for much better performance. at least for main computers, imo it's better to do it every 5 years to take up newer technologies and better compatibilities.

it's running at good speed. yeah even if it's a sata2, the key thing about replacing hdd with ssd in this case is about the very much improved access time in ssd.

go for liteon s900. if possible, get 256gb. it has a 3-year warranty.

imo basically they are the same, however i never tried the windows executable version before (i have older models, and they were all in iso formats). for firmware updates, i still think it's safer to use bootable usb stick instead of windows executable.

edit: one more thing, although it has stated that they are non-destructive, it's a good practice to back your full data up first. it maybe seem paranoid, and although i haven't had any bad experience with brands like plextor, crucial and samsung in this regard, it's better safe than sorry.

This post has been edited by horns: Apr 6 2015, 11:27 AM

yeah i'm using some, housed inside common usb-based hdd enclosures that can be found in the market. it's not running at full speed of course but i can live with that. (around 190MB/s only)

in near future we will have better stuff like usb 3.1. the speed should be much better. i hope hehe