Any advice where can I get M.2 screw as it doesn't come with Samsung 850 EVO M.2 SSD?

CM2X3-3.3 will not help. This screw fits the M.2 slot but it wouldn't secure the SSD as the "ring" around the screw is too small to secure the SSD. THey help me to add a washer to solve everything.

Just wanted to ask , where to get floppy bracket convert to 2.5 inch for ssd ? or 3.5 to 2.5 bracket for ssd ?
Does ssd screw hold different from 2.5 hard disk bracket ?

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?

I check out the price lists from hardwarezone.com.my but i got no idea which SSD is good to get. 

Currently eye-ing on Intel SSD 335 though.

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

but samsung sm961 not selling in Malaysia right

haha too expensive already

ya true
yet I am noob in raid this kind of thing

Hi all, just read article that can use a tools call crystal disk info to check your ssd & hdd health status, etc ...
so here mine, can I know what is total host writes (exist in ssd) , power on count and power on hours which exist on both ssd and hdd ?

for power on counts, is it I press my power button for 584 times (hdd) and 661 times (ssd)
as for power on hours, have been using 1281 hours on ssd, 1164 hours for hdd ?

Kindly refer the photo
*C = ssd, D = hdd

I've been using m.2 950 pro 512GB as C drive and 850 evo 1TB as D drive for my laptop. My best advice for anybody whom wanted to do the same like me, just get the m.2 950 pro or m.2 850 evo for C drive then for D drive get a normal 2TB hdd or 1TB hdd or 1TB sshd or 2TB sshd. Nothing much different if you use D drive with SSD when your C drive already M.2 SSD. Rugi a little duit already but lesson learned.

M.2 (as C drive) + SSHD (as D drive) is the best combo so far for me.

oh so by the time I take screenshot, it already write around 2TB on my ssd eh ?
but as for power count, how come 500+ times
I just get ssd for my laptop during last year Christmas, around 6 months and few more days only

Sorry to ask is Lenovo y580 supports m.2 hard disk?
Or only Msata ?
Thank you

oo, guess I worry too much
if ssd is spoiled then just get another one since by that time I think ssd price is even cheaper

Hi guys,

Need your help whether my motherboard only has 1 or 2 port for 6gbs and it is necessary to update the BIOS?

For the 2nd screenshot, it's show there's two port of 6gbs but the 1st screenshot only show 1.
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my current hdd (boot) is using sata2 while the dvdrom convert to caddy is using sata3.

i only wanted to change the hdd (boot) to ssd while the caddy remain as it is.

is it possible to change the sata3 back to hdd (boot)?

How good is 'SP (Silicon Power)' branded SSDs?

I was quoted RM540 for 240Gb SP SATA III 2.5" SSD in Digital Mall! 

I thought it was a mistake at that price... from Amazon reviews alone, failure rate is 40% after 2 months.

Lucky said no and decided not to go SSD route for new laptop.

tq for the info. appreciate it.

I think by that time make a new rig + nvme ssd  is better

Horns, I noticed that you are using SM951 SSD. Is it significantly faster than normal SATAIII SSD? Say in terms of boot time, app loading (games for examples) and doing video/ photo editing?

Also notice there's 2 types for SM951, NVME and AHC in terms of description? Or is it actually the same.

Thanks for the info bro. Been reading some reviews, but most showed synthetics benchmarks (like sq read up to 2,000 MB/s, write 1,000+ MB/s). Synthetics sometime don't show the performance would be like if in real use. I think for normal app like office etc, no difference with SSD. Gaming, also maybe depends on the individual file sizes (maybe more beneficial with those consisting of few huge files than those with many small files). Based on your usage for VMS (I assume loading entire OS from single iso file in virtual machine), the high write/ read speed really matters.

I think my PC should be able to work fine with PCI-e NVME SSD if I do decide to go for it.. Have i7-4930K which has 40 PCI-E lanes,  so GPU only takes up 16 lanes (32 if I ever go SLI/ CFX), still have 8-lanes to left. My current SSD and HDD goes through the mobo Asmedia and Marvell SATA controller. As for SM961, way off what I can afford to pay.

Ahaaaa. Will try to find out some more info on my own before I decide to get one or not. My mobo has UEFI with PCI Storage device boot and NVME support. Thanks again.

I'm torned between Intel 535 or Intel 540s, please state reason.
Thx Sifu.

i7 6700k
Asus Z170 Pro Gaming
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16gb 3000Mhz
Samsung 950 Pro 512gb
Cooler Master V750 80+ Gold
Corsair Hydro H100i
Gigabyte GTX 1070
WD 3tb Blue
Corsair Carbide 400C
Acer XB271HU

My boot up on windows 10 pro 64bit takes 50 seconds...is that normal? Nvme controller installed.

All startup programs on task manager disabled.

such as?