check whether ur plug cable connected to sata 3 6gb/s & check ur bios setting. make sure is ACHI & SSD

enable TRIM

as mentioned by horns, my mobo only support sata 2. trim is enabled

if like that performance dropped half is normal. don't worry that much cos it still perform better than hdd.

250GB Samsung EVO 850 @ US Amazon 99.00$ only. (30% discount from its original 149$)

This post has been edited by NightFelix: Mar 11 2015, 12:01 PM

Hi, does Crucial M500 120gb is a good buy for Rm209?

Should be grateful as your Liteon SSD + SATA2 is faster than mine; Agility3 + SATA3

I think the price is standard one? no?

Yea, just curious is there any other model better for rm200 ssd ?

LITE-ON 900S 128GB (M5PRO) is a rebadge Plextor products. RM240.

I see, thanks for highlighting.

I used SSD in a Sata 2 mobo to replace HDD (blue), the performance indeed show significant performance.
Loading window faster, opening program instantly instead waiting it loading, despite being bottled neck by Sata 2.
(even run in ide mode as the mobo showed significant lagging in detecting ACHI drive, don't know why, as well problem in detecting Cd-rom, so installed in IDE mode to give it a try).


Replacing HDD with SSD is one of most significant improvement that user can feel on the upgrade.



This post has been edited by cherroy: Mar 11 2015, 02:28 PM

what mobo would you recommend? m-atx form factor if possible, and cheap.

i dunno, i just don't feel the speed bump, maybe because i used to tweak the start-up for faster boot time. back in the old days when i upgraded my ram from 512mb to 2gb, the speed increase felt significant.

Loading window, won't be instant as with Sata 3, (have another Sata 3 with win 8.1, pretty fast, just press the button, wait a few second, can use already) but it reduces significant time, aka when window page appear time, you don't need to wait, instantly can click on program already, unlike in HDD, the mouse cursor still spinning in circle.

hi guys which is better...

my maximum budget is rm300..

LITE-ON 900S 128GB (M5PRO) 92K/82K 540/330 RM240

KINGSTON HYPER X 120G 20K/60K 555/510 RM275

TRANSCEND 370 128GB 75K/75K 570/470 RM219

PLEXTOR M6S 128GB 88K/75K 520/300 RM289

btw in my mind is transcend 370... btw my pc will bottleneck.. since still using SATA 3Gbps port..

thx..

Yeah, you can use the best SSD in the world and still bottleneck. Just get the cheapest. Unless you have upgrade plan for CPU and motherboard soon.

i plan to change cmos battery on my mobo...already almost 7 years.. will it cause problem when i install windows/change on ssd.. thx

This is my mobo. Can use SSD ?

http://www.foxconnchannel.com/ProductDetai...&U=en-us0000520

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I thought changing CMOS battery only effect all date/time only?

hi guy..
i use raid 0 for my ssd but partition it for OS and games..
does it ok or it will decrease the speed read/write performance?
or i should use ram cache only?
btw, im using 2x samsung 840 pro 128gb (raid 0)

i did use ssd with sata2 connections before. like others pointed out, it's still better than a hdd, because what matters most is the user experience when you use a computer. hdd is the slowest storage component in a computer. it has very low iops that results in much lower responsiveness than ssd.

no, ram upgrade (8gb and above) will not show significant performance improvements as much as ssd upgrade.

like what TristanX said, just get the cheaper ones will do (liteon or transcend).