Crucial drives are good. Maybe you wanna get another 256gb to do raid0. (Double the speed and space. Hdd as download and storage) Preferably use the same model for a system. It's easier to manage (using the same manufacturer supplied software to manage all of them)

If you wanna go for capacity, there are not many choices for msata. Again it's m550 512gb, or samsung 850 evo (up to 1tb; rare, might need back-to-back order)

Yeah, I was thinking what to do since I do need the storage, but I'll keep in mind for your advice, or probably buy 2 new mSATA SSDs (that are obviously larger than 256GB in size). However I feel mSATA is, for whatever reasons, ridiculously overpriced. Sigh.

oh this is good news from the blog post and patch, it seemed that data corruption occurred due to pointer from ata driver being set to wrong address when trim is used with raid (in linux kernel). i think only kernel gurus know what this means lol for us users, hopefully with the patch, the black list will be updated later. (not a big deal. we can patch that part manually) by the way which distro are you using?

if your hdd caddy cannot house ssd properly, you might need one to secure it in 3.5" hdd bays. (new casings usually comes with settings for ssd)

yes i use liteon oem ssds also. to me, they're good. liteon is a common name in major brands (mostly higher end laptops and workstations).

there might be a new nand called qlc. slc > emlc > mlc > tlc > qlc.

Toshiba Talks QLC BiCS FLASH for Archival SSDs, http://www.custompcreview.com/news/fms-201...val-ssds/25776/

Oh, thanks for the explanation ,  Normal beginner Debian user ubuntu.
about liteon SCS- L9S is for retail version ? about the 4K speed is a bit low . Does Plextor came from liteon ?

Hi Sifu horns,

wanna ask, right now the best 2.5" SATA SSD is the liteon 256GB one for RM370+?

quite some time didnt follow SSD news 

nice

yes, scs is the retail version. don't mind the relatively low 4k thing, it's good enough for general use. let's just say plextor is a retail brand (originally japanese, but later became a taiwan brand) and liteon is mainly for oem. they use the same ssd technologies. you can read more about their relationship from wikipedia.
yes bro, imo scs-l9s is the better choice compared to other choices in terms of price/performance ratio.

btw i'm no sifu. we are all learning.

hahaha... thanks for the recommendation bro! I refer to you as sifu as sign of respect, because last time I was here, you taught me alot about SSDs 

samsung showed off with its 16tb 2.5" PM1633a ssd, http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/08/sam...est-hard-drive/, http://www.extremetech.com/computing/21220...ith-new-3d-nand

I willing 2 sell my kidney 4 that

hi just wanna ask is anyone using samsung 850 evo with macs ?
I've been using it for quite a while but when running benchmark it isn't hitting the speed I've expected it to hit
why is that ?

er what's your expectation? maybe you can some more information to help us understand your question. sorry i don't have mac. i'm just curious.

its like my average sequential read speed is around 269.1 mb/s and sequential write 214.7mb/s
i was expecting it to be faster than this

i am getting my dell latitude e7450 soon, is a company unit, i notice the spec is hybrid hard disk... may i know the hybrid performance makes a huge diff compare with normal hdd ? if not then i might buy myself a samsung 850 evo.

hi, i just bought liteon SCS- L9S 256GB
want to check this benchmark is consider normal?

Looked like sata ii speed to me. Which model is this mac? Maybe you need to connect the ssd to sata iii port to get the full speed.