Usually TLC SSD has small amount of SLC as cache. Once you copy the data more than the cache size, you will experience slow down as the data is being transferred to TLC itself. Here is where it becomes much much slower than MLC.

This post has been edited by kingkingyyk: Jun 9 2016, 05:55 PM

If you can afford a Samsung 850 Evo, might as well get the Hyper X Savage. The Kingston Hyper X Savage for 240GB is definitely below RM400.
Benefits for Kingston :
1. Convergent as distributor is consider good for after sales service.
2. MLC Toshiba NAND vs TLC Samsung 3D V-NAND
3. Price so much cheaper.

I bought a 480GB version for RM590

that's cheap. sammy 850 evo 500gb is around rm 720

Instead, Samsung SSDs are not cheap to start with.

I thought Samsung used MLC But why is it their TLC more expensive than MLC?

It might be more practical to get the Hyper X Savage 480GB instead price/GB wise. Warranty is 3 years only compared to Samsung's 5 years right?

Bought mine new sealed from garage sales for rm520. Wish i could get another one

For me, SSD is meant to act as a PC booster. Hence, i personally go and buy the Kingston HyperX fury 120GB for about RM17x like that. Seems to be good though, plan to use them for the next 3 years or so until the 480GB or larger capacity prices dropped only go for the bigger SSD capacity.

Also, i was wondering if the SSD is used past their Total Byte Written (TBW) permitted by the manufacturer, will it void the warranty?

for ssd it's either warranty period, or tbw, which ever come first, that invalidates warranty; so yes it will void warranty.

Only the 850 Pro is MLC. 850 Evo is TLC .
Y it is expensive ?
1. Samsung is using 3d v-nand for its 850 series compare to others still using 2d planar nand.
2. 5 years warranty
3. Samsung ssd has high popularity, thts y it is overpriced in m`sia. Overseas 850 Evo is actually one of those best buy bcoz it is very cheap compare to the rest.

what about NVMe SSD's?

are they any good?

Indeed. But IMHO you get what you paid for. Hence the price differences.

This post has been edited by kianweic: Jun 12 2016, 08:03 PM

Thought of buying that
But try to read Intel 750 ssd review, it has a slow boot problem.
Turns me off from buying.

mine boots up pretty fast..its a samsung one.....is about 1-2 second faster than my evo250gb

You can buy two 120GB SSD to combine them into Raid0. The performance will doubled up and better than a single 240GB SSD.

Is it if we use Raid0 to SSD will shorten it expectancy life? im also planning to do like that..but scared if both the ssd will get early death..

Goldfries,what model kingston ssd that u use?so far is it kingston is reliable ssd?

Never heard this before. I've been raid0 with intel 520 120GB + Kingston V300 120GB for my computer but never heard life span will shorten. First time see got ppl say like that.

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-216...pan-drives.html

I got find this answer from google but everybody think the opposite way "increase lifespan". Actually it does not affect much just combine them 120GB+120GB become 240GB. From the bios setting change from AHCI to RAID mode. Then when computer boot, a screen will comes out then press down CTRL+I to enter RAID settings.

My best choice is select RAID 0 mode.



Most people not aware about "RAID 0" due to their computer knowledge still not reach until advanced level. If you are smart enough, RAID 0 two 120GB SSD is better than a single 240GB. SSD is not HDD, their lifespan is better than HDD. I thought you should misunderstand about decrease lifespan. Before SSD exist in this world, last time we are RAID0 two or more HDD. HDD is not same like SSD, when one of the HDD faulty then the rest HDD will all lost it data. However, SSD is different from HDD. So, why don't you RAID it?

With RAID 0, I can get 1000mb/s reading speed instead of the normal AHCI 500mb/s reading speed.

This post has been edited by junclj: Jun 17 2016, 11:17 AM

ok..that clear my doubt..so Raid 0 can be use with different brand of SSD? is there any problem using different ssd to do raid? I plan to use sandisk ultra ii with Kingston hyperx fury 240gb both..

This post has been edited by archangel1989: Jun 17 2016, 11:11 AM

Yes, you can use different brand as long as both SSD are 240GB. You can get 480GB at double reading speed.