Just bought a Lenovo Ideapad 310-15IKB and a 120gb SSD.



The present hdd setup:





I'm planning to use maricum reflect to clone my current harddrive.

I'm also planning to copy the Lenovo Drivers in the D drive to an usb and delete the D drive completely.



Any word of advise before I proceed?

Tq

Price for wd blue is around 470 onwards while 850 is 500 give or take.

Given the price are so small different, the WD Blue have 3 years warranty and the Samsung Evo have 5 years warranty. For sure go for Samsung.

samsung 97x and 98x have appeared, http://www.tomshardware.com/news/samsung-p...-ssd,35689.html

Haha cool

yeah time flies lol nowadays, kings in new ssds get dethroned every year.

hopefully they will be available after January 2018. (especially the sm series, which uses mlc, if they don't change the naming series so much)

Time to buy last gen?

no. the best time is always when you really need to get one hehe

this time around, they added a thin heat sink on the controller. it looked like samsung finally made changes to handle heat issues inherited in bare units released for the past few years. (when coupled with complementary heat sinks from recent mobos, you don't need to pay extras for good cooling anymore)

however, the more critical turning point for ssds is the release of models with qlc nand into market. these new ones will have very much reduced p/e cycles. (typically tlc is rated as 1k p/e cycles, qlc has around 100 p/e cycles only)

how much? need it too actually

whats the cheapest 240gb ssd i can get right now + discount?

maybe you should go find this out at garage sales here, lazada and lelong.

Anyone know where to buy laptop mounting screw for msata ssd? Does normal pc shop in sunway pyramid have one?

So happy bought new ssd, go home, open laptop, try to install... just that 1 screw is screwing my expectation

as usual... windows update now fked up the nvme on windows..

have to clone to another ssd/hdd .. update and clone back.

Thanks for sharing this...
I'm on nvme raid 0 summore

support for nvme ssd has not been improved yet i guess. for me i just use clean installs.

you can try to ask at the shop where you bought it from and see if they can help find one for you. previously i was aware of the missing screw so i asked. luckily they kept some, and gave me one.

alternatively you can look for it at repair shops at imbi plaza or lyp i guess.

Haha my 2 wishlist are 1TB SSD 4k screen and 1080TI😄😄😄💸💸💸while i still dig the flat boxy shape than NVME shape hahahaha

you can (and should) add a proper heat sink to help dissipate heats from m.2 ssd, which makes it look much cooler too

after some brief tests, i still prefer a pcie adapter with passive cooling heat sink over the much smaller one for m.2 slot. it's much more cooler in my system.

yeah thats y until now i regret buying nvme

its so dependent on
1. mobo bios
2. Firmware
3. driver
4. OS

any one can F it up.

ssd still on main. nvme on benching only.

haha yeah that's right those basic dependencies. hopefully new machines will have lesser problems in near future.