hynix dram is ok; at least they're stable at stock speed. for oc i'm not sure.

like the article said, it's better to get 240gb range for better performance.

when each nand has larger capacity, that means fewer nand chips are used in ssd, which in turn means parallelism needed for sustaining ssd performance will be reduced further. this happened to crucial drives before, resulting their small capacity ssd to become under-performed/slower than advertised.

edit: note that this doesn't mean the new samsung ssd 850 is bad. from the charts, they are still performing rather fine.

This post has been edited by horns: Nov 29 2017, 10:47 AM

RIP Samsung evo / pro 850
850 is a bad move for Samsung as they reduced the warranty

nah. it's not easy to replace the places of 850 evo/pro in consumer sata ssd category.

850 is entry-level ssd. it will be much cheaper.

on the other hand, maybe there will be new stuff coming up.

so it will going to replace 750 line up?
anyway entry level ssd not my cup of tea

yes the new 850 is replacing 750. it seems like samsung is trying to bring up the performance bar in the entry-level segment, which is nice, however the room for improvements might be too small to get noticed.

tried western digital portable ssd before. transfer to my phone very fast using type c.
im thinking to buy 256g x400 m.2 and transcend m80s enclosure. mainly for data transfer between pc to pc/phone. any issue will arise?

oh the x400 is OEM.

it shouldn't have any issue. hm i should get one too. thanks for this enclosure

Hi guys,

Want to ask regarding Intel 540, thinking to upgrade my few years old 530 to 540 but I read online say that 540 is using TLC, so how is the reliability compared to my current 530?

Thanks

you should read reviews of intel 540s online, such as this one, https://www.anandtech.com/show/10432/the-in...0s-480gb-review

in short, don't buy if you have other better options

woohoo got great SSD deals here

price need 2 times 4.2 though hahahaha

are there any ~500gb ssd that's around RM500 or RM1 per gb?

check the previous page for sk hynix oem ssd with price tag myr 450

alternatively, please do some leg work for sweet deals like this. there is lazada (might have good discounts for you) and lelong. usually retail price for a typical 500gb range sata ssd is about myr 700+

wow thanks for the recommendation

yea ik they're about 700+ typically for popular brands, was wondering if there were any less popular brands that sell for cheaper. will check out that sk hynix recommendation tho!

usually the only option to have such price is to go for oem ssds (which are much cheaper due to lack of proper warranty coverage, management tools, and firmware support)

I don't trust OEM

you should, especially those well-known brands. if you're not concerned about benefits of retail drives, they're equally good. (some are better than the current offerings)

e.g. i have some samsung oem sata drives, consumer and enterprise grade. they are running without issues for few years now. my oldest oem drive is from fujitsu (now it's one of external storage that i carry around frequently). there was this one time, i thought i bricked it due to my carelessness. all data was gone (i have backups so all are good hehe); and it's undetectable by any system. after a brief power cycling, it came back to life. today, its health is still above 95% lol

for my usage at work, it's better to skip entry-level ssds. i have tried few transcend s370. one of them failed after few months of use. it's hard failure. nothing could revive it. also, i feel some sluggishness when using them as os drive, for some reasons. (btw transcend's cloning utility is not bad)

off-topic: Mega Memory is here, from crucial. it's 128gb per stick, mainly for servers. they call it LRDIMM, load-reduced DIMM

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/25992...w-128gb-lrdimms
http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/ct128g4zfe426s

liteon LCS-512M6S 512GB
Micron MTFDDAK512MBF 512GB

between the 2 above and corsair force LS 480gb, which one would be a better choice in terms of reliability and performance?

in terms of reliability and performance, i think i will pick micron. i never used this model before. however i think micron/crucial is ok (still running on their old 2x m500 960gb in one of my machines; never had issues)

however if you looked for retail warranty support, corsair force ls. (not related to reliability or performance, just fyi)

Just bought the EK-M.2 NVMe Heatsink for my Samsung 950 Pro 512GB

Bought from here: https://www.lelong.com.my/ekwb-ek-m-2-nvme-...7-01-Sale-I.htm





Temperature before installing the heatsink: (after running CrystalDiskMark 64 Bit @ 32GB)


Temperature after installing the heatsink: (after running CrystalDiskMark 64 Bit @ 32GB)