So much poison... I am also debating between getting

Crucial MX500 1TB for RM721
https://www.lazada.com.my/products/crucial-...s617148716.html

or

Samsung 960 EVO NVMe M.2 500GB for RM790
https://www.lazada.com.my/products/samsung-...s638123853.html

I don't mind Crucial MX500's 500MB/s, 1GB DRAM and 1TB capacity, but tempted by the 960 Evo's 3200mb/s read speed (but description page was for Western D??)

Placed order for 860 EVO 1TB from Amazon with expedited delivery. Still RM 70+ cheaper than Crucial MX500 1TB from lazada...

Keeping fingers crossed, should get it in 2 weeks. I suppose Samsung has international warranty, and Samsung service centre is not far from my house (of course, hoping that I never need to visit them)

I undrestand that. Just asking myself if that much speed is worth getting. It is like buying a sports car vs buying two luxury sedans. With 1TB, installing everything on the same disk makes a ton of sense, while having 250 GB NVMe means I need second drive for apps and storage.

Agreed. Only problem is that I am not from KL. Thus shipping fees apply. It is ok. I bought from Amazon.

You mean this? https://shopee.com.my/SSD-CRUCIAL-SATA-MX50...6975.1645520930
RM 699 for 1TB but free shipping... Hmm...


"For most of us enthusiasts, we shouldn’t even consider DRAMless SSDs with planar NAND. It's true that the drives are faster than a hard disk drive, but when you lean on them with a slightly elevated workload, they can stall, stutter, and deliver a worse user experience than you would get with a spinning mechanical disk... 3D NAND will provide enough performance and endurance to transform DRAMless SSDs into a viable category"

Newer reviews
https://www.anandtech.com/show/9799/best-ssds
https://www.techradar.com/sg/news/best-soli...ate-drives-ssds
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-ssds,3891.html

This post has been edited by mbr: Nov 25 2018, 10:49 AM

Update on Amazon order... reached Singapore this morning. I guess it would still have to get to KL before coming to Kuching. Fair progress.

At that time, will replace my OS drive for gaming rig.

This post has been edited by mbr: Dec 1 2018, 02:19 PM

Samsung 850 EVO 500GB

Age: 2 years 5 months, third owner
Specs indicated 150 TBW

I have been using it almost a year.
I think it will last me another 3-5 years.

Agreed. After 5 years, I could plan to upgrade and use it for other purposes. Partly because I want to feel more secure that it wont fail with my important data on it, as I am using it in my working laptop now.

https://wccftech.com/review/patriot-burst-4...ge-on-a-budget/

This is the model I am using also. Overall not too bad.

Corsair Force 60GB, I think. Still using, as a matter of fact.

SSD as a long term storage media is a bit ill-advised, due to capacity per ringgit.

Not only that, if you fill up the SSD with files that you never move away, then the rest will have more usage and less durability.

Eg for 500Gb SSD:

ssd a) with 200GB used for fixed files, 300GB free for write and rewrite
ssd b) with 400GB used for fixed files, 100GB free for write and rewrite

SSD b will have higher stress on the 100GB that has to cope with various operations, and shorter life.

Larger SSD lives longer, but also cost more $$$

That is why recommendations for 256GB+ for OS and most other installations on fast HDD, for better cost efficiency and still decent performance.

ssd b... especially the part with the 100GB repeatedly write and rewrite

As I understand it... The memory chips have a finite number of rewrites. So the more free space you have that is allocated for read/write, the longer your SSD will last.

It is like having some shelf space... If you have 100 shelves that can last 100 million times putting things in it and taking things off from it... And 50 shelves are having stuff that are just left there to gather stuff, the remaining 50 shelves would be constantly rotated in its use and will break faster than the ones that have fixed files...

Now imagine if you have 50 shelves of fixed stuff, 20 shelves marked "do not use" and left with 30 shelves to take up all the read/write processes... What happens to the 30? Remember that deleting also means writing to the space, to mark it as unused or available.

The DRAM is quite small... around 32MB for a 480GB, I think. But better than none? It's cheap for sure, but your mileage will vary in terms of performance as OS drive.

I have used patriot 480GB for OS drive for an older system, so far no issues in 2 years. Bought another 960GB for game storage

Smaller SSD have shorter durability due to repeated read and write (or program/erase... PE cycles). So recommended to get 480GB or larger

Consider Samsung 860 Evo 500 GB SATA SSD when on offer (usually can expect RM 330-350). 5 years warranty and you can bring it over to another build next time.
Otherwise Cruxial MX500 SATA SSD seems to be available at RM 250-280 for the same capacity online.

It's not over rated

Congrats on good deal! If you want something faster then PCIE SSDs

Option 1... Option 2 is still bottlenecked by your SATA transfer speeds and you are likely not getting your money's worth from your M.2 SSD.

Option 3: try PCIE SSDs?