my primary laptop (my sig) still running smooth. all thanks to SSD.

only problem is battry running down alreadt. Called dell, but they say my XPS is EOL.... sad....

I have no idea how low the price will go or maintained. But i have bought from both shopee & lazada before. Can you imagine just early this year i bought an A400 240 GB for RM208? Now is as low up to RM158. I'm not even complaining to upgrade old computers and laptops.

Can try bring IMBI and see if there are compatible replacement batteries for that. If your lappie is old and DELL wants RM500 for new batteries, just F them and buy outside.

these day got something called...
AliExpress...
buy from there...
diy la...

as for battery, if the charging circuit still work, u can open and swap from good Li-Ion cell around

my nicest idea is, buy mi 10000 powerbank and take samsung / panasonic cell from there

The lower the better. Just hope other also follow same..( yes i talking about graphic card)

Kingston is like at least 30% cheaper than other brand.

if you scared the A400 not reliable, which is already 3yrs warranty. You can pay RM20-50 buy the UV500 SSD that come with 5yrs warranty. Both of these still last longer than a HDD.

They actually told me the price is around 300 for a new batt including installation and all with warranty 1 year. But they asked parts department, end up no stock...
veli sad. But they give me the part model and ask me go out find myself.

Will kaboom or not?

If you already surf around and cannot find any lower priced one, thats the best deal you can get la. I saw most are starting to hit the most bottom price they can offer. Because like for RM1 or even 90 cents difference only.

thermal paste can get it from garage sales and then youtube to how do it

it just like how 256mb usb price down after 16gb usb drive is release.

Yup. I bought a 240GB SSD from them too. Good service.

Should be fine lah. Anyways, Kingston is pretty steady brand and the product is covered by warranty.

Kingston SSD got a bad name last time because they switched the components of their SSD while retaining the same name.

Basically their SSD had good speed and price, most reviewers also agree and recommended it. Later a lot of users complain cannot get speeds reviewers are getting. So reviewers buy retail to test and found that Kingston switched their components to slower one. So most reviewers retracted their recommendation and hentam Kingston for ' bait & switch' marketing.

Fark i saw this thread after i bot ssd. Damn it

QLC sure cheaper than SLC/MLC type of SSD.
New tech bring cheaper & larger capacity but shorter durability.

any reviews on Samsung 860 EVO?

is it worth the price?

I'm using laptop with single SATA slot, how will I clone windows?

Use a USB to sata converter cable, download samseng magician software to do ssd/hdd cloning.

This post has been edited by yhsiau: Oct 9 2018, 05:35 PM

As far as I know they haven't done the same 'bait and switch' anymore ever since they got called out for it.

So whatever they are selling now, should be as advertised.

But they are not a 'trusted' brand anymore.

Here is the article of what happen few years back.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/7763/an-upda...wer-micron-nand