Their asking price for most of the models is becoming extreme though. You can get double the storage space for most of other brands.

The price of samsung 860 evo (the sata one) is quite fair nowadays... only RM300ish (less than RM350) for 500GB

860 should be cheaper since its still in production. but generally, 860 is faster, and can have more terabytes written.

This post has been edited by fat cat: Nov 9 2019, 09:35 PM

as i did my research, here is my 2sen. in nutshell,

a400 is dramless, it is only suitable for those who is casual users usually surf net, microsoft office application (not heavy user). Dramless ssd wears out faster than dram ssd.

if you are only looking for super cheap ssd without much reliability, a400 is for you.

guys, i plan to get a budget M2 SSD? any recommendation

saw a WD green 480GB for RM220, quite nice

any other better alternative?

DRAMless rubbish. Adata XPG SX8200 Pro 512GB is not a lot more expensive for significantly more performance.

Why no love for Sandisk Ultra?

dramless is nice. especially 900p 905p.

Because Sandisk Ultra is more expensive than MX500. For 1TB I can get MX500 at RM490 (shopee), Sandisk Ultra is RM550.

If I'm not mistaken, local retailer only offer 3 year warranty for Sandisk Ultra, when it should be 5 years global warranty (as stated on the packaging).

Crucial MX500 got 5 years warranty and is well-known for its quality.

Yeah, 3 years warranty only. Hmm, time to re-think my ssd purchase

i read overseas forum ssd, most recommend mx500 for reliability. mx500 is toyota.

those looking for bmw, mercedes, ferrari can opt for high end samsung ssd, optane.

if die die want cheaper one, buy bx500 at least it is from crucial not kingston.

sifu like tristanx, k!nex already advise.

happened to me often enough... at first I thought my A400 is having issues... it seems this is the common traits of cheap SSD... haishhh. my other laptop with crucial mx500 never faced this issue. should have skipped this A400 altogether.


never thought it's going to be this often & annoying though. my other laptop with crucial mx500 never faced this issue.

guys..

where to buy M2 ssd screw?

shopee/lazada

was using XPG s40g nvme drive in my ryzen 3600 rig,now temporarily migrate to sandisk ssd plus sata drive for RMA of that XPG drive
i don't know about the DRAMLESS "stuttering nightmare",i bet if you do a blind test between my 2 different ssd you may not detect much different at all loading games and doing the usual window thing.

This post has been edited by Valentino46: Jan 4 2020, 02:00 PM

Pny xlr8 cs3030 1tb NVME rm 540

The price for 250GB and 500GB SSD is getting closer and closer.
Im comparing Crucial MX500 and Samsung Evo 860. Most likely will go with Samsung
Both also comes with DRAM. After 2 years I still using HDD for games.
Hopefully this year i have budget to spend on tech.

It depends on what games you're playing, unless you keep dying in game and needed to reload frequently
or the game has long loading time if changing map, ect, installing game in SSD might not improve fps nor reduce stutter,

I have stutter because either steam or Windows is downloading and updating game while im playing, this will cause the game stuttering badly,
I simply raise the game process priority to the highest and no more stuttering, plus enable game mode, Windows 10 wont disturb you during gaming session.

Cheaper way would be installing games on RAID 0 hdd, the burst read speed is much high than non raid sata ssd, around 1800MB/s for 50mb files, bigger files the read speed will drop further.

OR, get a Samsung 860 Evo with rapid mode enabled, your game read and write speed will off the chart, that will match the system RAM read and write speed if the ssd cached game map to RAM.
second option would be raid 0 with 2 SSD, but TRIM might not working depends on your mobo.

This post has been edited by 1024kbps: Apr 25 2020, 11:49 AM

after almost 2 years, finally pull the trigger on 1TB mx500 with 5 years warranty. Today 9.9 sales really get a better deal.
thx for all the meaningful discussion and I did learn a lot from the sifu here.

This post has been edited by Rainings: Sep 9 2020, 02:30 PM

Really salute your withholding power.