Which brand of SSD is good ?

The best bang for buck SSD in Malaysia is Intel's X-25m G2 which supports the TRIM command thus making it somewhat impervious to the notorious SSD slowdown.

Another good competitor, if you have the money for it, is OCZ's Indilinx based Vertex/Vertex Turbo series.

Anyone here have tried WD Caviar GP 1.5TB...?

Planning to get one to store my data and backed them up with my existing 2x750GB Seagate external drives...

usually how long RMA hardisk>???

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Added on October 24, 2009, 12:50 pmusually how long RMA hardisk>???

This post has been edited by nkarul85: Oct 24 2009, 12:50 PM

it really depends on what brand is it.

for me i know seagate (M-Link) rma is around 2 weeks at most. WD iinm, you have to send it back to singapore. for samsung and hitachi im not sure

This post has been edited by ham_revilo: Oct 24 2009, 01:01 PM

Why SSD don't need to defrag?
don't need or cannot?

You don't need to defrag a SSD. It's because of the way the SSD stores data as opposed to a regular HDD. I.e. Flash based data versus conventional magnetic dots, so to speak.

I've been doing some research and noticed that there's a 750 Gb version of WD's Black Caviar series, but I can't seem to find a price for that in the lowyat price lists. Is the 750 Gb version of it not sold here?

Probably it ain't being sold in Malaysia. Here in the States we have every variety from 500GB to 1TB models.

between Caviar Green and Caviar Black, which would you recommend for use for downloading torrents and watching movies?

Why don't you judge for yourself? Tom's Hardware has some pretty comprehensive charts detailing the performance of different HDDs.

i'm in dilemma to choose between Intel's X-25m G2 or OCZ Vertex. please suggest me & is't worth to buy it

easy. go for green. from my experience, black performance doesnt show any significant difference from green (performance). iinm, for normal usage like you mention, green is the way to go because, it has lower temp compared to black and not to mention, greener

btw, my cavier black temp is around 40c even on idle. and if you look at Loki[D.d.G] link, the temperature difference between black and green is around 10c

i think is OCZ vertex but it quite expensive than Intel's X-25M G2

vertex 60GB is listed as 900 while X25MG2 80GB is listed as 835

this info should be able to help you decide http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3607&p=4

This post has been edited by jinaun: Oct 26 2009, 07:18 PM

For torrenting, its just best to go for Green.
You aren't going to get the performance benifits at all from the Black.

And even so, the difference isn't anything dramatic.

Yeah, but Black has 2 more years of warranty more than green. Does the green have like a warranty upgrade/extender?

hi guys i had a weird problem with the samsung 160gb hdd..
it died after 3month of usage (BIOS not detected) , but when i bring it to rma da shop person said my hdd still OK even though it died once.. after he format the HDD for me everything seems fine and i proceed to install window.. after approximately 24 hour of usage the HDD died again after a fresh restart (bios not detected) .. i un-plug da HDD and replug it again .. miracle it work again.. should i dump da HDD to tong sampah coz comfirm kenot RMA it ??

fyi i buy new HDD (not samsung) n it work fine till now

This post has been edited by edmunz: Oct 27 2009, 10:24 AM

WD green is great for everyday usage,lower temp too

It's possible to defrag, but you'll lose a tiny bit of lifespan and it's not needed. Heavy fragmentation causes a performance drop in HDDs, which can go below 1 MB/s read/write. SSDs with good controllers (Intel or Indilinx) won't notice it, and Intel's will maintain random read/write at 60 MB/s.

Any idea on how much an Intel G2 160 GB costs and where we can get one?

Not afaik.

Why is the longer warranty attractive? Anyhow, I too would recommend the Green. You don't need the tiny bit of extra performance, it draws much less power and is normally cooler.