(Storage) SSD Discussion Thread

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ceecookie said:
Your pricing for vertex 4 cannot fight with Amazon :s13:
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I dont' deny this. US online stores will usually have a great price advantage over Spore due to the large volume of units being sold. I am sure you all know this applies to other SSD brands too :o

What Ban Leong can do is to offer a much quicker after sales service for OCZ SSD. If you RMA your OCZ SSD with us (and its a manufacturing defect) we will swap to a brand new unit immediately! No need to wait for repairs or make another trip to our service centre. If we don't have the same replacement stocks or the model has EOL we will swap to a new model with similar or better specs and even allow you to top up to a higher capacity SSD should you choose to do so!

Hope you all would consider local OCZ stocks instead with such added value services ;)
 
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ASUSinside said:
I dont' deny this. US online stores will usually have a great price advantage over Spore due to the large volume of units being sold. I am sure you all know this applies to other SSD brands too :o

What Ban Leong can do is to offer a much quicker after sales service for OCZ SSD. If you RMA your OCZ SSD with us (and its a manufacturing defect) we will swap to a brand new unit immediately! No need to wait for repairs or make another trip to our service centre. If we don't have the same replacement stocks or the model has EOL we will swap to a new model with similar or better specs and even allow you to top up to a higher capacity SSD should you choose to do so!

Hope you all would consider local OCZ stocks instead with such added value services ;)
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hi, can help reply me pm?

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ASUSinside said:
I dont' deny this. US online stores will usually have a great price advantage over Spore due to the large volume of units being sold. I am sure you all know this applies to other SSD brands too :o

What Ban Leong can do is to offer a much quicker after sales service for OCZ SSD. If you RMA your OCZ SSD with us (and its a manufacturing defect) we will swap to a brand new unit immediately! No need to wait for repairs or make another trip to our service centre. If we don't have the same replacement stocks or the model has EOL we will swap to a new model with similar or better specs and even allow you to top up to a higher capacity SSD should you choose to do so!

Hope you all would consider local OCZ stocks instead with such added value services ;)
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Thumbs up for BL for the instant swap RMA. I am sure there are a lot of people who don't mind paying more for this service :D

Oops.. what does "manufacturing defect" mean? DOA? Does this apply to a failed firmware upgrade or SSD which suddenly decides to disappear from the BIOS after sometime?
 
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Just Me said:
Thumbs up for BL for the instant swap RMA. I am sure there are a lot of people who don't mind paying more for this service :D

Oops.. what does "manufacturing defect" mean? DOA? Does this apply to a failed firmware upgrade or SSD which suddenly decides to disappear from the BIOS after sometime?
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See below to clear your doubts ;)

DOA: Tested & fault verified at our service centre -> RMA swap

Failed firmware update: Seldom happens. We'll try to update for you again at our service centre. If unsuccessful we will do a RMA swap.

SSD "Disappears" from BIOS: Tested & fault verified at our service centre -> RMA swap
 
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Hi Guys,

Would like to find out more abt SSDs as I'm thinking of getting a pc for my sis n her hubby for as a gift for housewarming, also building one for myself.

From what I read so far, SSD basically Reads and write fast. It would speed up boot up speed and speed of launching applications.

But installation?

If I would to start from scratch building a pc, is the same as the traditional method?
Boot from CD drive of windows, then select SSD to install?

When done,need to verify that TRIM is active. At a command prompt (start/run/cmd), type the following: fsutil.exe behavior query DisableDeleteNotify

It should respond back with DisableDeleteNotify=0 if trim support is ready and active.

If it is not, type fsutil.exe behavior set DisableDeleteNotify 0
This will set Windows 7 to use TRIM when the drive and drivers are ready to do so.
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when changing AHCI from IDE, its before installing windows or can be anytime?

Pai seh. Quite noob at this.
 
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amoro123 said:
But installation?

If I would to start from scratch building a pc, is the same as the traditional method?
Boot from CD drive of windows, then select SSD to install?
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Its the same old traditional method. Some people may want to optimise their ssd after the install (depends from person to eprson). You can google for some guides like: Sean's Windows 7 Install & Optimization Guide for SSDs & HDDs (i turn off page file, system restore, drive indexing and hibernation)

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when changing AHCI from IDE, its before installing windows or can be anytime?
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Change before installing. It's possible to change after isntalling, but u'd need to change one of the registry keys.
 
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amoro123 said:
Hi Guys,


But installation?

If I would to start from scratch building a pc, is the same as the traditional method?
Boot from CD drive of windows, then select SSD to install?


when changing AHCI from IDE, its before installing windows or can be anytime?

Pai seh. Quite noob at this.
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Essentially the same. If installing windows 7, no need to do much, most of the optimization is auto.

Just make sure the AHCI mode is selected before installing.
 
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hey guys, really need some help here.
i rma my ssd today and upon reaching home, i tried to install windows on it.
before starting, i make sure it's in ahci mode first.
however, after loading files for installation, it doesn't detect the ssd at all.
when i go into the bios, it doesn't detect either.
Den i use another mechanical hdd to install windows on ide mode and everything went fine.

Any idea to solve this issue?
 
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For SandForce based SSD, does it have speed issue? Can anyone verify whether the rated speed can only reachable on out of the box or formatted state. If there are data written on it, it would be slower.

I read from a site. On HDTune test, read speeds over sectors containing data gets a lower reading and rated speed can be seen over empty sectors. Is this true?
 
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