I bought an SSD from Taobao months ago. It was on sale at that time. I thought it is a good deal. I paid RMB399. Convert it to CAD $75. Compared the price on Amazon.ca, $102.94. I did get a great deal.
I installed it on my desktop yesterday.
Look at what I got.
Quite easy. there is the place on the motherboard.
Then download the programs from Samsung official site.
The PC I am using right now is more than six years. I checked my blog and found the post of flash the bios in Feb 2013. I did a search in my Gmail. Wow, I found the receipt which I made the order on NCIX. NCIX has closed for years already.
There are three items. All are running on my desktop now.
Later I bought a Crucial SDD for Windows system.
I have a five years old DELL XPS 15, L502X model. I have an SSD, Crucial BX200 240GB 2.5-inch SSD. I have a 2.5-inch HDD SSD External Enclosure.
Now it is time to change HDD to SSD. I want to keep the system, data, everything on the HDD.
The original HDD on XPS 15 is Hard Drive 750GB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drive.
Remove some useless programs and movies. Move one of the users’ data to NAS. Delete this user. Just keep one user, which is my daughter. The purpose of this step is to reduce the data to less than 240GB.
I connect the enclosure to my laptop through USB cable. Install the cloning software, or migration software, which is shipping with SSD.
Acronis TrueImage.
When the cloning process finished, turn off the laptop. disconnect all cable and power.
I need an external enclosure for my 2.5-inch SSD or HDD. Here I bought it from A-Power computer store. I paid about $31.
Model number NST-200S3-BK
There are so many different models on market. It is hard to find which one is the best. I just pick up it based on the following features.
Open the box, there are USB 3.0 cable, quick installation guide, installation screws, and an enclosure itself.
Take a closer look at the enclosure:
It is a good product. I touch it and can feel the quality.
I bought a Crucial BX 200 SSD, a 2.5-inch SSD, 240GB. I bought it from Amazon.ca in May 2016.
I have not found time to post what I did on it. Now I would like to record it here for future reference. My elder daughter, Grace use a laptop which is almost five years old. DELL XPS L502X.
To upgrade it and make it faster, I thought it is best to replace the old HDD with SSD.
Crucial BX200 240GB.
The Box Contains:
This is the SSD itself.
I posted the test on my blog, but I have not recorded the purchasing. When I traveled to San Francisco, I will visit a computer store, Central Computers at downtown San Francisco. It is near my parents-in-law’s house. Compare with the price in Canada, it is cheaper and less tax.
Crucial MX300 275GB is the smallest SSD in MX300 series. There are also 525GB, 1TB, and 2TB.
The price on 275GB SSD box is US$75.95. Actually, it is on a sale of Back to School. The price after discount is $65.95. Sale tax is 8.75% in California. Total is US$71.72.
Let me check the price at NCIX.com. Regular price is $109.99. It is CAD$99.99 now. Sale tax is 12% in BC. Total is CAD$111.99.
Do a calculation. 1 US Dollar equals to 1.28 Canadian Dollar. So US$71.72 = CAD$91.80. I saved 19% on it.(91.80/111.99 = 81.97%)
The items inside are one 2.5 inch SSD, one 7mm to 9.5mm spacer, Acronis True Image HD certificate.
It is a quick test based on my Windows 10 Pro. It is just a new installation on my new desktop PC.
The testing tool is AS SSD Benchmark 1.9.5986.35387. It is latest one when I download it from the official site.
The result is not as good as I thought. I will check it later and see if it is any way can improve the performance.
It is almost two years old of my Crucial BX100 256GB SSD. Now, I upgraded its firmware from MU01 to MU02. Then I did the benchmark test. The result is very clear that new firmware improve the performance.
The original test I did in 2014 shown as below:
The new test I did ten minutes ago.
All test results are better than before. Same PC, Same SATA driver. Just different firmware.
I just ordered a new VPS from Vultr.com.
It has All SSD. Maybe the lowest price per memory. Pay $0.007/hr, you get 768MB RAM, 3GHz CPU and 15GB storage. It is about $5/month.
And more datacenters than other VPS service providers. There are 14 locations worldwide, right now.
I did following test though Benchmark Serverbear.
The simply results as below.
UnixBench score: 2242.1
I/O rate: 409.0 MB/second
Bandwidth rate: 97.4 MB/secon
My desktop PC motherboard just support up to SATA II. You know I have a SATA III SSD drive. I would like to see more improvement on speed.
The specs of my PC:
SATA II is 3Gbits/s – 300M/s
SATA III is 6Gbits/s – 600M/s
1) I installed the SSD on my Desktop with the onboard SATA II connection.
See the report below:
SSD is connected as a second drive.
SSD is connected as a primary drive. System is installed on it.
Testing result by CrystalDiskMark.
