Posts by airspoon

Quote:Originally Posted by Sean Webster That sounds like windows crashing and corrupting, not a drive failure. Many things could have caused that. If you have the BSOD memory dump someone can check it out and help pinpoint the...

Quote:Originally Posted by Sean Webster How did it fail, what happened exactly? How did you diagnose the failure resulting from the SSD and not something else? All of the sudden, after only a minute or two into my test, I got a...

That Plextor M5 Pro 512 turned out to be a piece of junk. About a month of use and it has completely failed. First time that I got bad advice on here, but I guess it happens. Also, Plextor's customer support, warranty and Technical...

No longer works, unfortunately. I hate Origin and the EXTREMELY slow download rate is pathetic enough to scare anyone away from buying Origin exclusives. I'll pay twice as much for a game to get it through Steam or Gamestop if I had to....

That would in fact be ideal. However, all of the space on the SSDs is accounted for (except for the OCZ agility 3) with just a version of Debian on it for modeling purposes and is connected to JBoD for space. So i I think for now, I'm...

Unfortunately, my two extra SATA III ports are Marvel 9128. So both of these ports are connected through one PCIe lane? Could it be possible that this one lane is PCIe 3? Could it also be possible that Asus wired it to take advantage of...

Thanks for everyone's advice! I took it once again and went for the Plextor M5 Pro Extreme 512gb for $399. It just arrived from newegg (and took forever to get here). I'm so excited to try it on. My only question now is, whether I should...

Okay, I waited on the Samsung (just couldn't bring myself to spend almost $500 on a hard drive). I'm now about to take your advice and jump on the Plextor M5P PX512 for $400. Even though I can't seem to find any English reviews of this...

Okay, I waited on the Samsung (just couldn't bring myself to spend almost $500 on a hard drive). I'm now about to take your advice and jump on the Plextor M5P PX512 for $400. Even though I can't seem to find any English reviews of this...

Okay, I waited on the Samsung (just couldn't bring myself to spend almost $500 on a hard drive). I'm now about to take your advice and jump on the Plextor M5P PX512 for $400. Even though I can't seem to find any English reviews of this...