Ebay.com doesn't ship to my country as well. As said before, No online sellers ship to Yemen at all, even if we need some parts, we should request them by
a friend from one of the Gulf Arab countries. However, Not all of us have friends traveling to those countries. To be honest with you, I really only found
**DX.com, and mydvddrive.com who can ship to my country, although they know that my country doesn't have postal/zib code.**But, the firsrt, doesn't have my preferred things, and the second only sells the optical drives.
Actually, unlike Amazon, eBay doesn't ship anything. They are just an online auction/storefront forum with a good search engine. Each seller decides where they are willing to ship. Many eBay sellers only ship to the
continental US. However, the one I listed in my previous post ships worldwide, and Yemen is included in his list of supported shipping destinations. Several other worldwide shippers I saw specifically excluded Yemen (along with many other countries).
However, it may very well be a good idea to contact the seller first and confirm that they can indeed ship to Yemen. Another thing you would have to figure out is payment method.
I only have HP laptop with USB 3.0, 2.0. I want **'Kingston Digital 480GB SSDNow V300 SATA 3 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive with Adapter (SV300S3N7A/480G)'**to be installed/inserted to my laptop in-place my HDD. Thus, you think 'Kingston Digital' is good? I don't have other choice if I don't find others.
I agree that this would be quite convenient. I mean, it is a SSD, it is reliable, it is faster than a very good HDD in most situations (and certainly much faster than your current 5400 RPM HDD), and it comes with a SATA/USB adapter. The main problem
I have with actually recommending that unit is the fact that for the price, it does not perform well compared to several other SSDs. In the end, if you want a SSD upgrade and that's all you can get, I'm sure it would serve you well; but I would strongly suggest putting more effort
into seeing if you can get something better for that same amount of money first.
With a SSD with a capacity of 250GB is good enough even if I will want to partition SSD into three partitons 'OS(120GB), and (Peraonal Data parition (100GB), Personal Recovery partition(30GB)?
If all your files will fit in 100GB with room to spare for more, and your games (if any) use less than 100GB (leaving 50GB for Windows and everything else), you should be just fine with the configuration given above.
Do you really need the recovery partition? Couldn't you just put that onto a CD/DVD or USB flash drive? Actually, on most machines the recovery partition is a security hole since anyone reboot your machine, press the special BIOS hotkey to initiate
recovery, and overwrite your files in the process. Removing it would give you an extra 30GB of disk space.
Also, when partitioning, please be aware of the very prevalent, but also very wrong convention of dividing capacities by 1024 instead of 1000. This will cause your SSD to run out of space for the last partition since each partition will be oversized
by a factor of 1.024 (KB), 1.048576 (MB), or 1.073741824 (GB). Windows Disk Management (and the Windows Setup wizard) both use the MB calculation. Looking at a screenshot of Macrium Reflect, I believe that it also uses incorrect calculations, but I don't
know exactly which one.
To make everything add up correctly when creating the partitions, enter the desired partition size as required by the program, and then divide it by the appropriate number in my previous paragraph (above). So for 120GB:
- Program asks in bytes: 120,000,000,000. You're done.
- Program asks in KB: 120,000,000 / 1.024 = 117,187,500 <- enter this number.
- Program asks in MB: 120,000 / 1.048576 = 114,441 <- enter this number.
- Program asks in GB: 120 / 1.073741824 = 111.8 <- enter this number, or enter 112 if it won't take a fractional number.
Please note that Windows Explorer also calculates file and disk sizes incorrectly. So your 250GB SSD will appear as 232.8GB (250/1.073741824), the 120GB partition as 111.8GB, the 100GB partition as 93.1GB, and the 30GB partition as 27.9GB. If all the
programmers would simply do the right and logical thing and divide by 1000, this would all be so straightforward. At least MacOS and Ubuntu have it right!
Finally: What difference is there between each pair of Samsung SSDs?
•$289.99 (10yr, 512GB MLC): Samsung 850 Pro
•$373.36 (10yr, 512GB MLC): Samsung 840 Pro
•$212.99 (5yr, 500GB TLC): Samsung 850 EVO
•$229.98 (3yr, 500GB TLC): Samsung 840 EVO
I think Samsung the first pair (840/850 Pro) is the better one. If I found this Samsung 850 Pro or even Samsung 850 EVO in my country would purchase it with $289 or $212 in order immediately, although I still don't understand why Samsung 850 Pro is much
cheaper than Samsung 840 Pro, this is strange?
The first pair (Pro series) uses the more expensive MLC memory, which is known to be reliable and fast, having an excellent lifespan. This is why they are willing to guarantee it for 10 years, and is also why the Crucial MX100 is a steal. The second
pair (EVO series) uses the cheaper TLC memory, which writes much slower, and has longterm data retention and lifespan issues. This is why its warranty is about the same as a HDD, 3 years. The unique thing about the EVO series SSDs is that Samsung included
a small amount of fast memory for handling writes realtime, while the SSD "uploads" the data to its slower main memory in the background. This gives the EVO its uniquely fast write speeds for TLC based SSDs.
When I wrote my initial post linking to the 840 EVO on Amazon, the 850 had just come out and was very expensive/not available, so I linked to the 840 which was cheaper. Performance-wise, they are about the same. One of the special things about the
850 is its revolutionary 3D NAND memory which is supposed to be cheaper to produce. Now that the 850 has been on the market for a little bit, its prices are starting to fall as expected, now making it cheaper than the 840. It is currently the latest version
in Samsung's 8xx series.