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    Crucial M4 128GB SSD Review Discussion

    Discussion in 'Notebook News and Reviews' started by Phil, Jun 13, 2011.

  1. Phil

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    Today we’re going to look at a new Crucial Solid State Drive, the M4 128GB. Crucial was the first company to introduce a SATA 6Gbps SSD last year, the C300. Now its predecessor has arrived: the M4.



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    QueenOfSpades Notebook Consultant

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    Thanks for the great review, Phil. I've been thinking about this drive, so this review is helpful.

    Only one little nitpick - I think you mean "successor" to the C300, not predecessor. I noticed that in this post and in the article.
     
    QueenOfSpades, Jun 13, 2011
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    Great succinct review with some interesting tests you created ;). I've been looking at the m4 for a while and going to throw a 256 in my desktop and my old x25-m 80gb in my m11x
     
    CanadianReaper7, Jun 13, 2011
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    Excellent review, Phil!

    I am surprised I have not pulled the trigger on an SSD yet.
     
    Charles P. Jefferies, Jun 13, 2011
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    Question: What did you do, and how did you get your bootup time to be 10 seconds?

    Not something I'd do myself, but I'm just curious, thanks.

    Excellent review btw!

    Mr. Mysterious
     
    Mr_Mysterious, Jun 13, 2011
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    Nothing special. I was surprised too. It's not even a clean install because MS Office, CS5 and NFS were installed.

    I think it's because the laptop used is such a default Intel platform with very little hardware in it. No dedicated GPU, not even bluetooth. Generally speaking the more components are inside, the more drivers are installed, the slower the bootup process. The powerful CPU helps too.
    That's valuable feedback. Thanks.
     
    Phil, Jun 14, 2011
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    Nice review, what i am truly waiting for is a nice comparo between this, Intel 510 and the Vertex 3, that will be nice.
     
    hawk1410, Jun 14, 2011
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    The Vertex 3 120GB review should be online in the near future.
     
    Phil, Jun 14, 2011
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    Nice to hear, would like to see how the M4 fairs against it.
     
    hawk1410, Jun 14, 2011
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    While the performance of the SF-2581 drive should be good, there have been issues with recalls for this controller and given OCZ's poor reputation as a vendor, I would exclude the Vertex 3 on that basis alone.
     
    sgogeta4, Jun 15, 2011
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    Yes i would too,as you can see i already got the 510 but still am interested how fast they really are, I mean in real world performance not just the stupid benchmark stuff, that is why i have been eagerly waiting for the comparison, we saw in the previous comparison that in terms of real world performance the Samsung 240 performed just as well as the Vertex 2 but it was much more reliable, i want something similar for the Vertex 3 and the M4/Intel 510
     
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    Unfortunately there aren't any real world benchmarks in that review. PCMark Vantage is a trace based benchmark that runs traces from Windows Vista.

    For real world comparisons in Windows 7 between Intel 510 and Crucial M4: Hardwareheaven and Techspot.
     
    Phil, Jun 24, 2011
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