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Hand on heart, you know that drives with the latest SandForce SF-2200 series controller are probably the quickest you can buy. Is there any point in looking elsewhere? Well, yes. Price and reliability also come into the equation. Enter the Crucial M4 f...
Latest 25nm NAND memory, 6Gbps SATA support...
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expertreviews.co.uk Updated:
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The M4 is the latest SSD from Crucial. Compared to its predecessors, it uses a new Marvell memory controller while the storage chips themselves are made using a smaller, more efficient 25nm manufacturing process. The result of all this new technology i...
The Crucial M4 SSD may be expensive, but it's very fast and reasonable value...
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When Crucial released the C300 series of Solid State Drives last year they outperformed anything else available at the time. With read speeds around 340MB/s the Sandforce drives had a serious performance disadvantage, only offering around 280MB/s. T...
great performance, works equally well with incompressible and compressible data...
A very capable solid state drive, but it faces some very stiff competition from Sandforce 2281...
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If you were in the market for an SSD last year, there's a good chance you would have considered a Crucial RealSSD C300; it produced incredibly fast transfer rates thanks to a competent Marvell memory controller and thrashed most of the competition with it...
Although it's not radically different from last year’s model, the M4 is significantly faster than the disk it replaces. Intel’s 510 Series SSDs are still dominant in our performance benchmarks, but both have the potential to be blown away by SandForce...
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Following on from its impressive debut in last month’s SSD roundup, it seems in order to look further into Crucial’s M4 SSD, specifically the 256GB version of this Sata 3 capable device. Crucial's M4 really shows what SSDs can achieve thanks to its Sat...
As for this specific 256GB Crucial model, £360 may still be a bit pricey for some but if you’re not a particularly data heavy laptop user or your system can accept some spinning platters for secondary storage, then I’d highly recommend the M4 as your...
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Proving that the latest generation of solid-state drives is faster and less expensive than its predecessor, the Crucial M4 SSD boosts read and write performance. Solid-state drives have had their share of ups and downs in the past few years. Although S...
The Crucial M4 has significantly increased the performance gap between it and the previous generation of SSDs. And by pushing write performance - for video capture and editing, graphical imaging, etc - the M4 provides an economical option for disk-inte...
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Following hot on the heels of Intel's brand new 320 Series and 510 Series SSDs, Crucial's M4 SSD has its sights set firmly on the high end. A notable first for Crucial is the move to 25nm NAND flash, rather than the 34nm chips found in the M4's predecess...
A high-speed SSD that makes other drives look overpriced...
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Today we have one of Crucials new SSDs, the 256GB m4, connected to our P67 system and will be running it through a selection of real world and synthetic tests to establish how it compares to the Intel 510 series and OCZ Vertex 3. In addition to that we...
Looking first at the build quality and design of the Crucial m4 we have a drive which very much builds on everything which was good about the C300. We get a sturdy casing with nice finish and inside the good first impression continues. First up is the...
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Over recent months we’ve seen an explosion in the number of SATA 6Gbps SSDs on the market. Pretty much all of this has been down to Sandforce and its 2281 controller chip, which powers most of the models out there.Crucial is one of the few companies t...
Not the fastest SSD out there, but gives great price/performance...
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A short while ago we reviewed the Crucial M4 256GB SSD but we couldn’t just leave things at that since a new (supposedly) performance increasing firmware was just released for it. In this quick article we look at the differences brought about by this...
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Crucial may be a newcomer to Hardware Canucks but their SSDs just happen to be some of the most popular around right now due to their excellent pricing and wide availability. Their newest line of M4-series drives continues down the same path as previou...
The Crucial M4 is currently one of the most popular SSDs on the market and by reading through this review, you can see why. In many cases the numbers it posted were right up there alongside more expensive Sandforce-based drives and long term performan...
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If you want to give your notebook or desktop PC a major speed boost, Crucial's m4 256GB solid state drive (SSD) is a must-have. It's one of the fastest drive's on the market and it'll not only speed up boot-up times if used as a system drive, it'll ma...
Fast read rates, Fast write rates, No moving parts...
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Crucial's m4 256GB solid state drive is a little gem. It can supply very fast read and write transfer rates, and it will noticeably boost the performance of a laptop or desktop PC when it's used as a system drive. Sure, it's quite expensive, but like many...
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Welcome to the sixth iteration of our highest-ranked SSDs at any given price point. We updated our recommendations to reflect the recent price drops on second-gen SandForce hardware. There are several good deals to be found for right about £150. Detail...
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After Valentine's Day, SSDs prices fell yet again, and we updated our list to reflect those changes. This month, the best deals are found in the mid-range offering, and there's one bargain in our list for a 240GB SSD that you simply will not want to mi...
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Crucial has been selling SSDs to consumers for longer than almost anyone, and it's evidently got the art of producing good-value drives finely honed. The 128GB version of its M4 drive costs just £83, which works out at a low 64p per gigabyte. The M4’s...
A middling performer that’s made into a tempting buy thanks to an extremely low price and good value throughout...
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SSDs have gone down in price a lot in recent months. It's now possible to find 64 GB SSDs for less than £50. That means that the cheapest SSDs are now on the same level as the most affordable hard drives, in theory taking away any arguments for not incl...
You buy a 64 GB SSD because you'd like to add an SSD to your computer for as little money as possible. Now that 128 GB models are becoming affordable, the choice seems obvious. But if you want to assemble a cheap (office) PC or have another scenario tha...
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Solid State Drives come in a variety of sizes and from a plethora of manufacturer's but when we focus on what the consumer actually needs, it's all quite simple. They are after a SSD that is quick, cost effective and has the capacity that they need. For t...
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Over recent months we've seen an explosion in the number of SATA 6Gbps SSDs on the market. Pretty much all of this has been down to Sandforce and its 2281 controller chip, which powers most of the models out there. Crucial is one of the few companies th...
Not the fastest SSD out there, but gives great price/performance...
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SSD prices are dropping so quickly that it makes more and more sense to have one in your PC. 120 or 128 GB versions you can find already for £90, and for less than twice that you can buy an SSD with double the capacity. It will still take a long time be...
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Just over 12 months ago we checked out the and found ourselves very impressed with the performance that Crucial was offering with the new SATA drives. The C300 drives from Crucial were one of the first SATA III drives to come out and in RAID 0 we...
Looking through the benchmarks, at times our setups do become a bit wobbly, especially the older C300 one. For the most part, though, we can see performance is extremely strong on the new m4 setup with some of the best gains being shown under HD Tune...
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Do you want the best performance from your SSD all of the time, regardless of workload? Drives with Marvell's controller technology should be on your short list. We put seven of them through the paces and discover lots of speed at each capacity point...
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Are you mulling the potential benefit of an SSD upgrade on a system without 6 Gb/s SATA connectivity? We run the benchmarks on several different solid-state storage architectures in order to determine how much performance you give up on an older machin...
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SSDs are a lot faster than hard drives. But their price tags continue deterring enthusiasts. Less-expensive SSDs are available, but what do you trade off (aside from capacity) when you buy a smaller drive? We test four models from Crucial to find out...
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A growing crop of second-generation solid-state drives (SSDs) have shown us that we're well on our way toward realising the full potential of the proliferating SATA 6Gbps interface. But as is often the case with high-performance SSDs, second-gen drives...
Consumers looking to purchase a high-end SSD upgrade are likely to make their choice based on three criteria; performance, capacity and price. Based on those key factors, we've seen few SATA 6Gbps drives as compelling as Crucial's 128GB m4 SSD. Priced...
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When Crucial released the RealSSD C300 solid-state drive a year ago, equipped with a Marvell controller, it set new standards in sequential and all-round performance for consumer SSDs. Rated to a potential 355MB/s read and 215MB/s write, the speed dem...
Crucial set a high standard with the release of the RealSSD C300 a year ago. Still recognised as a speedy, premium drive, the C300's controller and NAND chips - the two major components of any modern SSD - have been tweaked for the release of the m4 r...
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Discuss This Review...
Crucial has a real winner on its hands with the m4; this latest firmware 0009 bumps the performance up a notch and, combined with the company’s aggressive pricing, makes it one of the better choices for a modern SATA III SSD. We observed read performan...
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Crucial was kind enough to send me the M4 256GB SSD drive for a review. The Crucial M4 is designed by and manufactured by Micron Technology and it uses the Micron’s 25nm NAND technology, it also has the latest SATA3 controller from Marvell and it’s ava...
SATA 6Gbps, Excellent read/write performance, Firmware support appears to be very good, Excellent at multitasking, 3 Years Warranty, Low price for a SATA 6Gbps, Excellent access times...
Sequential write speeds could have been faster.
Finishing the review of the Crucial M4 SSD we can say that this drive has only given us positive feedback. "Starting with the out of the box performance and finishing with the latest firmware update that adds 70MB/S to the read speed. Also another impress...
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When we tested the Crucial M4 drive we found it to be a very capable SSD although we noted that we expected that the sequential scores would be more inline with where we saw the Intel 510 Series drive results. After all, they share the same processo...
Crucial has released a firmware update that offers up significant performance improvements, among other things, and all for the low, low price of free...
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Last week Crucial updated their firmware for the m4 family of SSDs. The new m4 firmware, version 0009, is a direct update for retail drives that shipped either with firmware version 0001 or 0002. While firmware 0009 patches bugs and improves on compatibil...
It's nice to see Crucial fixing bugs and compatibility issues with the latest m4 firmware; but it's great to see the substantial performance boost across the board when it comes to read speeds. The firmware lived up to its claims of increasing sequent...
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We've added more SSDs to our database and observed a number of significant price changes in the past month. As a result, this months...
We've added more SSDs to our database and observed a number of significant price changes in the past month. As a result, this months recommendations undergo a notable revamp. And to those of you waiting for a hierarchy table at the end, it's here! Deta...
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We've added more SSDs to our database and observed a number of significant price changes in the past month. As a result, this months...
We've added more SSDs to our database and observed a number of significant price changes in the past month. As a result, this months recommendations undergo a notable revamp. And to those of you waiting for a hierarchy table at the end, it's here! Deta...
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We've added more SSDs to our database and observed a number of significant price changes in the past month. As a result, this months...
We've added more SSDs to our database and observed a number of significant price changes in the past month. As a result, this months recommendations undergo a notable revamp. And to those of you waiting for a hierarchy table at the end, it's here! Deta...
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PCMag Editors did not test the Crucial m4 (128GB). We did, however, test and review the Crucial m4 (256GB) (3.5 stars) from the same series. A 128GB solid-state drive (SSD) measuring just 2.5 inches and packing a SATA 3 connection, the Crucial m4 ($224...
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As the 6Gbp/s version of the SATA interface becomes more prevalent amongst users, so we have more and more drives taking advantage of the enormous bandwidth available to them.Solid State Drives have had particular benefits. Whereas we once considered 1...
When we reviewed the Kingston Hyper X earlier in the month we found it to be an absolutely blistering performer with a suitably enthusiast price-tag. The Crucial M4 is obviously cheaper in this 128GB guise, but also crucially (ahem) in the 256GB version i...
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techreaction.net Updated:
2011-10-28 07:03:19
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Many people know of Crucial as the consumer arm of the memory giant Micron Technology. Crucial itself has been marketing Micron-designed products for a decade and a half. It should thus be no surprise that Crucial brings the big name of Micron to the...
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If you want to give your notebook or desktop PC a major speed boost, Crucial's m4 256GB solid state drive is a must-have. It's one of the fastest drive's on the market and it'll not only speed up boot times if used as a system drive, it'll make your a...
Overall, it's not hard to love this drive, even if it is quite a hefty investment. Its 238GB formatted capacity gives it a cost per gigabyte between £1.10 and £1.80 depending on where you buy it. If you've got a high end laptop or desktop and speed is...
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proclockers.com Updated:
2011-10-28 07:03:19
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to the Crucial M4 SATA 6GB/s Solid State Drive Crucial is arguably the most recognized name in memory. Chances are you have had a module or two in one of your PC’s over the years. In my days of retail Crucial was the most asked for memory from custome...
Crucial has once again demonstrated they can put out a great performing solid state drive. The m4 definitely takes off where the c300 left off. The read performance numbers fall right in range of some of today’s better solid state drive that also run...
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We have in our labs the 256GB version of the Crucial m4 SSD or RealSSD C400, as it is better known by OEM and Crucial's distribution customers. The Crucial m4 SSD product line incorporates Micron's 25-nanometer (nm) NAND flash technology (synchronous M...
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Over the last couple of years or so we've looked at many Solid State Drives that feature various technologies in the attempt to boost speed and performance. Some have been successful, some have not. But there's no mistaking the fact that SSDs are becom...
As we've said before and we'll continue to hammer any chance we can get, the single biggest bottleneck in modern systems is the traditional plattered hard drive, and using an SSD in your system will make such a massive difference that you'll want to cr...
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Crucial's follow-up to its C300 solid-state drive (SSD) last year, the m4 boasts improved firmware and other technologies that let it attain even higher speeds at higher capacities and a lower price. (Our tested 256GB model costs $499.99 list.) The m4...
Good performance. Supports 6Gbps SATA III.
Expensive. Outperformed in most tests by competing SSDs. Slow garbage collection demands TRIM support in OS.
Though the 256GB Crucial m4 offers good performance in most situations, it's surpassed by competing drives from OCZ and Intel that push SSD technology a bit further. Buy it now...
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A growing crop of second-generation solid-state drives (SSDs) have shown us that we're well on our way toward realising the full potential of the proliferating SATA 6Gbps interface. But as is often the case with high-performance SSDs, second-gen drives...
Consumers looking to purchase a high-end SSD upgrade are likely to make their choice based on three criteria; performance, capacity and price. Based on those key factors, we've seen few SATA 6Gbps drives as compelling as Crucial's 128GB m4 SSD. Priced...
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Crucial announced worldwide availability of its next-generation solid-state drive late last month. Known simply as the "m4," the company's latest entry is hailed as the successor to its award-winning RealSSD C300, promising to deliver more speed and hi...
So, have we seen a repeat performance of the RealSSD C300's grand entrance? Not really. Although we found the m4 to be considerably faster in our file transfer tests as Crucial fine-tuned top end sequential performance, that had little impact on our r...
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The series of SATA 6Gbps SSDs tore through our benchmarks last year, and as the only SATA 6Gbps SSDs on the market, the range had a palpable performance advantage over any other drive available. The read speeds of over 340MB/sec offered tangible...
The M4, despite its rebranding, is only a minor update to the C300. Despite the slightly updated and re-tuned controller, the additional sequential read and write performance has come at the cost of random read and write performance. The M4 is a very f...
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Solid state drives have had their share of ups and downs in the past few years. Although SSDs are definitely faster than their mechanical counterparts, they've yet to live up to the performance their specifications suggest. What's more, they can be at...
The Crucial M4 has significantly increased the performance gap between it and the previous generation of SSDs. And by pushing write performance for video capture and editing, graphical imaging, etc. the M4 provides an economical option for disk inten...
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Crucial, a subsidiary of Micron who is a world leader in memory and flash production has established itself on the solid state storage market with their C300 RealSSD for quite some time. Unlike many other manufacturers they are using a Marvell SSD cont...
Up to 10% faster than Sandforce drives, Supports TRIM, 3 year warranty, Nice looking, rugged metal case...
Higher price than C300, No significant performance update over C300...
Compared to the older C300, Crucial's m4 SSD is more of a shift in performance priorities than a new design with improved performance all across the board. We see substantially improved performance in scenarios like Large File Copy and Game Patching. O...
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Crucial announced their next generation SSDs at Storage Visions in January of this year. The enthusiast class Crucial m4 SSD offers capacities up to 512GB, a speedy SATA 6Gb/s interface, home-grown 25nm Micron NAND and an exclusive Marvell 9174-BLD2 p...
Micron promised a 17% performance increase in the Crucial m4 over the C300. They delivered on that promise and more, showing 17% gains in sequential read speed and 19% gains in write speed. Real-world benchmarks also showed similar gains, with a 15% b...
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Solid-state drives have had their share of ups and downs in the past few years. Although SSDs are definitely faster than their mechanical counterparts, they've yet to live up to the performance their specifications suggest. What's more, they can be at...
Crucial's M4 has significantly increased the performance gap between it and the previous generation of SSDs. And by pushing write performance -- for video capture and editing, graphical imaging, etc. -- the M4 provides an economical option for disk-intens...
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Crucial, best known for their memory products, was the first to put an SSD on the market with a 6Gbps interface way back in early 2010 with the C300 drive. Back then, we ran some tests and found it to be impressive when compared to what was on the m...
Crucial and Micron have partnered to do a nice job of upgrading from their previous offering with the m4/C400 series of drives while leveraging the same Marvell controller. However, they face stiff competition from others using comparable hardware in...
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Last week I was in Orlando attending CTIA. While enjoying the Florida weather, two SSDs arrived at my office back in NC: Intel's SSD 320, which we just reviewed three days ago and Crucial's m4. Many of you noticed that I had snuck in m4 results in ou...
I'm not sure whether to call the m4 an evolutionary upgrade in performance or a shift in performance. Write speed is faster across the board, but read speed took a definite hit compared to the C300. Overall Crucial has a faster drive on its hands, one tha...
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At first I would like to thank Lexar Media for offering me samples of their Crucial 256GB m4 2.5'' SSD with Data Transfer Kit for testing and reviewing. About Lexar Media: "Crucial Technology is now Lexar Media, a division of Micron Europe Limit...
As we have seen from the documentation on the Internet and from the test results, the previously reviewed SSD had a SandForce processor in it, which relies on compression techniques and the performance of the drive varies, depending if the data handle...
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rwlabs.com Updated:
2011-11-11 05:28:31
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With the current price levels of Solid State Drives hitting an all-time low finally pretty much everyone can now afford that level of technology. Of course the price/capacity ratio is nowhere close to that of normal mechanical drives (still) a...
So after reading all the results i am sure many of you are wondering about which SSD is currently the best one in the market. Well if you can afford the extra premium then the RevoDrive3 240GB is without doubt faster than every other SSD in thi...
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maximumpc.com Updated:
2011-12-01 01:48:11
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At first blush, the Crucial m4 seems virtually indistinguishable from its predecessor, the Crucial RealSSD C300. After all, it’s available in the same capacity with the same Marvell 9174 6Gb/s SATA controller and same amount of DRAM cache—256MB for th...
Great randomaccess speeds; 400MB/s reads, 250MB/s writes.
Not the fastest.
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Crucial has been selling computer memory for almost 15 years, but if one factors in that the company is the retail arm of Micron Technologies, then that number jumps to over 35 years. Over this time, Crucial has earned a solid reputation amongst enthu...
The Crucial m4 is an interesting SSD. It is the highest performing drive we have tested that doesn't rely on real-time file compression to achieve high levels of performance. Or to put it another way, there's only two other SSDs that can deliver actua...
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Just over 12 months ago we checked out the and found ourselves very impressed with the performance that Crucial was offering with the new SATA drives. The C300 drives from Crucial were one of the first SATA III drives to come out and in RAID 0 we...
Looking through the benchmarks, at times our setups do become a bit wobbly, especially the older C300 one. For the most part, though, we can see performance is extremely strong on the new m4 setup with some of the best gains being shown under HD Tune...
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The year 2011 was quite complex in SSD matters. The industry finally made a move towards SATA3 (6 Gbps) and with that arrived a lot of new controllers and thus SSDs. Earlier in the year the most promising SSDs where based on SandForce 2281 controller...
It's great to finally be able to include the Crucial M4 series into our benchmark results suite as Crucial did not make the SSD available for a lot of the EU press for a long time. The end results are as expected, this Marvell 88SS9174 based solution is d...
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2011 was a very good year for SSDs. This year, every single new SSD released supported the SATA 6Gbps interface that finally puts the 6Gbps SATA connectors on our motherboard to full use. Unlike mechanical drives (which cannot saturate the bandwidth)...
SATA 6Gbps, $40 cheaper than similarly performance SSDs, Good price to performance ratio, 3 year warranty...
Not as fast as SandForce drives...
The performance of the m4 is rather interesting. The drive's random write speed is able to compete against SandForce drives but its random read speed falls behind the competitor. Its sequential read is faster and competitive yet the sequential write i...
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hardwareunboxed.com Updated:
2012-01-28 01:30:23
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Today we are revisiting the Crucial m4 Solid-State Disk using the latest firmware, to see how it compares to the competition in terms of value and performance. This time we have the premium 512GB model on hand, so we are keen to see how half a terabyte...
The great thing about revisiting the Crucial m4 is that we now have a great deal of experience with these drives. When I first looked at the m4 back in May of 2011 some 9 months ago a lot was unknown about the product, most importantly reliability. It...
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The Crucial m4 SSDs have been on the market nine months, and have built a good track record around mainstream value and reliability in that time. Crucial has been great about continuing to enhance their line of m4 SSDs with firmware updates, a key advanta...
Read speeds just under 900MB/s in RAID0, Random 4K read speeds topping 90,000 IOPS, Very strong incompressible write speeds...
Weak-mixed workload performance still carries over from the 0009 firmware...
For enthusiasts looking to squeeze out even more performance from reliable SSD like the Marvell-powered Crucial m4, going to RAID0 can make sense where you need substantially higher read and write speeds...
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rbmods.com Updated:
2012-03-10 01:40:13
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Today we are going to compare three SSD drives against each other, all with the same size but with a bit different specifications. This roundup will include a Kingston, Crucial and also a Patriot SSD drive...
There are more SSD disks on the market; for example: OCZ, Corsair, and a few others. Both Kingston and Crucial are big sellers though and perform very well in most tests. The Patriot drive in this test was older but managed to keep up very well with w...
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xbitlabs.com Updated:
2012-03-22 01:18:31
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The SSD market doesn’t live only off SandForce based drives. Although there are at least a few dozen modifications of consumer grade SSDs on SF-2281 controller, there are also completely different offerings already available in stores, even though they...
It is really hard to find any problems with Marvell 88SS9174 controller, which is used in the solid state drives reviewed today. Its characteristics and internal architecture allow designing SSDs with up-to-date performance, and such SSD makers as Cor...
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The arrival of affordable, high-performance client SSDs gave us two (closely related) things: 1) a high-speed primary storage option that could work in both a notebook or a desktop, and 2) independence from traditional hard drive form factors. Unlike...
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The Crucial M4 solid state drive was one of the most popular and most successful solid state drives of 2011. Much of that success can be attributed to Crucial’s reputation for reliable, quality-made products and because they are one of the largest...
Exceptional speed, Does not rely on real-time file compression to achieve highest levels of performance, 3 year warranty, Available in up to 512GB capacities...
None that I found...
Crucial is a name we always know for reliability and quality-made products and the M4 drive is no exception. It is very well made and besides the controller everything else inside is made by Crucial (Micron). Crucial does offer their standard 3 year...
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When we first started looking at SSDs, it was last year, when 128GB drives were starting to really drop in price. At that time, we took a look at four completely different mid-range SSD solutions from OCZ, Crucial, Patriot, and Kingston. The two that...
s I really liked the 128GB Crucial m4 when I first looked at it months ago. That was before the performance was significantly boosted by firmware upgrades, and without the benefit of a full stack of flash channels to utilize. Now we are looking at the...
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Nothing gets my cooling fans going like a new hard drive! With that, I have yet to hop on the SSD wagon, until now. I have resisted as long as possible because even though the benchmarks were there, the prices just were not. Crucial thinks they can...
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computershopper.com Updated:
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If you've ever looked into upgrading the RAM in your PC, there's a good chance you're familiar with the name Crucial. The brand, owned by Boise, Idaho-based Micron Technology, has a long history in the memory business. Plus, parent company Micron, in...
Consistently fast performance on all of our benchmarks, Doesn't lag far behind pricier drives, Also available in 7mm versions for thin laptops...
Accessories and software cost extra, Pricey compared to several other performance-grade drives, which were faster on some benchmark tests...
On our benchmarks, Crucial's M4 drive was appreciably speedy, without ever breaking new ground. If you're looking for well-rounded performance, it's a solid choice, but a bit pricey...
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Through a quirk of SSD technology, the Crucial M4 64GB has limited write speeds compared to the larger M4 models. The question is whether it's still a worthwhile upgrade for users with limited storage needs and/or budget restrictions.
The Crucial M4 64GB is arranged with only one NAND chip connected to each of the eight channels provided by its Marvell controller, preventing each channel from reaching its full write potential. The obvious alternative to this strategy is to use only...
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SSDs are getting more and more appealing by the day. Already nowadays their retail pricing is affordable for most home users and gamers who only require capacities up to 256GB for their primary HDD. Crucial is one of the most active players in the SSD...
SSDs are getting more and more appealing by the day. Already nowadays their retail pricing is affordable for most home users and gamers who only require capacities up to 256GB for their primary HDD. Crucial is one of the most active players in the SSD...
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Computers relying solely on age old hard disk drive technology should be deemed a thing of the past. Mechanical devices suffer from slow response times, so if and when performance matters, spending a small amount of money on upgrading a PC's boot drive...
As is often the case with SSD reviews, what we have here is a mixed bag of results, so now it’s time to sift through them to try and better understand where each SSD stands in terms of performance. Breaking down the file copy tests, if we combine the...
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A few months back, we rounded up a half dozen SATA III solid state drives in this article. In that showdown, we had drives based on SandForceSF-2200 series and Marvell controllers represented, with both synchronous and asynchronous memory types. We ult...
Both the Corsair Force GT 240GB drive and Crucial M4 with its v009 firmware exhibited excellent performance throughout out battery of tests. Overall, the SandForce-based Corsair drive proved to be a somewhat better performer, especially in terms of wr...
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to the Crucial M4 mSATA2. Features, Specs, and Closer Look3. Performance4. Final Thoughts5. View All Next Page 7 Comments Subscribe Download Review in PDF Our Related ReviewsADATA Premier...
Great sequential read/write performance, Excellent incompressible data performance, Tiny form factor, Up to a 256GB capacity, Price...
Lower than Standard M4 SATA random read/write performance, Overall, I found the Crucial m4 mSATA SSD to be very impressive. You get close to the performance of the full-size m4 but in a significantly smaller package. The sequential read/write performance...
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Nothing gets my cooling fans going like a new hard drive! With that, I have yet to hop on the SSD wagon, until now. I have resisted as long as possible because even though the benchmarks were there, the prices just were not. Crucial thinks they can make m...
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With prices falling, SSDs are rapidly becoming mainstream and are included in a vast number of new builds. The Crucial RealSSD M4 series of SSDs are the newest drives from Crucial, available in 64 GB, 128 GB, 256 GB and 512 GB models. Crucial have kindly...
While the M4 doesn't compete with the OCZ Vertex 3 in terms of write speed, its read performance is on par. Given the reliability issues that some drives built around Sandforce controllers are experiencing, the M4 looks like a more robust alternative th...
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Back in 2010, Crucial released their RealSSD C300 and while it had some pretty severe problems out the gate, it eventually became one of the fastest SSDs on the market. At the time, the C300 was among one of the first SSDs to support the SATA 3 6Gb/s inte...
Honestly, I came into this review expecting a lot. There are so many factors in play that puts Crucial into such an excellent position when it comes to making great SSDs. For one, Micron/Crucial owns their own fab. These days, that's a pretty coveted posi...
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Back in the early days of SSDs, the flash controller was king. Marvell's first effort on that front was a bit of a disappointment. That controller, code-named Da Vinci, crucially lacked TRIM support at a time when it was widely offered by the competition...
This conclusion would be a lot easier to write if I knew what the m4 is going to cost when it becomes available to the public on April 26. Crucial is holding the pricing close to its chest, and that may ultimately be what makes or breaks the drive's appe...
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The Crucial M4 256GB SSD is a very popular SSD that has a proven Marvell controller. One of the big advantages Marvell controllers enjoy over their SandForce competitors is the ability to handle non-compressible data at relatively fast speeds. This is a k...
The Crucial M4 256GB is a fairly fast drive. At first, I was a bit disappointed by the performance relative to the OCZ Vertex 4. Then I thought about it, I spent $280 for the OCZ Vertex 4 256GB and $180 for the Crucial M4 256GB a week apart. When I think...
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Behardware.com Updated:
2014-08-10 10:56:14
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At last! After many long weeks of work, here’s our new SSD report. For 2012, we have decided to focus on the flagship 120 and 128 GB models and limit our selection to SSDs with an SATA 6 Gbps/s interface. We have tested no fewer than seventeen models:...
Tieing up a 24-page roundup in a few lines isn’t easy, especially as the cost of flash memory is currently dropping, meaning that the price of 120 to 128 GB SSDs is changing almost daily, with some manufacturers responding faster than others. Pricing i...
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In this review PCSTATS will be testing the 256GB Crucial M4 SSD , a 6Gb/s SATA III drive rated by the manufacturer for read speeds of up to 500MB/s and write speeds of 260MB/s (sequential). Crucial's M4 SSD uses 25nm MLC NAND Flash and the same Marvell co...
Too much choice in the SSD segment has made selecting the perfect SSD for a gaming PC or notebook upgrade a rather daunting and at times Excel-spreadsheet-worthy task. It shouldn't have to be like this. As we've seen in PCSTATS' benchmarks today, Crucial'...
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Let's be honest. In the PC world, size matters. This is true not only for the height of ATX towers, but also for the thickness of ultrabooks. The size of one's SSD is important, too. In addition to defining how many applications, games, and data can enjoy...
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Ever since I started reviewing PC components here at TR, my relationship with hardware has become increasingly promiscuous. The Ikea shelving unit that serves as my test rack plays host to an endless stream of new systems—at least one every week, and when...
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The latest generation of SSDs is out in full force. Drives are widely available from a multitude of vendors, firmware issues have for the most part been resolved, and competition has driven prices dangerously close to dollar-per-gigabyte territory. If you...
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HardCOREware.net Updated:
2015-02-20 03:43:36
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Ask anyone who owns an SSD, and they will tell you that it is the single most noticeable upgrade you can make to your existing PC (provided your PC is no more than a few years old). Unlike many products, which show higher “numbers” than their predecessors...
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The first mSATA-based SSDs we reviewed wowed us with diminutive dimensions, but not as much with performance. Today's best efforts are a lot more like their desktop equivalents, though. We round up 10 models between 64 and 256 GB and nail down a winner...
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Even though there is a plethora of mechanical hard drives on the market that support the SATA-600 interface, we really need a solid state drive to make use of the bandwidth available. Today we are going to compare five different models from Crucial, In...
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For the most part, we have Lenovo to thank for that as millions of Thinkpad owners played a key role in mSATA SSDs flying off the shelves quicker than they could restock. Industry has responded well, however, as mSATA becomes the new ‘SSD Du Jours' for th...
With many awaiting availability of the new Crucial M4 mSATA SSD this week, timing of this Micron C400 mSATA Review couldn't be better. We might amusingly take a crack at getting the new Crucial M4 sent out for review but Crucial/Micron Reps would probably...
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Micron has released a new version of their RealSSD C400 SSD in an mSATA form factor. While most consumers aren't familiar with the C400 line, it closely mirrors the performance and design of the client-facing Crucial m4. The C400 mSATA SSD will be offered...
SATA 6Gb/s ready, Strong performance in our gaming trace, Wide capacity offerings to fit budget or task, Group-leading read performance...
Falls behind in mixed workloads, Slower performance in our HTPC and Productivity traces...
The Micron RealSSD C400 mSATA SSD gives OEMs many options for ultrathin computers, tablets and even standard notebooks with models ranging from 32GB to 256GB. Micron has hit the mark with the RealSSD C400 mSATA, selling a model for most use-cases, be it c...
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en.expreview.com Updated:
2015-10-16 03:56:21
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Micron RealSSD C400 SSD(Crucial RealSSD M4)2010 was a year when SSD market was developing rapidly as many strong-performance SSDs began to appear in the market.Crucial RealSSD C300 is one of the shining stars.The SSD is the first one to adopt SATA 6Gb...
In capacities of 64GB/128GB/256GB/512GB,RealSSD C400 SSDs are available in at the price of US$129.99/US$244.99/US$459.99/US$929.99,separately.Thought the main controller chip is not changed,but Micron must make some effort in algorithm.In addition,with...
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