Crucial M4 128GB SSD Review
ATTO and x264
Published: 19th August 2011 | Source: Crucial | Price: £156.98 |
ATTO
The write speed barely takes any time at all to run at full chat. Even with only 8kb chunks it's already racing along at 160 MB/s. Read speeds naturally need a bit larger cluster size before it can push the 300 MB/s barrier, but either way the M4 is a speedy little thing.
x264 Encoding
In case you're wondering what the real world benefit of having a faster drive entails, here is a real-world example. Encoding a video file in x264 format on a i7-970 is considerably faster with the M4 handling the temporary storage during the encode than the identical test run on the relatively quick Kingston V+. The difference between 3Gpb/s and 6Gpb/s in a nutshell.
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oh sweet mother of baby-cheeses!
where my tissues
issues fixed AND affordable!
i am lurved up with this
definitely a contender for my future mammoth-BD built, RAID'd
where my tissues
issues fixed AND affordable!
i am lurved up with this
definitely a contender for my future mammoth-BD built, RAID'd
i got the 64 gig for my os and i couldn't be happier........
well....i suppose it could be a hyperX.......
well....i suppose it could be a hyperX.......
Nice review!
I'm considering getting the 64 gig version for my next build
Heck I love mine, 128GB ftw
Great drive, great speeds, and that's even when the drive fills up.
PS I updated mine (before I installed anything on it) to firmware 0002, and I've not had a single issue yet, and that's with RST running.
Great drive, great speeds, and that's even when the drive fills up.
PS I updated mine (before I installed anything on it) to firmware 0002, and I've not had a single issue yet, and that's with RST running.
nice review tom, great little drive ive got both a 120gb in my rig and 64gb in my dads, running well with no issues with very impressive boot times. if you know me id only by a product again if i liked it and i do.
oh and fairly well priced as you said one thing to add to the review i dont recall reading it but the usb cable and disk arent included in the normal m4 pack you have to pay 10 quid extra or so for it. however i couldnt use it to sucseffuly clone my old os / programs. but its also useful if you want to copy some data old an old drive/ broken pc ect
oh and fairly well priced as you said one thing to add to the review i dont recall reading it but the usb cable and disk arent included in the normal m4 pack you have to pay 10 quid extra or so for it. however i couldnt use it to sucseffuly clone my old os / programs. but its also useful if you want to copy some data old an old drive/ broken pc ect
Thinking off getting this or the Corsair Force 3 120GB.
Worth nothing to all that Crucial has released some new firmware which improves this drives performance.
Any chance of a quick retest with this firmware in place? Would be very interested to see how it fairs.
Any chance of a quick retest with this firmware in place? Would be very interested to see how it fairs.
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Originally Posted by Ljs
Worth nothing to all that Crucial has released some new firmware which improves this drives performance. Any chance of a quick retest with this firmware in place? Would be very interested to see how it fairs. |
Apologies, I didn't look there - that was more for people who may come across the review in google rather than frequent visitors...
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