Crucial M4 128GB SSD Review

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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.