Testseek.com have collected 156 expert reviews of the Crucial / Micron 2.5 inch RealSSD M4 C400 Series SATA600 and the average rating is 85%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Crucial / Micron 2.5 inch RealSSD M4 C400 Series SATA600.
May 2011
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156 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
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...
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...
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...
Published: 2011-05-15, Author: BIll , review by: techworld.com
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...
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...
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...
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...
Great randomaccess speeds; 400MB/s reads, 250MB/s writes.
Not the fastest.
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Published: 2011-04-08, Author: Joe , review by: legitreviews.com
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...
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...
