Our review today is going to focus on the Crucial M4 512GB SSD and the most noteworthy thing about this SSD needs to be said right off. At under $1000, it sells for almost half of that of competitor new generation SATA 3 SSDs and its performance easily ranks it amongst the best in Gen 2 top tier 6Gbps solid …
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Crucial M4 512GB SATA 3 SSD Review – Test Bench and Protocol
TEST SYSTEM AND METHODOLOGY This is The SSD Review Test Bench and a quick click on the photo will bring it up full size for closer inspection. Our main goal in testing is to ensure that all test results are as accurate as they can be and no anomalies slip through. We conduct all tests three times and, if necessary, …
Read More »Crucial M4 512GB SATA 3 SSD Review – ATTO Disk Benchmark and Crystal Diskmark
ATTO DISK BENCHMARK 2.46 ATTO Disk Benchmark is perhaps one of the oldest benchmarks going and is definitely the main staple for manufacturer performance specifications. For our testing, we use a set length of 256mb and test both the read and write performance of various transfer sizes ranging from 0.5 to 8192kb. Manufacturers prefer this method of testing as it …
Read More »Crucial M4 512GB SATA 3 SSD Review – AS SSD Benchmark
AS SSD BENCHMARK VER. 1.5 AS SSD Disk Benchmark is perhaps the only benchmark program that was created for solid state drives. AS SSD does a good job of showing us that the drive betters Crucials listed specifications of 50,000IOPS. Two other results also stand out, the first of course being the great 4k random results that we discussed earlier. …
Read More »Crucial M4 512GB SATA 3 SSD Review – HDTune Pro Tests
HDTUNE PRO VER. 4.6 “ BENCHMARK READ AND WRITE HDTune Pro is a great software program that lets us have a look at all aspects of testing through several separate tests: HDTUNE PRO VER. 4.6 “ FILE BENCH HDTUNE PRO VER. 4.6 “ RANDOM HDTUNE PRO VER. 4.6 “ EXTRAS There is nothing much more that can be said here …
Read More »Crucial M4 512GB SATA 3 SSD Review – PCMark Vantage
PCMARK VANTAGE x64 HDD SUITE The SSD Review uses benchmark software called PCMark Vantage x64 HDD Suite to create testing scenarios that might be used in the typical user experience. There are eight tests in all and the tests performed record the speed of data movement in MB/s to which they are then given a numerical score after all of …
Read More »Crucial M4 512GB SATA 3 SSD Review – Our Final Thoughts
To start things, our hats are off to Kelly Sasso and Crucial for sending us this drive as we believe we may just be the only site lucky enough to review it. It was a totally unexpected arrival which accompanied the 128GB M4 that so many have been asking about, a review of which will be published within the next …
Read More »WD_Black SN850X Gen4 8TB Game Drive SSD Review – The Biggest and Baddest in SSD Storage
Once upon a time, I sat with a company questioning them as to why they were so hesitant to market a 1TB SSD; they wouldn’t push that 512GB barrier. Their honest and frank response was simply, “Why sell very few of a product that costs more to build when we can sell much more of what is in demand at …
Read More »Crucial T705 Gen5 2TB SSD Review – 14GB/s Becomes Just a Walk in the Park
And so the steam train of SSD speeds keeps moving. It wasn’t so long ago that we thought things were doing so well when we saw SATA speeds of 540MB/s jump to over 1GB/s…and then 2GB/s to 3.5GB/s which doubled again and is now doubling once more. To those on the outside, it seems like such a simple jump but …
Read More »Micron 3500 Gen 4 SSD Review – There is Just No Client Comparable
Having been around storage and solid state drives for a few years, we can speak with some authority that client SSDs found in PC systems, laptops and ultra books paled in comparison to those retail SSDs being tested. I can remember our review of the Dell XPS 13 Gold Edition in fact, where the performance spoke to 1500MB/s read and …
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