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 »Crucial T700 PCIe 5 SSD Review – 12.4GB/s Throughput with over 1.6 Million IOPS
One of the oldest names in the flash business is Micron/Crucial and our own relationship with them goes way back to 2010. Back then, we were one of the first to review their Crucial C300 RealSSD in a 64GB capacity, with lightning fast speeds of 357MB/s read and 76MB/s write, and a price of $139.99… for a 64GB SSD. We …
Read More »Micron 2550 DRAMless Gen4 Client SSD Review – The Worlds First 232-Layer NAND SSD Is A Game Changer
Every now and then a product comes across our desk that we just know is going to be special…maybe even a game changer. Such is the case with the newest Micron 2550 DRAMless PCIe 4.0 Client M.2 SSD that we are testing today and, quite frankly, it is hard to believe there is really so much in such a small …
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No Words… No pictures… simply links as we find them to the best SSDs of the day. SKHynix has truly started today off right! Simply CLICK HERE For all SKHynix SSD Amazon Prime Day Deals. _________________________________________________________ CLICK ON ANY SSD LINK BELOW! All Prime Day SSD Sales WD_Black SN750 1TB NVMe Internal Gaming SSD – $119 (Save 52%) Samsung 860 …
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