Comments on: Micron RealSSD C400 128GB mSATA SSD Review – Performance and Capacity At Under 10 Grams

By: Les@TheSSDReview

Les@TheSSDReview — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:58:00 +0000

In reply to Walex. Same same different thread eheh. Lets be clear. This SSD contains 4 x 32GB modules for a raw total of 128 GB or gigabytes. Total available user capacity once it is formatted is119GB no matter how you cut it by trying to explain GB and GiB. The use of Gib and, quite frankly the technical explanation and calculations, is not used on any review site that I am aware of and has no use but to confuse the reader needlessly.

By: Walex

Walex — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:06:00 +0000

Â«128GB RAW total. Once formatted, the end user capacity is brought down a bit to 119GB.Â»

This statement is based on ignoring that the manufacturer quoted capacity is in gigabytes (10 to 9th power) and the one reported by MS-Windows is in gibibytes (2 to the 30th power), and in fact 128 gigabytes is roughly the same capacity is 119 gibibytes, or 128,000,000,000 bytes.

The raw capacity and the formatted capacity are reported to be the same 128GB=119GiB because the partitioning and formatting overheads are fairly small, that is well under 1.07GB=1.0GiB.

By: Pcuser43

Pcuser43 — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 01:27:00 +0000

Where’s products with the new 88SS9187 controller that supports SATA 3.1?

Why the old 88SS9174 controller?

By: Data Recovery

Data Recovery — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:32:00 +0000

Great review and information! These are great but just like conventional hard drives with rotating media, they can still fail (in different ways), where backing up data is still necessary to prevent the need for data recovery in the future. There are even some cases where if some of the memory chips fail that the data may not even be recoverable. Aside from that they are not susceptible to movement (shock) like conventional hard drives, weigh less and tend to use less power which can make them an ideal choice for notebook computing.