Essential 256 GB m4 two.five-Inch Strong State Drive SATA 6Gb/s CT256M4SSD2
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- Solid state disk, SATA III six Gb/sec
- Backward compatible with SATA II, 3 Gb/sec
- 415 MB/sec sequential reads (at 6 Gb/sec)
- 260 MB/sec sequential writes (at 6 Gb/sec)
256B Essential M4 2.5IN SATA 6GB/S
Crucial 256 GB m4 two.5-Inch Reliable State Drive SATA 6Gb/s CT256M4SSD2
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Made my old laptop lightening fast,
Test Laptop – Dell Latitude D630 – 2.0GHz core 2 duo with 4GB ram
I installed this drive and then installed Windows XP pro. When complete I then installed Windows 7 home premium and set laptop up as a dual boot system. I then tested both by booting into Windows XP and Windows 7. I then ran every update and every service pack on both Windows XP SP3 and Windows 7 SP1. I installed antivirus, adobe reader, Microsoft Office 2007, Firefox 5.0, etc. When all was perfect with both operating systems I pulled out he HD and cloned it over to a brand new standard SATA drive. Then came the fun of testing both HD’s and OS’s for boot times, etc.
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Pros: $2 per GB is a great price. Drive will breathe new life into ANY PC. Easy to install, lots of fun. Drive has NEVER locked up for me, not with hibernation, sleep mode anything.
Cons: $2 per GB is a lot higher than a standard SATA drive. Firmware was hard to locate, although easy to install.
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Windows XP Pro
Standard SATA HD – power on to hear windows startup sound 1:30 seconds
Crucial M4 CT128M4SSD2 – power on to hear windows startup sound :22 seconds
Standard SATA HD – power on to fully pull up http://www.google.com 1:55 seconds
Crucial M4 CT128M4SSD2 – power on to fully pull up http://www.google.com :28 seconds
Standard SATA HD – power on to hard drive activity light to go off completely 1:45 seconds
Crucial M4 CT128M4SSD2 – power on to hard drive activity light to go off completely :29 seconds
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Windows 7 Home Premium SP1
Standard SATA HD – power on to hear windows startup sound 2:10 seconds
Crucial M4 CT128M4SSD2 – power on to hear windows startup sound :20 seconds
Standard SATA HD – power on to fully pull up http://www.google.com 3:00 seconds
Crucial M4 CT128M4SSD2 – power on to fully pull up http://www.google.com :25 seconds
Standard SATA HD – power on to hard drive activity light to go off completely 3:30 seconds
Crucial M4 CT128M4SSD2 – power on to hard drive activity light to go off completely :26 seconds
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All of this was with original firmware 001, I did update (after all testing) to 002 but nothing changed HD runs solid and sleeps/hibernates, etc. runs like a dream with 0 issues for me. It has never locked up. I cannot imagine how fast this drive would be in a new PC or laptop with an i7 CPU and more ram. Sadly my laptop is now so fast there is no way that I can justify replacing anytime soon. Buy this drive you will not be sorry.
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|Excellent product,
I purchased this product for my Asus U36JC-B1 which is the super slim notebook offering from Asus. The speed on this laptop is already very good, but I know with the 500gb SATA at the heart of it, slow down would be inevitable. So after purchasing the Crucial C300 for my HP DV7-2040us I decided to pick up this newer model for my Asus. I cloned my original 500GB SATA drive to this using Acronis True Image 2009 and a external USB 2.5″ case. Acronis adjusted the partitions so everything fitted perfectly, including the recovery partition which are critical on these drives considering there is no optical drive.
I also made sure all setting were adjusted in Windows 7 64bit to account for the new drive, including disabling defrag and indexing, enabling TRIM, and if need be disabling LPM in the registry. Make sure you download the latest Intel Rapid Storage Driver, this can have a dramatic impact on speeds and how the drive is handled by Windows.
Intel Rapid Storage Driver: [...]
I am not disappointed with this hard drive, here’s why:
Boot times are much quicker,
Application response is very quick,
No unreliability issues (thus far),
Battery life appears to have improved,
Switching from steel to plastic makes it slightly lighter,
Easy to install, remove your old SATA drive and plug this one in, easy!,
Installing one of these is like having a new laptop (in my opinion) the speed increase is dramatic, over and above a CPU upgrade.
I’m not trying to be a poster boy for Crucial but I am so impressed with these drives, I purchased another 2! 1x 128gb and 1x 64gb M4. I have a total of 4 Crucial drives running in different computers.
I highly recommend this product.
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