M11x R3 HDD to SSD swap-Vertex 4 or Crucial M4

I own a M11x R3 and am planning to do a HDD to SSD swap over the summer. Should I get the Vertex 4 or Crucial M4. Which one performs better???

 

Vertex 4:

5 year warranty
Up to 550 MB/s Sequential Reads
Up to 95,000 Random Read IOPS
Up to 120,000 Maximum IOPS
Available in 64GB to 512GB Capacities
Access Latency as low as 0.02ms

Crucial M4:

- Sequential Read (up to): 550MB/sec (SATA 6Gb/s)
- Sequential Write (up to): 300MB/sec (SATA 6Gb/s)
- Random 4k Read: 40,000 IOPS
- Random 4k Write: 50,000 IOPS
- PCMark Vantage: 65K HDD Test Score
- Interface: SATA 6Gbps / Backwards Compatible 3Gbps
- Native TRIM support
- Seek Time: .1ms
- Slim 2.5" Design
- 100.5 x 69.85 x 9.5mm
- Lightweight: 75g
- Operating Temp: 0°C ~ 70°C
- Storage Temp: -40°C ~ 85°C
- Low Power Consumption: 150 mW in operation, .85 mW in standby
- Shock Resistant up to 1500G
- RAID Support
- MTBF: 1.2 million hours
- Limited 3-Year Warranty

** FIRMWARE UPDATE 0309 - Increased speeds up to 550MB/s **

Vertex 4 on paper is better with a nice 5 year warranty.

Regards.

C.

 

Specs on paper don't mean much at all in the SSD world.

Most R3 owners on this board swear by the M4, myself included. And just to re-iterate from the specs, this thing uses ULTRA low amounts of power to run.

Not to mention as a brand i would trust Crucial over OCZ anyday. For a Crucial RMA you mail it to the US, OCZ RMA's are mailed to Taiwan. The standard of quality is just that much higher.

Here is my R3's benchmark of my 128GB M4 without updating the firmware :

 

Yeah as Rishwin said you are trying to find a piece of hay in a stackful of needles to see the difference between them in real life terms unless you time each one when copying your files and if you have that much time on your hands you need a girlfriend!

Personally I agree with the mad scotsman that 5 year warranty is looking pretty darn tasty especially if you write like crazy you might be able to burn it out at the end of year 4 and get a new one

I must be the only person on here that had a bad M4 from Amazon the thing was on deaths door by week two and when I gotta refund and switched back to my Kingston SATA II SSD which is half the speed I still couldn't see the difference in general usage. SSD is an SSD.

 

I think might go with the Crucial M4. Any objections?

 

I have 3 M4's however which one is cheaper?

128 Vertex 4. £99.71

128 Crucial M4. £86.99

256 Vertex 4. £204.78

256 Crucial M4. £159.99

Looks like we may have a winner.

Regards.

C.

 

For reference sake, the 128Gb M4 is ~22% faster than the 64GB, and the 256Mb M4 is 11% faster than the 128GB. Using that i deduced that 128Gb was clearly the best bang-for-buck (at the time anyway).

If you can get a 256Gb M4 for ~$200 though, go for it.

 

I was planning on getting a 256GB M4 that I found for $199.99, brand new.
Link: Crucial Technology 256GB m4 SSD 2.5" Solid State