What would you like to see included in a Crucial M4 128GB review?

With all other hardware the same, at least you can compare how each fair against one another (ie. battery bar says system runs at X watts discharge and battery life was Y minutes for this SSD under a predefined usage pattern). They might not predict exactly how battery life will be in other machines but at least people can get a comparison based on different usage patterns.

 

Battery bar is a lot more interesting than SSD power measurements because it includes the whole notebook.

But the power measurement of Batterybar fluctuates strongly. To get a good prediction it should run for a while. Ideally drain the whole battery.

 

i'm still waiting on the undervolt/overvolt mods on ssd's.

 

Why? SSDs are the least power hungry hardware in your computer. If someone is looking for better battery life, they should look at the GPU or the CPU. Not much to gain from a SSD

 

depends massively on the system. on an ulv system with only 10w cpu and rather small led-backlit display it might have impact. on a gamer desktop with 1000w psu, it doesn't.

 

We'd like to know your impressions about it. How much did you end up spending on it, do you think it's worth the money, performance vs. size? Would you recommend this drive to someone who's already running an SSD? What would you do with this drive if a Crucial M4 512Gb or something equivalent comes out in a couple of months for about the same price?

 

Yeah you are right. But I don`t see any further power optimisations than what we have now to be honest. They are already using very little power

 

there are always ways. and some might interest those ways.

i, personally, am curious in how much sata costs in terms of power. as far as i know, pata could run on much less power (at least in the setup of 1.8" zif drives). but that's another topic.

 

Worth the money is a hard one. For my own setup I think a Seagate Momentus 500GB for $80 offers way more bang for the buck than any SSD. I'm a fairly light user though.

 

Not really sure what you're expecting here... solder a resistor onto the PCB? Honestly, don't think we'll see much if anything in this area.

 

Whats progress of review? Sata2 will be tested? Thank you

 

+10... also very keen for some comparisions (inc sata2)

BTW I think the corsair may be a bit of a lemon (if you take a look at their forum, where a couple of people are complaining of poor performance)

 

SATA II will not be tested unfortunately.

Crucial M4 and Vertex 3 are basically done. I can give you some spoilers.

If these reviews will be published on NBR it might take another two weeks.

 

If its done, show us your result pls

 

If the reviews will be published on NBR I'm not allowed to show results now.

I can say the Crucial M4 128GB is a safe buy though, if you don't mind the LPM tweak.

And I think other reviewers are making the mistake of only evaluating Sandforce performance in a too fresh state. After extensive usage the performance drop is quite significant.

 

Hi Phil.

From various performance data I have seen, I tend to agree with you, but...

1. At what point does SF performance degrade (is this due to the supposed 20GB a day write allowance - to guarantee 3 years life, after which throttling occurs until the day you are below that accumulative limit when performance is restored? ) - you may need to wait a few days for it to recover? If this is the issue, then it wouldn't bother me.

2. SATA 2 performance is not that great (apparently) for V3 - so I'd really like to see how it performs against the M4 (do you not have a sata2 laptop?) - I think a lot of people are in this situation, but want a sata3 drive without too much of a performance penalty (as in it's as good as other sata2 drives)

 

twas a techno joke. even nerds like to tinker with anything under the hood if they can.

 

Send the review to NBR and they can upload it immediately?