Crucial RealSSD M4 256GB 2.5 , best SSD out there?

I'm looking forward to buy an SSD and as far as i see
the Crucial M4 is the best option i could find in terms speed , price and reliability

what do you guys think?

 

It's definitely a very solid option. Very fast drives and at a great price. The Samsung Pro and Intel drives go through more qualification and testing from what I've researched, which leads to their higher prices, but the performance tends to all gravitate around each other.

 

The Samsung 830 or Samsung 840 Pro are much stronger options than the Crucial M4 in terms of reliability as well as performance. I also like the software suite included with Samsung's SSDs that ensure your operating system is properly configured for an SSD. That being said Crucial or Intel would be my second choice.

 

true , the their prices are ridiculous in my opinion

 

Crucial are good (Read 415MB/s - Write 260MB/s) but Intel 520 are faster (Read 550MB/s - Write 520MB/s) Samsung 840 Pro are also good (Read 540MB/s - Write 520MB/s)
Also compared their IOPS, respectively:4KB Random Read: Up to 45,000 IOPS, 4KB Random Read: Up to 50,000 IOPS, 4KB Random Read: Up to 100,000 IOPS
So comparing those numbers you get Samsung 840 Pro > Intel 520 > Crucial M4
But its also the reverse in price points.

 

yes but there is 1 rule about SSD , as faster it runs the the faster it dies

 

Precisely at this point in 2013.

It comes down to the price that basically determines the speed of the SSD.

 

Never heard that rule before. I suppose while SSD's may have a finate amount you can write to each sector the speed of doing so wouldn't make a difference. Unless you were purposefully trying to degradate those sectors then the faster ones would technically die faster because they are getting the work done faster. But in real world use you wouldn't have that happen. Most people get a SSD for one reason which is speed. I'd go as fast as you can.

 

im certainly happy with my crucial 512gb
even with the slower write speed it still boots and im on the forum within 12 seconds.

i would of got the samsung but the biggest they did at the time was 256gb which wasnt big enough for me. a month after i got my lappy the samsung 512 came out.

 

Never heard that rule.

Here is a link to some extreme SSD testing. SSD Write Endurance 25nm Vs 34nm - Page 218

My Intel 510 has over 1 TB and still shows full life.

 

Just a quick note as well, try and avoid the samsung 840 (no-pro series) as they have rubbish speeds comparable to the early Vertex SSD's that suffered the SF issues.

I have both Crucial M4 drives and also Samsung 830's, both are very reliable and also very fast, Intel was a bit out of my price range. I would also recommend the Plextor SSD's they're pretty underrated.

 

yup yup, ill have to agree with vuman here. both the plextor M3 pro and especially the M5 pro provide amazing speeds which actually put those model right between the samsung 840 pro / OCZ vector (tier 1) and the samsung 830 / OCZ vertex 4 / intel 520 (tier 2).

i sure am in no need of a new ssd right now, but if i had to choose id probably either go for a samsung 840 pro or an ocz vector

 

What trickery are you talking about?

 

Another thing to consider is power usage, some drives use 1 or 2W more than others while idling which is gonna make a dent in your battery life (though a pretty small one compared to you actually doing stuff). For this reason I went with an Intel 335, smaller nand, less power usage. Don't trust manufacturer values though, they seem far too optimistic.

 

I installed a Crucial M4 2.5 in 512gb in an ASUS G74. Very easy to clone the hdd and install. Only 1 of 2 hdd bays had a hdd so I knew what to replace.
QUESTION: Now I want to do the same in an ASUS N76VJ-DH1, but it has 2 1TB HDDs. How do I know which one has the OS when I open the back of the laptop to replace it with the SSD?

 

download crystaldiskinfo in order to read out the serial numbers of the drives. couple those with the partition letter that the os is on and then check and see which one of the two drives has that serial number printed on its label

either that or just take out one drive and see if the machine still boots into windows or gets an error

oh btw, make sure those two drives arent in performance raid mode, cuz then ud be stuck

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I admit I took a bit of a gamble with the OCZ vector, but it's been performing well and behaving so far....