Crucial M4 128GB SSD review

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SSD Performance HD Tune PRO

HD Tune Pro 4.5

HD Tune Pro is a hard disk utility and benchmarking utility for Windows. This tiny application allows you to scan your hard drives for errors or take a deeper look at several performance figures coming from the storage unit.

Crucial M4 SSD

First off, a file test. We fire off 64MB of data comprising out of sizes ranging from 0,5 KB to 8 MB. Check it out. As you can see once we pass 32KB file size, the drive kicks in hard, already pushing close to 250MB/sec. Maximum peak reads are nearing 500 MB/sec. Write performance settles at 200 Mb/sec.

Crucial M4 SSD

In the above HDTune chart we average out roughly 326MB/sec on sequential writes. We peak to roughly 380MB/sec.

Crucial M4 SSD

Write performance above then, once we start to measure write performance we see that figures reach a continued write performance, averaging out at an average of 198 MB/sec.

Crucial M4 SSD

HD Tune Pro allows random access read and write testing, a feature not available in other software tools. Check out the 1MB READ performance topping 443 MB/sec. In bold comparison, a fast OCZ Vertex 2 SSD would push 260 MB/sec at 1MB transfers here.

Crucial M4 SSD

Decent write IOPS performance as well. We get 178 MB/sec on the 1MB files. So each second this drive can write say 178 JPEG files with a size of 1 MB, each second.

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