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Crucial M4 128GB SSD review - Features & specifications

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 12/20/2011 03:00 PM [ ] 0 comment(s)

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Features & specifications

So the Crucial M4 sample has finally arrived in our underground test facility, it's the 128GB version of the drive, which means it's also slightly slower in writes compared to the 256GB model due to memory channels available. Small side note, you can also spot the very same drive as Micron C400 in the stores.

Initial tests straight away impressed us, this product can keep up with any SandForce SSF-2281 SSD product in terms of read performance and Intel's latest and greatest as well. Have a peek at the official spec sheet of the M4 series.

Crucial M4 SSD 2.5" CT064M4SSD2 CT0128M4SSD2 CT0256M4SSD2 CT0512M4SSD2
Capacity (Unformatted) 64 GB 128 GB 256 GB 512 GB
NAND Micron MLC Micron MLC Micron MLC Micron MLC
Controller Integrated 8-channel single chip Integrated 8-channel single chip Integrated 8-channel single chip Integrated 8-channel single chip
RAID Support Yes Yes Yes Yes
Firmware Field Upgradeable Field Upgradeable Field Upgradeable Field Upgradeable
SATA Transfer Rate 6Gb/s (3Gb/s compatible) 6Gb/s (3Gb/s compatible) 6Gb/s (3Gb/s compatible) 6Gb/s (3Gb/s compatible)
Sequential Read (up to) 415 MB/sec 415 MB/sec 415 MB/sec 415 MB/sec
Sequential Write (up to) 95 MB/sec 175 MB/sec 260 MB/sec 260 MB/sec
Random 4k READ 40,000 IOPS 40,000 IOPS 40,000 IOPS 40,000 IOPS
Random 4k WRITE 20,000 IOPS 35,000 IOPS 50,000 IOPS 50,000 IOPS
PCMark Vantage 55K HDD test score 55K HDD test score 65K HDD test score 65K HDD test score
Dimensions
(L x W x H)
100.5 x 69.5 x 9.50 mm 100.5 x 69.5 x 9.50 mm 100.5 x 69.5 x 9.50 mm 100.5 x 69.5 x 9.50 mm
Weight 75g 75g 75g 75g
MTBF 1.2 Million Hours 1.2 Million Hours 1.2 Million Hours 1.2 Million Hours
Data Reliability Built-in EDC/ECC Built-in EDC/ECC Built-in EDC/ECC Built-in EDC/ECC
Drive Endurance 36TB=20GB per day for 5 years 72TB=40GB per day for 5 years 72TB=40GB per day for 5 years 72TB=40GB per day for 5 years

As said there are four models available, 64GB, 128GB, 256GB and an impressive 512GB version, all 6Gbps SATA interface based SSDs. This SATA3 version as such will deliver speeds of up to an advertised 415MB/s of bandwidth in read performance and a 175 MB/sec in write performance (sequential).

BUT ... the specs are all still based on the old firmware release. You'll notice that the performance really is a good 20% above what they advertise, and that surely is a nice additional bonus. With the tested 128GB model (obviously comes with the newest firmware) you'll see that we can even reach 500 MB/sec on sequential reads and roughly 200 MB/sec on writes.

That gives the M4 really nice performance when dealing with compressed data compared to other drives, we'll check that out of course. Sequential read and write performance should be impressive.

The M4 SSDs will include Aynchronous MLC Flash Micron memory chips (yes they make these themselves) as well as a 256MB DRAM cache. The controller used comes from Marvell which thus works with a large memory cache, whereas SandForce uses a segment of the NAND flash the cache. That's the essential difference really, the benefit of a DRAM cache is that you'll have more GB's available for real usage.

The SSDs come with full support for the TRIM command to keep the SSD nice and fast.

  • Crucial M4 64GB costs 90 EUR
  • Crucial M4 128GB costs 165 EUR
  • Crucial M4 256GB costs 320 EUR
  • Crucial M4 512GB costs 620 EUR

So these are the prices at this moment, quite competitive. Crucial will get you a 3 year carry-in warranty on the product.

Crucial M4 SSD




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