Power Consumption

The m4 has pretty good idle and sequential power characteristics. It's only under high queue depth random writes that the m4 looks a little power hungry, and that's only because the transfer rates we're talking about are so very high.

Idle Power—Idle at Desktop

Load Power—128KB Sequential Write

Load Power—4KB Random Write, QD=32

AnandTech Storage Bench 2010 Final Words
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  • sequoia464 - Sunday, May 8, 2011 - link

    From the scarce information and benchmarks that I have seen, the 470 appears to be a very viable option as far as SSD'd go. They have been out and available since last winter, and we have seen some of the 470's benchmarks posted in comparisons here for over a month. This drive seems to have the potential to be a major player in the SSD market, I don't understand why it hasn't been reviewed yet..

    Be really nice to see AnandTech's take on this drive.
  • yayati - Wednesday, June 15, 2011 - link

    I am a common user (IT professional) and do day to day tasks and planning to buy SSD. I have already tried 5 SSDS as of now

    Intel 510 120GB
    Crucial C300 (total crap, I shows 250GB from outside (Also ordered) but it showed me 59.0 GB when I started Win 7 install)
    Samsung 256GB
    Intel 510 250GB
    and 310 300GB on order

    I didn't notice any significant differences except Intel 510 120GB was bit good performer

    I am also planning to look @ m4 but not able to decide which one I should go for finally

    Can someone advise me? Intel has 5 yrs warrenty which seems more reliable but M4 is faster. Confussed!!!
  • wavefuture - Thursday, September 27, 2012 - link

    Guys, will Crucial M4 (e.g. CT128M4SSD2) work on SATA 1.5Gbps?
    I'm going to replace my old HDD for SSD. Please, help. Thanks!

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