The Crucial m4 (Micron C400) SSD Review
by Anand Lal Shimpi on March 31, 2011 3:16 AM ESTOverall System Performance using PCMark Vantage
Next up is PCMark Vantage, another system-wide performance suite. For those of you who aren’t familiar with PCMark Vantage, it ends up being the most real-world-like hard drive test I can come up with. It runs things like application launches, file searches, web browsing, contacts searching, video playback, photo editing and other completely mundane but real-world tasks. I’ve described the benchmark in great detail before but if you’d like to read up on what it does in particular, take a look at Futuremark’s whitepaper on the benchmark; it’s not perfect, but it’s good enough to be a member of a comprehensive storage benchmark suite. Any performance impacts here would most likely be reflected in the real world.
Keep in mind that PCMark Vantage is run on our older testbed with a Marvell 6Gbps SATA controller so the numbers will be much lower than on a Sandy Bridge platform.
PCMark Vantage agrees with our Light 2011 workload—the m4 is the second fastest drive we've tested here.
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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 nowIntel 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!