Crucial M550 Review: 128GB, 256GB, 512GB and 1TB Models Tested
by Kristian Vättö on March 18, 2014 8:00 AM ESTPower Consumption
The M550 has excellent power profile. It comes in as the most efficient drive with low power states (HIPM+DIPM) enabled and is able to beat Samsung SSDs, which have usually been the leaders in this front. It seems like the switch to Marvell 9189 controller and LPDDR has really paid off here since the power is less than half of what the M500 consumes. Load power consumption is also decent and we are looking at the normal 3-4W range for both sequential and random writes.
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hojnikb - Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - link
You forgot plextor m5pro xtreme in top tier :)extide - Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - link
Oh Yeah, totally forgot about that one :)kyuu - Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - link
The 840 EVO is a damn good performer, and the Seagate 600 gives you a damn good capacity/price ratio (I bought the 240GB for $130 the other week). Otherwise, looks good.jed22281 - Friday, March 21, 2014 - link
When it comes to perf. "overall", not all those are absolute top-tier, some of them should be in a upper-mid-tier category.There's only approx. 3 that could truly be considered as absolute top-tier: Extreme II & Ocz 150 are 2 of them.
jay401 - Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - link
Regarding your price comparison chart on the Final Words page: At the time of publication, the Samsung 840 EVO 256GB drive is listed at $139.99 on Amazon.com and has been for a couple days.Kristian Vättö - Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - link
We are only using NewEgg for comparisons as otherwise it takes ages to do the chart. Besides, the pricing can change on daily basis so it would only be accurate for a short while. The idea is to give a rough idea of pricing -- ultimately every buyer should do their decision based on the current deals.jay401 - Wednesday, March 19, 2014 - link
Understood. In this case though, Amazon's had it that cheap for about a week now. :)venk90 - Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - link
INSANELY GOOD DEAL ON AMAZON !The 512 GB crucial m550 SSD is listed at 169$ !!
Buy it now before the prices are corrected !
dave_the_nerd - Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - link
Wow... bought. Worst case, I'll return it, but... damn.venk90 - Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - link
I bought 20 !Going to E-Bay all of them or return it worst case !
Greedy me ? Haha !