Crucial M4 64GB: Solid-State on a Budget

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Crucial M4 64GB: Solid-State on a Budget

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Re: Crucial M4 64GB: Solid-State on a Budget

Post by Rebellious » Fri Sep 14, 2012 6:57 am

I'm booting my OS from a 16GB Transcend flash drive that I bought for about $20. It's an SDHC UHS-I card running at about 50-70MB/sec on USB3. Supposedly these drives wear out, but I've never seen it happen yet. I can take them with me and boot Linux off any machine -- portability. So it must be a hard sell for expensive SSDs.

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Re: Crucial M4 64GB: Solid-State on a Budget

Post by continuum » Fri Sep 14, 2012 1:40 pm

Heck I could've sworn I saw a 128GB for $55AR last week...

64GB SSDs really end up screwed due to insufficient dies to talk to the controller for proper performance...

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Re: Crucial M4 64GB: Solid-State on a Budget

Post by Eunos » Wed Sep 26, 2012 5:26 pm

Just thought I'd point this out from the 4th paragraph:

The write performance is listed as only 95 GB/s maximum

I wouldn't complain with that. :D

However, I think the value for money for the 128GB is better, especially with write performance factored in. I recently upgraded from a 256GB to a 512GB M4 and the value for money these days is great.

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