That should be SATA3 speed as SATA2 is 2XX max.

Your benchmark does not match specs coz it's bottlenecked by your laptop mobo chipset.

aahh what can i do ya? boot timer give me 40sec

anyone updated the latest Crucial m4 firmware? 000F is the latest .. stable?

As stable as 0309 (if not better), but slight loss of write speed.
Not that it matters really as the difference isn't noticeable.

hmm alright, i'll just update it later. Thanks !

I look difference between Sata 2 and Sata 3 only at read speed?

I'm using Crucial m4 128gb for two weeks now, very satisfied even on Sata 2.
Windows experience index jump from 5.9 to 7.8. from lowest to my highest score

Not that accurate to say like that coz
M4 128GB write speed is rated at 200MBps only regardless of SATA3 or SATA2 port used.
But if you take other SATA3 SSD rated 300MBps above to compare, you will see the read & write are significantly different, in which SATA3 >> SATA2.

My new SSD seems having low write performance than my old SSD
HyperX 5k 120GB, QD32 also sucked and the old drive have better write performance than this new SSD


SSDNow V100+ 96GB, formatted once though, this drive is known for its low 4KQD32 write performance


I wonder if changing the sata cable to "6Gbps" would improve abit, yet to try with new raid driver too...
EDIT: i got it, get rid of crystalmark, only use ATTO

This post has been edited by 1024kbps: May 9 2012, 11:31 PM

My Current Score

OCZ - Agility 3 120g x 2 Under Raid 0



This post has been edited by ssaturn: May 10 2012, 11:54 AM

my 4k dam slow la.
9 and 14
then
112 and 90



how to improve aa?

just bought INTEL 330S SSD...not yet benchmark..
but so far im speeding..HAHAHAHAHA

just finish my Benchmark

My Current Score

Intel 330S 120GB

i create 2 partition C and D (someone said it does not affect the SSD performance)

sata 2 is 3Gb/s, theoritically around 384 MB/s.
please see the different between bit(b) and byte(B)

sata 3 is 6Gb/s, theoritically around 768MB/s
so if your SSD rated with read speed 512MB/s and write speed 480MB/s

you will get less than that if you are plugging your SSD at sata 2 port.
get it?

hi guys, im new here....
after searching thru the net, i found that the Vertex 3 is good and fast with my m14x...
http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-...discussion.html

but most users here recommend to go for Crucial M4.... but from the link below, the speed is slower... is it due to the firmware?
http://www.overclock.net/t/1209763/m14x-crucial-m4-speeds

i hope to get a 128GB SSD to optimize my m14x
thx

It's slower because it simply just is, initially the gap was even bigger.
But with the 0009 firmware, Crucial has brought the M4's performance pretty close to Sandforce based SSDs.

However, Sandforce based SSDs do have a detrimental impact on performance (again, I stress, only in benchmarks) over incompressible data.
The Crucial M4 works just at its rated speed regardless the type of data being processed.

Finally, although the latest firmwares for SF-2281 controllers has pretty much almost alienated the BSOD issues, there are still more users facing problems with SF-2281 based SSDs than there are on Marvell based SSDs.

If you need to know more, do some more research on Google.

As a final answer to your question, I still suggest getting the Crucial M4 despite being a little bit slower overall.

wow.... there are so much more i need to learn... thx bro

Just installed Intel 330 SSD 120GB into my desktop


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uu nice one...

i use the 60GB version

My very 1st purchase at amazon.com
50% cheaper than usual price