M4 vs Vertex4

You probably won't notice a huge difference between them but here's a couple things to consider. 4k performance is what peope looking for 24/7 although the difference is hardly noticeable but Vertex4's 4k is double the M4.

The M4 and Vertex 4 both use Marvell controllers, but the latter is rebranded to Indilinx with its own in-house firmware. It's also likely to be a newer version as the performance is better than what firmware can do for it.

M4 - Marvell 88SS9174-BLD2
Vertex4 - Marvell 88SS9187? (Or at least an overclocked 88SS9174 with custom firmware)

I chose M4 because of performance/price + provem reliability but if got promo i would definitely give Vertex4 a try. Later... later bro

Amazon is selling Crucial M4 256GB for USD199.99 right now but unfortunately they are still not shipping to Malaysia.. I wonder if our local distributor complained to Crucial or something like that. After owikh posted that crazy price he got from Amazon previously I've been monitoring the price daily or even hourly (just for the lulz, lol), and I would add to cart and attempt to checkout (to the point of picking shipping address) just to see the final price. After just a few days, it was no longer possible to get it shipped to Malaysia. I kept on doing the same thing and till today the status remains the same.

thanks for the info bro...i hope u can get one v4 to test out with some reviews about it...is this indilinx a new firmware? i mean compared to marvell and sandforce...any other ssd in the current market using indillinx rite now? or v4 is going to be the 1st?

My first SSD just got it few hours ago. Intel 520 120GB running on i5 2500K 3.30Ghz Asus P8P67 Pro 4GB Corsair Vengence DDR3 RAM

Here are the results of some benchmarks I ran:




Please comment and let me know if I further optimazation is required. I connected the SSD to a Intel SATA6 port.
Thanks.

Intel 520 120GB sandforce controller. So far no BSOD yet after a week of usage. Looks good and stable.
Perhaps this might give a little difference on an Ivy bridge and Z77 board.

How about the sandforce controller used in Intel 330?

Intel 520 120GB sandforce controller. So far no BSOD yet after a week of usage. Looks good and stable.
Perhaps this might give a little difference on an Ivy bridge and Z77 board.

are you accept trade-in?

Did you install your Intel RST drivers?

I think no.. Is it the cd that comes with the drive?

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Added on June 5, 2012, 6:25 pmBtw, im on AMD FX4100 and Asus M5A99X EVO..

IINM, Intel RST only works with Intel chipsets. 

So any idea why my 4k speed so slow? @@

Whats ur system full spec?
I think AMD chipset is sucked
My HyperX can only do read 21.6MB and write 73.31 MB, thats random data
0x00 fill is only faster a bit, n my write speed sometime is faster than read

And update your SATA/AHCI/RAID driver. may help to improve the performance.