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Crucial m4 mSATA 256GB SSD Review

By on September 18, 2012 12:00 am
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Small mSATA SSD drives slowly become more and more popular since, due to their tiny size, they are ideal for use in ultra-portable notebooks and on motherboards. Gigabyte has a long list of motherboards with mSATA slots which initially were meant only to be used as a caching solution with small SSDs installed; as NAND flash prices dwindle however, it quickly became possible for mSATA drives to replace even the main drives of either desktop PCs and or ultra-portable notebooks. Today we are having a look at such an mSATA device, the Crucial m4 256GB drive, which has the full potential to become the primary disk of either ultra-portable notebook or desktop systems with an available mSATA port.

Small mSATA SSD drives slowly become more and more popular since, due to their tiny size, they are ideal for use in ultra-portable notebooks and on motherboards. Gigabyte has a long list of motherboards with mSATA slots which initially were meant only to be used as a caching solution with small SSDs installed; as NAND flash prices dwindle however, it quickly became possible for mSATA drives to replace even the main drives of either desktop PCs and or ultra-portable notebooks. Today we are having a look at such an mSATA device, the Crucial m4 256GB drive, which has the full potential to become the primary disk of either ultra-portable notebook or desktop systems with an available mSATA port.

Manufacturer features and specifications

Capacity (Unformatted)

256GB

Memory Type

Micron MLC NAND Flash memory

Form Factor

mSATA

Interface

SATA 6Gb/s (SATA III)

Controller

Marvell with Micron Custom Firmware

Sequential Read

500MB/s

Sequential Write

260MB/s

4KB Random Read

45,000 IOPS

4KB Random Write

50,000 IOPS

MTBF

1.2 million hours

Endurance

72TB Total Bytes Written (TBW), equal to 40GB per day for 5 years

Compliance

RoHS, CE, FCC, UL, BSMI, C-TICK, KCC RRL, W.E.E.E., TUV, VCCI, IC
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