Crucial M4 / Micron C400 SSD Series Thread

[Phil]

Just popped this into my AO522 netbook. Note that this is a netbook so the results might be a bit off:

Pretty good sequentials. 4K a bit low.

Try running CDM with 3x 100MB while playing an MP3 song in the background (start the MP3 first, make sure your netbook is on A/C and max performance profile). That might improve your 4K values.

Another question, what can I do to maximize the life of the SSD?

Unless your an extreme user your SSD should easily last > 4 years.

Someone who downloads 10GB of torrents per day could do it to an external hard drive.

[glacius1]

Phil, I tried what you said about running CDM with an MP3 playing in the background and interestingly I did actually get higher results. Why is that the case?

Here's results of a 128GB Crucial M4 on an Alienware M11x-R3:


BTW, I also had to apply the reg patch to get it to stop freezing. I believe you need to if you are using Intel RST - it was fine before I installed that.

[Phil]

Wow nice results.

Phil, I tried what you said about running CDM with an MP3 playing in the background and interestingly I did actually get higher results. Why is that the case?

It seems to prevent the CPU from going into power saving mode.

[Bearclaw]

Wow nice results.

It seems to prevent the CPU from going into power saving mode.

Hmm you think the C-50 is too weak to handle the SSD? Everything is still a snap though... maybe just in those benchmarks. I'll test it again when I get home.

Also, mine is the SATA 3GB/s connection if that makes a diff (I know that will throttle the seq reads a bit)

[Phil]

Hmm you think the C-50 is too weak to handle the SSD?

Possibly although it's more likely the power saving modes that keep 4K preformance that low.

Everything is still a snap though... maybe just in those benchmarks.

Probably just benchmarks, except for installing programs.

Also, mine is the SATA 3GB/s connection if that makes a diff (I know that will throttle the seq reads a bit)

Shouldn't make any difference for the 4K performance.

[Mr_Mysterious]

It's here! Awesome, I'm going to go and see what I have to do....unless someone would kindly point me in the right direction?

Mr. Mysterious

[Bearclaw]

I just putting it in High Performance and playing a random MP3 in the background but it had no affect on the 4kb reads.

Edit: here is a WEI score:

[Mr_Mysterious]

Seems all right?

Mr. Mysterious

[Phil]

Seems pretty good. I've seen higher 4K writes on desktops but that's nothing to worry about.

[Mr_Mysterious]

No, we do have something to worry about...

All of a sudden it starts BSOD'ing, not even 2 minutes in....and it does the same on safe mode.

No new firmware for the M4's....and even if there was, I doubt it would hang in there long enough to download and install. *sigh*

Earlier, properties told me that it was working properly, and SSDLife told me the drive health was excellent. I had malwarebytes do a scan earlier and MSE running in the background.

Mr. Mysterious