Product Details
- Product Dimensions: 4 x 2.8 x 0.4 inches ; 2.7 ounces
- Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
- Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
- ASIN: B004W2JL2A
- Item model number: CT256M4SSD2
By : Crucial
List Price :
Price : $327.97
You Save : $91.02 (22%)
Product Description
Size: 256 GB
From the Manufacturer
The Crucial m4 SSD: raising the bar on Solid-State Drive technology.
Continuing the tradition of our award-winning solid-state drives, the Crucial m4 SSD offers mobile and desktop users scorching-fast read and write speeds, groundbreaking SATA SSD computing, and unparalleled performance for the dollar.
Introducing our fastest Solid State Drive to date! The Crucial m4 SSD.
- High-speed synchronous MLC NAND
- Advanced controller technology
- Optimized NAND management
- Second-generation SATA 6Gb/s interface
- Available in 64GB, 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB capacities
Latest and greatest. Designed for client computing, the Crucial m4SSD delivers faster boot and application load times for mobile and desktop users alike. Low power, lightweight, and durable, it empowers high-speed synchronous MLC NAND, advanced controller technology, optimized NAND management, and the second-generation SATA 6Gb/s interface. Together, that technology dramatically improves data transfers for bandwidth-demanding applications.
Proud history. Delivering on the highest quality based upon Micron's leading-edge NAND media, the Crucial brand of SSDs has long been synonymous with reliability and high performance. And because we're part of Micron, the Crucial m4 SSD was bred and built entirely in-house. So you can rest assured you'll get one of the highest quality products available�from the company that knows memory.
Why an SSD? SSDs provide many benefits over traditional hard drives. You'll enjoy reduced power consumption, less heat generation. Because they have no moving parts, SSDs are quiet, more lightweight, and they're rugged and reliable even the most demanding operating environments or temperature extremes.
Compatible. Crucial m4 SSD series employ a standard hard drive interface and dimensions, so it is an easy storage upgrade for most laptops.
The m4 SSD fits in place of your old hard drive
A simple installation for more speed and performance
duplicate all the files from your old hard drive quickly and easily
256B Crucial M4 2.5IN SATA 6GB/S
Crucial 256 GB m4 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive SATA 6Gb/s CT256M4SSD2
Technical Details
- Solid state disk, SATA III 6 Gb/sec
- Backward compatible with SATA II, 3 Gb/sec
- 500 MB/sec sequential reads (at 6 Gb/sec)
- 260 MB/sec sequential writes (at 6 Gb/sec)
Customer Reviews
Test Laptop - Dell Latitude D630 - 2.0GHz core 2 duo with 4GB ram
I installed this drive and then installed Windows XP pro. When complete I then installed Windows 7 home premium and set laptop up as a dual boot system. I then tested both by booting into Windows XP and Windows 7. I then ran every update and every service pack on both Windows XP SP3 and Windows 7 SP1. I installed antivirus, adobe reader, Microsoft Office 2007, Firefox 5.0, etc. When all was perfect with both operating systems I pulled out he HD and cloned it over to a brand new standard SATA drive. Then came the fun of testing both HD's and OS's for boot times, etc.
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Pros: $2 per GB is a great price. Drive will breathe new life into ANY PC. Easy to install, lots of fun. Drive has NEVER locked up for me, not with hibernation, sleep mode anything.
Cons: $2 per GB is a lot higher than a standard SATA drive. Firmware was hard to locate, although easy to install.
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Windows XP Pro
Standard SATA HD - power on to hear windows startup sound 1:30 seconds
Crucial M4 CT128M4SSD2 - power on to hear windows startup sound :22 seconds
Standard SATA HD - power on to fully pull up www.google.com 1:55 seconds
Crucial M4 CT128M4SSD2 - power on to fully pull up www.google.com :28 seconds
Standard SATA HD - power on to hard drive activity light to go off completely 1:45 seconds
Crucial M4 CT128M4SSD2 - power on to hard drive activity light to go off completely :29 seconds
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Windows 7 Home Premium SP1
Standard SATA HD - power on to hear windows startup sound 2:10 seconds
Crucial M4 CT128M4SSD2 - power on to hear windows startup sound :20 seconds
Standard SATA HD - power on to fully pull up www.google.com 3:00 seconds
Crucial M4 CT128M4SSD2 - power on to fully pull up www.google.com :25 seconds
Standard SATA HD - power on to hard drive activity light to go off completely 3:30 seconds
Crucial M4 CT128M4SSD2 - power on to hard drive activity light to go off completely :26 seconds
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All of this was with original firmware 001, I did update (after all testing) to 002 but nothing changed HD runs solid and sleeps/hibernates, etc. runs like a dream with 0 issues for me. It has never locked up. I cannot imagine how fast this drive would be in a new PC or laptop with an i7 CPU and more ram. Sadly my laptop is now so fast there is no way that I can justify replacing anytime soon. Buy this drive you will not be sorry.
I purchased this product for my Asus U36JC-B1 which is the super slim notebook offering from Asus. The speed on this laptop is already very good, but I know with the 500gb SATA at the heart of it, slow down would be inevitable. So after purchasing the Crucial C300 for my HP DV7-2040us I decided to pick up this newer model for my Asus. I cloned my original 500GB SATA drive to this using Acronis True Image 2009 and a external USB 2.5" case. Acronis adjusted the partitions so everything fitted perfectly, including the recovery partition which are critical on these drives considering there is no optical drive.
I also made sure all setting were adjusted in Windows 7 64bit to account for the new drive, including disabling defrag and indexing, enabling TRIM, and if need be disabling LPM in the registry. Make sure you download the latest Intel Rapid Storage Driver, this can have a dramatic impact on speeds and how the drive is handled by Windows.
Intel Rapid Storage Driver: [...]
I am not disappointed with this hard drive, here's why:
Boot times are much quicker,
Application response is very quick,
No unreliability issues (thus far),
Battery life appears to have improved,
Switching from steel to plastic makes it slightly lighter,
Easy to install, remove your old SATA drive and plug this one in, easy!,
Installing one of these is like having a new laptop (in my opinion) the speed increase is dramatic, over and above a CPU upgrade.
I'm not trying to be a poster boy for Crucial but I am so impressed with these drives, I purchased another 2! 1x 128gb and 1x 64gb M4. I have a total of 4 Crucial drives running in different computers.
I highly recommend this product.
Crucial 256 GB m4 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive SATA 6Gb/s CT256M4SSD2
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