Crucial M4 vs Corsair Force Series 3?

Shocky-FM · 3 Sep 2012 at 20:45

Corsair seems to have better write speeds, however a firmware update increases the write speed of the M4 to 550MB/s, is this true?

So which would you recommend and why?

No sata 3 here though (only sata 2), how much of difference will that make?

wazza300 · 3 Sep 2012 at 20:56

The m4 uses better synchronous nand memory,not sure on the write speeds? Don't you mean read speeds?

You'll see around 250mb read/write on sata2

Shocky-FM · 3 Sep 2012 at 21:02

wazza300 said:
The m4 uses better synchronous nand memory,not sure on the write speeds? Don't you mean read speeds?

You'll see around 250mb read/write on sata2

Corsair Force 3 is listed as 550MB/s read and 510MB/s write

M4 is listed as 550MB/s read and 220MB/s write

But there's a note on the M4 listing saying firmware update increases speed to 550MB/s but doesn't specify read or write.

Why is there such a big difference in write speeds?

wazza300 · 3 Sep 2012 at 21:14

It means read for the m4,its just the way the sandforce drives handle compressionable data,the m4 is just as fast,the read speeds are the most important

Elric · 3 Sep 2012 at 22:46

I've got both a M4 and a Force GT, real world use, there's not really a lot of difference between them.

vectisitch · 3 Sep 2012 at 23:04

not sure if you would notice any speed difference and a lot of people would say the m4 is better than the force 3. i have 2 force 3's in raid 0 and with. the garbage collection they are kept running fast. i can only recommend going on my experience with customer after sales service. corsairs service is second to none period. i bricked my first force 3 while updating the firmware which was obviously my fault but corsair still sent me a new drive at no cost.you pays your money and get what you pay for