Crucial C400 coming soon! 415mb/s read, 95-260mb/s write

Jokester · 12 Feb 2011 at 09:50

Looks to be about £80 for the 64GB, £160 for the 128GB and £320 for 256GB if the prices in the OP are correct.

d_brennen · 12 Feb 2011 at 09:54

Just over 10% cheaper than the current capacity SSDs. I could be tempted yet

Supernaut91 · 12 Feb 2011 at 10:11

Does sound good! But since i recently purchased my vertex2 i have no need to upgrade yet.

psychas · 12 Feb 2011 at 10:40

im not sure if its worth upgrade for extra 60 m/s read will wait bigger versions get cheaper

Apem · 12 Feb 2011 at 11:10

Well compaired to the new corsair they are still a bit sucky 64GB Corsair Performance 3 Series, MLCFlash, 2.5" SSD, SATA III, Read 365MB/s, Write 110MB/s

Alphawao · 12 Feb 2011 at 15:22

Hmmm I'm looking for an SSD for my new build and was thinking C300/Vertex 2E but c400 seems tasty.

bhavv · 12 Feb 2011 at 17:43

I dont really need to upgrade from a 64 Gb C300 though, unless I can find a nice price on the 128+ Gb ones.

Voices · 13 Feb 2011 at 01:26

Will definitely get a SSD for my new build. I just hope the next generation will be out when the new SB mobos are in store. Surely they should be out by April, right?

chippy08 · 13 Feb 2011 at 01:37

These are still too exspensive and capacity is still too small.

Boge · 16 Feb 2011 at 18:20

From another place....

I spoke with our SSD Product Marketing Manager today, and we are shooting to release the M4 sometime in March.

Dude, Crucial Employee, US

Predicament · 16 Feb 2011 at 19:39

$100 for 64 Gb sounds wonderful... IF we get favorable exchange rates
...

IE: I am looking for £65

Gundog48 · 16 Feb 2011 at 19:51

Straight from Crucial themselves:

The C400 SSD is a Micron drive only. However, we will be launching our own new SSD line later within the quarter. The Crucial branded drive will be called the m4.

I will let you know when/if they let me know of a release date and will post preliminary results here before the actual review.

madindehead · 16 Feb 2011 at 21:33

God, people still banging on about sequential speeds. They only matter when copying big files, and installing your OS.

Who keeps large files on an system drive, or constantly re-installs their OS? Very few people.

Like titaniumx3 said, the random speeds are important. Nothing else!

bhavv · 16 Feb 2011 at 21:41

If you have a Sata III mobo and just want a windows drive, the 64 Gb C300 is still brilliant, and will be even more so if it gets cheaper.

Write speed is meaningless. It only took 7 minutes to install Windows 7 onto it (I needed to do it twice because I had a problem with my boot sector), and since then nothing but the read speeds matter!

chaparral · 17 Feb 2011 at 01:35

bhavv said:
Write speed is meaningless. It only took 7 minutes to install Windows 7 onto it (I needed to do it twice because I had a problem with my boot sector), and since then nothing but the read speeds matter!

Write speeds is very important to me...
Most have a write speed at lest as fast as my fastest hardrive...

bhavv · 17 Feb 2011 at 02:56

chaparral said:
Write speeds is very important to me...
Most have a write speed at lest as fast as my fastest hardrive...

You can get another SSD for fast writes if you need that, but I meant that for an OS drive, the 64 Gb Crucial C300 is perfectly fine.