Crucial M4 128GB SATAII Performance

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Bought an M4 while the price was so good on OcUK! I am getting a new Sandybridge system on Sunday, but thought I'd test my SSD on my current system which only has SATAII.

Firstly, it took around 40 minutes to get the latest firmware, quickly check how to get it on my drive, install the SSD and install Windows 7 (Pro x64, SP1).

I installed GPU drivers, AS SSD Benchmark and SSDLife Pro. After this the used space on the drive was around 23GB.

Boot times:
Samsung F3 1TB
~44s
Crucial M4 128GB
~10s
(from the "Starting Windows" screen to desktop)

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Will add boot time comparison and benchmark comparison later (with my Samsung F3 1TB - it's taking ages on the 4K benchmark being sooo much slower!)

EDIT:

Samsung F3 1TB:
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In summary, you may not get the best performance out of SATAII, but you can still drastically reduce boot times, and the general responsiveness of Windows.
 
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jakspyder said:
Excellent, i get one on monday in RMA. but am using a rampage 2 extreme with an i7920 so no sata3 yet. Still saving up for a proper big upgrade this summer. Rather than small mediocre ones now!
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Good plan to wait, SATAII certainly won't be holding you back as far as how fast the system feels :)

PiKe said:
Can't wait, ordered one today, should be here Monday :D :D
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Good choice, seemed such a good price I couldn't resist :p
 
555BUK said:
I never noticed any difference whatsoeve going from SATAII to SATAIII with my M4. Sure, the benchmarks now show 500MB's Read, but overall performance feels the same for everything. SATAIII is overrated and is no reason to change a decent motherboard.

Enjoy your SSD. M4's are great:).
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Yeah I agree completely, I am in no way getting a new system because of SATAIII! Was cheap second hand, and a lot of the parts are for a friends build so thought if I can upgrade to SB in the process, no harm done :)
 
Guest2 said:
With Windows 7, all updates, antivirus, office 2010, benchmarking programs, Acronis true image, perfect disk, photoshop and quite a few other programs i have only used 20gb

You must be doing something wrong. Follow this guide - http://www.overclock.net/t/1156654/seans-windows-7-install-optimization-guide-for-ssds-hdds

Here's my thread on M4 128gb on SATA 2

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18375296

I didnt both getting an adapter card or SATA 3 motherboard/new computer
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Sorry perhaps it's unclear, it's probably the pagefile taking up 8GB or so by default. I just wanted to illustrate how much space it takes up with no tweaking, just a fresh install :)

But thanks for the links, will check that out.
 
****199 said:
Fair enough, but its best not to suggest losing the page file. Can cause errors, and lack of reports when you get errors caused else where.

Also page file isnt the same as back in early windows days, kinda more useful to have now. But yes move it to another drive.
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Fair enough, there's been a few threads on this recently I've noticed.

I really don't need the full 128GB for all my games, as I only play a few. So saving space isn't really an issue for me.
 
ThomBassmonkey said:
When I hooked up my M4 I put it into a SATA II port by mistake (I was trying to avoid taking out my GPU and missed the SATA IIIs behind it), I realised my mistake after and switched it to a SATA III. I can honestly say I can't tell any difference between the two.

It does benchmark faster, but in real-world application it makes no difference.
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I couldn't notice a difference either, but its nice to get the full performance of the drive!
 
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