Crucial M4 128GB SATAII Performance

Duke · 11 Mar 2012 at 10:06

Running a M4 on SATA2 as well, will be a nice boost when move to Ivybridge motherboard in a few months

bigdave2k9 · 11 Mar 2012 at 10:09

beejjacobs said:
Did you set the SATA mode to ACHI? I think "IDE" mode can affect speeds

Just be into Bios, changed it....

gets to windows logo and does a memery dump.

Had to switch it back to Native IDE

just to get it to boot up.

beejjacobs · 11 Mar 2012 at 10:11

bigdave2k9 said:
Just be into Bios, changed it....

gets to windows logo and does a memery dump.

Had to switch it back to Native IDE

just to get it to boot up.

You have to do it before you install windows. Though I think there is a fix somewhere to change it if you've already installed.

bigdave2k9 · 11 Mar 2012 at 10:22

beejjacobs said:
You have to do it before you install windows. Though I think there is a fix somewhere to change it if you've already installed.

Ill flatten it again, its no biggie, only got the basics on. Will update in like an hour or so.

beejjacobs · 11 Mar 2012 at 10:23

bigdave2k9 said:
Ill flatten it again, its no biggie, only got the basics on. Will update in like an hour or so.

Probably easier if you've not got much on there

Hopefully that should increase speeds a bit.

bigdave2k9 · 11 Mar 2012 at 10:53

hhhmmm, re-installed just the OS

53 seconds boot time >_> gonna power down and re-hook my drives up and run the software again and see what the difference is.

bigdave2k9 · 11 Mar 2012 at 11:34

After changing to ACHI is Bios.

Definatly a longer boot up time, due to it adding an extra screen which it lingers on..

beejjacobs · 11 Mar 2012 at 12:10

Looks better.

Hmm I think someone was having a similar problem with boot time, and updated their BIOS which helped. Which motherboard do you have?

bigdave2k9 · 11 Mar 2012 at 12:12

beejjacobs said:
Looks better.

Hmm I think someone was having a similar problem with boot time, and updated their BIOS which helped. Which motherboard do you have?

Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD3P

se_vietboi · 11 Mar 2012 at 12:21

Wouldn't a read of 500MB effectively double loading times? So worth going SATAIII? Or is it something else?

Surveyor · 11 Mar 2012 at 12:24

se_vietboi said:
Wouldn't a read of 500MB effectively double loading times? So worth going SATAIII? Or is it something else?

Surely you mean halve?

And I doubt it's as simple as that.

beejjacobs · 11 Mar 2012 at 12:27

bigdave2k9 said:
Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD3P

See if there's a BIOS update? Sorry on my phone else I'd look.

se_vietboi said:
Wouldn't a read of 500MB effectively double loading times? So worth going SATAIII? Or is it something else?
...

Its the 4K and access time that decrease loading/boot times so much

se_vietboi · 11 Mar 2012 at 13:54

Ah right I see. And yes I mean halve sorry ^^

jakspyder · 11 Mar 2012 at 15:21

beejjacobs said:
Sweet

Any reason for the upgrade? Or just because it was cheap?
That M225 can't have been slow!

The M225 died. The M4 is warranty replacement. So yeh... excellent

Certainly will make me think twice before choosing another company over crucial in future. Can't fault an RMA service like that.

beejjacobs · 11 Mar 2012 at 21:59

jakspyder said:
The M225 died. The M4 is warranty replacement. So yeh... excellent Certainly will make me think twice before choosing another company over crucial in future. Can't fault an RMA service like that.

Wow. That is good. Even more happy I got an M4 now

Updated results on SATAIII, seem good

jakspyder · 12 Mar 2012 at 01:45

I'm jelly! Want a Sata3 but its gonna have to wait for now

oh well.

ThomBassmonkey · 12 Mar 2012 at 08:23

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.

Guest2 · 12 Mar 2012 at 08:32

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.

I guess where you may see speed increase is doing things like opening a huge (~15gb) compressed archive and then extracting it.

Day to day Windows tasks I cant see there being much difference (or noticing much difference)

PiKe · 12 Mar 2012 at 09:22

Do you want AHCI mode set on the SATA3 ports as well then? Or doesn't SATA3 have modes in the same way SATA2 does?

beejjacobs · 12 Mar 2012 at 09:54

PiKe said:
Do you want AHCI mode set on the SATA3 ports as well then? Or doesn't SATA3 have modes in the same way SATA2 does?

You still want AHCI