Crucial M4 128GB SATAII Performance
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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.
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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.
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Ill flatten it again, its no biggie, only got the basics on. Will update in like an hour or so.
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Probably easier if you've not got much on there
Hopefully that should increase speeds a bit.
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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.
53 seconds boot time >_> gonna power down and re-hook my drives up and run the software again and see what the difference is.
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After changing to ACHI is Bios.
Definatly a longer boot up time, due to it adding an extra screen which it lingers on..
Definatly a longer boot up time, due to it adding an extra screen which it lingers on..
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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?
Hmm I think someone was having a similar problem with boot time, and updated their BIOS which helped. Which motherboard do you have?
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Wouldn't a read of 500MB effectively double loading times? So worth going SATAIII? Or is it something else?
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See if there's a BIOS update? Sorry on my phone else I'd look.
Its the 4K and access time that decrease loading/boot times so much
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Ah right I see. And yes I mean halve sorry ^^
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.
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The M225 died. The M4 is warranty replacement. So yeh... excellent
Wow. That is good. Even more happy I got an M4 now
Updated results on SATAIII, seem good
oh well.
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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.
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)
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