Crucial M4 mSata

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A Crucial M4 branded version of the Micron mSata SSD has now been released. I'm interested in this as it would work great in the Asus V Gene, mATX motherboard. Would be interested in any reviews that people might know of?

"July 17, 2012 Crucial, a leading global brand of memory and storage upgrades, today announced the immediate availability of the Crucial m4 mSATA Solid State Drive (SSD), designed primarily to address the rapidly emerging Ultrabook™ category and deliver powerful, proven performance for systems where space is at a premium. The Crucial m4 mSATA SSD delivers the award-winning performance and reliability of the Crucial m4 SSD in a drive one eighth the size. Because of its tiny mSATA form factor, the Crucial m4 mSATA SSD can be mounted to an mSATA-enabled motherboard to serve as a primary storage in ultrathin laptops or act as a cache to complement the performance of an existing hard drive. Available in 32GB, 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB capacities"

 

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http://thessdreview.com/our-reviews/micron-c400-256gb-6gbps-msata-ssd-review/

Crucial handles the consumer side of things while Micron deals with the OEM and enterprise world; the sole difference between the two seems to be exterior branding sticker only.

Performance is shown time and time again in every one of our benchmarks and the results speak to consistency more than many SSDs we have reviewed to date. The C400 doesn’t miss a beat and this is truly shown in its AS SSD Copy Bench result which is one of the fastest we have seen from any form factor SSD yet.

Your only limitation might be the slot-in card is only 3Gbit/s, not the full 6Gbit/s needed to get the super awesome speeds. Still very good though.

 

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http://thessdreview.com/our-reviews/micron-c400-256gb-6gbps-msata-ssd-review/

Your only limitation might be the slot-in card is only 3Gbit/s, not the full 6Gbit/s needed to get the super awesome speeds. Still very good though.

Thanks, I had read that review as well.
That's a shame about the mSata port on the V Gene being Sata 2... Really negates the point of using it imo. Would probably just use the mPCIe instead for wifi if needed and go with a standard SSD.


ANYWAY. The Crucial M4 mSata SSD still seems really cool and shows how small it can be.