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Really liking the price of the 960GB 
Crucials new SSD! The M500! Pre-order for stock end of week!
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mSATA will be stocked yes! The M4 has been a difficult unit to keep in stock. Hopefully this will be much better
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YES! finally a decent price TB ssd 
I will be getting one of those for my summer build if it stays that price!
The seq write speeds seem to be dropping though for some reason? I remember a few years ago that they were even at about 500r/500w but now 500/130? for 120gb doesn't seem right
I will be getting one of those for my summer build if it stays that price!The seq write speeds seem to be dropping though for some reason? I remember a few years ago that they were even at about 500r/500w but now 500/130? for 120gb doesn't seem right
wish I could grab a 960 gig version - budget will only allow a 500 gig version atm ... but waiting till I see some benches - btw I Really liked the last benchmarking of the M4 drives that overclockers did here (quite informative) ...
What happened to 960GB for £450 incl VAT?
http://www.crucial.com/uk/company/media/releases/pressrelease.aspx?id=FDCBD63DEFA2B68E
Is this a direct from Crucial price?
http://www.crucial.com/uk/company/media/releases/pressrelease.aspx?id=FDCBD63DEFA2B68E
Is this a direct from Crucial price?
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Under £500 for it should sell really well!
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If its £450 I'll buy one
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I'm glad someone else can see my post, being as every question bar mine has been answered...I was beginning to think I was invisible
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Obviously OcUK trying to cash in on the new drives.
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Bear in mind that press release is from January when the £/$ rate was a lot better then it is now, that will account for part of the price difference.
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^Not invisible, just...unlikely...
...Until proper reviews come out, I'd guess.
I see what you did there...
I was just hoping that someone in the know (Andrew Moore) might be able to give a reason to buy the Crucial drives over the Plextor, when on paper the Plextor seems better. Like how, for example, all Sandforce drives have inflated benchmark scores using compressible data, and in the real world their performance is much lower - or, maybe the Crucial drives use better NAND.
I'm genuinely not putting the new Crucial drives down, I'm a big fan of their drives and own an M4 myself, I'm just trying to gather information on how they compare to something that, on paper, seems to use similar hardware yet perform better and offers a better warranty.
Fixed.
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Yeah there's no way that exchange rate is accounting for almost £70 difference, they are definitely profiteering off early adapters, but then that's usually the case when OcUK gets something first.