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I rang up this morning and have arranged for my Vertex 2 to be rma'ed and ordered a V4 
(Although i haven't received the RMA email as yet, rang at 10am)
(Although i haven't received the RMA email as yet, rang at 10am)
You asked for 256GB for less than £100 and here it is!! Crucials V4!! IN STOCK & BENCHMARKED!!
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Soldato
Hi there
Stock is here!
We shall hold this special price over the weekend, until Monday morning!
Surely you can stretch it out to next weekend? *wishful thinking*
Go on, Gibbo. You know you want to. Some of us won't be paid til then.Of course if there was any left over, I'd be happy to see it on a Today Only deal for the same price or even £105 would be ideal til it goes back up to £120
Hi there
As promised I've run some benchmarks on this V4 drive to see how it really performs:-
Single Drive Benchmarks
RAID 0 Benchmarks
As can be seen the drives actually perform better than the advertised specification.
Drives test on X79 SATA6 mainboard! Performance on SATA2 could be +/- 1-2%!!
As promised I've run some benchmarks on this V4 drive to see how it really performs:-
Single Drive Benchmarks
RAID 0 Benchmarks
As can be seen the drives actually perform better than the advertised specification.
Drives test on X79 SATA6 mainboard! Performance on SATA2 could be +/- 1-2%!!
Thx ocuk for this bargain. I do not worship benchmarks as much as some of the guys here. What I needed, was the expansion of my Steam drive, so I happily sacrifice my "so called" quicker Corsair 120GB Force Series 3 for this 256GB drive. My win7 is still sitting on Vertex 2E I bought from you long time ago and I am perfectly happy with this.
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Man of Honour
Any news on shipment of these? Ordered the other day, printed in warehouse at the moment. I'm assuming Monday.
Ordered - turned out to be an expensive typo as i was searching for M4 info for a friend and stumbled across this thread.
Great pound to GB ratio even for a mid-range drive - a fun, luxury, purchase for my needs and looking forward to Office Apps opening up in under a second - simple pleasures...
Great pound to GB ratio even for a mid-range drive - a fun, luxury, purchase for my needs and looking forward to Office Apps opening up in under a second - simple pleasures...
Soldato
I quickly bodged mine into the Lian Li when I got home from work. Turned on, quick format to NTFS. Ran the Crystal Disk Mark if anyone is interested.
I never benchmark my drives so haven't a clue if this is any use. The write speed seems a bit high compared to OcUK test result above?
Running on a Zotac 890GX-ITX (SB850).
Can run other benchmarks if anyone needs?
Edit: Ran AS SSD benchmark also:
I never benchmark my drives so haven't a clue if this is any use. The write speed seems a bit high compared to OcUK test result above?
Running on a Zotac 890GX-ITX (SB850).
Can run other benchmarks if anyone needs?
Edit: Ran AS SSD benchmark also:
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Soldato
I'm still using my 50gig Vertex 2e for boot, this will just be used for games/applications.
Soldato
Just installed this as a system drive on a Macbook and it is worse performance than a normal HDD.
Windows (running via Bootcamp) was downloading updates and the drive performance dropped to that of a USB flash drive 28MB/Sec read and 16MB/Sec Write. There are lots of users on the Crucial forums with the same issue. I get the same slow performance in the Mac OS as well.
For me it is not worth it and I will be returning it under DSR.
Windows (running via Bootcamp) was downloading updates and the drive performance dropped to that of a USB flash drive 28MB/Sec read and 16MB/Sec Write. There are lots of users on the Crucial forums with the same issue. I get the same slow performance in the Mac OS as well.
For me it is not worth it and I will be returning it under DSR.
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Phew, glad I'm not the only one. I replaced this with a Samsung 830 today, and the difference is amazing.
Unfortunately I'm outside of the DSR
Don't expect miracles. It's just V4, not M4 - el cheapo series, with plenty of room (as for SSD). Rather sloow (4K Write IOPS = funny), I'd not change my Agility 3 60 for this
I don't think its so suited for concurrent read/write. Essentially a storage ssd. The 4k read is about as fast, and the access times faster than my v100+ but I don't have anything like the slowdown that some v4 owners have said (could be a drive specific issue tho as ive seen plenty of happy customers too).
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