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Old November 2, 2011, 07:13 PM
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So I finally got my hands on a SSD ( Crucial M4 128GB).
I did a fresh Windows 7 x64 install and once I got a few drivers installed I fired up CrystalDiskMark to see how my results would compare to what I've seen online.

Now this drive is sata3 and my system is only sata2 but I didn't think there would be this huge of a difference in speed between the two...


i5 750 - 3.6GHz
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Am I missing something?
Perhaps I don't have something set correctly?

Help would be greatly appreciated!
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Old November 2, 2011, 07:17 PM
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That looks perfectly fine to me.
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Old November 2, 2011, 07:19 PM
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Hrmm

I just really don't notice much of a difference compared to my Caviar Black 640GB...

Would this purely just be my lack of sata3?
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Old November 2, 2011, 07:22 PM
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The difference should be huge between this and a WD640AALS.

Moving to a SATA 6Gbps controller won't make the biggest real world difference.
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Old November 2, 2011, 07:26 PM
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What's up with people getting 400-500+ sequential read speads?
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Old November 2, 2011, 07:38 PM
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That's with people with native 6gbps sata controllers..
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Old November 2, 2011, 07:41 PM
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So my speeds are as they should be and its blowing my Caviar Black 640GB out of the water I just am not noticing it?
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Old November 2, 2011, 07:45 PM
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Try running that same benchmark on your HDD and see what numbers you get.

To give you a comparison: Crucial M4 64GB versus Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 320GB (single platter) via AS SSD benchmarking


Sequential speeds aren't really all that different -- note I'm stuck using SATA II but on IDE rather than the preferred AHCI -- but smaller files make the difference readily apparent. This is why the usual recommendation is to put applications on the SSD but media files (which are all sequential) on the HDD. The SSD can be faster when it's not hampered by the interface as mine is, but the relative speeds are a lot closer on long, sequential files where the SSD's low latency and ability to pull information from multiple points at once are less important.
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Old November 2, 2011, 10:08 PM
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4K random read & writes are what matter, no sequential. The M4 blows your HDD out of the water.
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