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A Review On: Crucial 64gb m4

Crucial 64gb m4

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NewEgg.com$76.99
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Price paid: $115.00
croSSeduP
By croSSeduP
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Pros: FAST, reliable, basically "plug and play"

Cons: Price

This is the best computer hardware purchase I have made in a long time. I bought this SSD to have as a boot drive and to store most of the programs I run (accept games). Performance increase is RIDICULOUS! When my computer goes to the desk top ALL my background programs are running and in place. NO wait time for all those programs to load. They are ON as soon as the desktop appears. Shut down: Holy cow. After I choose "shut down" I reach out and turn off my monitor, push my office chair back, and (most of the time) before my butt leaves the seat, the computer is off. Amazing. Seriously. Best hardware purchase in a long time. Buy it!
Oh, BTW, Newegg has these on special now. Instead of $115 they are on sale for $110. (12/10/11)
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4 Comments

Systemlord 12/11/11 at 1:00pm
I'm new to these SSD's and realize they leave mechanical HDD in the dust, but what is the reason you chose not use the Crucial 64gb m4 for games?
WeirdHarold 12/11/11 at 1:26pm
I was wondering the same thing? Faster load times in games is one of the main reasons to get an SSD !
Systemlord 12/11/11 at 1:41pm
Especially if you online, every ms counts!
croSSeduP 12/11/11 at 1:50pm
You know, come to think of it, no reason to NOT put games on the SSD, except for one: Drive space. At only 64 GB some games may max that. But some games take a irritatingly long time to load. I have heard that that is true for BF3. I know that's true of Turok, a game I played a couple of years ago. Using Turok as an example, that game takes up a LOT of HDD space and I'm not sure there is enough room on my Crucial to install it there, if I wanted to play it again. If I DID want to play it again, and there was enough space on the Crucial M4, I would definitely put it there because of how slow it loads on a normal spin HDD. I would either uninstall the game, or move it to one of my other HDD's once I had had my fun with that game.

Incidently, I have my "spin" HDD's set up in RAID0 so load times are going to be decreased there anyway. Not as fast as a high speed SSD like the M4, but you get the point.
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