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Why did YOU buy your Crucial M4 instead of another brand SSD?

Poll Results: Why did you buy your M4?

 
  • 4% (1)
    Speed/Performance was better than other SSDs
  • 20% (5)
    Cost per Gigabyte was better than other SSDs
  • 75% (18)
    Reliability was better than other SSDs
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4/29/12 at 7:46am
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Just curious. Synthetic benchmarks seem to put it about middle of the pack. I just don't don't see anything remarkable about it as far as cost, reliability, or performance. Yet it seems to be THE SSD of Overclock.net.
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post #2 of 21
4/29/12 at 7:51am
reliability.. its has fast read speeds...
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post #3 of 21
4/29/12 at 7:57am
stability.

pre firmware update vertex 3 came to mind.
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post #4 of 21
4/29/12 at 7:59am
So fast you'd never notice a difference in real world use over any faster SSD.. great price and reliable.
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4/29/12 at 7:59am
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Quote:
Originally Posted by darksen View Post

stability.
pre firmware update vertex 3 came to mind.

interesting. Did you ever consider a Samsung 830 or equivalent?
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post #6 of 21
4/29/12 at 8:03am
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So fast you'd never notice a difference in real world use over any faster SSD.. great price and reliable.

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post #7 of 21
4/29/12 at 8:09am
Ordered my 256gb M4 literally a few hours ago based on recommendation over the 830 so I'm expecting good things biggrin.gif
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4/29/12 at 8:14am
Price and reliability. Seemed like a great deal at $109 for 128GB.

Friend has one in his MB Pro, everything has been working great. So I figured it would be a safe choice for my MB Pro.

I would vote, but I need to be able to vote on two things at once.
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post #9 of 21
4/29/12 at 8:16am
The sheer fact that almost everyone on the board recommended it for it's reliability made me buy it. It may not be the fastest drive out there but reliability was a very important factor to me. I have two M4's now and they have been great. But yet I have a Kingston HyperX in my sig rig? Go figure lol biggrin.gif
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4/29/12 at 8:17am
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Reliability, and read speeds. thumb.gif
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