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Nothing against the M3, but when I was choosing to buy an SSD for the first time, it was between the Crucial M4 and the Plextor M3. I, on a whim, chose the Crucial Drive. Since then, at least 3 FREE firmware revisions have come out for the M4, most of which improved performance of the drive. Here, instead of providing this new firmware to the M3 users, then sell an "entirely new" drive with it(with the same exact hardware). No matter how this Pro version performs, just consider the practices of the company behind it...

Even though it's no longer the fastest I don't think you can really beat an M4 when you take everything into consideration especially with how much prices have dropped on them. Would not think twice though about buying from Samsung or Intel either. Could probabally be talked or read into one of the new OCZ drives as well. SSD quality in a lot of ways has skyrocketed in the past two years.
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The pro is also 7mm for ultrabooks.
This. No hardware cahnges but the thermal pads+case changes?
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Good review from AnandTech...basically re-confirming how similar the Plextor M3 Pro and Corsair Performance Pro perform. IMHO, best two SSDs overall...extremely well-balanced in all benchmarks across the board.

LOL, Vertex 4 seems to be very extreme...either the best (Desktop Iometer 4k, Heavy & Light Workload Write) or the worst in multiple benchmarks (Desktop Iometer 128k, Heavy & Light Workload Read)...after looking at this review, I personally don't recommend Vertex 4 as much as I used to...it's really not a "balanced" SSD...especially since most consider read speed more important than write speed.
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Good review from AnandTech...basically re-confirming how similar the Plextor M3 Pro and Corsair Performance Pro perform. IMHO, best two SSDs overall...extremely well-balanced in all benchmarks across the board.
LOL, Vertex 4 seems to be very extreme...either the best (Desktop Iometer 4k, Heavy & Light Workload Write) or the worst in multiple benchmarks (Desktop Iometer 128k, Heavy & Light Workload Read)...after looking at this review, I personally don't recommend Vertex 4 as much as I used to...it's really not a "balanced" SSD...especially since most consider read speed more important than write speed.

Personally, I'm all for write speed and random access. Reads are already fast on most hardware, even well maintained spinning disk drives.
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Personally, I'm all for write speed and random access. Reads are already fast on most hardware, even well maintained spinning disk drives.
This. For the OS, all you need is random read and writes. Only time seq. helps is with games or workloads.
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