Today only. Newegg has the Crucial M4 CT064M4SSD2 2.5" 64GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive for $85 with free shipping. Features read speeds of up to 415 MB/s and write speeds of up to 95 MB/s.
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fu lol. i have been looking at this drive every day, waiting for it to go down in price. of course i was busy with work the day it went on a shellshocker sale. bleh.
Reviews are awesome on Newegg. This is very tempting but I'm gonna hold out for BF, maybe a 96 GB.
If you are planning to use it for an SRT cache drive, 64GB is as big as you can go. Using SRT now and it rocks.
Waiting for the $30 40GB SSD after rebate BF.
Ben's been quoting old read speeds for M4 drives. Newer firmware from Crucial provides improved read performance. See here for some benchmarks comparing the old firmware to the new firmware:
http://www.derbench.de/index.php/component/kunena/20-ssd-drives-solid-state-drive-basierend-auf-mlc/66-performanzfirmware-neue-firmware-version-009-fuer-crucial-m4-und-micron-c400-erschienen?Itemid=0
Here's a link to the firmware:
http://www.crucial.com/support/firmware.aspx
correct, those r/w speeds are old, they are much faster these days, and the IOPS are great. I have a 64gig M4 in an AO721 netbook, 128gig M4 in my gaming rig, and 512gig M4 in my work PC(the fun of being an IT Mgr, I can buy stupid baconnaise and not get questioned), and about 30 M4s in various corporate infrastructure. I have 12 512GB M4s in a dell 510 that took an oracle DB from 1-2s transactions with 300GB savvio 10Ks to 15-25ms transactions. I was using mostly OCZ drives then had several fail within a week and gave up on OCZ. Having 1 drive fail wouldn't be an issue, but I had a raid 6 fail within a week, 4 drives puked one after another before I could get replacements in. I used my 1 spare then had 3 more die. Usually when a drive in a raid pukes I ship it standard as the chances on another giving up within a week are rare, but to have 3 fail within 6 days was disgusting. Thankfully I run proper backups and only lost 1 hour of transactions, but the nightmare it put me through was too much. Screw you OCZ, go go crucial!
silly question but a quick google search didn't turn anything up. when you guys refer to "bacon," what exactly do you mean? i get it in the context you are using it, but what is the exact meaning? and where did it come from?
^ Ah grasshopper, no one knows from where the bacon comes, only that it is an enigma well worth pursuit and yet, something to avoid at all cost.
the baconnaise was ben's filtering a fecal word :p
wait a minute. you are saying "bacon" is just inserted due to the forum's filter system? i've gotta try this.
baconnaise.
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