Crucial m4 benchmark

[SpacemanSpiffVT]

Guys, here is my Crucial M4 SSD scores. can you tell me why its running alittle slower than other benchmarks i have seen? does anything look out of the normal?

It seems fast but not as blazing fast of a difference I expected.
Note: I have a EVGA P55 SLI Board which is only SATA II I believe... maybe its slower bc of that?

 

[imaheadcase]

Score looks ok to me. You should not expect blazing fast for every application, depends on certain uses. Even then the benchmarks you see online for SSD are nothing you could tell from one to another in real life usage for most things.

However look at the comparison to see the difference in speed..http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/356?vs=355

I just ordered the 256gig M4 from newegg with that discount for $333, should get it Monday or Tuesday!

 

[kowalabearhugs]

SATA II's theoretical max is 300 MB/s, so the M4 is taking a bit of a performance hit. However, it's depending on your workload, it's questionable as to if you'd actually notice any difference by going to SATA III.

 

[kowalabearhugs]

@imaheadcase Is that M4 deal current or was it from a couple weeks ago?

 

[imaheadcase]

Its on now. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820148443

 

[SpacemanSpiffVT]

does it looks out of spec at all? any drivers or anything i could do to make it faster? its in AHCI mode.
the reason I ask is, while the performance is certainly snappier than before, it doesnt seem to be a life changer as I expected...... alot of money for alittle performance increase....

 

[kamikazekyle]

The sequential tests seem to be in-spec. But the 4k read/write times seem really, really out of bounds if that's random and not sequential (I'm not familiar with that program you're using). You should be pulling twice the read/write on a 4K random according to the Anandtech bench at SATAII speeds. Or at least in that ballpark. And your main "this feels fast" gains for daily use come from random reads/writes.

Offhand, check to make sure your partition is 4k aligned. Windows 7 should do this automatically if you created the partition within Windows itself (or its installer). There are some tools that can do this for you, or you can do the math yourself with diskpart or Disk Management. Outside of that, assuming the drive's firmware, your BIOS, and drivers are all up to date would be a hardware compatability issue or something wonky with the drive.

As a disclaimer, since I'm not familiar with that program and what is in its "4k" test, I'm doing a lot of assuming here.

 

[SpacemanSpiffVT]

i will check those issues you brought up.
is there any other benchmarks I can try?

Just to ensure that 4k random is actually lower than normal.

 

[beginner99]

does it looks out of spec at all? any drivers or anything i could do to make it faster? its in AHCI mode.
the reason I ask is, while the performance is certainly snappier than before, it doesnt seem to be a life changer as I expected...... alot of money for alittle performance increase....

One of the benefits is you will lose less performance once the windows install gets "old". We all know windows gets slower over time. A clean install is mostly rather quick on a modern hdd too.

The second thing is, you need to have a benchmark. Work on your computer with ssd for a while and then change to a hdd based one. You will feel the difference then.

The thing is you don't notice any improvement because the computer just works as you would expect. Responsive no stuttering for no apparent reasons and so forth. With hdd it just isn't the case.

Then your use cases. Just try doing something while a virus scan is running. That happens to my work computer. it gets unusable. Luckily a re-boot stops the scan...

 

[john3850]

Window stays nice and fast
When I put windows on my first ssd the total size was 11.2gig now a year later my windows size is 12.2gig with 44gig left free.
All my user files are kept on a spindle F3 drive.
When i check my ssd for clean up which I rearly do it looks dam close to the way it did after my windows install.