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Crucial M4 or C300 SSD?

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dr0be

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I did a quick google search for the answer on these forums, but the only thread I saw, the guy had SATAII, so the answer was kind of irrelevant to me. I am upgrading soon and talked myself into getting a 64GB Crucial M4 SSD. After a few weeks looking at my list of parts, waiting as long as possible for prices to (hopefully) drop, I decided that I really would like to fit more stuff on my SSD. Realizing WoW takes up 25GB is probably the main culprit of this decision, but being able to have ALL my programs on it would really be awesome.

On harddrivebenchmark.com, the C300 beats the M4 by ~15% in Disc Mark. But I read that M4 is better for games because of it's higher sequential read speed, while the C300 will produce faster boot times. Can anyone confirm/deny this and tell me which would be better/faster for games and programs?
 
they are close enough in performance to where you won't notice the difference imo
personally i'd suggest the M4 (just cause it's newer and new is cool) unless you get a c300 for real cheap
 
Soulkeeper said:
they are close enough in performance to where you won't notice the difference imo
personally i'd suggest the M4 (just cause it's newer and new is cool) unless you get a c300 for real cheap
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Well the C300 is ~$30 more than the M4, so I guess it's the M4 then unless anyone else has any other comments.
 
You're not making a 100% fair comparison, necessarily. Crucial and Micron are the same company, and they sell their drives to different markets so they just rebrand them. But they're the same drives.

The C300 is last generation. The M4 is latest generation. You'll find C400 drives out there that are the M4's with different labels on them.

If you choose the C300 over the M4 just know that you're choosing a different generation drive.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4253/the-crucial-m4-micron-c400-ssd-review
 
The m4 is actually the newer version of the C300 if you look at it that way. Its just named differently.

The M4 is the way to go.
 
It'd be a toss-up for me.

I've run 2x256gb C300s in RAID0 for at least 6 months and these are great drives.

I'd probably stick with the larger (35nm) NAND and the C300s.......but maybe not. 🙂
 
I have one of each, both 64GB and both on SATA III. My M4 benches slightly faster than the C300 after upgrading to the 002 firmware. If one boots faster than the other it is not noticeable. Both are great drives and balls fast.

Buy the cheaper M4.
 
I've been pondering swapping my boot/OS drive to an SSD for a while now. The biggest hurdle for me is whether the performance gained is worth the price. I really want one, but just haven't been able to make myself pull the trigger yet...
 
In my comparisons of the C300 and M4, I have found the C300 beats the M4 in the 4k random reads/writes category by a fair margin. I personally have no qualms with either drive, but I feel the C300 is more mature.
 
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