Comment on Crucial 128 GB m4 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive SATA 6Gb/s CT128M4SSD2 by David D. Arnold “Dave the Tech”.
Made my old laptop lightening fast,
Test Laptop – Dell Latitude D630 – 2.0GHz core 2 duo with 4GB ram
I installed this drive and then installed Windows XP pro. When complete I then installed Windows 7 home premium and set laptop up as a dual boot system. I then tested both by booting into Windows XP and Windows 7. I then ran every update and every service pack on both Windows XP SP3 and Windows 7 SP1. I installed antivirus, adobe reader, Microsoft Office 2007, Firefox 5.0, etc. When all was perfect with both operating systems I pulled out he HD and cloned it over to a brand new standard SATA drive. Then came the fun of testing both HD’s and OS’s for boot times, etc.
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Pros: $2 per GB is a great price. Drive will breathe new life into ANY PC. Easy to install, lots of fun. Drive has NEVER locked up for me, not with hibernation, sleep mode anything.
Cons: $2 per GB is a lot higher than a standard SATA drive. Firmware was hard to locate, although easy to install.
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Windows XP Pro
Standard SATA HD – power on to hear windows startup sound 1:30 seconds
Crucial M4 CT128M4SSD2 – power on to hear windows startup sound :22 seconds
Standard SATA HD – power on to fully pull up www.google.com 1:55 seconds
Crucial M4 CT128M4SSD2 – power on to fully pull up www.google.com :28 seconds
Standard SATA HD – power on to hard drive activity light to go off completely 1:45 seconds
Crucial M4 CT128M4SSD2 – power on to hard drive activity light to go off completely :29 seconds
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Windows 7 Home Premium SP1
Standard SATA HD – power on to hear windows startup sound 2:10 seconds
Crucial M4 CT128M4SSD2 – power on to hear windows startup sound :20 seconds
Standard SATA HD – power on to fully pull up www.google.com 3:00 seconds
Crucial M4 CT128M4SSD2 – power on to fully pull up www.google.com :25 seconds
Standard SATA HD – power on to hard drive activity light to go off completely 3:30 seconds
Crucial M4 CT128M4SSD2 – power on to hard drive activity light to go off completely :26 seconds
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All of this was with original firmware 001, I did update (after all testing) to 002 but nothing changed HD runs solid and sleeps/hibernates, etc. runs like a dream with 0 issues for me. It has never locked up. I cannot imagine how fast this drive would be in a new PC or laptop with an i7 CPU and more ram. Sadly my laptop is now so fast there is no way that I can justify replacing anytime soon. Buy this drive you will not be sorry.
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