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Benchmarking the drive will be done on our Bench Rig and we will be using various types of software to determine the performance of the Crucial M4 SSD. The software used will be: AS SSD, CrystialDiskMark, Anvil, IOMeter, ATTO, and PCMark’s Vantage running the HDD Suite.
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Bench rig:
- Gigabyte 880GA-UD3H
- AMD Phenom II X4 965
- 2x2GB Patriot Sector 5 PC3-12800
- ADATA s511 120GB SDD
- Lian Li PC-6 (click to read our review)
- BFG LS-450
- Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
AS SSD is a small but powerful SSD benchmarking utility created specifically for that purpose. The software uses “incompressible” data to benchmark your drive without the benefits of compression that may increase performance under certain circumstances.
The overall total score of the Crucial M4 is nearly 50 percent higher than the ADATA S511 which is similarly priced ($124.99). The charts below will demonstrate that Crucial’s speed claims are valid for sustained read and write… perhaps they were being a bit modest with the write speeds.
