Crucial M225 128GB
Introduction
Published: 6th January 2010 | Source: Crucial | Price: £282.80 |
Crucial M225 128GB SSD
Introduction
Crucial have been in memory business for a long time and it's only natural for them to have been one of the first companies who provided solid state drives for the home user. Today we will be looking at their M225 128GB SSD which is designed as a large capacity notebook replacement storage solution.
As we're all aware by now a Solid State Drive (SSD) is the number one performance enhancing upgrade you can purchase. Nowhere is this more true than in notebooks where not only do they need every bit of performance assistance they can get, but also any improvement in battery life allows for more productivity. So does the Crucial M225 deliver?
Specifications The Crucial webpage for this particular drive has a very limited specifications page, although it covers most of the details that the average purchaser would be interested in.
| Series Name | Crucial M225 Solid-State Drive |
| Capacity | 128GB |
| Internal Cache | 64MB DRAM |
| Performance | 250MB/s READ, 190MB/s WRITE |
| NAND Flash Components | Multi-Level Cell (MLC) NAND Flash Memory |
| Interface | Serial ATA 3.0Gb/s (SATA) |
| Form Factor | 2.5" (100.20 mm x 69.85 mm x 9.50 mm) |
Heady numbers indeed. Hopefully the small amount of cache relative to other SSDs we've tested recently wont lead to the infamous stuttering problems. Of course there is only one way to find out, but firstly let's take a look at the packaging.
Most Recent Comments
£283 >.<
We're about to be on the crest of drives with controllers capable of bursting over 300mbs as an average, one would hope that they take over the £2/G mantle, whilst the ""slower"" <280mbs existing drives head towards £1.5/G (atleast! ) To that extent, it still doesn't look good.
Think with all the reviews of ssds OC3D has under it's belt, we could throw some comparisons charts together.
Can't mock the performance tho.Quote
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Originally Posted by name='Rastalovich'
Great review.
£283 >.< We're about to be on the crest of drives with controllers capable of bursting over 300mbs as an average, one would hope that they take over the £2/G mantle, whilst the ""slower"" <280mbs existing drives head towards £1.5/G (atleast! ) To that extent, it still doesn't look good. Think with all the reviews of ssds OC3D has under it's belt, we could throw some comparisons charts together. Can't mock the performance tho. |
As for the graphs- The crucial was tested in a notebook, so it can't really be compared with all the other SSD's which were tested on a desktop IIRC.Quote
Gonna copyright that phrase one of these days. wcwgaw ?Quote
Really, they're quite cheap.Quote
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