November 2011 — HotHardware
Crucial 256GB m4 SSD
Recommended Award
" ... Crucial made available a firmware update that significantly changed the performance profile of their M4 SSD ... the Crucial drive offered more consistent performance with all data types, thanks to the characteristics of its Marvell-built controller, which handles highly compressible and non-compressible data similarly".
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August 2011 — HCW (Hardcoreware.net)
Crucial m4 SSD
Recommended Mid-Range Hardware Award
"The M4 also did a better job of keeping its performance in our "used drive torture test" but I won't pay much attention to that test, as it doesn't replicate real performance as well. That being said, the M4 won most overall tests that use relatively common levels of compression. That includes 4K IO transfer, and both versions of PCMark."
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August 2011 — Tom's Hardware
Crucial 128GB m4 SSD
2011 Recommended Buy Award
"... we're giving our 2011 Recommended Buy award to Crucial's 128 GB m4. This 120/128 GB capacity point continues to be the sweet spot where we believe you're getting the most performance without entirely breaking the bank."
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August 2011 — PC World Australia
Crucial 256GB m4 SSD
PC World Australia Editor's Choice Award
"Crucial's m4 256GB solid state drive is a little gem. It can supply very fast read and write transfer rates, and it will noticeably boost the performance of a laptop or desktop PC when it's used as a system drive. Sure, it's quite expensive, but like many famous musicians have proclaimed: "you gotta to pay the cost to be the boss."
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July 2011 — Hothardware
Crucial m4 SSD
Hot Hardware Recommended Award
"As you can see, the Crucial M4 was by far the least expensive drive looking at its cost per GB. If you want a high capacity drive and work with lots of incompressible data, the M4 is a fine choice."
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June 2011 — Tweaktown
Crucial m4 SSD
Tweaktown Best Value Award
"The Crucial m4 128GB is a solid buy that will increase your user experience by running your daily tasks quickly...What we learned today is that the Crucial m4 is a real competitor to the SandForce SF-2281 controlled drives with 25nm IMFT flash....What we are left with is a next generation SATA III SSD that is more than fast enough for nearly all users and a very good value when compared to the competition….The Bottom Line: The Crucial m4 128GB is a solid buy that will increase your user experience by running your daily tasks quickly. If you're buying the drive for a desktop don't forget to add a bracket."
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May 2011 — The SSD Review
Crucial m4 512GB SSD
Editor's Choice Award
"As stated right from the outset, finding this SSD even lower was a huge benefit although, myself, I might be more inclined to purchase directly from Crucial, given that I would want the security of a direct sale and customer support for such a purchase. Considering the cost, performance and reputation, Crucial once again grabs the Editors Choice for the M4 512GB SSD!"
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April 2011 — Benchmark Reviews
Crucial m4 SSD
Benchmark Reviews Silver Tachometer Award
"Construction is probably the strongest feature credited to the entire SSD product segment, and Crucial products have never offered any exception. Solid State Drives are by nature immune to most abuses, but add to this a hard metal shell and you have to wonder what it would take to make this drive fail. If a Crucial m4/Micron RealSSD C400-series SSD product fails during the limited 3-year warranty period, end-users can contact Lexar/Crucial via the company website or SSD support forum. There's also a toll-free telephone number for support or customer service questions available at 800-336-8915."
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March 2011 — The SSD Review
Crucial m4 SSD
Editor's Choice Award
"The only words that seem to come to mind right now are ‘Lesson learned’. Crucial has sent us a product that is not only the best performing 2.5? SSD drive on the market today, but also, we have no doubt of its positioning as other SATA 3 SSDs are released. Although the M4's SATA 3 scores are as expected, its true strength lies in its absolutely amazing 4k random write performance of 98MB/s which translates to real life performance."
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January 2011 — XbitLabs
Crucial RealSSD C300
Ultimate Innovation Award
"We've got an impression that this SSD, with a unique controller which is based on an ARM processor, is especially good at server loads. We are absolutely amazed at its writing performance in our server-oriented tests."
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October 2010 — PC World
Crucial RealSSD C300
PC World Best Tech Products of 2010 Award
The Crucial RealSSD C300 Solid-State Drive was ranked #16 out of 100 on PCWorld's Best Tech Products of 2010.
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August 2010 — UBM TechInsights
RealSSD C300
Most Innovative SSD Technology Award
"Micron Technology's improvements in SSD technology performance is a clear demonstration of their technical leadership in this area." - Ed Keyes, CTO UBM TechInsights
August 2010 — Tom's Hardware
Crucial RealSSD C300
Tom's Hardware's Summer Guide: 17 SSDs Rounded Up
"The Crucial RealSSD C300 offers the best performance and the best performance per dollar per gigabyte ..."
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June 2010 — Think Computers
256GB Crucial RealSSD C300
Editor’s Choice Award — 10 out of 10 rating
"As I said if you can support a SATA 6Gbps drive then there is no question you should get this drive. The 256GB version of this drive can be found for around $600 online, which is quite a lot to drop on a drive, but like we said it is the fastest drive available and truly cutting edge. Overall ThinkComputers gives the Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive a 10 out of 10 score and our Editor’s Choice Award!"
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June 2010 — MacLife
128GB Crucial M225 Solid-State Drive
SSD Round-up Winner
"…we’ve come to trust the Crucial brand over the years as a company that makes top-quality products, ships them quickly, and offers rock-solid support. It’s also one of the very fastest drives tested here, so we’re happy to recommend it."
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