Reviewers Liked
- Performance beats specifications, Affordable, Great OS drive abilities, 3 Year warranty
Reviewers Didn't Like
- No SATA III 6G upgrade path
Crucial 2.5 inch v4 Series SATA600
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By TechSpot
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It's been a great year for prospective SSD shoppers as prices are finally becoming more practical for system builders and consumers alike. Scrolling through our reviews from last year, most of the higher capacity models were prohibitively expensive...
By TechRadar
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While every man and his dog is throwing SATA 6Gbps interfaced SSDs at us as if there's no tomorrow, where does that leave everyone that is still packing SATA 3Gbps systems? Surely they deserve some modern SSD love too? This is the premise behind...
By Expert Reviews
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Provides a decent performance boost for SATA2 PCs and is cheap enough to justify the extra...
By theregister.co.uk
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Unfortunately for Crucial, the v4 has been launched into seriously competitive and fast moving market where prices are seemingly dropping on a weekly basis, even in the larger capacities. Even though it's unashamedly promoted as a 3Gb/s SSD, its...
By Pureoverclock
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Affordable and solid upgrade for those with SATA II 3G system limitations. Discuss in the...
By uk.hardware.info
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Unless you're sporting really old hardware, an SSD is the best sure-fire way to boost the performance of your desktop or laptop computer. There is so much choice now it's difficult to know whether there is a significant difference between various SSDs...
By uk.hardware.info
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In June, 2012 we published a large group test of SSDs with capacities of 120/128 GB and 240/256 GB . Those are still the most popular sizes, judging from what people search for on Hardware.Info. The world of SSDs didn't stand still, and since then a...
By AnandTech
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The biggest reason why SSDs have not become truly mainstream (yet) is price. While prices have come down significantly over the last year, you are are still paying roughly $0.75 per GB, whereas hard drives can usually bought for less than $0.10 per...
By Hardware Canucks
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Many reading this review will likely scoff at the performance of Crucial’s V4 256GB. In many ways, its performance hearkens back to yesteryear rather than meeting our expectations of a product that’s being released in the latter half of 2012. Much of...
By thessdreview.com
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If you are looking to migrate from a hard drive to an SSD and your system is one of 90% of the SATA 2 systems out there, the Crucial V4 SSD will provide a very visible upgrade to your computer. Crucial was one of the first out of the gate with SSDs and...
By Legit Reviews
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The Crucial V4 line is one of the few SATA II (3Gbps) drives released recently giving solid performance at a reasonable price that will appeal to thiose with older hardware not able to take advantage of the latest generation of SATA III (6Gbps)...
By uk.hardware.info
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The Crucial v4s are pretty much the cheapest SSDs you can currently find, so it's not fair to expect the best performance. That said, the v4s are a lot slower than all other current SSDs, even the already pretty slow OCZ Petrols. In PCMark Vantage we...
By proclockers.com
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The v4 from Crucial is somewhat of a throwback of solid state drives before 2011 and was based on the SATA II controller. The numbers presented by the drive are typical of those used to take advantage the SATA II controller. At 230/175 MB/s read and...
By zeden.net
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L'objectif initial de Crucial était de proposer un produit très abordable, destiné aux machines un peu âgées, et proposant des performances limitées. Le constructeur a en fait volontairement proposé un produit aux performances d'entrée de gamme, pour...
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