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Final Thoughts
Pros:
- Great sequential read/write performance
- Excellent incompressible data performance
- Tiny form factor
- Up to a 256GB capacity
- Price
Cons:
- Lower than Standard M4 SATA random read/write performance
Overall, I found the Crucial m4 mSATA SSD to be very impressive. You get close to the performance of the full-size m4 but in a significantly smaller package. The sequential read/write performance with both compressible and incompressible was great, though the random read/write speeds were quite a bit lower than the standard drive in some cases. But the real pull of this drive is its form factor, which allows you to install it in extremely thin Ultrabooks or to free up a slot in a desktop PC. At basically the same price as the standard 256GB m4 drive (currently about $200), the mSATA drive is also very affordable, allowing you to choose between pure performance at the expense of size, or a tiny form factor at the expense of some performance.
For someone looking for the most power in the smallest package, this is absolutely the drive for them.
Once again we would like to thank Tiger Direct for providing the hardware needed to test this drive for us. See all of Tiger Directs mSATA drives here.
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