Packaging and A Closer Look
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Fairly simple layout here; with no eye-searing graphics to distract from what’s important. |
| Again, fairly simple layout. It’s disappointing to see them continuing the trend of misrepresenting a gigabyte as 1000MB, instead of the value of 1024MB that the computer uses. This means that the drive, while advertised at 256GB, will show up as a 238GB volume when connected to your computer. It’s worth noting that this is hardly unique to Crucial, everybody who sells any kind of storage does this now. |  |
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The orange theme continues to the housing of the drive itself. Four screws hold the housing in place; easy enough to remove if you’re feeling adventurous—and don’t mind voiding your warranty. I do mind, so the those screws are staying right where they are. |
| Here’s where the detailed info about the drive can be found. And that’s literally all there is to this. Aside from a very brief installation card, this drive came with nothing else. |  |
[…] Quote: Slow secondary storage has been the biggest persistent gripe about PC gaming for quite a while now. While CPUs, RAM, graphics cards and system busses have all been improving at a steady rate; hard drives have stayed more or less stagnant for the past decade. Enter the solid state drive. At its most basic level, a SSD has the same basic structure as a USB flash drive: a bunch of NAND flash memory chips, a controller to tie them together, and an interface that talks to the outside world. Where a SSD pulls ahead is, naturally enough, in the performance of those three components. Today we’ll be looking at the RealSSD C300 256GB SSD from Crucial. Taking advantage of the still-uncommon SATA 6.0 GBps interface, this drive promises to deliver blisteringly fast performance. LINK: http://www.techwarelabs.com/crucial-realssd-c300-256gb/ […]
[…] Quote: Slow secondary storage has been the biggest persistent gripe about PC gaming for quite a while now. While CPUs, RAM, graphics cards and system busses have all been improving at a steady rate; hard drives have stayed more or less stagnant for the past decade. Enter the solid state drive. At its most basic level, a SSD has the same basic structure as a USB flash drive: a bunch of NAND flash memory chips, a controller to tie them together, and an interface that talks to the outside world. Where a SSD pulls ahead is, naturally enough, in the performance of those three components. Today we’ll be looking at the RealSSD C300 256GB SSD from Crucial. Taking advantage of the still-uncommon SATA 6.0 GBps interface, this drive promises to deliver blisteringly fast performance. LINK: http://www.techwarelabs.com/crucial-realssd-c300-256gb/ […]
[…] Quote: Slow secondary storage has been the biggest persistent gripe about PC gaming for quite a while now. While CPUs, RAM, graphics cards and system busses have all been improving at a steady rate; hard drives have stayed more or less stagnant for the past decade. Enter the solid state drive. At its most basic level, a SSD has the same basic structure as a USB flash drive: a bunch of NAND flash memory chips, a controller to tie them together, and an interface that talks to the outside world. Where a SSD pulls ahead is, naturally enough, in the performance of those three components. Today we’ll be looking at the RealSSD C300 256GB SSD from Crucial. Taking advantage of the still-uncommon SATA 6.0 GBps interface, this drive promises to deliver blisteringly fast performance. LINK: http://www.techwarelabs.com/crucial-realssd-c300-256gb/ […]
[…] Quote: Slow secondary storage has been the biggest persistent gripe about PC gaming for quite a while now. While CPUs, RAM, graphics cards and system busses have all been improving at a steady rate; hard drives have stayed more or less stagnant for the past decade. Enter the solid state drive. At its most basic level, a SSD has the same basic structure as a USB flash drive: a bunch of NAND flash memory chips, a controller to tie them together, and an interface that talks to the outside world. Where a SSD pulls ahead is, naturally enough, in the performance of those three components. Today we’ll be looking at the RealSSD C300 256GB SSD from Crucial. Taking advantage of the still-uncommon SATA 6.0 GBps interface, this drive promises to deliver blisteringly fast performance. LINK: http://www.techwarelabs.com/crucial-realssd-c300-256gb/ […]
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