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Posted 27 January 2012
Crucial M4 SSD lowest price ever 128gb £127.76 ( £111.76 with TCB cashback)
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I think this is the lowest price the M4 SSD has ever been before TCB 15% cashback on SSDs.
Use code Naughty7 for this price.
Both naughty7 and the 15.15% cashback from TopCashBack end on the 31st of January
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Use code Naughty7 for this price.
Both naughty7 and the 15.15% cashback from TopCashBack end on the 31st of January
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sorted byRead the whole of the deal. It's only two lines but you've missed the second one.
This is better in every way.
SMART caching is only meant for smaller drives not big enough to actually hold an OS and programs. With 64GB you will be better off installing the OS and programs to that and not just using it as a cache drive.
Someone didn't read the description.
I will be giving my old 128GB on to my brother in law to improve the speed of his laptop which is now getting slow.
I have to admit the Crucials had been the most reliable SSD drives and then are so fast. I always want the 256gb drives but they were way to expensive in the past. Now I can get this one for £179 OMG
I could buy two but I could not really justify this for my business.
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Or at least not boast about tax avoidance on a public website.
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I use these as they allow side and bottom mounting (and they are only £2):
amazon.co.uk/Kin…-30
You can actually fit two 2.5" drives into a single 3.5" bay with this adapter.
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You're returning the drive just because quidco only tracked at 7%? oO
If you care about your data I would get the m4. If I had to get a Sandforce based drive it would be a Corsair.
Run a command prompt (cmd, must run as admin), then type: fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify
If the result is '0' TRIM is enabled.
I found this in a Crucial pdf -
150 mW in operation, <85 mW in standby
Yes but the beauty of an SSD is that it doesn't move/vibrate/get hot so you can just rest it anywhere in the case and it'll be fine.
Looking to run SMART caching on my z68 board. Hot.
Make sure you let the WIN7 installer format your drive, but only after enabling AHCI in your BIOS. That way the BIOS and drive interaction is the fastest, and the WIN7 installer prepares all the optimisations for SSDs. I also went through all the various advices found on the Internet which is a bit time consuming, but it means you can rest easy that you've got the best balance between speed and drive-life. I think I'll be taking a system-drive backup every so often, but then even though SSDs are known to be more unreliable, mech drives aren't 100% reliable anyway, so you just need to plan for backups and restores unless you're running RAID.
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Yes but you'll need to manually update the firmware yourself - crucial.com/uk/…spx
0309, at the top is the latest firmware which fixes this issue.
want one with USB3, RAID
OCZ AGility 3 please, as I have a few problems with Crucial ones
Epicly faster read speeds (everything opens faster).
Speed, speed and more speed. Often the computer is waiting for data to arrive from the hard disc with this that wait has gone
What about removing the dvd drive and putting the ssd drive there using something like:
amazon.co.uk/gp/…PQ2
then use the ssd for the operating system and bootcamp with all your media and apps on the hard disk
I think they are the same drive but given different part numbers to reference different laptops. The longer code being the generic one for the 128GB SSD. For example my order email shows
Qty: 1 CT1974010
Part Number: CT128M4SSD2CCA
My order is for the 128GB drive with the transfer kit for a Lenovo x200.
Assuming you are going to use this as an OS/Boot drive write speed is not really that important. 95% of Windows 7 operations are reads and you want to minimize writes to the drive anyway to increase it's lifespan.
In short, access time and read speeds are the most important in an SSD, not the write speed.
Not relying on it but I've had over £5.5k in cashback so far and would rather have it than not
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Coupon code
thought it was meant to finish midnight tommorow ?
Cheapest place for Windows 7 is here:
software4students.co.uk/Win…spx
Nope I didn't have to calculate the function of an angle, just signed for the package.
Yes..as can't be bother to submit a claim and wait for months..
I only want one but want it to be delivered quick hence I ordered another one..lol..
Update your sata drivers, only install on intel sata ports, turn off hibernation if on desktop, change size of page file.
overclock.net/t/1…100
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The Asus UL30 will have SATA2 which is limited to 300MB/s so you are getting the max. SATA2 speed.
tomshardware.com/rev…tml
It skips the obvious steps like updating firmware etc, but it is a good optimisation guide. Not all the steps will be right for everyone, but they are explained well enough to make your own educated decision.
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