CT128M225 Crucial, The specs are super
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The specs are super
I purchased to replace a RAID 0 set of WD Raptors 10k RPM drives. This single drive exceeds these and the power reduction is a super bonus. I will try two more in RAID 0 in the near future. There are no hiccups when using this drive which can be an issue with others (rebooting usually solves the issue.)
The price is a bit much but the power savings and the cost savings not having to power two 10K RPM drives is worth it if you dont mind spending the cash. Obviously you are interested in spending if you are looking at this one. :-). I upgrading this drive into a system into a system with an outboard .5 Tb NAS drive and a 1 GB network which is almost all I will need for a long time to come. I won’t bother to discuss RAM, MB and Video card. I wouldn’t hesitate to add on of these to a laptop or existing system to upgrade. This can save the cost of buying a new PC/Laptop/MAC. Cloning an old drive onto this one can make big improvements but not without hitches…. I am struggling with QuickBooks. Seems they have some stupid hidden settings in the registry causing issues for me. Overall, I am very pleased. My system loafs, is too quiet (not sure it is on), and all software is quick to load (subjective but truly fast). I am waiting on the new Intel drive for price and function coming out later this fall, but this particular drive at its 200M ++ read speed is a super. Don’t be bashful about spending the $’s if you want a drive that gets it done.
Update (2/6/2012): I also found some auctions for this item here.
The featured review for this product, Crucial Technology 128GB Crucial M225 Series 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive CT128M225 Electronics, was written by W. Johnson.
The average rating for this item is out of 5 stars, according to 3 reviews.
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Tags: crucial, crucial 128gb, hard drive, solid state drive, ssd
Posted on: August 27, 2010
Filed under: Reviews
Reviews (3)
Ron Eby
July 25th, 2010 at 1:56 pm
Nice, but does not justify the cost
As of this writing, this is one of the fastest performing MLC SSD drives on the market (SLC is faster, but much more expensive). The most noticeable difference is in the Windows boot up time. My boot time on an Asus MB with Intel I7 920 went from 2 min 30 sec to about 45 seconds.
However, beyond this I really don’t notice any real time performance increase over a standard 7200 rpm mechanical drive. I am only using the drive for my OS and swap file, so if you plan to use for launching applications you may see more of a difference. But with Windows 7, the swap file, and all my necessary drivers I’ve loaded this drive about 2/3 full, so there’s really not a lot more room for apps.
If you boot your system a lot and you’re impatient, then this is probably a pretty good product for you. But for the price I could buy a couple of 2tb disks and still have some change left over. The decrease in boot time is nice, but for me it doesn’t justify the expense of this (or any other) SSD.
W. Johnson
August 13th, 2010 at 8:18 am
The specs are super
Rated 5 stars.
Mako
August 21st, 2010 at 8:29 am
Fast - with Windows 7
I just installed one of these in my HP Pavilion notebook under Windows 7. The benchmark tests I ran showed anywhere from a 500 to 2000% (!!!) speed increase over the stock HDD, depending on the operation. In real life, it’s not as fast as those numbers would indicate - but still plenty fast. My reboot and wake from sleep times are about twice as fast. Application startup times are shorter too - especially Outlook 2007. From what I’ve read, Windows 7 automatically recognizes an SSD and optimizes the system for it. This apparently isn’t the case w/ previous MS operating systems, so I’m not sure if XP or Vista can be tweaked to provide comparable speed increases. Also not sure about MacOS or Linux either. SSDs are different animals, and don’t require the OS to compensate for the slow access times of mechanical drives. That said, IMO it was worth the cost for the speed increase. My PC has two hard drive bays, so I can keep the original drive and not lose any storage space. (I rarely run on battery, so the power savings isn’t important to me.) I’ve always been extremely satisfied with Crucial products. I’ve purchased dozens of Crucial memory modules over the years, and only ever had one failure. That item was promptly replaced. So I’m confident I have a good quality SSD backed by good service. The price of SSDs is constantly dropping, and the technology is getting better. So you’ll undoubtedly save some money if you wait. But having been around PCs for many years, this is one of the better upgrade investments I’ve made.
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