Crucial M4 Series mSATA

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 6 expert reviews

Excellent:

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Pros:

Tiny form factor, big on performance. Crucial's track record on SSD products is excellent. Can be installed directly on mSATA motherboards. Miniature tech that works this well is simply amazing.

Cons:

If you don't require the small footprint, there are other equally attractive SSD options on the market.

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Last revision on December 3, 2014

Reviewers Liked

Tiny form factor, big on performance. Crucial's track record on SSD products is excellent. Can be installed directly on mSATA motherboards. Miniature tech that works this well is simply amazing

Reviewers Didn't Like

If you don't require the small footprint, there are other equally attractive SSD options on the market

Expert reviews and ratings

It's long been suggested that solid state drives represent the most important upgrade you can give a modern computer for boosting its overall performance. Today that remains true by a considerable margin, where even budget-oriented SSDs wipe the floor...

By TechSpot on September 19, 2012

Small mSATA SSD drives slowly become more and more popular since, due to their tiny size, they are ideal for use in ultra-portable notebooks and on motherboards. Gigabyte has a long list of motherboards with mSATA slots which initially were meant only to...

By VR-Zone on September 18, 2012

So far, the Crucial m4 offers the best value among SSDs. Though it's not the fastest, it's by far the most affordable among its...

By CNET Australia on June 24, 2011

100

Install was a breeze; un-box it, remove the old HD and replace it. The bios of my laptop immediately recognized it.With full restore media in hand, an external CD/DVD was attached and the install process was started. The first install was a full restore...

By examiner.com on May 12, 2011

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 uk.hardware.info on February 08, 2013

We were kind of expecting it, but it's nice to see concrete proof that mSATA SSDs are as fast as their 2.5-inch counterparts, despite their small size. The Adata SX300 128GB scores almost exactly the same in every benchmark as the Adata SX900 128GB...

By uk.hardware.info on September 14, 2012

If purchasing an SSD for your desktop or laptop is not an option the Crucial Adrenaline M4 Cache drive may just fit the bill. Offloading up to 50 GB of your most used data to the SSD for 500+ MBps read speeds seriously boosts the loading time for both...

By TechReaction.net on June 15, 2012

We’ve opened our last few SSD round-ups with comments regarding the break-neck pace at which the solid state storage market has advanced these last few years. At the risk of repeating ourselves, the SSD market continues to show no signs of slowing...

By HotHardware on July 12, 2011

Two more SSDs recently landed in our lab. We cover...

By Tom's Hardware UK on March 28, 2011

Bref, ce SSD m4 décuplera les performances de votre ordinateur portable, mais n'améliorera pas forcément son autonomie. Vendu 209 euros à l'heure où nous écrivons ces lignes, ce SSD de 256 Go de capacité est plutôt une bonne...

By 01Net on September 19, 2012

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