Crucial RealSSD C300 128GB 2.5IN Solid State Disk Flash Drive SATA3 6GBPS

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Nicely, Im certain you know its rapidly by now. Sata III is fast connection. Install and run OS quickly. Every single day to day task in your OS is snappy (open browsers and popular applications immediately). I have COD BO installed and the system runs much much better and faster than Ive observed consoles run it. I have not seen a single bug with this drive and it is my very first and only knowledge with SSD. Any con is not particular to this SSD but all of them in common. Obviously price tag. How significantly far better is this than spinners in RAID arrangements? Or even 10k spinners? If you are upgrading a machine this could not fit properly physically. These are ideal in totally new builds I think. Windows 7 has TRIM enabled by default. I just built a sandy bridge machine (i5 2500k) from scratch. Bought a case with a 2.five" spot Thermaltake Dokker). Installation was straightforward.

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Fast Quickly RapidAND QuicklyInstalled OS in no time and SATA3 is amazing Obtain THIS DRIVE remember to install the most up to date firmware prior to installing the OSinstall the most up to date drivers (WIn7 ones are it). do a search on the online and youll locate them. I was finding a BSOD with no it

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this is my initial SSD drive so this is all new to me. My SSD drive lives in a HAF X, with a Asus Sabertooth X58 board, I7-970 processor, 24 gigs of DDR3 3 Chanel ram and my laptop begins up and is ready to use in 12.four seconds. When i click on Photoshop CS5, it's just on screen prepared to go, when i click on shutdown the computer just turns off instantly. ......emmmmmm? It's so quickly!

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Quick, fast, oh and quick! None Exceptional performance at a incredibly reasonable value. This is my 1st SSD, and definitely not the final, the speed improve you get by installing your OS on this drive is wonderful. This is the greatest upgrade I feel you can do proper now.

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I bought 2 of these to run in Raid on my new Dell XPS 8300 i7-2600 Pc. I am getting seq. read speed of 658mb/s and write speeds of 254mb/s, 512k 575.8뢇.8, 4k 27.30ኑ.78, and 4k QD32 361.4롴.two working with CrytalMarkDisk. I can boot into Windows 7 Ultimate in below 25 seconds and applications open instantly! If you want to enhance your overall method speed I recommend this drive (or 2 like I did!) Price per GB but I knew that going in. This is the upgrade for your laptop or computer that will show you additional performance than any other. I am acquiring yet another 1 for my laptop now, I'm sold.

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This is a speed demon --specially compared to any conventional tough drive. My laptop or computer hums even more quickly than ahead of. I am blown away. SSD drives cost a lot. Such is life with new technologies. I tried making use of this with a SIIG DP SATA 6Gb/s 2S1P PCIe card which allegedly offers you SATA3 capabilities on motherboards with only SATA2. It essentially slowed down this drive by about 25 percent on every single test. Naturally once I upgrade to a SATA3 motherboard, the speeds will improve -- but there's no cause to get speed-greedy now.

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So, this is my 3 SSD, with two from Essential which I favor. If you're ready to purchase this is a wonderful OS drive. The SSD are not seriously that rapid on file transfers of say more than a gig. The important with SSD's are their access instances, especially excellent for OS' and this is no exception. This has been solid immediately after torching it. None so far.

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Efficiency, performance, efficiency. A lot of space for a boot drive. No 3.five" mounting bracket included (would've been nice) As other individuals have recorded, I also got a 7.9 Windows Expertise Index (max score) on Win7 with this negative boy. This drive is pure pwnage.If this is for a desktop, make positive you get a three.5" mounting bracket, or that your case has a spot for a two.five" drive. Also, make sure you've got it in a SATA III port to get the most out of the drive.

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Operates as advertised.Operates on Sata II or Sata III7.9 in Windows 7 x 64 BitMarvell is quite nicely the only controller on most mother boards to cover the Sata III ƖGB/S) speed. This drive is very considerably compatible with it. Not too a lot assistance on internet website to cover questions re GC on these drives. On 6GB/S Windows7 does not support trim. On my Asus Sabretooth MB there are 2x 6GB/S ports with a Marvell Controller.Note this drive with AHCI have to be in the number two slot or it will give problems as I well identified out.I am attempting to come across the reason for this, which may well be MB or Controller associated

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Crazy rapidly. Pc goes from power on to win7 login screen in much less than a minute. Any programs installed on the SSD are prepared to use in no a lot more than ten seconds on the slowest-loading programs. Average is threeӱ seconds. Quickest is instantӭ second. two.5" form factor means an adapter is needed for desktop installation. Worth noting, but not worth subtracting an egg. I've had absolutely nothing but excellent results from Essential, and it's good to see an SSD under their name.

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Functions good and gets WEI 7.9. Word comes up immediately and Photoshop takes about 4 seconds with my Sata 6. MSI motherboard. None, other than price. Cleaned out my C: program drive and stopped paging right after raising memory to 12 gb. Installed SSD as an extra drive. Changed bios sata raid mode to ACHI. When Windows booted, it recognized SSD and installed drivers. Employed Acronis Household to copy C: drive to SSD. Changed bios to have SSD as boot drive. Checked WEI and it went from 5.four to 7.9. Did Google search on Windows and SSD and checked on efficiency recommendations and set a couple which Windows had not currently set. Installation complete and nothing but a really quickly pc due to the fact.

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Ghost OS installed on difficult drive, install SSD, ghost back and up & running for about 6 months without having concerns. None. Replaced two other drives with same brand SSD, including one on slow Lenovo laptop which now runs visibly quicker.

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works great. drive is quicker than 5400 rpm, even so WEI only read 5.9 in win7 64.

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Super Fast266 MB/s Random Reads on SATAII 3. Gb/sEffortless to instalShipped with newest 0006 firmware None so far... crossing my fingers :)

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So far functions great. Very fast. Loaded Win 7 in 12 minutes. Cost.

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Worked good. Incredibly rapidly performance. Very suggested for OS drive! None.

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Incredibly quick boot up of OS and games. Right after BIOS post it takes just a couple of seconds to open windows. Games like Starcraft II and BFBC2 open significantly faster. Price. 4X500 GB HD's in a raid are more quickly. and give 1.5 TB of space. I really need at least 256 GB for all my apps and the 256 GB models are too high priced.Directions on how to greatest configure the system with this drive are lacking, but if you go to the Critical forms, you'll locate really good info. When I installed this drive HD Tune showed 𞴪 MB/sec read. I haven't noticed a slow down, but a month latter HD Tune shows 𞳆 MB/sec. I feel the dilemma is HD Tune, as I've seen comparable troubles with it ahead of. I ran AS SDD and discovered the reads had been 𞴪MB a sec. So once again I believe all is fine. Also, I'm operating with a SATA II connection, but will be altering motherboards to get a SATA III connect. A lot more latter, so far I'm very pleased

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If it had worked more than 20 min. it would have popped up the OS in 15 sec. Bad drive

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To the poster beneath that said:Cons: Although there are no moving parts, it does make a near-continuous high-pitched noise. It's not super loud, but I can consistently hear it above the fan noise in my new machine. It is similar in pitch to a dentist's drill, which I discover irritating. Instantly turn off your PC, open it back up, find the cable that you inadvertently pushed into a fan (likely your CPU fan) and relocate it. If your going to ignore a main tell-tale problem like this, maybe you need to take your PC to a more skilled buddy/professional.

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This SSD Drive runs as fast as advertized just make certain you have a SATA III 6Gb/s controller. Making use of Crystal Disk Mark I got 359 Mb/sec read and 160 Mb/write....smoooooking rapidly. Poor Organization Battlefield 2 loads maps instantaneously now and when I raid in WOW I am also the initial 1 to zone in ;).Here is my Rig:ASRock P67 PRO3 (B3)Intel Core i5-2500k CPU @ four.four GhzCoolermaster V8EVGA 570 Superclocked Fermi8 GB Gskill Ripsaw DDR3 1600 RAMImportant C300 128Gb SSD2 TB HitachiCorsair CMPSU-650TX 650W Energy SupplyThermaltake Armor Plus full tower case No three.five to 2.5 adapter don;t forget to order 1. Google Tweaktown's Solid State Optimization guide it really helped tweak this beast.

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Blazzing quickly! Windows install & Windows updates installed in much less than an hour when it utilized to take several hours. Fast boot and rapidly access for video/audio editing. Cost of course and the fact that it was ฤ more for me 2 days ago. that actually gets me angry but oh well. A extremely good upgrade but probably not worth it for most unless you do a lot of video/image or audio editing or definitely want to be initial loading into multiplayer games or need to have to sport the most recent and greatest.In all probability purchase a few of these to put in my other machines so they can keep up on my network.

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Computer speed improve Very noticeable Absolutely nothing... however. I researched SSD's for a good, long time just before finally buying it. If you're like me, you're genuinely hesitant asking yourself if the price is worth the efficiency increase.I finally just decided to take a stab at it and purchased it, to no regrets.If you have the cash GET IT. You won't regret it. Installation is a snap.The only test I'm waiting for now is longevity; if it ends up failing I'll adjust this evaluation. So far, it seems really promising.

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95% pleased-Fast-Rapidlyand_Rapidly!!!! they can DO BETHER!!!! Acquire It!!

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I am working with it as a boot drive in a gaming pc. The drive itself seems to be working wonderful. Installed Windows 7 on the drive and every little thing has been working faster than any laptop or computer/harddrive I have ever utilized prior to. Directions had been useless - referred to laptop installation which is not what I was utilizing the hardrive for. Just a harddrive so not a massive deal so nonetheless 5 eggs. I purchased it because I wanted at least a 128GB SSD for a boot drive without having paying to substantially.

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With the new lowered price, everyone should be able to afford one of these badboys.If you don't have an SSD yet, your missing out.