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Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB 2.5IN Solid State Disk Flash Drive SATA3 6GBPS

Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB 2.5IN Solid State Disk Flash Drive SATA3 6GBPS
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Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB 2.5IN Solid State Disk Flash Drive SATA3 6GBPS
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Rating: 8.3/10
Whittaker
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Review Date: 06/18/12
Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB 2.5IN Solid State Disk Flash Drive SATA3 6GBPS
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Quick, effortless install. Can't think the difference over my WD Black HDs in raid . none
Terry
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Review Date: 06/12/12
Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB 2.5IN Solid State Disk Flash Drive SATA3 6GBPS
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Rapid, if it's compatible with your pc Does NOT Operate with many Macbook Pro 2011 laptops. Search around and you will come across several people complaining.Intel has related troubles with their SATA 6gb drives and they are supplying refunds for buyers who are stuck with costly SSD drives that will not operate on their MBP. Important tech support was useless and refused to help in any way. When I post on the crucial forum that intel has equivalent issues and are offering refunds my post mysteriously gets deleted without any comment. This has happened three occasions now.I’ve owned my drive for over 30 days so can\'t refund with New Egg. Even though I’ve owned it for less than 90 days Critical will not take the drive back even though they OPENLY ADMIT that the drive does not work with MBP. When I purchased the drive their internet site said it was compatible with the MBP and now they have removed it from the compatibility list. Worst customer service ever. I suggest you acquire a various brand.
Xylon
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Review Date: 05/21/12
Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB 2.5IN Solid State Disk Flash Drive SATA3 6GBPS
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the new firmware installed smoothly.Following considerably tinkering on a ASUS P6x58D:a) You definitely need to have a 6GB cable and it is really picky on cables -- has to be straight (I bent a single to fit into an enclosure and that was a poor thought) and very good top quality; otherwise speeds drop to 40MB/sb) Make confident the Marvell driver is installed; Device Manager-->Storagec) AHCI has to be set in two places in the BIOS; storage mode and storage configurationIn the finish I get read speeds of 350 MB/s and writes of 210 MB/s --- if this keeps up, it is completely worth it. they need to test it much better just before all this firmware mess. Hope this is the final a single.
Jewel
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Review Date: 05/09/12
Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB 2.5IN Solid State Disk Flash Drive SATA3 6GBPS
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Purchased right here...12ቦ񳏊...have had it operating day-to-day amongst 8-12 hours, quick stable quiet...what additional can you ask for? None...except one particular...identified out these days that sata3 and usb3 Seriously do not like each other...see beneath. WARNING for everyone with this drive...if your MB has each sata3 & usb3 like my Gigabyte p55a-ud3 make confident you DISABLE the usb3 alternative in the bios if you are making use of the sata3 connection on your drive. The reason is that employing each will lead to the drive to stutter, hang, and slow the writes down to a crawl !!! Tested with CrystalDiskMark 3 with usb3 disabled I am acquiring 207mb/s sequential writes with usb3 enabled I am getting 42mb/s sequential writes...pretty much 5X slower !!! Hope this info will help somebody else.
Jyotika
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Review Date: 05/01/12
Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB 2.5IN Solid State Disk Flash Drive SATA3 6GBPS
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Umm yeah, it is as quickly as the hype! Looks like I purchased a 600 dollar pack of gum and weights about the exact same. Need to come with some cheapy mounting brackets to slot into a tough drive bay. These drives are a bit touchy. They like the proper cable securely fastened and not bent to significantly. I swapped two cables and rerouted my cabling inside the situation immediately after I was unable to set up windows....the drive would just get stuck and hang there.Soon after getting factors just right, she took off like a flash!
Severin
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Review Date: 04/28/12
Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB 2.5IN Solid State Disk Flash Drive SATA3 6GBPS
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- Quickly (obviously)- No additional vibrations from laptop- Much less power consumption + noise - Cost I didn't do enough study prior to shopping for and then identified out that the six Gb/s SATA interface was only on currently's newer motherboards. As a result, read speeds on my laptop MAX at 260 MB/s and write speeds MAX at 215 mb/s.
Sabina
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Review Date: 04/27/12
Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB 2.5IN Solid State Disk Flash Drive SATA3 6GBPS
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Extremely quickly. Mine came flased with the most current firmware. Recognized by bios and windows quickly. Total install of Windows 7 from a slow flash drive to this SSD took under 9 minutes, like an extra reboot that was my fault. I'd knock off half an egg if I could for cheaping out and not such as a Sata III cable. My gigabyte UD9 board (which also cheaped out) has only SATA II cables, so I have to go get one particular. Lame. I'd anticipate that in an OEM blister, but not from a 軸 drive in retail packaging. My 1st SSD - an amazing drive. Make certain you purchase a cable.
Isoke
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Review Date: 04/12/12
Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB 2.5IN Solid State Disk Flash Drive SATA3 6GBPS
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Rapid Unreliable and high cost Purchased this unit back 7ቨ of this year. Immediately after 5 months of use, this SSD died - tried to recover from the prior backup but unable to write. Incredibly unreliable and high price
Jules
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Review Date: 04/04/12
Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB 2.5IN Solid State Disk Flash Drive SATA3 6GBPS
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Worked good ... for about a month. After a month, the drive "stuttered" intermittently and eventually I got the blue screen of death. Replaced the drive and identical story with second drive. I require stability on my function laptop (Lenovo T410) and had to go back to spin drive. Generally a total loss of time and funds at this point. Will not acquire OCZ drive once again.
Aidan
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Review Date: 03/28/12
Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB 2.5IN Solid State Disk Flash Drive SATA3 6GBPS
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Quite rapidly, Uncomplicated install. AHCI works wonderfully. Need particular drivers for Windows XP install. Windows 7 installed devoid of a dilemma. Drive is not recognized when cold. Incredibly Strange! Bench tested it on 3 diverse motherboards. 2 had been 6gb, 1 was 3gb. Tried AHCI and common IDE settings in all three motherboards. All 3 had the similar symptoms. Drive had to warm up just before getting noticed in the Bios. Had to RMA the drive. Did not have the drive long sufficient to see if the TRIM worked or not.
Guido
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Review Date: 03/20/12
Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB 2.5IN Solid State Disk Flash Drive SATA3 6GBPS
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The speed is Incredible. Operating two drives Raid EXT4 file system. Nonetheless costs 20x tricky drive price tag per GB. Working with it for an e mail server with Maildir format. Every single e mail is a separate file so if you do a search and you have 10k messages you have to read 10k modest files. With SDD there is seek time so it's like 50x more rapidly that typical major drives. Wanted to do a Linux overview where drives are getting worked hard.
Palmer
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Review Date: 03/09/12
Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB 2.5IN Solid State Disk Flash Drive SATA3 6GBPS
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Quick reads. Seems generally dependable. Substantially faster than HDD, even with CONS beneath. I have two. Running windows 7, 64 bit on HP 6930p.1) I get BSOD when pc wakes up from sleep when I use the Intel Rapid Storage driver. I do not have this problem with the Microsoft AHCI driver.two) After one particular month, disk write speed has dropped from more than 200 MB/sec to 65 MB/sec. Read speeds remain between 275-285 MB/sec. Supposedly TRIM and Firmware 2. was supposed to repair this, but in my case the dilemma persists. Kind of a bummer that Vital/Micron has not solved this disk write degredation difficulty however. When I asked them about it, I got the runaround. "No one has reported something like this" etc. But there are lots of comparable reports in their Forum pages.
Bud
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Review Date: 03/08/12
Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB 2.5IN Solid State Disk Flash Drive SATA3 6GBPS
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SATA III SSD It's rapidly; nevertheless in most applications I did not see larger speeds than the Intel 160GB SSD. I have moved some massive files about to see how quickly it would be and I haven't reached any of the advertised SATAIII speeds. My MB is an ASUS RIII Ex and am running W7 x64 Ultimate. Make certain you get the 2.five" to three.5" adapter because it doesn't come with a single. Or if you need to have a SATAIII cable, get that as well.
Iolani
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Review Date: 03/07/12
Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB 2.5IN Solid State Disk Flash Drive SATA3 6GBPS
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It's a trustworthy hard drive, and is a lot quicker than standard hard drives. I can't say considerably additional than it just functions. ­ I saw an earlier comment about BSOD and crashing mainly because of this drive in Intel's Storage Manager. I'd like to add that Intel had a known negative software package version that would bring about crashes and make RAID devices show up as corrupted. Make certain your motherboard is compatible with the speeds this drive delivers. Make certain the SATA cables are capable of the speeds this drive offers. The throughput is lower than the bandwidth, of course, but that is expected.You most likely will need to obtain some sort of adapter to fit it in your HDD slots in your Pc case. Look at this ahead of ordering the drive, so you can get each the drive and the adapter at the similar time.
Halden
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Review Date: 03/07/12
Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB 2.5IN Solid State Disk Flash Drive SATA3 6GBPS
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Quickly, light, cold Can't consider of any. Place this in the second bay of my Lenovo W510 and utilised Acronis Accurate Image to clone my 512Gb 7200RPM major disk to it (it re-sized partitions for me; fortunately only had 120Gb on it) - that took about 45 minutes. Powered off following clone; pulled 512Gb Disk, put in SSD; booted to newly-cloned old Win 7 x64 install. Rapidly boot. Windows fetched some driver or other but otherwise I had to do nothing; very painless switch. Now very quickly, too; machine noticably quicker esp. massive apps like Outlook 2010 and Expression. Suggested.
Xaria
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Review Date: 03/06/12
Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB 2.5IN Solid State Disk Flash Drive SATA3 6GBPS
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Have had this drive for about a month operating 24ǝ in a Sandy Bridge desktop. No concerns so far. Came with firmware 0006. No stuttering, blue screens or any other issues just blazing speed. Crystal Disk Mark-349MB/s Read; 219MB/s Write. No cons on the drive itself but that price-ouch! No will need to rush. They'll only get less costly and quicker the longer you wait!
Pello
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Review Date: 02/28/12
Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB 2.5IN Solid State Disk Flash Drive SATA3 6GBPS
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It's rapidly - but see beneath. BUGGY! The future is not here. The dilemma is that the drive does not perform reliably. If you read via these reviews you will see a variety of individuals talking about blue screens of death with this drive. This is what I get.I'm on my second instance of this. I replaced the initially one particular when I was getting those blue screens. That seemed to work for a even though, but the second drive began exhibiting them soon after about a week, and they have steadily been growing in frequency. Nowadays the drive absolutely lost the boot information. The 1st time I replaced the drive I had organized a program snapshot for a dependable method restore. So it was painless. Now my second drive is failing.But I'm not going to do this a third time, even although I enjoy the SSD speed. I'm going to return this 1 (under Critical warrantee) and get a spinning disk.There's lots of chatter about firmware upgrades to solve the dilemma but a lesson I learned lengthy ago is that when people start out talking about fixing bugs with disks with firmware upgrades, the greatest policy is to return the entire factor and move on. There's so significantly technology in a disk but the entire factor just has to read and write blocks. If my puny application and use is detecting bugs that the manufacturer couldn't, didn't or wouldn't, the whole issue can not be trusted. And disks are a commodity - it's effortless to just by an option product. The truth that the manufacturer couldn't fix it with 006 firmware (which I am operating) just ocnfirms the theory.
Greg
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Review Date: 02/23/12
Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB 2.5IN Solid State Disk Flash Drive SATA3 6GBPS
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SSD drives are quick and sweet.. all the critiques I have read on this drive say that there had been alot of problems with the Trim and it was slowing down right after a while... Then it was stated that this was resolved with the 002 firmware update..Mine came with the update installed and I can tell you it IS slowing down.. on the read speed went from 360's down to the 250's. Hope it don't preserve dropping.. Value now with the lower critiques the identical drive gets a entire new item quantity with a new cable and a cd.. how nice.. NOT
Norwood
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Review Date: 02/22/12
Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB 2.5IN Solid State Disk Flash Drive SATA3 6GBPS
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- Quickly- Quiet - Price tag Brilliant gaming drive, with rapid loading instances. No troubles so far.
Waverly
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Review Date: 01/31/12
Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB 2.5IN Solid State Disk Flash Drive SATA3 6GBPS
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Rapid, silent, deadly. I purchased this drive so I could simply never ever have to wait. Ever. This factor smokes every little thing else. If your time is beneficial, get this drive. Make confident you have 2.five" to three.5" mounting rails rather than an hd enclosure for this if your a putting this in a desktop, use the appropriate sata 6 cable and configure your bios/os properly. none go for it - you won't be sorry. This drive is remarkable asus p6x58d, i7 930, 12 gb ram, c300 ssd (O/S), 600gb Velociraptor (programs), lg blue ray drive, 2 1tb wd drive raid (data), ati 5870, win7 64bit ultimate
Nen
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Review Date: 01/28/12
Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB 2.5IN Solid State Disk Flash Drive SATA3 6GBPS
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Drive is great. Runs super fast, super very. I installed it into an Alienware M11x, and it was a wonderful upgrade. Laptop doesn't make a noise or heat up. Had to upgrade firmware to most up-to-date version. Not a major deal considering that I hadn't installed anything on it but. Really should have come from Newegg/ Manufacturer with most current firmware
Caitir
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Review Date: 01/26/12
Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB 2.5IN Solid State Disk Flash Drive SATA3 6GBPS
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Within five% of the stated read/write speeds.Programs seem practically instantaneous.Trim appears to be working fine as I have seasoned no slowdowns.Backwards compatible with Sata 2 Pricey but worth the upgrade if you have money. It seriously sped up my alienware m11x r2 (awesome by the way) I have not experiened any issues and it came with the updated firmware.I figure this drive will save me hours a week in waiting time for programs.
Dian
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Review Date: 01/22/12
Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB 2.5IN Solid State Disk Flash Drive SATA3 6GBPS
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ATTO Bench shows max 320MB's read, 215MB's write(Performance might differ on laptop or computer specs) running on a Rampage III Extreme Motherboard with Sata III ƖGB) connection (AHCI Mode) & i7 950 CPU. Definately worth the income as I have been researching on SSD's for in all probability over a few months now ahead of truly investing in one. Trim and Garbage Collection are operating automatically from fresh install. This is my 1st SSD compared to the Velociraptor 300gb I applied prior to it and it is like night and day. 10 seconds to shut down, about 20-25 seconds to start up (Have not accomplished any tweaks other than turn off pagefile). I am very happy with investing this sort of dollars into an SSD that I should be in a position to rely on for photoshop, games, and so on. Came with firmware 002, First factor I did after installing it in case is I burned a CD with the newer rev. of 006 and updated firmware. Some individuals have complained about bricking drives/low performance/stuttering on Crucials forums with Rev. 006 but mine updated flawlessly, installed OS, and no issues so far. This was my only complaint on cons was updating firmware but superior do it just before you start out working/gaming on the drive or there will be regrets in the future for not. The only drive out currently with the fastest read speeds, and the sata III Ɩgb) capability. The SSD comes at a high value to pay for this though sadly.
Callie
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Review Date: 01/21/12
Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB 2.5IN Solid State Disk Flash Drive SATA3 6GBPS
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Incredible Speed. None. The value seems excessive on the surface, but my pc runs superior than the day I bought it. Other selection was to replace this machine with a newer a single. Glad I didn't... This is how a computer 'should' run. I am very pleased.Installed in to a Macbook Pro 15", Santa Rosa. Now running duel boot with Windows 7 x64 and Snow Leopard.
Tayten
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Review Date: 01/15/12
Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB 2.5IN Solid State Disk Flash Drive SATA3 6GBPS
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I needed to upgrade from my Intel 160mb SSD to some thing bigger. I purchased this based on evaluations. But the initially one blue screened twice so I sent it back. I just installed my 2nd and guess what, yep, it blue screen after running only 1 day. I have the updated firmware v6. The drive also stutters and locks up from time to time for as extended as 1ǘ a minute. Over all a horrible expertise for an SSD. Per haps the distinction in evaluation scores is that for most men and women this is there initial experience with SSD. This is my 3rd and clearly the worst. If you cna get purchase on less space acquire the Intel 160mb. Longs hangs and blue screens. I hope new egg will let me exchange this for a thing else or for money as I contemplate the drive unusable.
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