Crucial RealSSD C300 64GB 2.5IN Solid State Disk Flash Drive SATA3 6Gbps

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Fantastic board, lots of OC selection. OC my 1090T to four.0GHz. Beautiful layout. FRONT usb challenge before BIOS update. Stable afterward. No help on-line. Athough it says driver on the web, its not MOBO driver, its ATI Catalyst. Fortunately Windows 7 does it automatically. I feel I obtain from Newegg out of habit. PayPal sent me a letter of over บ,000 limit already. What to do now?

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This drive is fast fast on the reads, (of course as you may possibly have study in the description, write speed is slow, but that is okay). It scores a 7.9 on my WEI with a sata 6gb cable and 6gb sata port. study speeds measured 340mbps. Ian: I also received a five.9 on my initial WEI score, but soon after I installed the AMD achi drivers, ( i am making use of an AMD board clearly, but for Intel, use Intel achi drivers, etc) and now my challenging drive is the highest score on the WEI. It is little, effortless to locate a spot to put it if u have a custom case. the factor puts out subsequent to absolutely nothing as far as heat goes. the list goes on and on :) Some persons say value, but for the 64gb you get and the read speeds, it's not poor at all. it is verrry lightweight, so it could be mistaken to be "cheap", but that really should not deter everyone from acquiring it. doesn't come with an adapter to enable it to fit in the really hard drive bays, but after once more, you really should have known that if u read the descrip, noticed the pics, and so forth :) This is specifically what my pc is missing, (realllly brought it to life) I have a phenom II 945 @ three.7ghz, 8gb ram, and M4A89GTD PRO/USB3, no stuttering or something like that, (mine came with the 0006 firmware from the factory) worked just perfectly. be certain to use a sata 6gb cable if you are going to use this on the sata III ports. one final factor, look up tweak guides to find out how to cut down on the amount of occasions windows writes to the drive, so you can preserve that speed (google additional to come across out)Buy Get Get :)

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Loads windows extremely quickly and has a windows 7 score of 7.5. None

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Excellent price tag when it's on sale. Rapid. Lots substantial enough for a full blown Vista SP2 install and only half complete. My Caviar Black holds my information. It's a bit twitchy even though my mobo has the newest BIOS and I'm making use of the newest 006 firmware. At one particular point the drive wasn't recognized but I lowered it back down to SATA 3 gigabytes and it started operating fine again. It has given that settled down and is running completely fine with SATA six gig AMD's latest AHCI driver with no difficulties. Can't say what was incorrect with it previously but I almost certainly had some BIOS setting messed up. Wonderful drive despite the smaller size and tiny create overall performance. Vista boots up incredibly rapidly and my applications load really fast. Now all I have to do is wait until it's back in stock and on sale again. Two drives in a RAID array would be even quicker and I could set up my games then.

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Fairly inexpensive.Quick reading speed. Why does this SSD make a noise??????????Shouldn't a SSD be totally silent???? This is my initially SSD so I truly don't know, but theoretically it ought to be dead silent!!!It's making some weird noise that's genuinely annoying when it's in use.

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Using as a boot drive for windows. Windows comes up actual quick. 64 GB is sufficient to place windows and a couple of other programs on for some added speed. No 3.5 bracket was incorporated(as with most SSDs). Also you have to be confident to set up/download applications on to your second/larger drive or else this tiny guy will be filled up in no time. It was time to step up to a SSD drive on my new make. Yes, the 128GB and 256GB SSDs are more quickly than this 64GB but the value was correct on this one particular.

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2 of these in a raid have been going powerful for four months now. do your self a favor and get this drive none

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Loads Windows 7 and the games i have one particular it way more quickly then the Hd's i have in my other comp. cost for the amount of space but all ssd r like that

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The title says it all. These are fast drives. I have SSDs in the past, but this is rapidly. The only bottleneck in the program now is the limitations of motherboards. The case business or the manufactures need to get together on sending adapters with the case or drive. Don't like having to use double stick tape to hold a drive in place. By placing my into a striped RAID, it has made these puppies sing fantastic songs in my desktop monster. Quiet and cool, I challenge anybody to come across the exact same overall performance for the exact same dBs and temp without having liquid cooling.

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There are only two words that come close to describing how amazing this drive is, Boot Time. Mine was additional than cut in half. I'm nevertheless running XP 64-bit and went from a 24 second boot (POST to log-in screen) to only 11 seconds! None as of nevertheless Will carry on to use Critical SSDs in the future.

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Super Fast on Reads and Typical on Writes. Took out the old challenging drive and put in the SSD and did a disk recovery from Acronis and it worked like a charm. Applications open considerably faster and my wife is very content not to mention me. None so far. Reboot time for XP is more quickly but not as rapid as I expected after reading other critiques. I also upgraded the memory from 1GB to 2GB. The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite A015 that is about 6 years old. Spent 赁 for both the SSD and memory and it is superior than buying a new laptop. Newegg shipped incredibly swift and their costs were also wonderful as usual. Long time user.

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Quicker than my old WD Scorpio Blue 250GB I utilised as my desktop's main HDD. Now I have my OS installed to this wonderful SSD, and my programs/games/data on a 2TB WD Green. This is blazingly rapidly, and I in no way noticed how utilised to this SSD's pure speed, till I tried to bootup and open a handful of programs immediately after logging in (IE, Word, and Outlook) on my work machine with a HDD, and it choked on that straightforward task - which is effortlessly accomplishable on this SSD!! It didn't come with a 3.5" adaptor bracket, which could be a issue for instances that don't have a two.five" laptop HDD slot. I will definately purchase from Crucial once more!

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Like most folks I'm employing this as a Windows 7 OS drive and any crucial applications that go along with it. Operates good! This is my first SSD and it's almost everything that I had hoped for. I came from the Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB which is a wonderful drive but absolutely nothing like this. Windows boot instances, application load instances and multitasking became so seemless. I nevertheless retain all my huge games and the gigantic Steam folder on the Samsung and even that stuff performs much better even though it's operating off of a strong OS base that is this SSD. I'm operating the SSD by way of Sata 6gb/s ports on the EVGA FTW3 motherboard via their built-in Marvell adapter chipset thingamajig. I did a speedy test to reveal that the SSD is getting the entire sequential create that it promises ࿫) and is actually getting sequential reads nicely over 355 (highest becoming about 390). Firmware 0006. It wasn't till I had currently ordered that I discovered out that Essential's most current firmware 񡪆) had developed a fairly terrible reputation and that all of them are commonly shipping with 0006 now. Everybody factors their frustration at a stuttering/stammering issue that appears to come about with the 0006 firmware. It is accurate that when I got every thing up n' operating on my fresh Windows 7 set up I could already see the occasional hang at random locations. It would essentially hang for 2 or 3 seconds at random smaller operations that shouldn't take any time at all, even for a platter drive. Some individuals apparently have had it a lot worse than I ever did though. Optimizations. The firmware situation genuinely smoothed out effectively for me. To make positive that I do almost everything for my SSD that I could I took the liberty of upgrading the marvel chipset firmware for the onboard Sata III ports. Ever given that I did that a couple days ago I haven't seasoned ANY of the stuttering that I had before. Anything operates without having a hitch! As far as general optimizations go; I really advise consulting some forums n' such if it's your initially SSD. There are some rules to stick to with SSD's starting with the most clear ones like 'no defrag' but there is some wonderful guidance out there to stretch that SSD functionality and life span even further.

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Works proper out of the box. Rapidly and feels like higher end item. I would get this item again. Performs on SATA II and III. Most things worked at two-3x speed improvement. Not as rapidly as some folks would think, but note I did use this on a Sata II method. Fantastic for a boot drive and a couple of applications. Vista 64 was a monster to reinstall. Win 7 is a greater way to go.

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7.5ǝ.9 on Windows 7 rating. Power-on to windows in about 7-8 seconds. None so far. i5 CORE 2400sGSkill v1.five 1333 x 16 gbASUS H67-M Pro Micro ATXEssential SATA III 64 gb SSD BootHitachi SATA III 2 tb systemSilverstone MB03B Media Center SituationThermaltake TR500P micro ATX 500WLG Super Multi BH12 Bluray Burner

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Straightforward installation and quick drive. Does not come with a two.5" to 3.five" drive bay converter.

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Quickly! Don't be concerned with the up speed. It was not as much of an challenge as I thought it would be. Storage Size/Dollar But that is to be anticipated with SSDs. You will need an adapter to set up it into a common Pc case - it's not integrated. I have produced hundreds of upgrades. This single upgrade has provided me the greatest most noticeable efficiency raise that I have ever noticed from any upgrade.

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Quickly! Working with this drive as my Boot drive, windows begins, from POST to desktop (no password to enter), in about 7 seconds. Applications run smooth with no hitches or ANY noticeable lag whatsoever. The WEI score, which gave my old Boot HDD a four.9, gave this drive a 7.4.The only cons I see are not with the item itself, but technologies at the moment and user tech experience. See beneath. With the expense and size of present SSD's, it's only impossible for the common property user to use a single as a most important data drive. 64GB's of storage would have barely been sufficient even five years ago. As a result of that, existing SSD's are applied as Boot drives, or merely what the OS is installed to, in order to make quicker reaction times in Explorer. This requires tweaking of Atmosphere Variables in order for non-program files to be placed on a bigger HDD. The typical household user may well not even know what an Environment Variable is, let alone how to modify it.Personally, I don't believe value/performance/maintenance ratio's are justified adequate to break down and obtain a SSD appropriate now, but I can't take an egg off for private qualms. I usually place my tech level at high but for this certain application, I really feel like I jumped into it blind. Had I done it again I would have just waited for SSD's to grow to be additional mainstream. It won't be extended before SSD's replace HDD's all with each other.

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Rapidly, durable and low-cost. None so far Some people today have wondered (as I myself did) about whether windows 7 auto-detects (and consequently disables defragging and enables TRIM). There's incredibly little documentation on this, but it does appear that this is the case.

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Extremely rapidly read speed when connected to SATA III port. None.

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This is my very first SSD and I am completely impressed. I was skeptical about SSD's but im glad I took the plunge. So rapid and no noise. Just fantastic. none

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No troubles booting and putting in windows, and it's surely NOTICEABLY faster than my old 10K Raptor. None. Making use of this for the OS and any greater-level games with a back up storage drive for every thing else, and I'm not disappointed at all.

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ez set up very fast dive. employing this drive in my lap top low battery usage, rapid boot none

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380mb/s read speeds working with SATA 6.!!!! 7.9WEI. This is right after I loaded all of my applications and one game. None 80mb/s read speeds but I knew this when acquiring.

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Extremely fast and quiet. Sata 6gbs. None Not fairly as fast as I hoped for but three instances more quickly than my SATA 3gbs drives.