'Crucial' supplies of SSDs'¦ now available.

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Tuesday, 03 May 2011 10:56

Crucial, the SSD brand of memory company Lexar, is flexing its muscles, delivering a new 'm4 SSD' with higher capacities and faster performance as the battle between the HDD and the SDD intensifies yet again!

If you're dreaming of a white Christmas, there's still several months to go and you'll need to be a snow-bearing region of the northern hemisphere, but if you're dreaming of an SSD, Lexar is here to help.

Sure, all of its competitors are too, with Intel most recently having released a swag of updated SSDs, but with the solid state of SSD technologies solidifying into an ever more affordable, faster and more robust alternative to old fashioned magnetic hard drive technologies, it may soon be 'crucial' for you to add one to your computer.

So, fanciful wordplay aside, what exactly has Crucial offered, and crucially, is it going to be popular with the public?

Well, to start with, the new Crucial m4 SSD is not just some brand new product, but is the successor to Crucial's previous 'award-winning' RealSSD C300 brand.

Aimed at both businesses and general consumers, the m4 SSD uses Micron Tech's 'industry-leading' 25nm NAND flash design technologies and innovations, no doubt helping to bring Crucial's claim of higher capacities and faster performance to life.

Available in sizes of 64GB to 512GB, and supporting the SATA 6Gb/s interface, which 'opens up the data path between the host processor and the SSD, and resulting in improved overall system responsiveness, including faster boot times and application loads.'

In comparison to the older C300 model, the m4 is 17% faster, reaching read speeds of 'up to 415MB/second'.

Write reads have also been boosted by 20%, with 'demonstrated increases up to 260MB/s' over the C300.

So, what about pricing, warranty and availability?

Please read on to page two!