Crucial V4 256 GB

15 reviews

May, 2013

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We have collected and analyzed 6 expert reviews and 9 user reviews from international sources. Experts rate this product 58/100 and users rate it 73/100. The average review date is Oct 15, 2012. We have compared these reviews to 28822 reviews from other Solid-State Drives. The alaScore™ for this product is 89/100 = Very good. Last update: May 19, 2013.

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(Based on 15 reviews)

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Expert review by: Kristian Vättö (anandtech.com)

Crucial v4 (256GB) Review

Our Light suite doesn't bring any better news either as the v4 is still over three times slower than any other SSD.

The AS-SSD sequential benchmark uses incompressible data for all of its transfers. The result is a pretty big reduction in sequential write speed on SandForce based controllers, while other drives continue to work at roughly the same speed as with...

Nov, 2012

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Expert review by: Simon Crisp (techradar.com)

Crucial v4 128GB review

Can this latest Crucial drive compete with its SATA 3Gbps connection when it's competitors are chucking around the 6Gbps standard?

Fast 3Gbps performance ; Fully featured controller chip ; Decent price

Not great value when 6Gbps drives are considered ; No upgrade path to 6Gbps in future

Sep, 2012

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Expert review by: Simon Crisp (reghardware.co.uk)

Crucial v4 256GB budget SSD review

The latest addition to Crucial's range of SSD's, the v4 series isn't, as you might expect, the follow up to the company's highly successful m4 series but a different animal entirely. It's so different in fact, it makes you wonder what was Crucial's...

Low cost SSD delivering a fast alternative to a standard 3Gb/s hard drive.

Sep, 2012

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Expert review by: AkG (hardwarecanucks.com)

Crucial V4 256GB SSD Review

When most people are looking for SSDs, they typically don't think of slightly older systems and the performance boost solid state storage can provide

Excellent Price ; 3 year warranty backed by Crucial’s legendary service ; Uses ONFi 2 NAND ; Can help extend the life an older system ; Increased capacity compared to the competition in its price bracket ; Custom firmware benefits wear leveling and...

Relies upon an on older controller ; Performance is mediocre a best ; Uses only 8 NAND flash modules even though there is technically room for 16 ; No 2.5” to 3.5” adapter included

Many reading this review will likely scoff at the performance of Crucial’s V4 256GB. In many ways, its performance hearkens back to

Sep, 2012

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Consumer review by: Boab (amazon.co.uk)

Poor poor poor

Horribly slow device. I deliberately bought this as my laptop does not have SATA 3. This device ran at best, half the speed of my current HDD

Nov, 2012

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Consumer review by: daddycool (amazon.co.uk)

Very happy with this purchase

I bought this solid state disk in order to replace a sata2, 320gb, 5400rpm in a toshiba laptop. Windows installation was quite easy by cloning the old disk on the ssd. After windows boot up, I performed some tweaks easily found on the net in order to...

Nov, 2012

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Consumer review by: S Gardener (amazon.co.uk)

saved me buying a new mac this year. Bye-bye beach balls !

Can't believe the difference this made to my old ( early 2008) macbook pro I already had 4 gigs of ram and a 7200rpm drive but whether the old drive was on its way out or my system was full of digital cruft, i don't know. Either way the machine was...

Nov, 2012

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Consumer review by: Chris Watson (amazon.co.uk)

great for the price

I ordered this and it arrived the next day, and for the price it's very impressive. I have an old(ish) but powerful laptop and was looking for ways to glean a little extra performance from it, and for a shade over £100 this seemed like a plan :) the...

Oct, 2012

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Consumer review by: T. J. Smith "Tim" (amazon.co.uk)

Slower than an HDD

Ordered one of these direct from Crucial (slightly cheaper than on Amazon). Ran the ghosting software that came with it and made a copy of my drive. Installed it into my Acer Laptop and it all works ok, only problem is that it is no faster than the...

Oct, 2012

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Consumer review by: Project2501 (amazon.co.uk)

Massively outperformed by similarly priced Samsung 830 (soon replaced by 840)

Please do take the time and read some reviews before buying random SSDs because there are very significant differences in real-life operating speeds, reaction times, reliability and data longevity. I recommend reading a few reviews on TomsHardware,...

Oct, 2012

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