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I am considering buying a 128GB Crucial m4, but I have a question about SSDs. Exactly how fragile are they? I'm the kind of person who uninstalls and reinstalls games and mods quite a bit, will I kill the drive quickly like that? Or should I just stick to putting games on a normal drive?
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Feb 13, 2012 07:02
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Ok, thanks for the assurance guys. I didn't want to use an SSD and kill it with downloading and redownloading several GB of Skyrim or New Vegas mods, for example.
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Feb 13, 2012 17:46
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http://vr-zone.com/articles/runcore-intros-invincible-ssd-with-physical-self-destruct-feature/15892.html Now this is interesting. A self-destructing SSD that overvolts the NAND and fries it, getting rid of "sensitive" material. Wonder if they realize what 99% of their market is going to become though?
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May 17, 2012 05:51
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I just got an m4 and did a quick benchmark, do these numbers look right? It seems fast, but this is my first SSD and I don't know if this is what I should be getting.
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May 25, 2012 04:30
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Why does my m4 not feel like it is very fast? Booting up Windows feels the same way as my Caviar Black, and just overall I am not noticing a difference. Benchmarks say the drive is running as fast as it is supposed to. If it makes a difference, When I installed Windows my Caviar was connected in the first SATA port, while the SSD was in the next port, and are still connected like that.
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Jun 4, 2012 03:03
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ASRock Z77 Extreme4, Windows 7, connected to port 1 (Caviar Black is port 0), both are the Intel SATA III controllers, old drive was the Caviar Black 1TB
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Jun 4, 2012 06:31
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It's not the ASMedia ones, just double checked. I don't remember waiting on the old drive too much. I think its just me, honestly. Maybe I thought there would be some huge difference.
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Jun 4, 2012 07:28
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Biggest human being Ever posted:It takes my 830 about 30 seconds to do a cold boot to all programs loaded (steam, mse, skype, some utils), coming from a hard drive this feels insanely fast to me, the old system took about 3 minutes more for the same task. Hm, maybe I'm just going crazy then, mine is about 35 seconds from power on to desktop.
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Jun 4, 2012 17:20
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LorneReams posted:You must have a pretty optimized system then. I went from like 3 minutes to 30 seconds to get to logon, and then after logon, it went from 3-10 minutes of slow, unresposive, to like ready to loving go in 15 seconds. Its only a week or two old, so perhaps I haven't accidentally bloated it with a ton of stuff.
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