Crucial M4 Recertified SSD Sale! 128 GB $30 and 256 GB $50

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Chuckleb

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I've had way too much bad luck with Crucial... not sure what to think at these prices even. Who don't I like... ;)
 
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I just bought 2 Micron SSDs guys :-/ (p320h 350GB's). Please do not say these things :)

But I do think there was a HUGE improvement with the M500's in Crucial's lineup.
 
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I'll bite. Crucial M4 was one of the top drives for about two years, I'll take my chances on data that I can live without.
 
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I got two 256GB SSD for the MAAS Juju farm machines, after all, those MAAS farm animals get slaughter (rebuild) almost daily.
 
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I've been running a Crucial M4 256gb since they came out... while it's not as fast as my XP941 it's a stable working drive for last couple years.

I got in on the deal and got 2x256 for 107$ delivered (Tax). Going to stick them in RAID1 in a misc box/low utilization, call it good, and maintain my block level backups... I see no problem. I wish they had the 512 in stock when I ordered 4x512 would have been nice for VM machine even if they're older/slow heh.
 
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I just stick with intel ssd HP OEM from eBay...

I have one m4. Got nightmare on slowness and ssd disappearance.
Got solved with tech support. Almost to RMA m4.

Honestly Samsung 830 running without incidents as now.
 
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Yeah these have pretty slow writes and I heard of some stability issues. But from what I've read the issues people had with these drives were fixed with firmware updates So I bit and bought a few that I plan to use as a read only cache with no data critical info on them, since their read speeds are pretty fast. I couldn't pass on how cheap they were.

Prices of SSDs have been dropping fast lately though. I reckon that pretty soon we'll be able to find new SSD's for the same price as these recertified M4's.
 
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The M4 is def. not a top of the line drive but I've used 840 Pro in my desktop since it came out then went to the M4 and the difference wasn't noticeable. Going from the M4 to the XP941... ya I noticed, even day to day not big transfers :) I can't wait to test the rest of these SSD sitting here :)
 
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canta said:
still waiting "cheap" M500 :D....
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They have always been cheap drives. Can't you get those new for 50c/gb?
Latency agnostic loads only need apply.

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the XP941 isn't NVMe is it? I won't jump onto the PCI-e ssd ship until they're NVMe.
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XP941 is pcie 2.0 4x ahci
SM951 is pcie 3.0 4x ahci

Samsung said they do not plan a nvme version of the SM951.
My guess is they will bring a 3dnand m.2 before nvme support.

I am honestly glad to see that most of you share hesitation of micron drives :)
Not a fan of circle jerk by any means ... but micron needs to get their latency issues under wraps.
 
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Patriot said:
They have always been cheap drives. Can't you get those new for 50c/gb?
Latency agnostic loads only need apply.


XP941 is pcie 2.0 4x ahci
SM951 is pcie 3.0 4x ahci

Samsung said they do not plan a nvme version of the SM951.
My guess is they will bring a 3dnand m.2 before nvme support.
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So really only good for sequential read and write benchmarks
 
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