Crucial Technology 256 GB Crucial RealSSD C300 Series Solid State Drive CTFDDAC256MAG-1G1 Review.
30 juillet 2010![]() |
Crucial Technology 256 GB Crucial RealSSD C300 Series Solid State Drive CTFDDAC256MAG-1G1
Product: Crucial Technology 256 GB Crucial RealSSD C300 Series Solid State Drive CTFDDAC256MAG-1G1 Review. List Price: $725.99 Amazon Price: $679.99 Availability: In Stock Usually ships in 24 Hours Free Shipping Available |
If you’re looking for unhindered speed, Crucial’s RealSSD C300 series solid-state drive is here! The new 2.5″ Crucial RealSSD C300 drive offers mobile and desktop users scorching-fast read speeds of up to 355MB/s. Designed with high-speed MLC NAND, advanced controller technology, optimized NAND management, and the SATA 6Gb/s interface, these drives dramatically improve data transfers for bandwidth-demanding applications like audio and video.
- Amazon Sales Rank: #7445 in Consumer Electronics
- Brand: Crucial
- Model: CTFDDAC256MAG-1G1
- Dimensions: 3.95″ h x .37″ w x 2.75″ l, .16 pounds
- Memory: 8MB
- Hard Disk: 256GB
Features
- Improved data transfers - Designed with high-speed synchronous MLC NAND, advanced controller technology
- Push your performance - The improvement in boot time and application load times push performance to new levels at the desktop
- Memory Experts - The Crucial brand of memory has long been synonymous with reliability and high-performance
- Guaranteed compatible - Crucial RealSSD C300 series employ a standard hard drive interface and dimensions
- Read speeds up to 355MB/s
351 MB/s read 210 MB/s write![]()
The title says it all: 351 MB/s read 210 MB/s write.
My office Intel X25-E (only 64GB and the same price, although SLC) gives 240 and 170.
This is the only SATA III SSD on the market, and it shows the potential of this drive.
I can compile a huge project in Visual Studio 2010 in 1/10 th the time it takes on a regular
drive. Ditto for videos. Random read writes are an unbelievable 50 times faster than a WD Velociraptor.
Other than a PCI-E based SSD (which are rather untested at this point), this is the safest bet.
And Crucial is as solid a memory company as it gets.
Other stuff:
You need SATA 3 cable (and a good one; if you are getting low speeds it is almos always because of a bad cable)
or the wrong port.
I updated the firmware without problems (or wait till they do it on the production versions).
Of course you need a SATA 3 motherboard, such as the Asus P6×58D and a good enough processor or the processor starts
being the bottleneck (say a core i7 975 or 980x).
This may turn out to be a great drive, but…![]()
The first roadblock was (according to Crucial support) that you should not clone the drive in order to replace your old drive. It is not a big deal, but it is a little easier and there is less drama if you could clone to replace your old drive. On the Mac, you install the drive, load your operating system and in my case, reload from TimeMachine. Once I did that, it seemed fine except I was not experiencing the speed I expected.
I decided to test this drive against a Hitachi 7200 rpm drive and the Hitachi was about as fast in most items but definitely faster in some things like restarting the Mac. I called Crucial support (which was always easy to do and very responsive) and asked why the lack of speed. The tech said that I needed to load new firmware and I would get dramatic results. I searched their web site and could not find the firmware to download. Within minutes, I called back to Crucial support and was told that the firmware had to be redone due to some issues in the original implementation and would be out on the web within a few days. Even though I would like to know how the drive would eventually perform, I have simply run out of time on this project and will return the product. In addition, I am a little apprehensive about installing firmware that has not been proven out in the wild. If this was a $100 drive and not a $650+ drive, I would probably be more patient.
I believe that in the future, if the new firmware works as I was told it would, it will be a worthwhile purchase and for that reason I gave it three stars instead of one.









