The Crucial M550 SSD Review: Striking Back With More Performance
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cryan
March 18, 2014 1:04:06 PM
Crucial's M500 brought mainstream performance, enhanced features, and rock-bottom pricing together in one of the most-recommended SSDs of 2013. Following up, Crucial has a refined version called the M550, juiced-up for performance-hungry enthusiasts.
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ikyung
March 18, 2014 2:44:59 PM
_potts_
March 18, 2014 2:50:43 PM
cryan
March 18, 2014 3:51:01 PM
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Heard rumors of Samsung planning to market the 850 with aggressive pricing this year. Would like to see Crucial and Samsung duke it out in pricing.Score
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venk90
March 18, 2014 5:16:13 PM
cryan
March 18, 2014 6:53:52 PM
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I just splashed $250 (delivered to Oz) on a M500 480GB mSATA, eh, can't complain.Score
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Ankursh287
March 18, 2014 8:58:30 PM
Nada190
March 18, 2014 10:55:56 PM
Drejeck
March 19, 2014 2:56:12 AM
RedJaron
March 19, 2014 12:43:38 PM
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Of course, we're in the throes of post-launch pricing. In a few weeks, it's possible that the gap between M500 and M500 will narrow.Happy to see Crucial with this update. I'm with a lot of people, you don't see a difference in SSD performance outside benchmarks. Give me something reasonably fast with great durability and I'm sold. With all this talk of the maturing of 20nm manufacturing, I'd love to see an M500 V2 with less overprovisioning.
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gizmoguru
March 19, 2014 2:29:51 PM
mapesdhs
March 19, 2014 7:05:53 PM
game junky
March 20, 2014 6:12:35 PM
snakyjake
March 24, 2014 10:40:40 PM
f s
March 29, 2014 4:29:24 AM
cryan
April 1, 2014 11:00:50 PM
snakyjake said:
In terms of reliability and maintaining data integrity, how does this compare to SanDisk X210?Most data integrity protocols for client/consumer SSDs are centered around maintaining data at rest. That is, once data is written to the flash, you want to minimize and counteract operations which can skew existing data. Things like Read Disturb Management fit this category, where reading one cell can affect the voltages of adjacent cells.
That said, both drives have three year warranties. Both are made by fabbed SSD manufacturers, both have stakes in NAND foundries. Both use Marvell controllers and custom firmware/PCB packages. When SanDisk updates the X210 with the newer Marvell 9189, it's probably going to be awesome. The X210 is undoubtedly the most underrated drive in circulation. If you can get a good deal on one, it's probably the drive for desktop applications, assuming you want something that's been through its paces. The M550 is too early into its launch to know much about it yet, at least over more than a couple weeks.
Regards,
Christopher Ryan
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frank5868
April 14, 2014 1:24:30 AM
Hi, Christopher
Thanks for the nice review. I have some questions and wondering if you could offer some answers for them:
Is the drive using AES encryption? 128 bit or 256 bit? How about the "Block cipher mode of action"? Is it ECB? CBC or XTS?
Please dig as much as possible. I think the readers would be happy to be aware of the mode of action. As well known, the ECB isn't secure but the CBC or XTS is far better.
Thanks.
Frank
Thanks for the nice review. I have some questions and wondering if you could offer some answers for them:
Is the drive using AES encryption? 128 bit or 256 bit? How about the "Block cipher mode of action"? Is it ECB? CBC or XTS?
Please dig as much as possible. I think the readers would be happy to be aware of the mode of action. As well known, the ECB isn't secure but the CBC or XTS is far better.
Thanks.
Frank
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