News - Crucial and Micron launch faster, more efficient M550 SSD range

[HEXUS]

Drives will be made available up to 1TB size in 2.5-inch, mSATA and M.2 form factors.

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[MrJim]

Nice specification - no word on whether it's a native PCIe controller for M.2 or SATA Express? Not a bad price either at £122 for the 256Gb version...

Review here:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7864/c...-models-tested

[RT-XD]

Why is scan not one of their global partners??? OH THE HORROR! XD

[crossy]

Not a bad price either at £122 for the 256Gb version...

I just snuck over to http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/ssd.aspx
128GB - £71.99 (£68.54)
256GB - £122.39 (£117.89)
512GB - £243.59 (£227.81)
1TB - £382.79 (£393.41)
Prices in brackets are for the equivalent Samsung 840 EVO from Scan. The new Crucial's are a bit more expensive generally than the Samsungs - except the terabyte drive. But then again I've often found that 3rd parties are able to undercut Crucial's store on their own gear.

I'll be needing a Linux boot drive soon, so I'll be tempted to give these a go, rather than my usual auto-response of "buy Samsung ssd".

[shannowdr]

Wondered why 240Gb M500 lately had been dropping like stones lately..

[CampGareth]

It'll be neat to see the mSATA versions of these, afaik for mSATA drives your options are these, or some plextors (no idea about the brand), samsungs are hard to come by as are intels.

[pastymuncher]

I see no reason to buy one of these over a Samsung 840 EVO or Sandisk Extreme ll. Performance is little better than the M500 and is still mediocre compared to the leading drives. Crucial needs to go back to the drawing board and build faster drives.

[mark_a_scott]

Behold, Crucial's first "Terabyte Class" SSD with the full capacity present and correct.

[MrRockliffe]

I recently looked at Anandtechs review of this drive, and it appears as though they consume more power than before? I may have been looking at the wrong part, but that's what it looked like.. Pointless buying that's drives when other high end drives are the same price. Even if read/write speeds don't make much of a difference, might as well get the drive with higher numbers if reliability is the same?

[RAJA666]

I hate when SSD vendor provides comparison with hard disk drive rather than says another older SSD. One would have expect SSD is higher performance and has low power consumption than ANY hard disk drive, so what is the point of comparing.