you need 4 x 64Gbit die to make 256GB, but you only need 2 x 128Gbit die to make 256GB. The keyword you want to know now is Parallelism the higher capacity a NAND die can store, the less die it needs to reach goal capacity –eg. The reason Crucial brings back 64Gbit die in the M550 series is because it has great benefit for performance. The M550 uses 64Gbit die for its 128GB/256GB models and 128Gbit die for 512GB/1TB models. Now let’s talk why performance would take a hit when going with bigger NAND die. Once you have the basic understandings of Crucial Mxxx series, the next few models are as easy to grasp as taking a Dalmatian for walk in the park and ended up with 100 more of them just cause. Because their SSDs were slower than Intel’s in general, and then later its lunch was taken by Samsung due to better pricing strategy.Īnyway, the M500 came about last year –fired up the ever busy market again with the large 128Gbit NAND die supplied by IMFT (versus M4’s 64Gbit die). But Crucial didn’t rise to the very top, either.

Hence they didn’t risk all the eggs in the wrong basket. By the time they took action, it was a little too late and a lot (and I mean A LOT) customers had lost faith in them.Ĭrucial on the other hand made use of an older, more carefully developed Marvell controller. OCZ took a beating due to mass failures in their drives that used Sandforce controller. Though Crucial has not been able to claim the crowd of the SSD kingdom, it has been a very stable and steady sail for them. M500īack in the day, the Crucial M4 was the top tier seller in the SSD market just a few steps behind the OCZ Agility and Vertex series. Today seems to be the most appropriate random day to dig into the Crucial SSD line-up and find out what goodies are up their sleeves for the love of PC builders and hot gamer girls/wives everywhere. Last article - Samsung 850 Pro versus 840 EVO SSD Series, I hoped to see other players rising up in this SSD battle, now guess what? We are actually getting a handful last couple of months! In the market mainly dominated by Samsung as of late, other SSD manufacturers have to invest significantly more resources, mineral and construct more pylons to deliver the better products for us while being aggressively competitive in price for survival.

Crucial MX500, Intel 545s, OCZ TR200 and Sandisk Ultra 3D - …During sequential writes, the TR200 manage to have a heart attack and come out worse than its predecessor. NEW! There is an update to this article Samsung 860/970 Series vs.

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