Reliable workhorse with sound fundamentals and Top Price / Performance

An update due - After a Crucial M4 has done in my laptop a few years of good service, was now - also in view of the sharp fall in prices. Since I generally attach great importance to safety, coming to me products with SandForce chips out of the question, because their performance greatly breaks with encrypted (and therefore hardly compressible) data. The M4 with Marvell controller had surprised me positively in this regard. While she was in benchmarks not the leader, but had their write rates even many months after the purchase is still at a good level.

That the M500 additionally specially capacitors has against sudden power failures and a greater safety buffer reserved in flash as many competitors were additional pluses in their purchasing decision for me. Ultimately, the overall positive experience with the M4 have me but even more motivated than the price advantage to stay with Crucial and to start any experiments with Samsung's also attractive appearing 840 series.

The positive expectations of the technical data were confirmed after the receipt of the SSD in the transfer of the data from my old M4. Over the entire 256GB "Altkapazität" the data has been transferred with solid net data rate of over 300MB / s on the new disc.

The perceived speed impression in everyday use is very good. Even after two months of intensive use with virtualization Images I can not detect any measurable slowdown. I would buy the M500 again!