What is the difference between the M4 and the M500 SSDs?
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The difference is that the M4 is 3-year old tech. Spec-wise they may seem similar however real-world there is little comparison. The M500 is hands down faster on paper and in practice. They have some enterprise features baked right in like capacitors to enable it to finish writes in the event of a power failure. Also they have a hardware-based AES-256 encryption engine to protect your data from prying eyes. If u need a new SSD, the M500 is waaaaaaaaaay better.
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I cannot talk technicalities here, but I know by personal experience it will be a very noticible difference. If you're strictly concerned with a boot time, SSD will be much faster.
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I have used this board with many different mSATA devices, and never had any problems. Have not tried the Crucial M500, but every drive I have tried it was P&P.; Have used Smart Modular, Samsung, Micron, and Sandisk devices.
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MZMPC256HBGJ Samsung mSATA SSD Drive (also known as a the Samsung PM830 mSATA 256GB) is the one that came with my laptop. I'm getting read speeds of 450MB/sec and write speeds of 265MB/sec.
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I tried a hybrid drive and it gave me similar performance to a SSD, 10 to 25% in initial load, no diference in between game load time and not much difference in start time. Basically not really worth it. The difference is like 36 sec vs 40 or 55 vs 102 sec.
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They will be the same physical size. The 500gb may weigh an ounce more, but I doubt it would be a significant difference.
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I have used this caddie extensively for my W500 before transitioning to the T430. The T430 is so much faster especially with 2 USB 3.0 ports I never found a need to mess with the configuration for backups or incorporate an SSD drive. Hence, I never tried the caddie in the T430 with a drive in it. However, I did remove the optical drive and place the caddie in the slot. The caddie is not as tall as the optical drive so you will see a little space there. The connection does seem to seat well though.
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I've not had any Crucial M4 units for more than a year but thus far they're all working perfectly. I've installed all sizes from 64GB to 512GB in PC laptops, desktops and an old-ish Mac Book without issue.
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Assuming you meant MX100, as there is no M100: "The MX100 is Crucial's new mainstream drive, replacing the popular M500 while the M550 will continue to serve the higher performance market. ... The short summary is that the MX100 builds on the same architecture as the M500 and M550. The only fundamental difference is the NAND inside as the controller is the same Marvell 88SS9189 silicon as found inside the M550." - AnandTech's MX100 Review
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According to the specs (for what they are worth), the 250 actually has faster memory (10300 vs 885), but the 270 has 6 cores as compared to 4. If the 270 actually had the faster DDR 3 memory, it would in theory be a significantly faster machine. Of course, at these speeds, an SSD hard drive for your system and program software would probably speed up the machine much more than the extra two cores, but unless you are using software that does serious number crunching (hard core gaming, graphics, or music or video production software), you will probably never even care.
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The M4 fit perfectly on my 13" Macbook Pro (mid 2012 model). Crucial's website suggested the slightly smaller 480gb M500 (and didn't list the M4 as being compatible) but the 512gb M4 definitely fits and works perfectly on the 13" Macbook Pro. I used the free version of SuperDuper to clone the OEM drive to the new Crucial M4 and it was a breeze.
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http://www.samsung.com/us/computer/memory-storage/MZ-7TD500BWI dont know where you got your info from...this is from the Samsung site for the same drive and it says 500...so yea, its 500
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Hello Mr. Rodriguez, If your MacBook Pro would currently use a normal 2.5" SATA Drive, then it is compatible with this new Crucial M500 SSD. The only difference is that you will experience an exceptional booting speed, and of course it will boost the overall performance of your MacBook Pro. Regards, Ayman Boules 04/09/2013 ++++++++
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John Jamieson is not correct in stating that SATA is backwards-compatible. It all depends on the manufacturer's specifications. You'll find that some of Samsung's SSDs (look at the EVO) will work with SATA-I, SATA-II, and SATA-III, while the Crucial M500 SSD will only work with SATA-II and SATA-III.
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Performance of crucial my and Samsung Evo SSD on SATA is quite good. m.2 SSD also a good option.
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Okay, then what is the difference between the MX200 and the M550? Both have write speeds in the 500+.
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Yes I swapped in a Crucial 512GB M4 SATA. Thunderbolt works fine but believe it or not the USB3 interface had faster read times!