If my system doesn't support SATA III, any advantage to buying an M4 over the older V4 version of this SDD?
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In the context of future upgrading, yes. For such a negligible price difference, you gain much potential.
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I think the ability to utilize that speed in a future computer is worth the additional cost in the short term. There are certainly other benefits, but the price difference is no negligible that there's no reason not to do it.
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Check the detailed specifications and you will see big differences other than just the faster SATA connection rate. 4x faster reading, 10x faster writing IOPS. 7mm versus 9.5mm thickness. Not sure if the v4 supports SMART on the older controller chip it uses.Then too your SSD may well outlive several computers, why buy an outdated slow one that you will be living with for years?
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I had my M4 plugged into the SATA II when I had it at the time, and was not aware of it. It seems to work fine. To answer you question is yes, the newer version will have big advantage to my opinion. It fixed the problems with the previous models and its more stable. As long as you check for updated firmwares and updated when it is release you should be find. EVEN IF YOU DON'T EXPERIENCE THE PROBLEMS THEY LIST. SSD price is starting to go down and will go down even more as more people buys them.
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actually to be honest the v4 is the newer one xD ive been following SSDs before the m4 and the kinda retarded price comes supposedly from the technology that was developed especially for older computers. so the m4 doesnt have many features the v4 does and for some reason they thought that lowering the speed will make it more stable in older computers
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Yes, M4 has a better controller than the V4. The V4 also has significantly lower random Read/Write performance. Even on SATA II it's better to have a reliable controller for your SSD even though you can't take full advantage SATA III speeds. For the price difference of about $25 the V4 simply doesn't make much sense.
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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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Don't know because each PC has different motherboard and even if it has a mini SATA (msata) connector you'll need to find out if it will boot from that port. Seems like the newest PCs are much more likely to have an msata slot but even when it does, it may not be useable for installing and O.S. I got 2 of these SSDs and most of the PCs I tried it with won't boot from there so I couldn't load Windows and use the other drive for storage as I planned.
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You should be able to replace it without compatability issues but it will not perform at maximum specifications if the interface is not sata III
1515060
No advantage as it's an internal drive, better to use the internal SATA connectors. You would not be able to plug an external drive in later.
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I purchased a Crucial M500 240GB mSATA SSD and 2x4GB of Crucial DDR3-1600 CL11 1.35V RAM. They all work great. You are limited in performance RAM due to the 1.35V and SO-DIMM restrictions of the motherboard. There are only two DIMM slots, so the only way to upgrade later is to replace them with two new modules.
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With a sata connection yes. It doesn't give you the most available memory you can use, unless you spend far more money on a higher capacity model and currently that will be very expensive. Just something to keep in mind.
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Yes, but why use this old card now for RAID? The SATA supports only 150 MB/s. Most new drives will be SATA III, 6Gb/s or up to 550 GB/s. Just my $0.02 worth.
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Yea should not be a problem at all, the new sata plug is a real small plug unlike the old ribbons that were flat and gray and had 40 or 80 wires. The stat just have four or six wires and are on a faster bus on the motherboard for much faster transfer, but yes your ok with that.
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I use both WD and Seagate for storage - I have a Blue Face WD10 EARS model, I've had that for about 7 years, I abuse it daily. On my other system, I bought a low-speed (5400 rpm?) Seagate ST1000DL - Which got some nasty reviews on Amazon - But I've had that for 2 years and no trouble, it's only for storage so I don't need the speed. I don't have any SATA3 HDD's at all, I don't have any motherboards that support it. I'll have to get an Add-on Card
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It doesn't matter what OS as long as your motherboard supports a SATA 3 drive.
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Yes, but you would loose the performance benefits of a SSD on account of the bottleneck of SATA 1.0 interface
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MANUFACTURER ANSWER: Thanks for asking! Our U3 dock should support a 4TB SATA drive. If you have an older dock you might need a firmware update: http://plugable.com/2013/03/05/usb3-sata-u3-firmware-update
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I bought the 256GB m4 for a desktop build. I also thought of trying to put it in my Toshiba laptop, but Toshiba has a proprietary connector, so a standard connector like on the m4 wouldn't work. Otherwise I think it would. It worked great With Windows 8 Pro. Have it set up to only run programs with data stored on another drive.
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Depends upon your OS. Most new OS can handle it. You also need a certain sort of connector to a motherboard that handles the SATA spec.
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The board does not support SATA III, but the specification is backwards compatible with SATA II. So it will work fine but you won't realize the increased speed that SATA III provides. Not really a big deal.
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Ram memory is soldered so it is unexpandable. You'd have to purchae the variant with 8GB by default. SSD is mSata so you can expand manually.