Lexar Media Inc Crucial 128 GB m4 SATA 6Gb/s 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive CT128M4SSD2
Review by H. Singh : Excellent product

I purchased this product for my Asus U36JC-B1 which is the super slim notebook offering from Asus. The speed on this laptop is already very good, but I know with the 500gb SATA at the heart of it, slow down would be inevitable. So after purchasing the Crucial C300 for my HP DV7-2040us I decided to pick up this newer model for my Asus. I cloned my original 500GB SATA drive to this using Acronis True Image 2009 and a external USB 2.5" case. Acronis adjusted the partitions so everything fitted perfectly, including the recovery partition which are critical on these drives considering there is no optical drive.

I also made sure all setting were adjusted in Windows 7 64bit to account for the new drive, including disabling defrag and indexing, enabling TRIM, and if need be disabling LPM in the registry. Make sure you download the latest Intel Rapid Storage Driver, this can have a dramatic impact on speeds and how the drive is handled by Windows.

Intel Rapid Storage Driver: [...]


I am not disappointed with this hard drive, here's why:

Boot times are much quicker,
Application response is very quick,
No unreliability issues (thus far),
Battery life appears to have improved,
Switching from steel to plastic makes it slightly lighter,
Easy to install, remove your old SATA drive and plug this one in, easy!,

Installing one of these is like having a new laptop (in my opinion) the speed increase is dramatic, over and above a CPU upgrade.


I'm not trying to be a poster boy for Crucial but I am so impressed with these drives, I purchased another 2! 1x 128gb and 1x 64gb M4. I have a total of 4 Crucial drives running in different computers.


I highly recommend this product.

Lexar Media Inc Crucial 128 GB m4 SATA 6Gb/s 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive CT128M4SSD2
Review by TechGuy77 : Super Fast and Great Brand

This was my first SSD purchase. I wanted to wait for the prices to come down enough and I decided it was time to throw it into my build. I couldn't be happier that I did. Windows Experience Index gives it a 7.9/7.9! What else could I want? Windows boots up in around 12 seconds! Thing just screams! This was the only item from my build I didn't get on Amazon, but it's just a fantastic product. It has a way better track record than most of the OCZ drives and comes in at a great price. I'm glad I went with Crucial!

Build:
SilverStone FT02B-W
Intel i5-2500k 3.3Ghz Overclocked to 4.5 Ghz
Corsair Vengeance 16GB 1600mHz
Crucial M4 128GB SSD
WD Caviar Black 1.5 TB (x3 in RAID 5)
EVGA GTX 460 Superclocked (01G-P3-1373-AR)
ASUS P8P67 Deluxe
Corsair HX750
Corsair Hydro H70
LiteOn DVD-RW
ASUS Blu-ray Burner (BW-12B1LT)