Crucial supplies the RealSSD C300 SSD as well as a short installation guide well padded in a hinged box.
Here is a picture of the Crucial RealSSD C300 SSD with installation guide:
And here is a picture of the fast SATA3 SSD, whereby the sticker again and again came off of this very high-quality SSD …
The following picture shows the back of the 2.5″ Crucial RealSSD 256GB SSD, where one can see the SATA3 connectors for data and power on the left. The connectors are identical to conventional SATA3 hard disks and the SATA3 SSD can also operate with lower speed on a SATA2 interface:
That is contained …
| Manufacturer | Crucial |
| Article number | CTFDDAC256MAG-1G1 |
| Capacity | 256GB |
| Interface | SATA3 6GB/s |
| Cache | 128MB |
| Controller | Marvell |
| Flash Type | MLC – Multi-Level-Cell |
| Size | 2,5″ (100,45 x 69,85 x 9,50mm) |
| Weight | 75 gramm |
| Speed | Read up to 355 MB/s / Write up to 215 MB/s |
| Seek Time | |
| Power Consumption | 0,094 Watt idle / 2,1 – 4,3 Watt in operation |
| MTBF | 1.2 million hours |
| Other | TRIM support, RAID support, SMART support |
Here is a Snipping screenshot of the CrystalDiskInfo 3.5.3 SSD and HDD information software:
SSD firmware update …
The tests were done with the first 0001 firmware version as well as with the 0002 firmware, whereby the benchmark results were nearly the same. At the review date, the company Crucial offered the firmware version 0002 for Marvell based SSDs, which offers in comparison to the FW0001 version more safety, a higher TRIM performance and a lower power consumption. The update of the Crucial firmware is very easy: Download the firmware from Crucial, unpack the contained ISO file, burn it on a CD, boot with this CD, select the SSD in the firmware update utility and confirm the firmware update several times.