Comments on: Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB Review

By: Myko

Myko — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:02:36 +0000

I have 2 C300 64gb drives in RAID 0, and I get 755MB/s read speeds in Sandra!

By: Faith

Faith — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:50:25 +0000

Needless to say that this article went live and the poor guys at YOYOTech sold out almost immediately.

As of Sunday evening:-
– Novatech is showing 3 in stock at £496 – ready for shipment
– Amazon is showing 5 in stock at £508 – but suspiciously they can’t be delivered for 2-4 weeks (well dodgy)
– Misco have loads – probably because they are at the astronomical price of £649

Never tried buying anything from Misco, but if they throw is a couple of return flights to Paris – then maybe they are worth the extar £150 over Novatech

By: Kaapstad

Kaapstad — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:56:05 +0000

I have read about the Mobo onboard controller problems so I use the SATA 3GB/s ports and have 2 in RAID 0. This still gives very fast performance loading Win7 in about 18 seconds.

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:06:43 +0000

Well I think sandforce has just had its ass handed to it

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:06:15 +0000

The performance is quite staggering really when you see the need for a dedicated controller board to maximise throughput. The only downside obviously is the cost, but in a way this is helping mechanical drive sales as ive seen 2TB hard drives in the UK now for under £100.

By: Fred

Fred — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:47:50 +0000

Thanks for the writeup, very helpful

By: Jerome

Jerome — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:46:49 +0000

Great to see some real world testing, I couldnt give a rats ass about some of the synthetic benchmarks sites use,. so while you use them also, a few things like boot time are handy as a quick compare. gives a more rounded overview of the whole thing. Very impressive design from crucial and their teams. I think one of these will be my next purchase whenever I get the opportunity to do so.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:08:22 +0000

ah come on man, 256GB, I know this is KitGuru and we love high end hardware, but why not review the 128GB model as well ! its at least in the grasp of some of us. I think

By: Garrys Bod

Garrys Bod — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:06:52 +0000

Great review KitGuru, now to sell my wife to make up the money, might get £50 for a start at least.

By: francois lebon

francois lebon — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:05:28 +0000

Wow this is incredible. performance is higher than I thought. I wish I could afford this, 128GB model review soon please !

By: Stefan

Stefan — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:04:22 +0000

That performance is stunning. I too would have liked to see the 128GB version reviewed also, as I can’t afford £550

By: Darth Maul

Darth Maul — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:00:55 +0000

Christ almighty, I take a 2 week holiday and dont have net connection, I come back and ive to read around 20 reviews ! this site kicks some serious ass ! you guys filter all the crap hardware out and review the sweetness !

By: AMD4EVER

AMD4EVER — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:59:02 +0000

256GB ? SSD? 350MB/s second? too fast for onboard controllers? ekkkkk. I need one now, but I also need a new car. maybe I could walk to work for a few months? :p

By: Fluffychicken

Fluffychicken — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:56:53 +0000

Well I just ordered this from crucial and am now going to scan to buy the controller. I cashed in some shares. cant wait

By: Broke as sin now

Broke as sin now — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:55:07 +0000

My Dog died last month and I need cheering up. ordered this for my new intel system. ill regret it later when my credit card bill appears, but right now I dont care. thanks for the review.

By: Bertie

Bertie — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:54:00 +0000

There has to be some serious performance for £550, and I think this delivers. Is it worth it? thats another point. for me personally yes it is, and I just ordered one from Crucial direct. ordered from them before and they use special delivery which is quick and reliable

By: Trev

Trev — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:52:56 +0000

Well this is rather sexual £550 is a bit much for me, my missus would have my family jewels mounted to a pole if she saw this coming out of our bank account.

Id go for the 128gb model, shame it wasnt reviewed.

By: Tri Color

Tri Color — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:51:04 +0000

Can we have a review of the 128GB version please? the 256gb is too much for me and i want to know if the write speed of the 128GB causes it to be vastly inferior.

By: Harry

Harry — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:50:08 +0000

I went into this review with trepidation, thinking it might suck and thankfully it rocks I ordered one a few days ago. I hate ordering stuff before I read reviews about it (well i did on another site but they suck).

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:33:26 +0000

It really is such a confusing market, so many controllers out there, indilinx etc. and it seems every new one is that much faster. has to stop soon, we are now in a situation when the onboard controller chips, even on new 6GBps boards arent up to the task!

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:28:14 +0000

Yah, other sites mentioned onboard controllers not being up to the 6 GBps grade either.

By: Eric K

Eric K — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:27:39 +0000

550 quid is just too much money for me, but if you had money to spend on this, its a good choice. nice size too,. Interesting info about onboard controllers not being up to the grade either, didnt know that.

By: Tech head

Tech head — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:25:19 +0000

thats a hell of a drive, shame the 128GB version is significantly slower with write speeds.