Today we are checking out Crucial’s newly released M225 Solid-State Drive series and comparing them with the industry’s leading MLC based SSDs. To date Crucial has been sleeping on SSD technology, and the M225 will be their first real attempt at making their presence known. With so much competition already present, we are keen to see what they have in store for us...

The Crucial M225 also compared very well to the OCZ Vertex, which is based on the same hardware. The internal board design of the M225 and Vertex is slightly different, as the M225 is based on the Super Talent UltraDriveME. This is interesting, as you can expect the performance of all Indilinx Barefoot SSDs to be roughly the same, assuming you are comparing models of the same capacity.