2011 — Shopzilla®
Circle of Excellence Award
The Circle of Excellence recognises those online retailers within the Shopzilla Research network who have demonstrated outstanding performance, as rated by their customers, throughout a one year period. In 2011, over 2,000 online merchants in the UK were considered for an award. Winners consistently obtained feedback from their customers throughout the award year period and received the highest ratings. The ratings are from the direct feedback, collected at the point-of-sale and after delivery of goods, from customers concerning seven key satisfaction metrics:

1. Overall satisfaction at the point-of-sale
2. Product selection at the point-of-sale
3. Ease of finding products on the website
4. Intent to buy from the same retailer again, collected after the order is received
5. Product met expectations, collected after the order is received
6. On-time delivery of the order
7. Customer support assistance

 

2009 — BizRate®
Circle of Excellence Platinum Awards
The Circle of Excellence recognises those online retailers within the BizRate Research network who have demonstrated outstanding performance, as rated by their customers, throughout a one year period. In 2009, over 2,000 online merchants in the UK were considered for an award. Winners consistently obtained feedback from their customers throughout the award year period and received the highest ratings. The ratings are from the direct feedback, collected at the point-of-sale and after delivery of goods, from customers concerning seven key satisfaction metrics:

1. Overall Satisfaction at the point-of-sale
2. Product Selection at the point-of-sale
3. Ease of Finding Products on the website
4. Intent to buy from the same retailer again, collected after the order is received
5. Product Met Expectations, collected after the order is received
6. On-time Delivery of the order
7. Customer Support assistance

 

January 2009 — Custom PC
Best Memory Manufacturer
Custom PC readers bestowed their highest honours upon Crucial, naming us the Best Memory Manufacturer 2008. It's the second year in a row we've earned that distinction. The awards, which are gleaned from a comprehensive reader satisfaction survey, recognise not only the quality of our memory products, but also the quality for our contact centre, after sales service, logistics, and so much more. Crucial outpaced the competition, proving that Crucial.com remains your go-to place for memory upgrades.

From Custom PC's Deputy Editor, James Gorbold: "For the second year in a row Custom PC readers voted Crucial as the premier brand of enthusiast memory. Readers rated Crucial's performance in six key areas — highlighting the company's website, reliability, and technical support as second to none."

 

November 2011 — Overclockers.com
Crucial 256GB m4 SSD
Overclockers Approved Award
"While the M4 doesn’t compete with the OCZ Vertex 3 in terms of write speed, its read performance is on par. Given the reliability issues that some drives built around SandForce controllers are experiencing, the M4 looks like a more robust alternative that still delivers excellent performance. It lives up to, and in some cases exceeds, the claimed read and write speeds. In addition, the quite attractive pricing in the US makes this one to consider carefully when SSD-shopping. While other sizes are also available, remember that performance is not necessarily the same, and would be expected to be slightly lower for the smaller drives. For these reasons, I’m happy to label this as 'Overclockers Approved' ". Full review

 

November 2011 — eteknix.com
Crucial 128GB m4 SSD
Bang For Buck Award
"The m4 is definitely a rival to the abundance of SandForce driven SSDs on the market, that are tried and tested, and we hope that by looking at the 128GB model, it gives a clear understanding of why you don’t need to spend the extra money to get the same results, in certain circumstances, but as with any purchase, it’s all down to personal preference and what’s the right product for you." Full review

 

August 2011 — CDRInfo.com
Crucial m4 SSD
CDRInfo Best Buy Award
"Typical desktop/notebook users will appreciate the m4 as it will give them the performance quoted by Crucial plus generous capacities at a very attractive price." Full review

 

August 2011 — Overclock3d.net
Crucial 128GB m4 SSD
Overclock3d.net Silver Award
"The consistency in all of our tests was exemplary with no weak links at all. The uniformity of the graphs produced by all of our test applications mirror the AIDA64 ones, in both read and write formats ... Even still, the consistency of the Crucial M4 coupled to the very attractive price make it a deserving winner of our OC3D Silver Award!." Full review

 

July 2011 — pcadvisor.co.uk
Crucial 256GB m4 SSD
PC Advisor Gold Award
"From the lab tests, the Crucial M4 displays clear improvements over the Crucial C300 – in most key respects. The headline-grabbing speeds are indisputably superior, up to 438MB/s read speeds in our tests and 281MB/s when writing. Small file transfer characteristics are less eye-catching but absolutely key to smooth PC operation. And here we saw improved write speeds, but slightly reduced reads. In the context of either of the Crucials' great small file performance though, we haven't seen any SSD with the Crucial M4's terrific sequential speeds, tempered with such consummate small-file transfer juggling and high IOPS. This Crucial M4 SSD easily takes the crown as best SSD we've seen and comes highly recommended – especially given its price drop from the C300 of last year." Full review

 

July 2011 — 3dprofessor.org
Crucial m4 SSD
Editors Recommendation Award
"Finally; the day belongs to Crucial and their new m4 series Solid State Drive. This has taken us by surprise with it's phenomenal burst read speeds, and whilst like all the other SSD's of this capacity demands a premium, its a premium worth paying to gain the ultimate in read performance." Full review

 

July Issue 094, p.45 — Custom PC
Crucial m4 SSD
CUSTOM PC — Premium Grade Award
"As the m4 range will be replacing the C300 drives in Crucial's SSD line-up, it remains a strong choice for a new SSD by delivering superb sequential speeds, and solid random performance and TRIM execution."

 

June 2011 — HEXUS.net
Crucial m4 SSD
HEXUS Recommended Award
"Crucial hasn't reinvented the wheel, but by tweaking a tried-and-trusted controller it has produced an excellent SSD that's both faster and cheaper than last year's model. At this price, the m4 SSD is well worthy of consideration for any SATA 6Gbps system." Full review

 

March 2011 — HardwareHeaven.com
Crucial m4 SSD
Gold Award
"An evolution of an architecture which has proven its high performance, reliability and compatibility the m4 stretches Crucial's performance lead over SATA 2 drives and ensures they are competitive with the latest SATA 3 models." Full review

 

April 2011 — pcpro.co.uk
Crucial m4 SSD
PC Pro Recommended Award
"…if you're looking for an affordable SATA 6Gbit/sec model with cutting-edge transfer speeds, Crucial's M4 is a high-performance hit." Full review

 

April 2011 Issue 189 - p.84 — PC Advisor
Crucial RealSSDC300 256GB
"This exceptional solid-state disk (SSD) proves that even the latest technology comes in several implementations. The Crucial RealSSD C300 supports the 6 gigabit per second (Gbps) data protocol and has a 256MB cache. If you can stretch to its £528 cost, this blisteringly fast SSD will reap dividends in time saved."

 

December 2010 — MyCE.com
Crucial RealSSD C300 128GB
Editor's Choice Award
"The Crucial RealSSD C300 is an excellent SSD, strong in areas where it needs to be, and the fastest reading SATA SSD we have ever tested here on MyCE.com…The performance and usability of the Crucial RealSSD C300 128GB SSD was so good, that we decided to award the drive our MyCE.com "Editor's choice" award." Full review

 

October 2010 — PC World
Crucial RealSSD C300
PC World Best Tech Products of 2010 Award
The Crucial RealSSD C300 Solid-State Drive was ranked #16 out of 100 on PCWorld's Best Tech Products of 2010. Full Article

 

October 2010 — HardwareHeaven
Value Solid State Drive Roundup
HardwareHeaven Silver Award
"Crucial package their SSD in a reasonably large box which gives plenty of protection to the drive which is contained in foam and an anti-static bag inside. Something which sets them apart from their competitors is that when ordering direct from Crucial.com we are given the option of also buying an upgrade kit. This allows consumers who have an existing desktop or laptop the ability to image their operating system and write it to the RealSSD series via USB. Then, rather than have to reinstall Windows, the user simply switches over to the new drive and boots up as normal, saving a significant amount of time." Full review

 

October 2010 — Xtremecomputing.co.uk
Crucial 128GB RealSSD C300 2.5" with Data Transfer Kit
XtremeChoice Platinum Award
"Reality Check: If you're building a money-no-object PC, or just wish to speed up your boot times, the Crucial RealSSD C300 128GB is a brilliant SSD to add to the shopping basket. Just make sure you've got a 6GB/s SATA port to make the most of this drives speeds." Full review

 

October 2010 — Tech Power Up
Crucial RealSSD C300 128GB
Tech Power Up Editor's Choice Award
"Overall the Crucial RealSSD C300 is an awesome drive that looks to be the best consumer SSD on the market right now." Full review

 

October 2010 — Bit-Tech
Crucial RealSSD C300 Review 128GB
Bit-Tech Recommended Award
"Read speeds using a SATA 6Gbps controller are predictably superb, peaking above 360MB/sec in ATTO disk benchmark. What's more, the benefits of the SATA 6Gbps bus are palpable in both real world circumstances and when loading games. You simply can’t get these sorts of read speeds from any other consumer SSD on the market today." Full review

 

October 2010 — PC Advisor, October issue 183, p.75
Group Test: Solid-state drives — Best Buy
Advisor Best Buy Award
"Even without the modern SATA 6Gbps bus-equipped PC, the Crucial RealSSD C300 was fastest on test and would be our first choice for an SSD at this capacity. Not only does it take on the attention-grabbing sequential read-write tests with dashing aplomb, it also proved itself capable of supreme multitasking."

 

October 2010 — Custom PC
Crucial RealSSD C300 64GB
Custom PC, Issue 85, p.57
"With its phenomenal read speeds, you'll really notice the extra responsiveness when using this drive, and if you can't stretch to the £300 128GB model, it's an excellent upgrade."

 

August 2010 — Tom's Hardware
Crucial RealSSD C300
Tom's Hardware's Summer Guide: 17 SSDs Rounded Up
"The Crucial RealSSD C300 offers the best performance and the best performance per dollar per gigabyte ..." Full review

 

August 2010 — Clunk.org.uk
Crucial RealSSD C300 128GB
Clunk Recommended Award
"To sum up, if you are looking for an SSD and you want some of the best IOPS performance available from a consumer drive, and you can live with the 140 MB/Sec write speed and you have a motherboard with SATA III connections, the Crucial RealSSD C300 128GB solid state drive is an excellent alternative to the slightly more expensive Sandforce based offerings." Full review

 

August 2010 — ITShootout
Crucial RealSSD C300 64GB
ITShootout Editor's Choice Award
"We were certainly excited when Crucial announced the 64GB version of its C300. We believe an SSD is the best upgrade you can spend on a modern PC; you’ll certainly notice the improvement in performance more than most CPU or memory upgrades. Of the low cost 64GB drives the RealSSD C300 is certainly one of the best we have tested. If you are constantly performing sequential writes (e.g. if you are a video editor) then there are better choices out there. For general home use, however, this is the fastest model on the market. Most users won’t notice the slower write speeds very often – as long-term Intel X25-M owners we can attest to that – but the instant snappy responsiveness of an SSD-equipped PC is becoming more than just a luxury. Once you’ve tried it firsthand you’ll find it a necessity." Full review

 

July 2011 — HardwareHeaven.com
Crucial Ballistix DDR3 PC3-16000 - BL2CP51264FN2001CEU
Hardwareheaven Recommended Award
"Crucial have a set of sticks which have high performance, especially in gaming, and at the same time run very cool." Full review

 

May 2011, Issue 094 p.72 — Custom PC
Crucial Ballistix Tracer - DDR3
CUSTOM PC — Custom Kit Award
"Crucial Ballistix Tracer range of DDR3 memory with LEDs built into each module's heatspreader is a great, if far from subtle, way of adding lighting to your PC....It's a great utility and the LEDs are a fine alternative to lighting your case with cadholes.

 

January 2011 — 3dprofessor.org
Crucial Ballistix DDR3 PC3-17000 (2133MHz)
Editor's Choice Award
"However, one must take into due consideration the helping hand within the systems I/O from Crucial's supply of its superfast C300 SSD and the almighty new Crucial Ballistix, DDR3 PC3-17000. We took the system to the maximum at stock and ran it without falter for 10 days flat out. Therefore to conclude this sector; kudos and a hands down winner for all supplying manufacturers concerned." Full review

 

January 2011 — eTeknix
Crucial Ballistix Smart Tracer 1600MHz DDR3 4GB Kit
Gold Award
"Crucial have done it again by releasing a product that ticks almost every box. This memory gives something unique to the design by offering up the patented Ballistix heatspreaders and Tracer LED features, but this time with an improvement as the functionality has been extended to give more flexibility to the user with the ability to change certain aspects of the Tracer features including colour, patterns and so forth. Performance wise saw a massive hike in speed with very little effort, whilst users wanting even more can always increase other aspects to get the very best results, and we believe that 2000MHz could be seen from these modules under the right conditions, with the right timings and suitable voltage". Full review

 

October 2010 — Gundog Reviews
Crucial Ballistix Finned 2 x 2GB – 1600
Gundog Gold Award/Recommended Award
"It is difficult to say whether Crucial have got themselves some better performing chips, I was lucky and got a really good example of the chips or the addition of the finned heatspreader were unleashing these modules. Either way, I was very impressed with what Crucial sent me!" Full review

 

August 2010 — Gundog Reviews
Crucial Ballistix Tracer 2x2GB DDR3 – 1600
Gold Award/Gundog Recommended Award
"Overall, if you like LEDs and want high performance RAM these modules will not let you down. They performed solidly in all tests scoring 86% (9/10) and looked even better! These are the most unique RAM modules I have ever seen and will for a long time- and Crucial has proved that it deserves more presence in the hardware enthusiast community. These modules will not be leaving my personal rig for a long time, and if Crucial wants them back- I’m moving house!" Full review

 

July 2010 — HEXUS
Crucial Ballistix Finned DDR3 with temperature sensor
HEXUS Innovation Award
"While not setting our hearts aflutter, we can think of no obvious reason for not putting them on a shortlist if looking for some high-quality DDR3 in the near future." Full review

 

July 2010 — Clunk.org.uk
Crucial Ballistix BL2KIT25664FN 1608 2x2GB Memory Kit
Clunk Highly Recommended Award
"To sum up, the Crucial Ballistix BL2KIT25664FN1608 2x2GB Memory Kit is certainly impressive and it was great to see the innovative temperature sensors and software. If you are looking for a high performance memory kit with a little something extra, then the Ballistix may be right up your street." Full review

 

May 2010 — Hardwarespot
Crucial Ballistix Tracer 3GB (3X1GB) DDR3 PC3-12800
Hardwarespot Gold Award
"My words really can't do it justice. If you're in the market for a 3GB kit of sexy and highly overclockable RAM - You know where to look! The Crucial Ballistix Tracer 3GB kit will fulfil every one of your wishes when you purchase RAM. There is simply no alternative, absolutely tremendous. It caters for absolutely everyone. The perfectionists can have their kits in different colours, the novices can overclock well on stock volts and the enthusiasts can take the RAM far beyond higher priced kits!" Full Review

January 2011 — 3dprofessor.org
Ballistix Active Cooling Fan
Editor's Choice Award
"Our results show an average of 8-10C drop in temparature with the Ballistix Cooler in place which is an impressive performance. Therefore as a final point of note when spending huge sums of monies on such expensive DIMMS - possibly even a new system build for an extra £20.00; you can for that minor outlay increase the longevity of your precious memory modules and good system stability. The figures speak clearly for themselves." Full review