Crucial MX300 (1TB) Review
Crucial, Micron's memory sub-brand, is seemingly the first solid-state drive (SSD) maker to employ a strategy in the SSD world formerly used mostly by food trucks and boutique eateries: the "pop up." Usually, a local company provides diners with a really small menu in the back of an existing business on one particular evening, and if the menu is successful enough over time, the business eventually opens a brick-and-mortar establishment. That's something like what Crucial did with its MX300 SSD, which was originally released as an "MX300 Limited Edition" drive at just one capacity: 750GB.
That drive must have sold like gangbusters, because now the company is offering it in a full array of capacities, and in both 2.5-inch and M.2 form factors. Due to the nature of the dies created for this drive, the capacities it comes in are a bit different from what we normally see. Crucial is offering the MX300 in 275GB, 525GB, 1TB, and 2TB flavors as a 2.5-inch Serial ATA (SATA) drive, and in ...
The 1TB version of the MX300 is a great all-around SSD with good-enough performance, advanced features, and solid software—at a very affordable price.
Very good sequential-write speeds; Superb rated endurance; Affordable on a per-gigabyte basis
A bit slow in high-queue-depth tests; Warranty is one notch from the top