If you don't own an SSD by now, you really should. Nothing is quite as satisfying as seeing Windows boot up in mere seconds, versus the half a minute or more it sometimes takes with traditional hard disk drives.

Great overall price; low cost per gig; solid performance

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Well, dye my hair red and call me Harpo. A triple-level-cell (TLC) NAND-based SSD that I can recommend to users without a lot of caveats finally exists. That is, only if they can't find a like-priced multi-level-cell (MLC) drive. (And only then.)

30GB MLC-style cache; Relatively cheap; 750GB SSD

NVMe drives still much faster

Well, dye my hair red and call me Harpo. A triple-level-cell (TLC) NAND-based SSD that I can recommend to users without a lot of caveats finally exists. That is, only if they can't find a like-priced multi-level-cell (MLC) drive. (And only then.) The drive in question?

Well, dye my hair red and call me Harpo. A triple-level-cell (TLC) NAND-based SSD that I can recommend to users without a lot of caveats finally...

More cache than most TLC NAND-based SSDs; Low price per gigabyte; License for Acronis True Image HD

Writes slow down to 300MBps when cache is exceeded

The MX300 750GB Limited Edition SSD is easily the most divisive model Crucial has released in a long, long while. It is obvious that Micron and by extension Crucial is using this SSD has a proving ground of sorts, strives to accomplish great things with new technology but doing so carefully.

The MX300 750GB solid state drive is a very impressive unit in terms of performance and the sweet spot it seems to have found in terms of price and capacity. The read and write speeds may not be the fastest possible, but 530MB/s and 510 MB/s, respectively, are definitely very respectable.

Fast read and write speeds; Great value; Included software makes swapping to a new drive easy; 3 year warranty

Nothing yet

The new 2.5-inch 7mm MX300 750GB Limited Edition from Crucial uses the groundbreaking 3D NAND flash technology from Micron (compare to the predecessor Crucial MX200 ). At the moment, it's only available in 750GB capacity (hence the limited edition) but expect more to come later this year.

Two years ago, Samsung burst onto the market with the 850 Pro - its first SSD with 3D flash memory, with high speeds and correspondingly high prices - and followed that up with the more affordable 850 Evo .

The Crucial MX300 750GB (Limited Edition) SSD may well be equipped with 3D NAND and that may well be the latest technology, but in the real world and in Gaming you'd be had pushed to know. The bottom line is that the MX300 is simply a decent SSD at a decent price with an unusual capacity.

Crucial is a global brand of Micron Technology, Inc., one of the largest memory and flash storage manufacturers in the world. They make computer memory upgrades (DRAM) and solid state drives (SSDs), and offer more than 250,000 upgrades for over 50,000 systems.