Micron; Crucial's parent company, is the second to market with 3D NAND flash in a consumer SSD, which it developed with Intel. Samsung was the first, and uses its own implementation for the 850 Pro range.

Glad I listened to the advice of PB Tech staff and purchased online the Crucial 275 GB SSD instead of another brands similar priced 256 GB SSD that was in stock. I replaced the drive in an older i3 laptop, installed Zorin 11 and now have a laptop that is super fast and responsive.

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?

With the Crucial MX300, you have to take the good with the bad. There are several points to consider, and the pro's and cons each have several items that give us a full picture of the overall drive. Let's start at the SSD controller, which is the heart of the system.

Acceptable mainstream performance; Low power / Great battery life in notebooks; Low cost; Decent capacity scaling (2TB Coming Soon

No 4TB option; Not as low cost as we want; 4-Channels doesn't deliver high random performance at low queue depths

The hard drives in my Samsung laptop crash on me(once from a drop and the other randomly happened) within a year. I made the change to this SSD and once I got Windows 10 loaded I immediately noticed how much quieter and cooler my laptop became and how quickly Windows loaded.

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.

While the MX300 series cannot be located in an enthusiast class SSD series based solely on write performance, we also have to acknowledge that its lower write performance is incredibly relative. Would you really notice the difference in-between 400 and 500 MB/sec writes?

A great performance and endurance, as well as a large capacity for very little money, make the Crucial MX300 a great HDD replacement.

Best TLC-based write scores to date; Large capacity; Low price; Great feature set; Included cloning software and 9.5mm spacer

Falls a bit behind in synthetic benchmarks

If you're looking for a large capacity solid state drive that doesn't break the bank, then the Crucial MX300 1050GB is definitely worth considering, offering plenty of features and decent performance.

High capacity; Good price; Decent performance; Plenty of features

Still expensive; Not the fastest SSD; SATA 3 connection showing its age

Shopping for a SSD can be a little confusing. For instance do you focus on storage capacity and price or do you look at performance and pick the best one. For the most part performance will be similar across all of the drives you can buy with only subtle differences between the control and chip...

Great Performance SATA 6 Compliant 3D NAND Available in Sizes up to 2TB More Storage Less Cost Included Imaging Software

No M.2 version; yet