Taking everything together, the Crucial MX300 delivers consistent performance across the board. While it may not be the fastest drive, it able to offer a great bang for the buck as a good all around drive.

Price; Consistency performance; Supports AES-256; eDrive; IEEE-1667; and TCG Opal 2.0 encryption; 2TB storage option available; 3 year warranty

Slower than some drives on the same price bracket; Write performance is weaker; Random read is a bit slower than planar NAND drives

This SSD made my wife's laptop faster than day out of box in 2009. She wears a helmet and goggles for safety, cause it is scary fast now....anyone can install it, really easy and fun to see it work so well.

Greatly Increased Speed; Very East To Install

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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

Like in most products, top-tier performance comes at a cost, and more often than not the additional performance is simply not required for mainstream users. Yes, a Bugatti Veyron can be driven at speeds of over 200MPH but on normal roads, where the speed limits max out 70MPH on a motorway, a lot of...

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

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

Crucial's move to give the "MX" branding to the MX300 slightly tarnishes the reputation of the MX Series in my opinion. You can usually count on "MX" to stand for the highest possible performance, whereas "BX" stands for budget.

Excellent price/performance; Excellent price-per-GB; 3 year warranty; 7 mm thin-ultrabook compatible; Acronis TrueImage HD included

TLC not trusted by as many users as MLC; Only average performance

While Sata 6Gbps may have a 550MB/s bottleneck, such performance is more than adequate for a vast majority of users wanting a slice of the SSD cake. In recent times the cost per GB of Sata-based SSDs has plummeted meaning there has never been a better time to move away from aging mechanical storage.

+ Slightly faster than smaller capacity MX300; + Consistently good results; + Great value high capacity drive; + Features dynamic write acceleration; + Acronis True Image bundled with drive; + 3 years' warranty

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.

It's an SSD and it works. Thats all I wanted, so I'm happy.