Testseek.com have collected 202 expert reviews of the Crucial / Micron 2.5 inch MX300 Series SATA600 and the average rating is 83%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Crucial / Micron 2.5 inch MX300 Series SATA600.
June 2016
(83%)
202 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
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364 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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The editors liked
Great overall price
Low cost per gig
Solid performance
Great Performance
SATA 6 Compliant
3D NAND
Available in Sizes up to 2TB
More Storage Less Cost
Included Imaging Software
Build Quality / Durability (160TB TBW)
Very Good Overall Performance
Features (Dynamic Write Acceleration / DevSleep / eDrive Support)
Crucial Storage Executive Software
3 Year Warranty
Available in 275/525/750/1TB/2TB Capacities
Price
Small M.2 2280 form factor
Available in 275GB
525GB and 1050GB capacities
Good sequential and random read and write performance
Performs equally well with compressible and incompressible data
Large DRAM cache
Dynamic Write Acceleration
Data Defense
Good overall performance
Very low MSRP cost/GB (see below)
Company extremely receptive and responsive to reviewer feedback
Low cost for a high-capacity offering
Strong performance in HTPC and random 4K write benchmarks
Well Priced
High Quality Components
Great Read and Write Speeds at All Speeds
Build Quality / Durability (220TB TBW)
750GB Capacity
525GB
750GB and 1050GB capacities
Data Defense and RAIN technologie
High performance
Inexpensive
Good performance to price ratio
Free data migration software
Momentum Cache
Great set of enterprise-level reliability features
High capacity
Large 2TB capacity
Excellent software package
Lowestpriced 2TB SSD
More cache than most TLC NAND-based SSDs
Low price per gigabyte
License for Acronis True Image HD
Very good sequential-write speeds
Superb rated endurance
Affordable on a per-gigabyte basis
Aggressive cost per gigabyte
Support for hardware-based encryption
High write endurance
The Crucial MX300 SSD is competitively priced and delivers fast performance. The solid-state drive uses efficient 3D flash memory and provides strong security with hardware encryption
220TB TDW endurance (120GB/day over 5 years)
Acronis True Image HD license included
Good performance/price ratio
Impressive density from 3D NAND tech
Decent performance
Competitive price
Consistency performance
Supports AES256
EDrive
IEEE1667
And TCG Opal 2.0 encryption
2TB storage option available
3 year warranty
2TB storage opti
Solid mid-range performance
Spacer and Acronis True Image HD software activation key included
256 AES encryption
Excellent price/performance
Excellent price-per-GB
7 mm thin—ultrabook compatible
Acronis TrueImage HD included
Excellent Price/Performance
Cheaper Than 850 EVO
Extra Usable Space
Good Firmware
Outstanding price-per-GB
Huge capacity
Great price/performance
3-year warranty
7 mm thin—Ultrabook compatible
The editors didn't like
None
No M.2 version
Yet
Not As Fast As The 850 EVO (For Some)
Write speed drops when SLC cache is full
Latency Percentile revealed some inconsistencies at higher write QD and overall elevated read latencies when the drive has been written to capacity
Inconsistent performance
Limited capacities
Not As Fast As The Samsung 850 EVO
Even though performance is good
We were expecting some more
Uneven performance
Entrylevel performance
High latency spikes during moderate and heavy workload
Writes slow down to 300MBps when cache is exceeded
A bit slow in high-queue-depth tests
Warranty is one notch from the top
Available in 750GB capacity only
Not the fastest in its class
The drive has a short three-year warranty and trails behind its main competitor
The more expensive Samsung 850 Evo
In performance and features
Performance levels may make upgrading from an existing SSD difficult
PCI Express SSDs are far faster
Not quite the revolution in GB/$ we were hoping for
Slower than some drives on the same price bracket
Write performance is weaker
Random read is a bit slower than planar NAND drives
Random read is a bit slower than planar NA
Only a 3-year warranty
TLC not trusted by as many users as MLC
Only average performance
3 Years Warranty
The only downside that I see with the MX300 SSDs is the short three year warranty. Samsung provides 5years warranty for their 850 EVO SSDs and 10years for their 850 Pro SSDs. I think that Crucial/Micron should increase the warranty to 5
My only complaint will have to be the read performance of the Crucial MX300 SSD, as it's not as high as the previous drives from the MX series.The pros for the Crucial MX300 SSD are a lot, I will start with the Crucial Executive Suite, which offer a lot o...
Price, Solid mid-range performance, Spacer and Acronis True Image HD software activation key included, 256 AES encryption
Only a 3-year warranty
So the MX300 is the first consumer product to make use of Micron's 3D TLC NAND. Crucial took a different approach than Samsung with their first 3D NAND product. The MX300 is not designed to be the fastest consumer SATA SSD out there like Samsung's 850 Pro...
Well Priced, High Quality Components, Great Read and Write Speeds at All Speeds
The Crucial Limited Edition MX300 is a marked departure from Crucial's previous SSD's. ATTO recorded as read speed of 530 MB/s and a write speed of 515 MB/s, this is almost spot on with the specifications that Crucial proved. Performance was extremely con...
Our expectations for the Crucial MX300 Special Edition have been high, as it is the first consumer SSD based on Intel/Micron 3D TLC, which triples the density of existing planar TLC, leaving much space for price reductions.Having already received a firmwa...
Published: 2016-06-14, Author: Tony , review by: Techreport.com
As usual, let's condense the MX300's performance results into a single rating before we make any sweeping judgements. We distill the overall performance rating using an older SATA SSD as a baseline. To compare each drive, we then take the geometric mean...
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Published: 2016-06-14, Author: Billy , review by: anandtech.com
To put this into perspective, under ordinary consumer and end-user/home workloads, the MX300 performs at its peak near the top of the TLC charts. On most tests we found the MX300 to be remarkably power efficient. Other things being equal, TLC is typically...
Good overall performance, Very low MSRP cost/GB (see below), Company extremely receptive and responsive to reviewer feedback
Latency Percentile revealed some inconsistencies at higher write QD and overall elevated read latencies when the drive has been written to capacity
For a budget SSD priced below $200, the 750GB Crucial MX300 delivers plenty of performance for the money. It represents a great showing of the first IMFT 3D NAND, coming in at a fraction of the cost/GB when compared with alternate 3D NAND solutions. The n...
The Crucial MX300 750GB show that the Crucial MX300 750GB SSD is one of the better TLC drives on the market that is targeted to mainstream customers. The new and improved Dynamic Write Acceleration appears to work well and was able to sustain performance...
