Testseek.com have collected 162 expert reviews of the Crucial / Micron 2.5 inch MX100 Series SATA600 and the average rating is 85%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Crucial / Micron 2.5 inch MX100 Series SATA600.
July 2014
(85%)
162 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
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892 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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The editors liked
Good performance. Very fast small-file write speeds. Costs less than 50 cents per gigabyte.
Outstanding price for a 512GB SSD
3 year warranty
Power efficient
Read speeds are outstanding
7mm thick SSD
Which includes a 9.5mm adapter
Includes a key for Acronis 2014
Excellent write performance.
Build Quality
Excellent Overall Performance (Outperforms The M550 256GB)
Features (RAIN/eDrive and Power Loss Support)
Acronis True Image HD Software
3 Year Warranty
Price (For Some)
Awesome incompressible data performance
Great compressible performance
Incredible write speed
Very competitive price
Available in 128GB
256GB and 512GB capacities
Excellent sequential read speeds
Good random read and write performance
Performs equally well with compressible and incompressible data
SATA 6Gb/s interface
Large DRAM cache
Native Write Acceleration
D
Strong Performance
Affordably Priced
Spacer and Imaging Software Included
Competitive pricing
Great support and reliability
Enterprise-grade data protection
Good performance in our gaming and sequential profiles
Read speeds are very respectable
Attractively priced
Three year warranty
Includes access to free license of Acronis True Image
Well Priced
High Quality Components
Excellent Read and Write Speeds
Extremely competitive** cost/GB (256GB and 512GB)
Solid performance (on tested 512GB capacity)
Priced lower than Samsung's excellent SSD 840 EVO
Very fast small-file writes
Performed well overall
Coolrunning
Excellent performance
Price per GB very attractive
Great performance
Low price
Legendary Crucial Support
Prepared for 7mm and 9.5mm drive bays
Hardware encryption
Free Acronis True Image HD key
Outstanding 555/514 MBps read/write speed with ATTO
Native write acceleration – no compression used
Marvell 88SS9189 supports TRIM
NCQ
And Microsoft eDrive
TCG Opal 2.0 security with 256bit AES hardware encryption
3Year Micron Technology product war
Awesome price per GB
Best price/performance
7 mm thin—Ultrabook compatible
Leading MySQL performance at 64 threads
Acronis cloning software included
Price
Good performance
Acronis True Image HD included
3-year warranty
Enthusiast SSDs by Samsung and others cost around 80% more
Yet the MX100 delivers similar performance.
The editors didn't like
Not available in 1TB capacity. Lagged a bit in real-world
File-copy testing
No 1TB SSD available
Slow write speeds for the 128GB and the 256GB drives.
None
Lower capacity drives have slower sequential write speeds than other SSDs in their class
Didn't Lead The Pack In Any Particular Category
Sub-par performance in our write-heavy Consumer Real-World tests
Write speeds are below average by today's standards
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Cost/GB could be better on 128GB model
Significant write speed reductions on capacities <512GB
Lagged a bit on our real-world file-copy test
Not available in 1TB capacity
New 16nm cell technology still unproven
Firmware update utility for drive not OS X compatible
No terabyte capacity in MX100 line
None worth to mention
Some manufacturers offer fiveyear warranty
Largest capacity available is 512 GB
None that I found
Well
It's still not as cheap as an HDD but you may have chosen the wrong hobby if $110 is too much to ask for a 256GB SSD.
Build Quality, Excellent Overall Performance (Outperforms The M550 256GB), Features (RAIN/eDrive and Power Loss Support), Acronis True Image HD Software, 3 Year Warranty, Price (For Some)
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Although the MX100 is supposed to be somewhat slower compared to the M550 since it uses the cheaper 16nm NAND flash modules by Micron in the end as you can see from our charts that doesn't seem to be the case. Of course that's due to a small error from ou...
Outstanding price for a 512GB SSD, 3 year warranty, Power efficient, Read speeds are outstanding, 7mm thick SSD, which includes a 9.5mm adapter, Includes a key for Acronis 2014, Excellent write performance.
No 1TB SSD available, Slow write speeds for the 128GB and the 256GB drives.
Let us summarise the most important positive and negative points belowPositivesOutstanding price for a 512GB SSD.3 year warranty.Power efficient.Read speeds are outstanding.7mm thick SSD, which includes a 9.5mm adapter.Includes a key for Acronis 2014.Exce...
Published: 2014-06-24, Author: Joe , review by: legitreviews.com
For the Crucial MX100 drives, the raw capacity for each is 256GB and 512GB (1GB byte = 1,000,000,000 bytes) respectively. After the share is given for the spare area, Windows takes its share we end up with 238GiB and 476GiB (1GiB = 1,073,741,824 bytes) av...
With this quick Linux benchmarking of the Crucial MX100 128GB SSD, overall it did well and was interesting competition for the Samsung EVO 840 SSD of the same capacity. The Crucial MX100 128GB SSD currently retails for $80 USD while the Samsung 840 EVO is...
Crucial's bread and butter SSDs has always been feature rich, reliable and budget friendly, and the Crucial MX100 hits on all these points with flying colors. Crucial has really taken advantage Micron's move to 16nm MLC by literally offering a nearly perf...
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Published: 2014-06-12, Author: Sean , review by: thessdreview.com
Crucial MX100 hits the market offering many enterprise grade features at a budget friendly price point. Combined with its high performance, this drive is almost impossible to pass up if you are in the market for a new SSD....
Published: 2014-06-03, Author: Kristian , review by: anandtech.com
Shortly put, the MX100's task is to replace the M500 and it does that brilliantly. While the MX100's main goal is to lower the price by using smaller lithography NAND, it also provides a minor increase in performance over the M500 and offers the same indu...
Before we weigh in with our final verdict, we'll bust out a few of our famous value scatter plots. These plots use an overall performance score derived by comparing how each drive stacks up against a common baseline. This score is based on a subset of th...
Published: 2014-06-02, Author: Marco , review by: hothardware.com
Strong Performance, Affordably Priced, Spacer and Imaging Software Included
Didn't Lead The Pack In Any Particular Category
The Crucial MX100 Series Solid State Drives, Find Them At Amazon.ComCrucial's new MX100 series of drives should be available immediately from your favorite retailer. Prices for the drives are set at 128GB ($79.99), 256GB ($109.99), and 512GB ($224.99). If...
