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
(88%)
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
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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.
Published: 2014-09-22, Author: James , review by: pcgameware.co.uk
It looks like Crucial has a winner on its hands here with the Crucial MX100 256GB SDD (CT256MX100SSD1) . As we have stated in the past SSDs are not generally that exciting, but this one is a little more interesting than some of the others at least, becau...
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Published: 2014-09-15, Author: Mike , review by: itpro.co.uk
Abstract: Solid-state storage is found in everything from smartphones and tablets to servers and workstations. Flash has become the dominant form of memory because it's faster than traditional spinning hard disks, more reliable, and prices have dropped dramatically...
The conclusion is clear: given the current price level of the Crucial MX100 and its competitors, we have a new sweetheart in the budget segment. Forget Crucial's own M500, forget the Kingston V300, forget the Samsung 840 Evo, forget the Sandisk Ultra Pl...
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Published: 2014-07-21, Author: Chris , review by: eteknix.com
Super cheap price for 256GB of storage, Well known vendor, 3 year warranty
Write performance is sub-par compared to some other budget drives that are out there,
PricingThe biggest selling point that I had to point out with the 512GB MX100 is the amazingly low price per GB of storage and this is once again where Crucial have a good position in the market. With prices set at £79.99 in the UK and $109.99 in the US...
MLC NAND guaranteed for 39 GB worth of writes per day, Good data transfer speeds (sequential read = 492 MB/s, sequential write = 471 MB/s), Onboard capacitors help prevent data corruption, Acronis True Image HD 2014 included
3year warranty
The MX100 512 GB is an excellent SSD that offers safe storage and speedy read/write speeds. Its competitive price tag makes this a top-value disk compared with many competitors, including Crucial's higher-end M550!...
Excellent price to performance ratio, Enterpriseclass features, Fast and reliable, Includes adapter and software
Not available in other form factors
Crucial's remit with the MX100 line of SSDs was to design a premium drive without being encumbered with a premium price tag. Our look at the 512GB version, priced at £160, shows that it has succeeded in releasing a budget SSD imbued with high-performance...
It may not be the fastest drive in the 250/256GB sweet spot but that price tag makes a compelling argument in favour of the Crucial drive regardless. For comparison, a 250GB Samsung 840 EVO costs around £116 while the 256GB Samsung 840 Pro is even dearer...
It is always a concern when receiving a new value orientated product that the manufacturer will have cut corners however that isnt the case with the MX100. We get a the same quality casiing which is used on their perfromance SSD, the M550, and internally ...
There's no denying this is a strong launch – Crucial has brought a whole load of performance to a price that's less than 35p per formatted gigabyte, making the notion of a mid-range builder having a 512GB SSD as a primary drive a much more realistic optio...
