Crucial MX300 750GB Limited edition SSD review

 

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Review: Crucial
MX300

Reviewed by: Antonis
Sapanidis

Provided by: Crucial

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Model: Crucial MX300 750GB SSD

Firmware version: M0CR011

 

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If my memory serves me correctly it was
back in July 2015 that Micron and Intel announced their new 3D NAND, and after
that there was radio silence, until a few weeks ago when Micron officially
announced their new MX300 SSD, the first 3D TLC NAND, and as you can imagine
expectations are high. The Crucial MX300 SSD comes with all the features that
we expect to see from a modern SSD, such as AES 256-bit encryption, TCG Opal
2.0, and is also compatible with Microsoft's eDrive, there is also an Acronis key
to make the transition from one drive to another much easier and faster.
Dynamic Write Acceleration that was introduced on the Micron M600 SSD is also
here and the MX300 also has Power Loss Protection. So as you can see the
Crucial MX300 has everything that you might ask for in a drive that comes with
very aggressive pricing. But just in case I forgot to something you can always
visit the official Crucial website, simply by clicking here.

You can visit the micron website to find
out more about their new 3D NAND, just click here.

So let's start this review by taking a look
at the packaging and its contents, before moving on to some testing.

The Crucial MX300 750GB SSD

As always I will start by taking a look at
the package and the contents that are included with the Crucial MX300 750GB SSD.
We'll start with the package.

The front of the box mainly displays the SSD,
and you can also see that this drive is a limited edition with a size of 750GB.

Here is the back of the box. We can see
that the contents are the 2.5” inch SSD, a 2.2mm spacer, and a data migration
software key.

There aren't any changes to the front of
the drive, it follows an identical look with most of the other drives that we
have seen like the M500 SSD.

And
the rear of the Crucial MX300 750GB SSD.

Inside the box there is key for Acronis
True Image HD software, and a link to download it.

Four of the new micron 3D TLC NAND chips are
located on this side of the PCB, a micron LPDDR3 memory, the Marvel
88SS1074-BSW2 with the custom firmware by Crucial, and finally a lot of capcitors
that should provide all the power that is needed to protect your data.

On the other side of the PCB we find
another set of four 384G-bit 32 tier floating gate 3D TLC NAND chips.

A closer look at the Marvel 88SS1074-BSW2
controller.

The new 284G-Bit 3D NAND by micron

Specifications of the Crucial MX300 750GB SSD

In the pictures below we get a more
detailed view of the specifications and the features of the Crucial MX300 750GB
SSD series as they appear on official website.

The Crucial MX300 SSD specifications as
they appear at their website, and as we can see the drive should be able to
achieve sequential read speeds of 530MB/Sec, and sequential write speeds of
510MB/Sec. When it comes to random performance it should be able to reach 92K
read IOPS, and 83K write IOPS, but soon we will find what the Crucial MX300 can
do.

The drive is available on the Crucial
website for 199.99 US Dollars, or 219 euros for those of us that are located in
the EU, as we can see the pricing can be considered very aggressive, although as
always prices will vary.

CrystalDiskInfo

In
the above screenshot we can see all the available info for the Crucial MX300 750GB
SSD.

 

Let’s head to the next page where we
take a look at our testing methods and the review PC.

 

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