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It's good to see that Micron have got their 3D TLC NAND production up to a level where the MX300 is now a fully-fledged product line rather than a single isolated Special Edition drive. The flagship 2TB drive is another indicator, should anybody still need one, of the capacity potential that the various flavours of 3D NAND offer.
As with most previous Crucial drives, the MX300 comes with host of features. Along with the Dynamic Write Acceleration and Momentum Cache to boost the write performance, there are Data Defense and RAIN technologies to protect the data, while Power Loss Protection completes write commands if the power to the system is lost. But that final point only applies to data at rest, NOT any in-flight user data.
Adaptive Thermal Protection comes into play if the drive gets too hot, throttling back the drive until the temperature returns to a safe level. The MX300 has data security that wouldn't be out of place on an enterprise drive, never mind a consumer drive. It supports AES 256-bit encryption along with eDrive, IEEE-1667, and TCG Opal 2.0.
Crucial quote Sequential performance figures for the drive as 530MB/s for reads and 510MB/s for writes. These numbers were confirmed by the ATTO benchmark with the review drive producing figures of 534MB/s for reads and 519MB/s for writes. Random 4K performance was a little bit of a mixed bag, with reads coming in at 92,861 IOPS which is slightly better than the official 92,000 IOPS while the writes at 81,045 IOPS were a little shy of the official 83,000 IOPS.
The MX300 2TB is available for £489.59 (inc VAT) from Crucial's store HERE.
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Pros
- Huge capacity
- Data security
Cons
- Not cheap
- Warranty is only 3 years
KitGuru says: It's good to see another 3D NAND range of drives hit the market, especially one that includes a 2TB monster.
