Crucial MX300 750GB Limited Edition SSD Review

1. Introduction2. Crucial MX300 750GB Limited Edition3. Testing Methodology4. CrystalDiskMark5. ATTO Disk Benchmark6. AS SSD7. IOMETER8. Real Life File Testing9. Closing Thoughts10. View All Pages

Any new drive entering the 3D NAND SSD fray is going to be compared to Samsung's 3D V-NAND equipped drives. After all the Korean giants have had a huge head start when it comes to bringing 3D NAND drives to market and are currently already producing denser 48-layer NAND to enable huge capacity SSD's whereas Crucial are just leaving the starting blocks using 32-layer NAND. Having said that it's always good to get another player entering the market place.

The MX300's overall sequential read performance left us feeling a bit flat, as 530MB/s is ‘so so' for a drive these days; it's even bettered by Crucial's own 2D TLC NAND equipped BX200. That said, it's sequential write performance and for that matter its 4K write performance tell a different story as  both are very good and crush the BX200. But when it's matched to Samsung's mighty 850 EVO it does take a bit of a battering for both sequential reads and writes.

The drives IOPS performance is impressive producing a figure of 93,230 IOPS for reads which exceeds the official figure of 92,000IOPS while writes at 80,801 IOPS fall a little short of the official 83,000 IOPS.

The MX300 750GB Limited Edition is priced at a very competitive £168.99 inc VAT which bodes well for the pricing of the rest of the range coming later this year.

Pros

• 3D NAND
• Strong write performance.

Cons

• 4K read performance.
• Having to wait for smaller capacities to come to market.

Kitguru says: Crucial's entry into the 3D NAND equipped SSD market is a pretty good first attempt and at the very least it gives Samsung some competition at last.

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