The Crucial MX300 750GB SSD Review: Micron's 3D NAND Arrives
by Billy Tallis on June 14, 2016 9:00 AM ESTAnandTech Storage Bench - The Destroyer
The Destroyer is an extremely long test replicating the access patterns of very IO-intensive desktop usage. A detailed breakdown can be found in this article. Like real-world usage and unlike our Iometer tests, the drives do get the occasional break that allows for some background garbage collection and flushing caches, but those idle times are limited to 25ms so that it doesn't take all week to run the test.
We quantify performance on this test by reporting the drive's average data throughput, a few data points about its latency, and the total energy used by the drive over the course of the test.
The average data rate for the MX300 is between the scores of the 1TB and 500GB MX200 but a little closer to the latter. This is acceptable performance but not really an upgrade over the MX200.
The average service time of the MX300 is slow enough to put it among the budget planar TLC drives and well behind the SanDisk X400.
The MX300 has a higher frequency of both moderate and severe latency outliers than the MX200, but it isn't a huge discrepancy. The performance relative to the SanDisk X400 shows that there is room for improvement.
The MX300's power consumption comes in a distant second place behind the BX100, but this is still remarkable efficiency for a TLC drive.
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redzo - Tuesday, June 14, 2016 - link
They are 2 years late. Two freaking years. Intel's holy grail hybrid disruptive memory tech is going to compete at $/gb with traditional ram + stupidly cheaper samsung 3d nand.ratbaby - Tuesday, June 14, 2016 - link
Intel is working to Micron to produce xsp.TheCurve - Tuesday, June 14, 2016 - link
I always look forward to your stuff, Billy. Nice job and thanks for the hard work!AndrewJacksonZA - Wednesday, June 15, 2016 - link
In the last chart, "SSD Price Comparison (Sorted by Price/GB of Highest Capacity Drive,)" you have the heading as "750TB" As that price, for 750TB, I'll take as many as they can produce!!! :-)Lazlo Panaflex - Wednesday, June 15, 2016 - link
SanDisk ultra II 960GB is on sale for $230 @ the Egg. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8...Seems like a pretty good deal.
sunshine - Wednesday, June 15, 2016 - link
$219.70 at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Ultra-2-5-Inch-Heig...Lazlo Panaflex - Wednesday, June 15, 2016 - link
nice :)euskalzabe - Sunday, June 19, 2016 - link
OCZ Trion 150 960GB is at $199 at this point.DeepLake - Wednesday, June 15, 2016 - link
How did 512GB Samsung EVO got such a jump since 2014?Adam-James - Wednesday, June 15, 2016 - link
Putting out a new SSD in 2016 and saddling it with SATA III is utterly unacceptable. If you want to make an entry level SSD, you should be using SATA Express. For anything else U.2 or M.2 (and not SATA over M.2, actual NVMe M.2). At this point I think the onus is on journalists and consumers to ignore any manufacturer who tries to sell a new SATA III product. Otherwise the industry is just going to continue spinning its wheels.