The Crucial MX300 750GB SSD Review: Micron's 3D NAND Arrives
by Billy Tallis on June 14, 2016 9:00 AM ESTAnandTech Storage Bench - Light
Our Light storage test has relatively more sequential accesses and lower queue depths than The Destroyer or the Heavy test, and it's by far the shortest test overall. It's based largely on applications that aren't highly dependent on storage performance, so this is a test more of application launch times and file load times. This test can be seen as the sum of all the little delays in daily usage, but with the idle times trimmed to 25ms it takes less than half an hour to run. Details of the Light test can be found here.
The MX300 establishes a small but clear lead in average data rate over the MX200 when the test is run on an empty drive, but for a full drive the performance again drops down to the level of budget planar TLC drives.
As with the Heavy test, the MX300 has an average service time on the Light test that puts it below the MLC drives but ahead of most TLC drives except when full.
The frequency of latency outliers shows the same split personality: keep plenty of spare area around and the MX300 performs like a (low-end) MLC drive, but fill it up and it will begin to struggle.
For power efficiency the MX300 is once again second only to the Crucial BX100, and substantially better than any other TLC.
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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.