The Crucial MX300 750GB SSD Review: Micron's 3D NAND Arrives
by Billy Tallis on June 14, 2016 9:00 AM ESTAnandTech Storage Bench - Heavy
Our Heavy storage benchmark is proportionally more write-heavy than The Destroyer, but much shorter overall. The total writes in the Heavy test aren't enough to fill the drive, so performance never drops down to steady state. This test is far more representative of a power user's day to day usage, and is heavily influenced by the drive's peak performance. The Heavy workload test details can be found here.
The average data rate of the MX300 is virtually identical to that of its predecessors, except that when full the MX300's identity as a TLC drive is revealed by a precipitous drop.
The average service time of the MX300 when running the test on an empty drive places the MX300 between the slow MLC drives and the fast planar TLC. When the test is run on a full drive the average service time grows to be close to that of some of the cheapest drives on the market.
When run on an empty drive, the write-oriented Heavy test doesn't produce a significant number of latency outliers, but on a full drive delays are quite common.
The MX300's power efficiency is once again very close to the top of the charts, even for the full-drive test.
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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.