Crucial MX300 750GB

100% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

More cache than most TLC NAND-based SSDs ; Low price per gigabyte ; License for Acronis True Image HD

Writes slow down to 300MBps when cache is exceeded

If you’re looking for a large-capacity SSD at the lowest possible price—and one that won’t regularly let you down with sub-par large-file write performance—the Limited Edition 750GB MX300 is the drive for you. That is, unless you find a great deal on...

Incredibly affordable from a price-per-gigabyte standpoint. Supports hardware-based encryption. Has one of the highest write endurance ratings on the market.

Only one capacity available. Other drives in its class are faster.

For more details, see the Crucial MX300 Limited Edition review at our sister site, ComputerShopper.com.

With the MX200, the short-term performance boost of the SLC wasn't always worth the eventual cost of moving data from SLC to MLC. The SLC caching on the MX300 seems to greatly lower the power requirements of handling a small volume of writes, which may...

– Price ; – Solid mid-range performance ; – Spacer and Acronis True Image HD software activation key included ; – 256 AES encryption

– Only a 3-year warranty

As I said when I first reviewed this drive Crucial’s approach with this drive is the get higher capacity drives in the hands of more people. They are doing this by designing the MX300 to not be the fastest drive out there, but to be a great mid-level...

What exactly is progress? For most people, the definition of progress usually includes an improvement from the existing or the past. Of course, what exactly is considered an improvement may vary from person to person, and Crucial's MX300 is a product...

– Price ; – Solid mid-range performance ; – Spacer and Acronis True Image HD software activation key included ; – 256 AES encryption

– Only a 3-year warranty

So the MX300 is the first consumer product to make use of Micron’s 3D TLC NAND. Crucial took a different approach than Samsung with their first 3D NAND product. The MX300 is not designed to be the fastest consumer SATA SSD out there like Samsung’s 850...

With the release of the MX300 Crucial become the second manufacturer to bring an SSD to market with 3D NAND and overall it is a well-rounded product. We always like to see an SSD arrive with metal casing, it makes little difference to the day to day...

We look forward to seeing what other products with Micron's 3D NAND will bring to the table in the near future. 3D NAND is the future and the Crucial MX 300 SSD is just a glimpse of what is yet to come. For now, the Limited Edition 750GB Crucial MX300...