MX300 275GB SATA 2.5 Inch Internal Solid State Drive - CT275MX300SSD1

This is a really nice drive with competitive specs, but not quite the best. The price per GB, the extra GB's in this size category along with it being made by Crucial and with a stated endurance of up to 220 TBW all add up to a great value. Some have complained that nothing comes with the drive and other than the 9mm spacer that is true, yet this is pretty much how most all drives are sold these days. The one drawback if you were hoping for a good migration tool is that they supply a key for downloading Acronis 2015 which recently was updated with patch 6613 and is now supposed to support Windows 10. I don't trust True Image any more after a simple cloning failed and corrupted my original drive. I simply downloaded Macrium Reflect Free which is very reliable and supports Windows 10. The way that I configured my new drive may not be the fastest, but it is safe and reliable. After installing Reflect, I created a full verified system image and put a copy on an external USB 3 drive, Next I disconnected my system drive and booted up off a Rescue Media CD. The external drive containing the system image was connected to one port and the new SSD was connected to another port via a Startech USB 3 to SATA 3 cable. Fired up the restoration and 22 minutes later it completed successfully. I connected it up to an internal SATA port and it booted right up without any problems. The only other thing I did was rename the C: partition to eliminate any confusion and pulled up Disk Management and extended the primary partition to incorporate the remaining unallocated space. This drive formats out to 489.05 GB which is about 43 GB more than a formatted 480 GB drive. My method isn't the fastest way to set up the new drive, but it is extremely safe because while I am doing the image restore my original drive isn't hooked up so even if the restore failed I would still have a perfectly good system drive if needed. In actual use it feels every bit as fast as my Samsung 850 EVO drive. I haven't tried enabling the Momentum Cache feature that allows for dynamically allocating up to 25% of idle system memory for burst writes and is supposed to nearly quadruple the speed. So far it is running very fast so I might not bother with it for now. My experience with other Crucial drives and memory has been excellent and have never had any problems and that was a big factor in choosing this drive as reliability is more important to me than having the absolute fastest drive. I also have several Samsung drives that have performed well and have never given me any problems. A 500 GB 850 EVO carries about a 25% premium over this 525 GB drive and it just doesn't seem to be anywhere near 25% faster, in fact under normal use I don't notice any significant difference, though the Samsung will benchmark out a bit higher. Either one of these drives would have been fine, but given the extra capacity and no discernible difference in everyday use I am very satisfied with this drive. Both are very well made and reliable drives. Update 9/24: I have enabled Momentum Cache and it does make a noticeable difference in the overall performance. My system has 16 GB of memory which means that this can allocate up to 4 GB of unused memory for caching. The nice thing is that it will adjust the amount of memory that it utilizes dynamically according to system demands and loading so that it won't have over allocated memory at a time when the system has a higher demand for more memory. It has worked very well so far without any hiccups, and I don't notice that it is there except that everything is faster. I am running Windows 10.

Until my purchase of this Crucial MX300 SSD, I only bought Samsung SSDs. I intended to buy a Samsung EVO 850 500GB, but I choked on its $179 price. THEN I saw the Crucial SSD 525GB for $119...and could not resist. So far, the Crucial is a GREAT choice. HERE'S WHY! FASTER THAN SAMSUNG: In comparison to my 'decommissioned' Samsung EVO 850 250GB, the Crucial MX300 is noticeably faster. The Crucial boots up Windows 10 a little faster. Big software, like Photoshop, opens a little faster. There isn't a massive performance difference. Nonetheless, I am very impressed with the very snappy speed of the Crucial. It is the fastest SSD I have owned yet. RELIABILITY: I always bought Samsungs because of their rock-solid reliability. That factor almost caused me to pay $179 for the EVO 850. HOWEVER, I bought Crucial RAM since the 1990s because of its extreme reliability for my custom PC builds . So, I hoped Crucial SSDs are as solid as Crucial RAM. So far, so good...but it is only Day 8...and thus only time will tell. MOMENTUM CACHE: This feature dramatically improves the SSD's 'burst' performance. (I think this feature is why software apps open faster in Crucial than with a Samsung SSD.) PRICE: At $119, the Crucial is a bargain in comparison to Samsungs and Intel SSDs. At $89, it is a screaming steal (which I paid for my 2nd Crucial during an Amazon sale). Definitely 5 Stars for price. SUPERIOR USA-Based TECH SUPPORT: I had a little trouble with setting up the SSD. I thought I got a defective one. I called Crucial Tech Support. A very courteous, knowledgeable technician discovered I overlooked a critical step. My mistake. Thus, the issue was resolved quickly. Afterwards, the SSD worked perfectly. The CON: MEDIOCRE SET-UP UTILITY: Crucial's software utility for setting up the MX300 SSD is a little clunky in comparison to the software offered by Samsung and Intel. Thus, initial set-up is slightly more tricky. In fact, my first attempt failed (but not to worry...just call Crucial Tech Support if you get stuck). CRITICAL ADVICE: You can't just install the Crucial SSD (either as an internal or external drive) and hope it will be immediately recognized by Windows. The SSD will not appear in Windows Explorer (or File Explorer). After connecting the Crucial SSD, you have to open Windows' Disk Management utility and INITIALIZE the SSD. Then it will be recognized and ready for the additional steps below. (If you don't know how to initialize the SSD, call Crucial Tech Support.) CRUCIAL ADDITIONAL STEPS: 1. Download and install Crucial's utility called Crucial Storage Executive. (I installed and used the utility after clean installing Windows 10 and updates on the SSD. You should use the utility before installing apps and other software.) 2. *** VITAL *** Use the utility to UPDATE the SSD's FIRMWARE. My SSD's firmware was out-of-date. 3. Use the utility to OVER-PROVISION the Crucial SSD. Use the recommended setting. (Over-provisioning will extend the life of the SSD at the cost of reducing the usable drive space by about 40 GB. Yes, some geeks say over-provisioning is unnecessary for modern SSDs...but I have a strong feeling that it should be done for the Crucial). 4. Enable the Momentum Cache feature. Perform the steps cited above...and your awesome Crucial SSD is ready to blast off! The VERDICT: If the Crucial MX300 proves to be as durable and reliable as Intels and Samsungs, it is definitely the best quality, fastest 'consumer' SSD for the lowest price. I am betting the Crucial is rock-solid. That's why I bought a second one less than 2 weeks after the first. :-)

I've been buying and using SSD drives since 2012, and have used several different brand ones. The ones I've been buying the last two years have been Crucial branded ones. As a part of Micron, they have direct control of the chips used in their drives, since they are one of the largest manufacturers of memory chips. I like that. In the last year I've purchased several of the MX300 series drives ranging from 256 gb to 525 gb all the way to the one TB one I bought here. They all installed and performed perfectly. The Acronis cloning software that you download from the Crucial site, worked easily to make an exact copy of the 525 gb OCZ SSD drive I was replacing. There was a small issue with getting the right partition size on the new drive, since the Acronis software was persistent in creating two 500GB partitions on the new 1 TB SSD. I wanted a single partition. It was easy to bypass that issue using a separate partitioning program that allowed me to adjust the partitions more to my liking. All is well with the new SSD after a couple weeks of use. It's blazing fast and has doubled my boot drive capacity from my previous OCZ SSD. The OCZ still shows 98% of it's life expectancy remaining after almost 5 years of use according to the SSD utility I downloaded from the Toshiba website. (Toshiba bought OCZ). I formatted that old drive and have re purposed it as a very fast storage drive. If you buy a Crucial ssd you should download the Crucial storage executive program from their website. It allows you to easily check the health and life remaining information on your ssd, as well as tune the drive for optimum performance and check the firmware and update that if a newer one is available.

È il mio primo SSD, dopo aver letto tanto in merito a questi solid state drive mi sono deciso a comprarne uno. Versione da 275GB per poter installare il S.O. (Win 10 Pro 64 bit) ed i programmi base che necessitano di un caricamento rapido dei dati. Crucial, una delle aziende più attive in questo settore, è nota agli appassionati di tutto il mondo per l’elevata qualità e affidabilità dei suoi prodotti. Nota alla pari di Samsung per gli SSD. Inutile dire quanto la spedizione di Amazon sia stata efficiente. Al contrario dei dischi meccanici il pacco per gli SSD è congruo con le aspettative, non essendo così delicati come gli HDD. Confezione e Bundle: Il design è come molto curato, anche se minimalista, il colore predominante è il bianco. Nella parte frontale, oltre al logo dell’azienda, troviamo un’immagine che raffigura un’anteprima del drive contenuto, la serie di appartenenza e la capacità di archiviazione, in questo caso un insolito 275GB. Girando dal lato opposto la confezione troviamo l’elenco dettagliato del materiale fornito a corredo e alcune indicazioni del produttore tradotte in diverse lingue (manca l’italiano). Dopo aver aperto la confezione notiamo che sia l'SSD sia l’intero bundle fornito con lo solid state drive, sono ben riposti all'interno di un blister di plastica nero rigido. Assieme all'SSD troviamo quindi: 1x Adattatore per l’installazione dell’unità in un vano da 9.5mm di spessore; 1x Cartaceo riportante il seriale per l’attivazione del software di migrazione Acronis True Image HD. Specifiche tecniche: Crucial Serie: MX Serie: Crucial MX300 Fattore di forma: 2.5 “ Controller: Marvell 88SS1074 NAND: Micron 384 Gbit TLC 3D a 32 strati DRAM: 512MB Lettura sequenziale: 530MB / s Scrittura sequenziale: 510MB / s Lettura casuale file 4KB: 92K IOPS Scrittura casuale file 4KB: 83K IOPS Modalità risparmio energetico: 4mW Inattività: 75mW Massima potenza: 5.2W Durata: 220TB Garanzia: Tre anni L’interfaccia di trasmissione è ovviamente conforme allo standard SATA III a 6Gb/s, quindi il massimo ottenibile dall'interfaccia classica SATA. Al fine di garantire una buona solidità, resistenza agli urti e dissipazione del calore generato dalle componenti interne, è stato scelto l’alluminio quale materiale principale di entrambe le facce della scocca, con la parte superiore che si presenta satinata e dalle forme arrotondate. Nella parte posteriore troviamo un’etichetta adesiva riportante il modello preciso del prodotto, con relativi numeri di serie, e un codice a barre bidimensionale (QR Code). Troviamo, inoltre, il codice PSID, indispensabile per poter sbloccare il drive nell'eventualità di smarrimento della chiave di criptazione dei dati contenuti. Questo aspetto non lo ho mai provato. Eseguito un semplice test con l'SSD occupato solo dal sistema operativo, come detto Windows 10 Pro a 64 bit. Il test si riferisce ad una misurazione delle prestazione con file da 1GB, SSD occupato in 20 GB e in uso dal sistema stesso. Dopo averlo utilizzato ormai per 3 mesi posso giungere ad una conclusione: Crucial MX300 è in competizione con i modelli Samsung EVO, quindi parliamo di una categoria intermedia di SSD. Rappresenta il giusto compromesso tra prestazioni velocistiche ed affidabilità nel tempo, senza rinunciare ad un prezzo contenuto (anche se da un po' di tempo il prezzo delle memorie NAND è in aumento, riscontrabile sia negli SSD sia nelle memorie RAM), risultando di fatto la soluzione ideale, per tutti coloro, che intendono abbandonare gli ormai vecchi e limitanti dischi rigidi tradizionali di tipo meccanico in favore di una ben più prestante unità allo stato solido (SSD), capace di donare nuova vita anche a sistemi non proprio al passo coi tempi, come ad esempio vecchi notebook o PC aziendali, pur senza dover affrontare un notevole esborso di denaro.

Bought it for my Lenova Y580 formerly 650 G hard drive. I am not a tech person, so had to watch videos to see how it was done and it was pretty easy to install (if I can do it, anyone can). The result is amazing. It used to take 5 to 10 minutes to restart my computer, which was mainly because I had a almost full, very slow hard drive. I just restarted it now with the new SSD, (my third restart since installing) and timed it at exactly 20 seconds from beginning to shut down and up again to my desktop ready to use. My apps and programs load almost instantly, even Adobe Lightroom and my raw photo files, which used to be the slowest of all my programs and files to load. The rest of my comments here pertain only to a couple of snags I ran into during the cloning process, and have nothing to do with the SSD itself. I did have to get a SATA to USB cable, which I hadn't realized I'd need at first. (I wasn't kidding when I said I know almost nothing about these things). The other problem I ran into is that the Acronis True Image 2015 software wouldn't work. At the reboot point, it would not continue running the process and I had to start it again. I tried a few times (which was time consuming) before I realized it wasn't going to work. I finally figured out that it didn't work on Windows 10. There was a patch available on their website but it didn't work either. Apparently you can only update the patch if you already have the full paid version of it, and that's how I discovered this version that comes with the SSD is just the 30 day trial. ( I am not sure why you need to enter a key or serial number if it's just a trial because you can download that yourself at any time from their website. ) So I tried downloading the 2017 trial version from the Acronis website, and it didn't work because the Cloning part, which is the only part I needed, was only available on the purchased version. I didn't want to spend another $50 for a one time process, so googled for a solution and found another free program called Aomi Backupper. This was very easy to use and although it took a few hours to clone, it worked perfectly. It probably only took that long because of the state of my original hard drive. It created some partition issues (probably because I hadn't known which option to select in the cloning process, so picked "optimal for ssd". ) I had to then download the free Aomi partition program so I could move and then extend partitions it had created in order to have my C drive extended to the extra 300 or so gigs the new drive had from my old one. So, while I have heard how good the Acronis software is, just wanted to let you know if you do get the older version that doesn't work with windows 10 and you don't want to put out more money to buy it, there are other free products out there. Aomi Backupper worked great for me, but I have no idea if it's one of the better ones or not. It was just a lucky first try. So I am giving 5 stars just because the SSD is fantastic and the Acronis issue, wasn't a big deal. I would have bought the hard drive even without it. It was a nice bonus that probably works for a lot of people, and had it worked, I would have been thrilled, but it all turned out fine in the end. Hopefully Crucial will start including a newer version that also allows you to Clone on WIndows 10. But I do love the new hard drive. I also swapped out my ram recently from 6 to 16 gigs and between those two things, I feel like I have a new computer.

¡Tiene un rendimiento BRUTAL! Lo instalé en una ThinkPad T460P, corre únicamente GNU/Linux con una partición home encriptada. El arranque dura menos de 5 segundos, las aplicaciones abren de forma casi instantánea, hasta Chrome que en otras máquinas de configuración similar con HDD tarda varios segundos, aquí no tarda más de 1 segundo en estar completamente operacional. Sin duda es el SSD con la mejor relación calidad/precio. Según algunos benchmarks el rendimiento entre la unidad de 275GB y las de mayores capacidades no es tan diferente como en algunas otras marcas. En una excelente opción como disco principal con suficiente espacio para el sistema operativo y archivos personales. La instalación en igual de fácil que con cualquier HDD/SSD de 2.5", depende más del equipo a instalar que de la unidad en si. Incluye un espaciador para completar la altura común de los HDD..

Bonjour, Ce disque dur est une fusée, j'en ai monté un dans une playstation 3 (525 Go) et un dans un macbook de 2007 (275 Go) en clonant le disque dur, les résultats sont impressionnants ! Dans la playstation 3, l'accès au playstation store est deux fois plus rapides, les jeux comme gran turismo 5 et 6 voient leur temps de chargement améliorés de façon impressionnante, destiné se charge lui aussi très vite, du tout bon, et la console chauffe beaucoup moins et donc fait beaucoup moins de bruit ! Pour le macbook, il suffit de cloner le disque dur d'origine (fujitsu 5400 rpm / 160 Go) avec Carbon Copy Cloner et le montage ainsi que le reconnaissance sont immédiats. La vitesse d'écriture multipliée par 4, la vitesse de lecture multipliée par 5, les pages internet qui s'ouvrent instantanément avec la même connection réseau, les applications quasi immédiates, avant l'applestore s'ouvrait en 38 secondes, là en 6 secondes, ça parle ! Ces deux disques durs m'ont été livrés en chronopost, donc bien emballés, et dans chaque emballage il y a un code pour un clonage via ACCROIS mais je vous conseille si vous avez un mac d'utiliser CCC qui fonctionne en licence gratuite le premier mois Très satisfait de cet achat, bien plus rapide et fiable que mon ancien CORSAIR F40 lui aussi SSD monté lui aussi sur une PS3 qui a commencé à faiblir au bout de deux semaines Merci de m'avoir lu

Ich habe mir diese MX300 zum Speichern vieler virtueller Maschinen angeschafft (beruflich bedingt) Nicht nur als OS-Platte eingesetzt profitiert man von den kurzen Zugriffszeiten und hohen Lese/Schreibraten im Vergleich zu einer konventionellen Festplatte. Auch virtuelle Maschinen laufen auf einer SSD deutlich flotter. Als OS-SSD ist die Samsung 850 EVO mit 500 GB eingesetzt, als kleineres Datengrab die Samsung 840 EVO mit 250GB (ehemals als OS-SSD eingesetzt) Die neuere 3D-Flashtechnologie mit kolportierter längerer Lebenszeit der Zellen ist für mich kein Kaufgrund. Meine SSDs erleben das Ende Ihrer Lebenszeit in meinen Rechnern sowieso nicht und werden vorher getauscht. Ein paar Worte zum Lieferumfang und ein Tip. Dabei sind die Schrauben und eine Seriennummer für Acronis Trueimage zum Umziehen des OS von der alten auf die neue SSD. Keine Kabel. Nützlich der beigelegte Spacer um die SSD in Laptops einbauen zu können welche eine etwas dickere SSD aufnehmen wollen. Die Acronis-SW - nun. Braucht kein Mensch und man kann immer wieder von diversen Problemen durch TrueImage lesen. Auch ich hatte mich letztens mit einem durch TrueImage verursachten Problem herumschlagen - ich konnte die Reparaturoptionen von Windows 10 nicht mehr auswählen. Ein Regeintrag vonTrueimage mußte deaktiviert werden um das Problem zu lösen. Unerfreulich. ********************************** Deswegen als alternative Lösung - nutzt das Freewaretool "MiniTool Partition Wizard" - damit kann das OS auch ganz ohne Spezialwissen auf eine neue SSD migriert werden - ohne potentielle unerwünschte Nebenwirkungen. Nutze ich schon seit Jahren - kann ich sehr empfehlen. ********************************* Ich habe ein paar Screenshots von AS-SSD angehängt. Zuerst die Crucial verglichen mit der Samsung 840 Evo - ohne den Features "Rapid Mode" von Samsung und "Momentum Cache" von Crucial. Beide nutzen Arbeitsspeicher als Zwischenspeicher bevor die Daten auf die SSD geschrieben werden - bringt in beiden Fällen einen erheblichen Performanceschub. Wie man sieht nehmen sich die 2 Platten nichts - sind auf vergleichbaren Niveau. Dann mit aktivierten RapidMode auf der 850 Evo und der Crucial. Die Samsung hat größtenteils die Nase deutlich vorn. Ich sehe das Ergebnis aber ebenfalls als vergleichbar an, denn in der Praxis wird man nicht sehr viel davon bemerken. Weil man immer wieder liest diese Caching-Techniken seien mit Vorsicht zu geniessen. Nun - logischerweise sind bei einem Absturz des Rechners Daten im Arbeitsspeicher die noch nicht auf die SSD geschrieben wurden verloren - unter Umständen mit dem Resultat eines korrupten OS. Wer also ein wackliges System hat verzichtet evtl. besser darauf. Die Lösung der Wahl wäre aber natürlich sein System in Ordnung zu bringen. Anwendungen oder Spiele die wegen der Caching-Technologie Probleme machen habe ich mit Rapid Mode von Samsung nicht erlebt. Bzgl. Momentum Cache von Crucial kann ich nichts sagen, da sie nicht als OS-Platte genutzt wird. Natürlich sollte man genug Arbeitsspeicher im Rechner haben - bei mir 32 GB - da kann ich also leicht etwas diesen Technolgien zur Verfügung stellen. Mein Eindruck der Crucial - günstiger Preis bei aktueller Technologie und Leistungsdaten welche im Rahmen des zu erwartenden liegen - zu Samsung als Platzhirsch diesbzgl. etwas aufgeschlossen. Wer unbedingt die Benchmarksieger will muß eben etwas mehr Geld in die Hand nehmen . in der Praxis erlaubt auch die Crucial sehr flottes Arbeiten.