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  • Samus - Tuesday, August 2, 2016 - link

    Why are Crucial drives progressively getting slower generation after generation. It seems like the last performance drive they made was the M550/MX100. The BX100 was a surprise hit too. Everything released in the last 2 years has been disappointing from a performance and price perspective.

    Crucial\Micron drives have proved reliable for my clients but they are hard to justify based on that alone when Sandisk, Mushkin and OCZ are releasing faster, cheaper, just-as-reliable drives, and Samsung is just killing them in performance.

    It feels like they've thrown in the towel.
  • heffeque - Tuesday, August 2, 2016 - link

    Thinking the same thing :-\
  • DivenTech - Monday, October 24, 2016 - link

    They focused on endurance. MX200 1TB is 320TBW and now MX300 is 360TBW. Read/Write speed is instantaneous and our computers doesn't usually run at peak speed 100% of the time (except for servers that uses other type of HDD/SSD). You would not notice 10MB speed difference at this range of hard drives - and will be limited by interface (6GBps) anyway.
  • modulusshift - Wednesday, August 3, 2016 - link

    Whoa, wait, there's this: https://amzn.com/Crucial-MX300-275GB-Internal-Soli...

    So that means that M.2 has same MSRP as 2.5"?
  • Samus - Wednesday, August 3, 2016 - link

    Wow, nice find. And look at all those capacitors! Rare to see on a m.2 drive.
  • Jay77 - Wednesday, August 3, 2016 - link

    The 750GB makes a good Steam drive. Amazon had it on their Pi-Day sale for $140, it won't be the last time you see that price. What's troubling though, it seems Micron has cancelled the NVMe TX3, all mention of it has disappeared from their websites. It may be that the Silicon Motion controller has problems - the numbers don't look good.
  • m16 - Wednesday, August 10, 2016 - link

    That 3d technology is slower if you want it to be reliable. That's perhaps the price to pay (which I will gladly pay) for reliable consumer grade SSDs. The other option is buying enterprise SSDs but they're not reliable if they're not going to be on for an extended period.

    That being said, I do like their newer cheaper offerings, and as someone else pointed out here, you do not need windows to update the firmware and their partial power loss is bad ass if you do not run a UPS on your desktop (Also recommended for most quicker enterprise offerings). They can also be used for the enterprise, but they're for a very specific target (OPAL encryption for workstations and 1 TB offerings for certain servers)

    I've been running their stuff for a long, long time and I can't recommend them enough for home use. Their support and quality is top notch.

    They also seem to support their firmware a bit longer (at least 6 months into the next generation of SSDs) and their SSD ram caching system is mega solid.
  • allseasonradial - Saturday, September 17, 2016 - link

    Not an expert, so I wonder how the 525 Crucial drive compares with other brands in power draw? I'll probably stick it into an older (late 2009) Macbook, which already doesn't offer a lot of (brand new) battery time. I've been reading that some SSDs actually draw more power in either of their states than some mechanical drives.

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