Wrap Up: The New Price/Performance King

Crucial intended for the MX100 to be today's about affordable SSD and given its pricing the visitor has certainly achieved that -- no testing required. The 256GB model is a phenomenal buy at just $110, while the 512GB model will no doubt tempt many at $225.

The 128GB bulldoze is well positioned at $lxxx, though I find that model less appealing, in part considering I no longer find 128GB to exist plenty for my kicking drive. Betwixt that and the huge hit in write operation, the 128GB model seems like it's worth skipping.

The bonny pricing wouldn't affair much if the drives were slow, and while the MX100 won't prepare any new speed records, it proved very fast across tests -- specially in awarding operation, i of several similarities nosotros saw with Plextor'southward M6 SSDs. The MX100's file copy results were mostly average despite stellar application functioning, just similar the M6s, and both ranges seem to retain their original functioning well afterwards they are full. Both the Plextor M6 and Crucial MX100 use Marvell controllers.

Our favorite SSDs currently include the Samsung SSD 840 Pro and SanDisk Extreme II. Both cost effectually $400 for 512GB. This means the Samsung and SanDisk models are 80% more expensive and they surely aren't fourscore% faster -- attempt around twenty% in our copy tests for the 840 Pro 512GB, which was really slower than the MX100 512GB by 3% in our application tests. At the end of the 24-hour interval, the MX100'due south functioning was fantabulous, especially for a budget SSD.

Equally of writing, you lot tin can purchase a 256GB Crucial MX100 for the same cost of many ~128GB SSDs including the OCZ Vertex 460, Plextor M6S, Intel SSD 530, Samsung SSD 840 Evo, SanDisk Extreme Two and the list just goes on.

The MX100 seems unstoppable as aught comes close to matching its value. If you've been pregnant to run across what SSDs are all well-nigh, we can't recall of a amend way to do it.

Pros: Enthusiast SSDs by Samsung and others cost around 80% more than, even so the MX100 delivers like performance.

Cons: Well, it's still not every bit cheap equally an HDD simply y'all may have called the incorrect hobby if $110 is too much to ask for a 256GB SSD.