Crucial MX300 750GB SATA 2.5 Inch Internal Solid State Drive - CT750MX300SSD1

I got this 750GB drive during the Thanksgiving sale for $100, and at that price it is a steal, considering how it now popped back up to $215. It performs just as good as my Samsung 840 Pro 256GB and 850 Evo 500GB series SSDs, and I bought those for about $150 last year. Their prices are still holding up quite high:

750GB is perfect. Wanted to go with an all SSD PC, so I could get rid of the 3.5 hard drive cage in my case. This is probably the best performance/capacity/cost ratio on a SSD. Sure, its not as fast as the 850 EVO/Pro drives, but those are a) more expensive and b) 500/512GB SSDs. That said, its insanely fast, and I would be hard pressed to tell the difference on real world usage between them. 3D NAND also comes with a very nice Endurance boost. If you want a SSD storage drive, I cant really think of a better option than this one. Cheaper ones can be found yes, but they also compromise on performance. This one hits the sweet spot.

I got one for me and one for my wife. It took less than 2 hours to clone my wifes 750 GB regular spinning drive to this SSD using CloneZilla. Mine is running Slackware-current and is lightning fast

For my main desktop been waiting for a drive that made sense with a ~300GB Boot drive...This is the best deal from a reliable company for anything much bigger than 500GB...Mushkin 1TB is the only other option but that is kinda slow...MX300 is a winner. Hint make regular backups, (Paragon have a free version backup app available that will even move an OS drive to different hardware). Super drive got multiple sizes (275GB for the laptop)

Worked flawlessly out of the box. I purchased this to replace a failing disk drive in a Lenovo Y500 laptop. Worked like a charm, no issues. Your mileage may vary, make sure your laptop or whatever actually supports 6GB/s SATA; I purchased a very similar Crucial MX-part SSD for an older HP laptop, that did NOT work because that particular laptops controller was too old. Boot times are fantastic. I did not use the included acronis software link, I instead use the free MACRIUM REFLECT software I already had on my prime PC to do the disk image backup and restore to the SSD.

5/5 for the product, 0/5 for the data migration software, 2/5 for crutial software, so overall 3/5. The product itself is great, decent quality at reasonable price. But the data migration software comes with it is a piece of sh*t. So I had an old 240GB SSD with only ~20GB space available. So I bought this new SSD and wanted to migrate data from my old drive into this new one. I used the migration software (Acronis) to migrated my data and use all default settings. The migration was smooth however after rebooting I only found theres a 240GB partition in my new 750GB drive, the rest 500GB was not allocated! The only reason I buy a larger drive is to have more space, and the migration software failed to allocate more space to the main partition! I tried again to see if I was able to adjust the partition size during the migration, nope. I either had to create another ~500GB partition with the 240GB partition almost full or figure out a way to merge those 2 partitions. (Trust me its not easy cuz they are not adjacent partitions) Finally I found some workaround to merge the unused 500GB to main partition and get a ~690GB partition. Took me half a day to do so and Im pretty frustrated. If only the migration software could do its job it would be so much easier. It looks like clonezilla is able to clone a smaller drive to a larger drive without such problem, but use with caution, I did not verify this. Also the Crucial Storage Executive said I had 0MB of DRAM so I cannot turn on Momentum Cache, which is the most important feature imo... its another WTF moment Im just done for the day.

I just finished using this Crucial MX300 750GB SSD on a fresh WIndows 7 install - the specs for the box are an ASUS PM8Z77-V LE motherboard, and i5-3570K Processor, 16GB of Corsair DDR3 and and MSI Twin Frozr Video Card. The build went smoothly, no hitches related to the new drive. The computer formerly had a 1TB 7200rpm WD mechanical drive. The Windows Experience for the Hard Drive was 5.9 before the build, and maxxed out at 7.9 after the build. The box is now blazingly fast on boot up, and the system is no longer bottlenecked by the hard drive. I have installed a Samsung 850 EVO 500GB on an identically built machine a few months back (I have twin boys with the exact same build gaming system), and the performance of this Crucial drive is just as good. I did not do any detailed benchmarking, all assessments are based purely on boot times, and basic access times. I have had absolutely no issues with this SSD to date - I actually bought a 500GB Crucial yesterday for an old Vaio laptop. I liked the performance so much that I stuck with it for my next build. My wife has a 1TB Sandisk Ultra II in her Dell All-in-One desktop, and I like both the Crucial and Samsung better than the SanDisk after working with all three. Recommended - so far so good - if anything changes, I will update the review. Note this only comes with the plastic cheap mounting base, and no software, but I am told you can download the software for a transfer of data from your old drive - read other reviews for that information. I did a fresh build, so transfer software was not needed. UPDATE: I enabled Momentum Cache, and was having issues with simple things like Microsoft Security Essentials scans completing (they would freeze), and updating Windows Experience (it would error out on disk check) and other strange disk issues. Long story short, I disabled Momentum Cache, and the problems went away. The same thing was happening on my laptop where I installed a 500GB Crucial MX300... this issue cost me a lot of time and head scratching, and as soon as I disabled Momentum Cache everything was fixed. I am having doubts that Momentum Cache has some side affects, but could be wrong. It appeared to be isolated to it on my computer.

Had some trouble with cloning: the software would not notice the new drive if it was in a USB 3.0 rack. It worked after attaching it to an internal sata cable, although there was no graphical interface, and I could only guess that it was working due to the HDD activity led being always lit. Other than this, zero problems.

My 2011 Mac Mini was running unbelievably slow. Im talking spinning wheel just trying to open a file on the desktop. Time machine wouldnt even do a backup and error codes would pop-up every time I tried to reinstall the OS. I took a leap and diagnosed my computer with a dying hard drive. I ordered the crucial and then installed it hoping it would fix my slow as molasses computer. HOLY CRAP. This SSD has solved every one of my issues. Boot up is extremely fast, and everything installed from my latest backup with no issues. Files and folders open instantaneously. It feels like a brand new Mac. Heck, it even feels faster than the new 2016 macs. How is this possible? I dont know and Im not going to question it. I just know Ill be buying Crucial Memory from here on out.

Big thank you to the last reviewer Tyler for the Momentum Cache tip!!! I installed this drive in our XPS 18 replacing the incredibly slow 5400RPM drive doing a RAM upgrade tomorrow. (Steps for a clean install) 1. Created USB flash drive installation media using the Microsoft Windows 10 Media Creation Tool (>=8GB USB flash drive required) 1.2. This was done on a different computer using the create installation for a different PC option. 2. Removed old HDD and replaced with Crucial MX300 3. Booted using the USB flash drive 4. Logged in using my existing Microsoft Account. 5. Windows 10 somehow recognized this computer and automatically installed and activated the same version of Windows 10 that was previously installed. (Thank you Microsoft for finally making upgrading easy!!!) 6. Ran CrystalDiskMark to get baseline numbers. (511.9MB/s Read 498.3MB/s Write) 7. Installed Crucial Storage Executive from Crucial website. 8. Performed Live SSD Firmware Update 9. Disabled DOS 8.3 Filenames as recommended by the Crucial Software 10. Enabled Momentum Cache and system rebooted. 11. Re ran CrystalDiskMark (2633MB/s Read 3010MB/s Write) Wow, what impressive numbers see images for full details.