Having recently reviewed Crucial’s MX100 , I was intrigued by taking a look at their newest entry in the MX line – the MX200, which we received for review in the 1TB model.
Crucial has been offering some pretty high quality SSDs at a low price, and the MX200 is no different, especially considering the amount of space in this particular drive. At $459, it would be hard to find another solid-performing SSD with so much disk space, as similar companies will charge you a much higher premium.
So how does it perform on a day-to-day basis? In short, great. The drive is said to deliver 555MB/s Read and 500MB/s Write speeds, and I found it to be pretty close to it on a consistent basis. My sequential read tests saw the SSD generally hit between 500-510MB/s reading and 485-492MB/s writing. My random read and writes tests also saw the MX200 pull off an average of about 90-94KB/s (read) and 80-83KB/s (write), which is again, pretty close to what it can max out at (100KB/s and 87KB/s respectively).
The MX200 uses Micron’s 16nm MLC NAND and the Marvel 889189 controller, while Crucial provides what’s called Storage Executive that essentially lest you see S.M.A.R.T. information, debug info and perform firmware upgrades via a browser-based utility. I was also happy to see that the MX200 supports encryption for those that want old date on the drive to become unreadable.
Crucial rates the drive to last approximately 1.5 million hours and an average of 320TB of total bytes written.
On the efficiency side of things, the MX200 not only remains quite, but also pretty cool. It does have Adaptive Thermal Protection and Extreme Energy Efficiency features, and having the drive on my Macbook Pro, I can safely say that I don’t hear the drive whatsoever nor notice any extra heat (outside of the normal heat from the battery itself).
At $460, the MX200 is really tough to beat, not only because of price, but how it performs relative to other similar SSDs that can cost hundreds more.
Final Score: 5 out of 5
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