Front and back this looks like any other MX200 series of SSD, until you open it up. For a 750Gb model, there’s plenty of space for more memory chips, up to 3Tb we would speculate, just on PCB real estate alone. It’s pretty hard to open one of these drives as well. The PCB snaps into the enclosure and the enclosure snaps together. Crucial have a refined internal and enclosure production, the MX300 is no different.
Along with the eight DDP’s of 384Gb Micron 3D TLC NAND there is the Marvell 88SS1074-BSW2 controller and 512MB of LPDDR3. We couldn’t find any information on Micron’s website for this controller, hopefully more information will be released before the mainstream consumer product launches.
There was some speculation around the web after the Micron 3D NAND press release and demo at CES with Silicon Motion’s 3D compatible SM2258 controller, that Crucial would move away from the Marvell controllers, this confirms it’s business as usual for Crucial. It is encouraging to see a relativity high capacity drive with a lot of physical PCB room to spare, this is a benefit of 3D NAND flash packages.
Crucial MX300 Limited Edition 750Gb SSD Storage Review
Package - 8
Performance - 8.5
Price - 8
Consumer Experience - 8
8.1
The MX300 series promises faster speeds, bigger capacities and a long life, the latter point we cannot confirm, but the first two do seem to be right on the money. The Crucial MX300 Limited Edition 750Gb SSD as a release on its own is a good drive and we are happy to see performance and capacity on par with Crucial’s mainstream competitors. If this is a sign of things to come from Micron and Crucial, even if you are not a fan, it’s promising.