Crucial BX300 240GB SSD Drive Review

Shopping for a SSD can be a little confusing.  For instance do you focus on storage capacity and price or do you look at performance and pick the best one.  As you may have noticed in this review drive performance will be similar due to the SATA interface however,  subtle differences between the controller and NAND selection can make a difference.

When it comes to consumer level SSDs the price to performance sweet spot is found with drives below 500GB, beyond that the price tends to skyrocket due to NAND architecture.  Traditional or Planar NAND is limited by the physical chip size and to reach 2TB you need to use some rather expensive chips and a whole lot of them.  Crucial has taken a different approach to this problem by using 3D NAND technology.  This new manufacturing process allows Micron to create multi level chips and take advantage of MLC architecture in the process.

The Crucial BX300 is a MLC based SSD using the Micron 3D NAND technology.  MLC drives tend to last longer than their TLC counterparts and are often faster.  To help increase speed you’ll find a SLC write acceleration cache that also reduces wear on the primary NAND chips.  According to Crucial the BX300 Life Expectancy is 1.5 million hours with 80TB of Total Bytes Written or about 44GB a day for 5 years.  A three year warranty gives buyers peach of mind and some advanced power saving modes give the drive about 45x the power efficiency over a typical hard drive.

Overall this drive is designed to combine Micron 3D NAND with a value conscious design to deliver features DIY upgraders and builders are looking for.  The Crucial BX300 is available in 120GB, 240GB and 480GB capacities which encompass the entirety of the mainstream SSD market.

The benchmarks in this review show some pretty impressive numbers for a value based SSD with the Crucial 240GB BX300 posting the highest scores of any drive in this review.  Real world benchmark numbers reaffirm this story and back up the numbers Crucial has posted for the BX300.

Great Performance
SATA 6 Compliant
3D MLC NAND
Available in Sizes up to 480GB
More Storage Less Cost
Included Imaging Software

No NVMe Version.. Yet