The Crucial MX100 offers good performance at a very good price. Clearly, the MX100 does not offer ground breaking performance as it was consistently around mid-table throughout our suite of benchmarks. This however should not put you off from considering such a drive as the MX100 is an SSD that is built to offer good value for money and here is where it scores highly. From our searches we could not find a cheaper 512GB SSD, more over the nearest competition was from the 480GB range. Costing a smidgen over £150, the M100 offers superb value for money and while it may not be able to compete on raw speed with the fastest drives on the market, it still offers average SSD performance, which as we all know will put any mechanical drive to shame.

Our only worry with this drive is that any drive with this capacity is too big for a boot drive, yet far smaller than the largest mechanical drives for DATA storage purposes. This puts the drive in a difficult position because users who would buy this drive are unlikely to have any other. Ideal for notebook users certainly but desktop users we fear would prefer to use a faster, smaller boot drive and have the larger mechanical drives for data storage. This then could potentially lesson the appeal of such a large SSD unless you are looking for an all-in-one unit.



That isn't to say you couldn't use this component as a boot drive, clearly you could and also have the benefit of adding your most commonly used applications and games which would certainly speed up any system. Whichever your preference of HD configuration, this drive a very worthwhile purchase as £150 is unlikely to give you tangible performance benefits if spent elsewhere in a computer system because the SSD has to be the best performance upgrade currently available, especially for those still clinging to mechanical drives.

In summary:
The £ per GB void between mechanical and solid state drives has just been shortened. If you crave speed but want extra storage capacity then this solid state drive is worthy of consideration.