Crucial MX300 525GB SATA 2.5 Inch Internal Solid State Drive - CT525MX300SSD1

I’ve been a big fan of Samsung drives, but the price difference on the 1TB was enough to make me jump ship to Crucial. I use it in a gaming laptop as my data drive (I have a 250GB system drive and then the Crucial 1TB for data, games and applications). The laptop is a recent (2017) MSI Apache 17”. It has space for one PCIe SSD and one standard SATA 3. I chose to go with a standard SATA because I’m lazy and didn’t want to mess about with moving the system disk. Anyway, all good, and decent for a SSD (but not outstanding figures) in CrystalDiskMark. That is until I downloaded Crucial Storage Executive and enabled momentum cache. The figures speak for themselves (see my screenshot of CrystalDiskMark). I've also added a second image from Task Manager showing how momentum cache works. The G drive is a traditional HDD transferring 25GB of data to F, a 1TB SSD with momentum enabled (I'm actually installing the game Fallout 4 from G to F). You can see that the SSD only occasionally writes data (about once every 10s). So, a very good thing about Momentum cache is the way it handles small files; it caches them to memory and only writes them to the physical SSD occasionally. This not only saves wear on your SSD, but it also makes certain tasks fly. I am a web application developer, and my build process (which involves working with literally thousands of javascript files) is now super fast (it would be even faster if node/npm was multi-threaded, but that's another story!). What are the downsides of doing this? Momentum cache uses your PC memory as a read/write cache, so you need to have a decent amount of memory. My laptop has 16GB, so all good there. I suspect it will work less well for 4GB systems, or if you are using a power-hungry application (such as Adobe Premiere, which I use). It also increases the CPU overhead. EDIT: I're realised Windows 10 Task Manager > Memory shows you the RAM cache (its marked as 'memory that has to be saved to disk before it can be used for something else' or words to that effect). I copied over the full install folder of Fallout 4 plus DLCs (29.6GB) onto a Momemtum enabled drive and the cache varied between 1 and 1.5GB. So the 4GB is never reached; more like >2GB. Crucial strongly recommend a battery backup if you use momentum cache (i.e. you can lose the cached data on a power fail), so other things equal you should only really enable it on a laptop. The cache is written to the real SSD on power off, so system shutdown takes longer (by 5-10s, so significant). But yeah, just look at those figures; well recommended for laptops with memory to spare; your system flies! Edit: Another good thing about the Crucial I'm finding is that it uses devSleep much more often than other SSDs. Since writing this review (5 months), the up-time for my SSD (according to CrystalDiskInfo) is only 9 hours when the physical up-time has been office hours (8.5 hours a day, 5 days a week). The low up-time saves both power and wear and tear, with no noticeable affect on access time. DevSleep only seems to kick in on laptops (it does not seem to affect my desktop), but is certainly something that will extend your laptop battery life (especially if you have two drives) and the life of the SSDs themselves. Oh, I also suspect the up-time is coming out so low because of Momentum Cache (RAM caching means less access requests to the SSD and more devSleep down-time), so devSleep and Momentum cache probably work together).

It's my first SSD, so I am naturally impressed with the considerable improvement in boot up time and the neat, compact nature of the drive. It was easy to install in my tower (with a separately purchased 3.5" drive bay bracket and cables; the '9.5mm Adapter' that comes with this SSD is merely a hollow rectangular frame that sits underneath the SSD, I think it is only useful for laptops and I didn't use it), and the Acronis software key provided allowed me to download and use Acronis to simply transfer the contents of my hard disk drive. This transfer process took, if I remember rightly, between 30 and 40 minutes (you click through a few screens, making sure correct disks are being copied from and to, then leave it to do its thing for the vast majority of this time). I advise looking at a few videos on Youtube for instruction on physically fitting the SSD and preparing it with the software (Crucial have some of their own videos on Youtube, and videos by other SSD manufacturers and members of the public could be helpful too). Note that this SSD (and all the other ones I browsed) doesn't come with a 3.5" bracket to fit in a standard desktop drive bay, nor does it come with any cables to connect it to the power supply and motherboard. You will have to buy these items separately unless you have them already (if you keep boxes after buying a new PC, with manuals and original discs etc, check them; there are often spare cables), but they are cheap and available from lots of online retailers. As I mentioned at the start, my PC boots up faster now. It reaches the desktop screen quicker, and once there, there is no extra loading- on my HDD I would often be waiting about twenty seconds for anything to become responsive as it was still loading startup programs. I've noticed a few games load up faster too, which is nice. This performs well, no problems encountered, and at a good price. I needed a little more than 240/250 GB capacity which are the norm at this end of the scale, but didn't want to go up to 480/500GB prices.

My ageing and bruised Lenovo Z580 has been showing its age for some time. The system needed to be woken from sleep mode several minutes before I actually needed it. And whenever the message popped up that Windows needed to restart, I died a little inside, knowing how long the laptop took to reboot. Of course, it's not the most powerful laptop, but I knew what was dragging it down was the slow 5400RPM HDD. With an unexpected Amazon gift voucher coming my way, I decided it was time to sort out this little annoyance. I already own a Crucial MX100 SSD in my desktop and have been more than happy with that, so I opted for the 275GB version of the MX300. I also purchased a caddy to take out the obsolete optical drive and pop the HDD in for storage. Installation is simple enough. Crucial provide a key for Acronis cloning software so that you can clone your old installation, which may or may not save you time depending on how many applications you have on your old drive and whether you have backups of the documents elsewhere. It's worth noting that the installed capacity is 255GB (this is due to Windows and manufacturers using different measurements for capacity). 255GB, however, is ample for most of your basic programmes. If you're wanting to do my setup (SSD + HDD) you should move your Documents, Pictures, Videos and Music libraries to the HDD. So speed? Yep, as you expect from an SSD, perfectly speedy. The little Windows 10 loading dot-circle-thing scarcely manages a single rotation before Windows is logging me in. If you've been struggling through Windows startup lag, you will struggle no longer. Once you're at the desktop, you can click your web browser and it'll be loading up within seconds. Depending on the rest of your hardware, there may be a few moments of low-level lag within the first thirty seconds or so, but the fact is your system should be usable the moment you hit the desktop. And that's what you want! So, if like me, you've got an old laptop or computer that is capable of doing everything you want it to but is being dragged down by an old mechanical drive, consider this as the perfect upgrade. My Z580 still isn't going to be running Crysis on max settings anytime soon, but I no longer feel like sobbing when a restart is required. EDIT: I have since decided to plump for the 1TB version of this drive to speed up a Lenovo Y50-70 laptop. Installation was a bit tricky but only due to getting the backplate off the laptop without snapping anything! Before the SSD, my Y50 would take 2 to 3 minutes just to get to the Windows login screen. It would take a further couple of minutes to become half-way usable, and then every action seemed sluggish. Load up a folder? Slow. Load up a picture folder with lots of photos in it? That's your afternoon gone. Try and play a game? Enjoy looking at loading screens! Although I'm yet to actually play any games on it since installing the SSD (opted to do a clean installation), I can already see the phenomenal difference in usability. From power button to Windows desktop inside 25 seconds. Usable almost immediately. The problems of the past are gone for good, and this system might actually run Crysis now!

Hi! I bought this for my Mac Mini i7 [late 2012] 16GB on El Capitan as the original HD drive was crawling. I'd originally replaced this HD with an OCZ 480GB in 2015. Sadly, this device failed after 3 months. Worse, the Time Machine backup had failed. The 'backup' consisted of empty[!] folders for that date. On Cyber Tuesday 2016, I noticed Amazon offering this Crucial SSD for around half price - I bought it! Prompt delivery. I located and used the now well hidden Disc Utility 'clone function' via the 'Recover' menu with the SSD in an external caddy.. To check the drive I selected it as the temporary Boot Drive in 'System Preferences'. Physical installation was easier than with the OCZ. Crucial use the same iFixIT.com pages on their site as I'd used for the OCZ. You don't have to remove the internals or even the WiFi connector. Installation was also helped as the Crucial is slightly smaller than the OCZ. This lets the Crucial slip into place. A wee bit of sellotape and/or credit card can be used to retain drive while inserting screws - the fiddly bit. Results [approx] = Boot times - 45 seconds down from 1min 35 secs, Close down = 1min 30 from 2 mins. Performance in apps etc is nothing short of a revelation! USB 3 sticks open in file format immediately even as thumbnails. Office for Mac apps jump open after a short lag. Preview/Gimp/Photoshop editing = immediate. Internet eg YouTube etc - fly open and run smoothly. Only down side is that the drive capacity is a bit small, so I've had to transfer my Media files to an external drive. If you've got an old HD Drive - you need this SSD! Apparently, larger capacity newerSSDs have improved performances due to better data controllers. But for ordinary mortals, this is academic.

The drive itself is highly reliable, and the improvement in performance since I upgraded from my old 1TB Hard Disk Drive (HDD) is stunning. I also got a fantastic deal by picking up the 525GB model for just £82. For an Solid State Drive (SSD) of this quality and capacity, that is incredible. There are countless articles and reviews extolling the virtues of SSDs over HDDs, so I won't repeat those again here. Instead I'll explain the reason I didn't give the product the full five stars. My short advice is, don't follow the drive's own installation instructions if you are cloning and replacing an old HDD. Do not use the Acronis software that is advised. Instead, download a free version of Macrium Reflect. It will save a huge amount of time and effort. For the technical information and the reasoning for my recommendation, read on if you don't mind a short essay! I recently also purchased a Samsung SSD, and the installation was so simple it blew me away. I plugged the new SSD into my computer with a SATA/USB adapter, installed the bundled Samsung software, and in less than 20 minutes my entire hard drive had been cloned onto the new SSD. I then simply opened the case up, swapped the two drives around, and the job was done. Installing this Crucial MX300 was nowhere near as effortless. Rather than create their own software, Crucial include within the box a product key for Acronis True Image software, that can be downloaded from the Crucial website. There are no installation instructions in the box other than to download this software and follow the "on-screen instructions". So I connected my new Crucial SSD via USB, loaded the software, selected the drive I wanted to clone, and my new SSD as the target drive. Then nothing happened. I tried a few more times without success, so I went online and spent ten minutes searching for answers. Eventually I found an explanation that in order to clone a laptop drive with Acronis, you have to physically swap the drives BEFORE the cloning, attaching the old drive externally instead. The problem with this is that Windows will not boot your laptop from a drive attached via USB. So you can't actually start Windows in order to use the software. Therefore the only way to complete the process with Acronis is to do the following: 1) Create a bootable CD or USB that you can use once your HDD is removed. 2) Remove your HDD, replace it with the new SSD. 3) Boot up your computer using the bootable created in step 1. 4) Attach the old HDD via USB. 5) Use Acronis to clone from the old drive to the new. 6) Detatch the HDD and restart, booting directly from your newly cloned SSD inside. Not only is this far more complicated than the Samsung method, but the full method is not described on any leaflets that come with the drive, nor within the Acronis True Image software. The only way I knew what to do was by searching the Acronis website for answers. Instead of messing around creating a bootable disk and following this method, I instead download the free version of Macrium Reflect. With a few tweaks, this works almost identically to the Samsung software. You load up the software whilst still using your old HDD, and it clones your disk over to an SSD connected via USB. You then swap the drives over, and the job is done. The only complication comes if you are cloning to a drive that has a smaller capacity. With the Samsung software, the cloning process adapts to this automatically (assuming your total USED disk space does not exceed the size of your new drive). With Macrium Reflect, you have to manually shrink partitions before beginning the cloning process. For example, my HDD had a C: partion of 800GB, but only 150GB was used. Macrium sees only the 800GB figure, and therefore assesses that it is too large to clone onto a 525GB SSD. I therefore shrunk my C: partition to 200GB to ensure that it would fit on the new drive. After the cloning process is complete, you are free to readjust your partition sizes as you wish.

Purchased this the other day when it was in the Cyber Monday sale for a bargain price of just £80.00!! Delivered next day and was able to clone my original HDD in just 1hr 37 minutes! Clearly the writing speed is pretty decent! It does not come with a mounting bracket or cloning software but you can get a bracket for £4.00 on Amazon and just use the free Macrium cloning software (see link below). Probably would have been nice to throw-in a cheap SATA cable too but after only paying £80.00... I can't really complain. Once the cloning is all done you immediately feel the booting and loading time reductions. For example, with all the mods and assets available for City Skylines, it was taking me around 10/15 minutes to load a saved game. That time is now reduced to about 4 or 5 minutes now! So for any gamers out there, I definitely recommend this Crucial SSD! Note: I did experience one issue when playing this game on the new SSD though, it seemed to crash/freeze my PC evertime I closed the application. After some rooting around, I relaised that the "Launch Options" had changed slightly. Whether this was the file transfer or the 8GB RAM boost I also made at the same time is hard to tell though. In summary then. A great product at a fantastic price, one of the best £80 I have ever spent!

Without consulting me (her IT-technician husband-to-be) first, my partner recently ordered a new laptop to replace her ageing Sony VIAO which was, by all accounts, starting to look and perform like a scabby sloth. "Great!", I somewhat optimistically thought, "That should stop her grumbling about it being slow all of the time!". Then, after asking her what the specs were like, she shrugged and shown me the order; it was a Lenovo IdeasPad 510-15ISK with the following specs: i5-6200U CPU... Good. Far better than the i3 it was replacing. 8Gb DDR4 RAM... Yeah, that'll do for what she uses it for. GTX940MX... Dedicated graphics? Blimey. 15.4" Full HD IPS screen... Wow. This is going to be great! 1Tb 5400rpm hard drive... NOOOOOOOO! Once she'd got the laptop and handed it to me, my fears about the last line on the specs listed above come true. Her new, shiny, laptop was also performing somewhat like the scabby sloth of a VAIO that it was replacing, thanks to its crappy 5400RPM hard drive, which was bottle-necking the whole system and holding it back. Starting up took nearly 2 minutes and everything ran incredibly slowly; even slower than the VAIO. There was clearly only one thing to do; replace that hard drive with an SSD - so I bought a 275Gb Crucial MX300 and it arrived the next day, thanks again to Prime. Swapping it out couldn't have been any easier; it was a case of undoing one screw, pulling out the hard drive (while cursing at it), popping the new Crucial SSD in, and installing Windows. It all went very quickly and without any problems and the moment the PC done its first reboot I felt a wave of relief. It was now booting up in under ten seconds and performing like a new laptop should. The performance of this SSD is absolutely brilliant; nearly as good as the M.2 drive in my gaming machine. If you've got an older laptop that needs a performance boost (or indeed have bought a new one with a crappy hard drive), get one of these - you won't be disappointed!

Great product at a decent price.

This is a really nice drive with competitive specs, but not quite the best. The price per GB, the extra GB's in this size category along with it being made by Crucial and with a stated endurance of up to 220 TBW all add up to a great value. Some have complained that nothing comes with the drive and other than the 9mm spacer that is true, yet this is pretty much how most all drives are sold these days. The one drawback if you were hoping for a good migration tool is that they supply a key for downloading Acronis 2015 which recently was updated with patch 6613 and is now supposed to support Windows 10. I don't trust True Image any more after a simple cloning failed and corrupted my original drive. I simply downloaded Macrium Reflect Free which is very reliable and supports Windows 10. The way that I configured my new drive may not be the fastest, but it is safe and reliable. After installing Reflect, I created a full verified system image and put a copy on an external USB 3 drive, Next I disconnected my system drive and booted up off a Rescue Media CD. The external drive containing the system image was connected to one port and the new SSD was connected to another port via a Startech USB 3 to SATA 3 cable. Fired up the restoration and 22 minutes later it completed successfully. I connected it up to an internal SATA port and it booted right up without any problems. The only other thing I did was rename the C: partition to eliminate any confusion and pulled up Disk Management and extended the primary partition to incorporate the remaining unallocated space. This drive formats out to 489.05 GB which is about 43 GB more than a formatted 480 GB drive. My method isn't the fastest way to set up the new drive, but it is extremely safe because while I am doing the image restore my original drive isn't hooked up so even if the restore failed I would still have a perfectly good system drive if needed. In actual use it feels every bit as fast as my Samsung 850 EVO drive. I haven't tried enabling the Momentum Cache feature that allows for dynamically allocating up to 25% of idle system memory for burst writes and is supposed to nearly quadruple the speed. So far it is running very fast so I might not bother with it for now. My experience with other Crucial drives and memory has been excellent and have never had any problems and that was a big factor in choosing this drive as reliability is more important to me than having the absolute fastest drive. I also have several Samsung drives that have performed well and have never given me any problems. A 500 GB 850 EVO carries about a 25% premium over this 525 GB drive and it just doesn't seem to be anywhere near 25% faster, in fact under normal use I don't notice any significant difference, though the Samsung will benchmark out a bit higher. Either one of these drives would have been fine, but given the extra capacity and no discernible difference in everyday use I am very satisfied with this drive. Both are very well made and reliable drives. Update 9/24: I have enabled Momentum Cache and it does make a noticeable difference in the overall performance. My system has 16 GB of memory which means that this can allocate up to 4 GB of unused memory for caching. The nice thing is that it will adjust the amount of memory that it utilizes dynamically according to system demands and loading so that it won't have over allocated memory at a time when the system has a higher demand for more memory. It has worked very well so far without any hiccups, and I don't notice that it is there except that everything is faster. I am running Windows 10.

Bought it for my Lenova Y580 formerly 650 G hard drive. I am not a tech person, so had to watch videos to see how it was done and it was pretty easy to install (if I can do it, anyone can). The result is amazing. It used to take 5 to 10 minutes to restart my computer, which was mainly because I had a almost full, very slow hard drive. I just restarted it now with the new SSD, (my third restart since installing) and timed it at exactly 20 seconds from beginning to shut down and up again to my desktop ready to use. My apps and programs load almost instantly, even Adobe Lightroom and my raw photo files, which used to be the slowest of all my programs and files to load. The rest of my comments here pertain only to a couple of snags I ran into during the cloning process, and have nothing to do with the SSD itself. I did have to get a SATA to USB cable, which I hadn't realized I'd need at first. (I wasn't kidding when I said I know almost nothing about these things). The other problem I ran into is that the Acronis True Image 2015 software wouldn't work. At the reboot point, it would not continue running the process and I had to start it again. I tried a few times (which was time consuming) before I realized it wasn't going to work. I finally figured out that it didn't work on Windows 10. There was a patch available on their website but it didn't work either. Apparently you can only update the patch if you already have the full paid version of it, and that's how I discovered this version that comes with the SSD is just the 30 day trial. ( I am not sure why you need to enter a key or serial number if it's just a trial because you can download that yourself at any time from their website. ) So I tried downloading the 2017 trial version from the Acronis website, and it didn't work because the Cloning part, which is the only part I needed, was only available on the purchased version. I didn't want to spend another $50 for a one time process, so googled for a solution and found another free program called Aomi Backupper. This was very easy to use and although it took a few hours to clone, it worked perfectly. It probably only took that long because of the state of my original hard drive. It created some partition issues (probably because I hadn't known which option to select in the cloning process, so picked "optimal for ssd". ) I had to then download the free Aomi partition program so I could move and then extend partitions it had created in order to have my C drive extended to the extra 300 or so gigs the new drive had from my old one. So, while I have heard how good the Acronis software is, just wanted to let you know if you do get the older version that doesn't work with windows 10 and you don't want to put out more money to buy it, there are other free products out there. Aomi Backupper worked great for me, but I have no idea if it's one of the better ones or not. It was just a lucky first try. So I am giving 5 stars just because the SSD is fantastic and the Acronis issue, wasn't a big deal. I would have bought the hard drive even without it. It was a nice bonus that probably works for a lot of people, and had it worked, I would have been thrilled, but it all turned out fine in the end. Hopefully Crucial will start including a newer version that also allows you to Clone on WIndows 10. But I do love the new hard drive. I also swapped out my ram recently from 6 to 16 gigs and between those two things, I feel like I have a new computer.

Bonjour rapport qualité/prix défiant toutes concurrence, très bonne marque mon premier a tenue des années et fonctionne toujours ! bon débit et bonne construction. installation facile et pour ceux qui ne connaisse pas ce genre de système, ça s'adapte dans tous les ordinateurs ou presque récent ou plus anciens, j'avais un toshiba de 2008 et il allait dessus.Et avec ce système votre ordianteur démarre en moins de 10 secondes !! et vous pouvez déjà travailler dessus. Ici il fait 525 go bien sur toujours un peu moins en réalité à cause de l'espace alloué au disque. Pour le prix canon soit 119.90 euros au moment ou j'ecris ces lignres faut pas hésité. Par contre si dans les caractéristiques de votre ordinateur c'est écrit disque ssd M.2 c'est pas celui ci mais un autre qui ressemble a une barette de chewing gum. voila foncez vous serrez pas déçu ca va vous changer la vie !! depuis quelques années je ne m'en passe plus et je ne pourrai jamais plus revenir au système classique !

¡Tiene un rendimiento BRUTAL! Lo instalé en una ThinkPad T460P, corre únicamente GNU/Linux con una partición home encriptada. El arranque dura menos de 5 segundos, las aplicaciones abren de forma casi instantánea, hasta Chrome que en otras máquinas de configuración similar con HDD tarda varios segundos, aquí no tarda más de 1 segundo en estar completamente operacional. Sin duda es el SSD con la mejor relación calidad/precio. Según algunos benchmarks el rendimiento entre la unidad de 275GB y las de mayores capacidades no es tan diferente como en algunas otras marcas. En una excelente opción como disco principal con suficiente espacio para el sistema operativo y archivos personales. La instalación en igual de fácil que con cualquier HDD/SSD de 2.5", depende más del equipo a instalar que de la unidad en si. Incluye un espaciador para completar la altura común de los HDD..

Ich habe mir diese MX300 zum Speichern vieler virtueller Maschinen angeschafft (beruflich bedingt) Nicht nur als OS-Platte eingesetzt profitiert man von den kurzen Zugriffszeiten und hohen Lese/Schreibraten im Vergleich zu einer konventionellen Festplatte. Auch virtuelle Maschinen laufen auf einer SSD deutlich flotter. Als OS-SSD ist die Samsung 850 EVO mit 500 GB eingesetzt, als kleineres Datengrab die Samsung 840 EVO mit 250GB (ehemals als OS-SSD eingesetzt) Die neuere 3D-Flashtechnologie mit kolportierter längerer Lebenszeit der Zellen ist für mich kein Kaufgrund. Meine SSDs erleben das Ende Ihrer Lebenszeit in meinen Rechnern sowieso nicht und werden vorher getauscht. Ein paar Worte zum Lieferumfang und ein Tip. Dabei sind die Schrauben und eine Seriennummer für Acronis Trueimage zum Umziehen des OS von der alten auf die neue SSD. Keine Kabel. Nützlich der beigelegte Spacer um die SSD in Laptops einbauen zu können welche eine etwas dickere SSD aufnehmen wollen. Die Acronis-SW - nun. Braucht kein Mensch und man kann immer wieder von diversen Problemen durch TrueImage lesen. Auch ich hatte mich letztens mit einem durch TrueImage verursachten Problem herumschlagen - ich konnte die Reparaturoptionen von Windows 10 nicht mehr auswählen. Ein Regeintrag vonTrueimage mußte deaktiviert werden um das Problem zu lösen. Unerfreulich. ********************************** Deswegen als alternative Lösung - nutzt das Freewaretool "MiniTool Partition Wizard" - damit kann das OS auch ganz ohne Spezialwissen auf eine neue SSD migriert werden - ohne potentielle unerwünschte Nebenwirkungen. Nutze ich schon seit Jahren - kann ich sehr empfehlen. ********************************* Ich habe ein paar Screenshots von AS-SSD angehängt. Zuerst die Crucial verglichen mit der Samsung 840 Evo - ohne den Features "Rapid Mode" von Samsung und "Momentum Cache" von Crucial. Beide nutzen Arbeitsspeicher als Zwischenspeicher bevor die Daten auf die SSD geschrieben werden - bringt in beiden Fällen einen erheblichen Performanceschub. Wie man sieht nehmen sich die 2 Platten nichts - sind auf vergleichbaren Niveau. Dann mit aktivierten RapidMode auf der 850 Evo und der Crucial. Die Samsung hat größtenteils die Nase deutlich vorn. Ich sehe das Ergebnis aber ebenfalls als vergleichbar an, denn in der Praxis wird man nicht sehr viel davon bemerken. Weil man immer wieder liest diese Caching-Techniken seien mit Vorsicht zu geniessen. Nun - logischerweise sind bei einem Absturz des Rechners Daten im Arbeitsspeicher die noch nicht auf die SSD geschrieben wurden verloren - unter Umständen mit dem Resultat eines korrupten OS. Wer also ein wackliges System hat verzichtet evtl. besser darauf. Die Lösung der Wahl wäre aber natürlich sein System in Ordnung zu bringen. Anwendungen oder Spiele die wegen der Caching-Technologie Probleme machen habe ich mit Rapid Mode von Samsung nicht erlebt. Bzgl. Momentum Cache von Crucial kann ich nichts sagen, da sie nicht als OS-Platte genutzt wird. Natürlich sollte man genug Arbeitsspeicher im Rechner haben - bei mir 32 GB - da kann ich also leicht etwas diesen Technolgien zur Verfügung stellen. Mein Eindruck der Crucial - günstiger Preis bei aktueller Technologie und Leistungsdaten welche im Rahmen des zu erwartenden liegen - zu Samsung als Platzhirsch diesbzgl. etwas aufgeschlossen. Wer unbedingt die Benchmarksieger will muß eben etwas mehr Geld in die Hand nehmen . in der Praxis erlaubt auch die Crucial sehr flottes Arbeiten.