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so crucial have recently hit the SSD market with the MX 300 series SSDs though is this enough to compete with some of those aggressive competitors out there in the market let's find out welcome back to tech yet City this is brian coming to you guys today with a review of crucial MX 300 750 gigabyte SSD which is currently hitting the market at around 299 AUD and also you can pick it up on Amazon over in the states for around about 180 USD now for a 750 gigabyte SSD with a Marvell controller that does represent good value for money though we still have to run it through the paces test the quality of the product and see if it is indeed worth that money so the product itself comes in steel casing on a blue PCB now the steel casings not only for cosmetics but it also functions as a cooler for the Marvel controller situated on the SSD besides that you've also got SLC caching on this drive also got data encryption and also power loss protection as well as a three year warranty now interestingly enough with this drive crucial have decided to start using 3d NAND teals see now you've got eight individual dies there each packing 96 gigabytes of capacity which comes together to give you 750 gigabytes if you're using 1000 megabytes per gigabyte they're using the standard 1024 megabytes per gigabyte the readout and windows actually become something like 698 gigabytes though enough of the product let's get on to the benchmarks themselves in the first benchmark I'm going to pull up here is a SSD which is a very intense benchmark and the MX 300 scored very consistently across all figures here I wasn't disappointed in any one figure but at the same time I have seen faster performance in the past with this Drive scoring on average around about thousand and sixty points and the inputs and outputs per second we're very pleasing as well as great to see it they were pretty much as advertised on the Box coming in at around about 90 mm max inputs outputs per second they're moving on to the next benchmark which is the HD tune Pro benchmark which I do a massive file transfer to see how good the write and read consistencies are across this drive and I was very pleased to see that the writes did not drop at any point below 300 megabytes per second which means that the Marvell controller is doing its job and it is a very good implementation for any SSD out there so there we have it the MX 300 is a very solid Drive it's not the best performer though when we look at the consistency of the performance for me when I'm looking at an SSD I do pay very particular attention to was very impressive on this drive and that's partly or actually mostly due to that Marvel controller so when you get an SSD one thing that I do look out for personally is a Marvel control so I'm very pleased to see that crucial have gone back and used the Marvel controller on their SSDs again and this means that you guys if you buy an SSD like this you're going to get very consistent performance and that's what it is about for me when I'm playing video games or if I'm doing work I'm always going to get reliable performance out of my SSD the one thing about this drive that I will critique is the endurance rating now it is rated at 220 terabytes over the lifetime of the drive and though you do have a three-year warranty I would like to see it rated up to five years especially on the 750 gigabyte model since a lot of the other competitors out there even on their cheaper drives are offering five year warranties so in conclusion I'm very pleased that crucial have gone with a competitive product that uses the Marvell controller and with that said I'm going to be recommending this product today if you guys are out in the market for an SSD that performs very consistently it might not be the best performance you've ever seen from an SSD but I guarantee you it will be one consistent workhorse for whether it's gaming or productivity anyway that's about it for me today guys if you enjoyed this video then be sure to hit that like button if you have any questions or comments about the MX 300 then be sure to drop a comment comment section below and I'll get back to you as soon as I can also this unit was provided as a review sample though as you guys know that does not change my outcome on any products that I review around the channel and I'll catch you in another tech videos very soon he's out for now bye