Help me choose between MX300 and 850 EVO

[lopri]

Which one?

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

Samsung 850 EVO 500GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-75E500B/AM)

 

[Bouowmx]

Anandtech bench: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1788?vs=1700

Your choice of higher capacity per price or performance.

 

[ronbo613]

I've got both of these drives, and in daily use, I can't see any real performance difference.

 

[UsandThem]

I own 850 EVOs for all my computers, however they were much cheaper than their current price when I bought them.

That being said, with them being $30+ more expensive than the MX300 right now, I would personally pick the MX300.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9799/best-ssds

The Crucial MX300 has almost completely taken over this category. It is now one of the cheapest SATA SSDs on the market, and it is faster and far more power efficient than any SSD with planar TLC NAND. MLC SSDs and the Samsung 850 EVO still perform much better under heavy sustained workloads, but the MX300 is good enough for most ordinary use.

 

[cfenton]

Unless you're going to be putting it under heavy load, I'd stick with the MX300. I have three MX300's and they seem just as fast as any other SSD I've used. For normal use cases, I don't think you'll notice much difference between any modern SSDs.

 

[JimKiler]

Buy the crucial MX300, you know you want to.

Wow, did they stop making the 750GB version? It is $300 on newegg but the 1TB is only $270.

 

[VirtualLarry]

The 750GB MX300 was always a "special edition" version.

 

[dlerious]

My 2TB MX300 CrystalDiskMark. Good enough for secondary storage (mainly video and audio).

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
CrystalDiskMark 3.0.3 Shizuku Edition x64 (C) 2007-2013 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 457.893 MB/s
Sequential Write : 512.918 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 326.919 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 507.713 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 30.126 MB/s [ 7355.1 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 122.750 MB/s [ 29968.3 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 324.483 MB/s [ 79219.6 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 307.597 MB/s [ 75097.0 IOPS]

Test : 1000 MB [J: 6.2% (59.2/957.0 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2017/01/10 18:28:56
OS : Windows 7 Professional SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)

 

[DaveSimmons]

One possible reason to pick Samsung is if you want to migrate an existing OS install to one. I did that with Windows 7 and 8.1 on two different PCs last month and it went perfectly both times.

Install the software, attach the Samsung drive, run the migration from within Windows, shut down, replace the drive, done. No muss no fuss. People have posted here and in Amazon reviews about the Acronis software that Crucial offers being less painless.