Testseek.co.uk have collected 99 expert reviews of the Crucial / Micron 2.5 inch RealSSD C300 Series SATA600 and the average rating is 84%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Crucial / Micron 2.5 inch RealSSD C300 Series SATA600.
October 2010
(84%)
99 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(80%)
214 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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The editors liked
Superfast in use
Easy to set up
Excellent performance in most areas
Blistering sequential read speeds
TRIM compatible
Sandforce beating IOPS in some tests
Best 4k performance on test
Beats Sandforce drives in our Index
SATA-III support
Outstanding read performance
Better than decent write speed
Value for money
SATA 6Gb/s support
Excellent performances in sequential access (over 300 MBps in read mode!)
SATA3 interface (good for sequential access)
The editors didn't like
Will require a Sata 3 (6GB/s) port or adapter to achieve full performance
Some caution required on installation
Still very expensive
Lowish sequential write speed may be offputting for some
Marvell controller slightly unknown
Inferior access times penalise performance in certain practical tests
Abstract: As opposed to the slowly developing HDD market (our recent roundup covered the entire year), solid state drives are evolving at a much more rapid rate and bringing us more news in a shorter period. There are SSD products with new controllers, with PCI ...
Abstract: Today we have in our labs a Crucial RealSSD C300 1.8" SATA solid-state drive. Crucial has shrunk the C300 series into a 1.8" format, especially designed for small notebooks that support 1.8" storage devices. Judging from the results we have already exp...
Silky smooth operation as a system drive and completely stable, Outstanding reading performance, Outstanding 4K random I/O performance, SATA 6Gbps support, Excellent multitasking potential, TRIM support under Windows 7 (SATA 3Gbps), Lightning fast acce
Apparently no TRIM support in SATA 6Gbps mode.
Let us summarise the most important positive and negative points belowThe main positive pointsThe Crucial RealSSD C300 128GB SSD has the fastest reading speeds from a single drive we have ever tested here on MyCE.com4K random IOP performance is phenomenal...
The Crucial RealSSD C300 relies heavily on its fast SATA 6.0Gbps interface. Without the fast data-rate the SSD has a hard time keeping up with other competing drives. In most of our real-world traces the difference between the two interfaces general...
Great price/performance ratio, SATA 6 Gb/s support, Excellent real-life performance, Supports TRIM, Rugged metal case
Can not max out SATA 6 Gb/s interface, Relatively low [synthetic] write speeds
Crucial's RealSSD C300 shows impressive real-life performance in both SATA-II and SATA 6 Gb/s mode. When running on a SATA-II controller it is able to surpass most of the Sandforce based drives, in 6 Gb/s mode it even manages to be the fastest SSD we t...
The C300 128GB rounds out the C300-series nicely, offering an extra helping of write performance above that of the comparatively sluggish 64GB model, which caps out at around 75MB/sec. Read speeds using a SATA 6Gbps controller are predictably superb, p...
If it is performance you want then the Crucial RealSSD C300 series is not going to disappoint, as it has demonstrated blistering fast transfer rates and excellent real world performance. Never before have we seen a single 2.5” drive deliver the kind of...
The single biggest bottleneck in modern systems is indeed the traditional plattered hard drive, and using an SSD in your system will make such a difference that you'll want to cry if faced with having to use an HDD afterwards. No exaggeration, the spee...
We were certainly excited when Crucial announced the 64GB version of its C300. We believe an SSD is the best upgrade you can spend on a modern PC; you’ll certainly notice the improvement in performance more than most CPU or memory upgrades. Of the low ...
