Specification
Features
Run your system longer than ever before – using less power.
With Extreme Energy Efficiency technology, the Crucial MX100 is up to 89% more energy efficient than a typical hard drive.
Protect all of your data – even if the power goes out.
With Power Loss Protection, if you happen to be saving a file and you suddenly lose access to power, your data will still be preserved.
Keep your memories, photos, and files safe.
When a photo or file gets corrupted, it often becomes unusable. Prevent this from happening in the first place with the Crucial MX100 SSD, which arms every storage component with four layers of Exclusive Data Defense to guard against corrupt files.
Push your drive to the limit and avoid overheating.
Adaptive Thermal Protection technology enables the Crucial MX100 to dynamically adjust storage component activity based on how you’re using the drive, allowing your system to stay cool and react to changes in use.
Do more – faster.
Get true 550 MB/s sequential reads on both compressible and incompressible data – and leave your old 177 MB/s hard drive in the dust.
Save and transfer files in seconds rather than minutes.
Our exclusive Native Write Acceleration technology spreads the drive’s workload across several elements, enabling you to write data in seconds rather than minutes.
Get best-in-class hardware encryption.
Keep personal files and sensitive information secure from hackers and thieves with AES 256-bit encryption – the same grade used by banks and hospitals. The Crucial MX100 is one of the only drives available that meets Microsoft® eDrive®, IEEE-1667, and TCG Opal 2.0 standards of encryption.
Attain consistently fast speeds without compromising the reliability of your data.
Our engineers created RAIN technology to protect your data at the component level, similar to how RAID is used with multiple hard drives. This enterprise-class technology increases the security and protection of your data to a level that’s rarely available in consumer-class SSDs.
Closer Look
We have received Crucial MX100 512GB in a retail box which is small but good enough to protect our brand new SSD.
There is not much on the front side of the box besides brand, SSD model and capacity which is of course 512GB.
On the back side of the box there is some more informations. We can see short list of what box contains: 2.5″ SSD and 7mm to 9.5mm spacer.
There is also information where to look for an actual installation guide and manual on the Crucial website.
Since we’ve received our sample from UK Office then there is also Crucial address and other contact info in the UK. Boxes dedicated for other markets will have other description on the box while inside you can find the same, high quality SSD.
Inside the box except SSD we can find already mentioned 7mm to 9.5mm spacer which is really handy if you are planning to install your brand new SSD in a laptop with 9.5mm drive bay.
In the box there is also Acronis True Image HD activation key which is really helpful to make an image of your old system and move it to the SSD. Even though it’s recommended to install fresh operating system on the SSD, making clone of your existing system may save you a lot of time.
On the back of the MX100 there are various numbers like serial number which can be helpful if you wish to receive help from Crucial support.
Each drive has also warranty sticker. Here is looks like black due to angle on which was taken the photo but believe me there is a sign “Warranty Void if Removed” so better don’t do it.
Sine we know what we are going to test, let’s move to the next page and take a look at the Crucial MX100 512GB performance in the storage benchmarks.
