Performance
Performance has been tested on Intel Skylake platform which contains i7 6700K processor and ASRock Z170 OC Formula motherboard. All tests were performed on Intel SATA III controller.
Crucial is promissing up to 530MB/s read and up to 510MB/s write bandwidth. We have seen higher bandwidth in older Crucial SSD series so maybe let’s take a look how performance looks in our tests.
In ATTO Disk Benchmark we could achieve slightly better bandwidth that that declared by Crucial – 535MB/s read and 515MB/s write. It’s good result but many SSD series can make more, including Crucial MX200.
In CrystalDiskMark we can see similar sequential bandwidth so again up to 535MB/s read and 515MB/s write. At the same time we can see that random writes are really good for this class SSD. Also constant IOPS are good what makes it good drive for work.
In Anvil Storage Utilities we can see weird situation when read bandwidth is lower than write. It rarely happens. Different test scheme is also causing lower results than in other tests but it’s pretty normal.
PCMark 8 is showing us good results. This benchmark is performing various tests based on popular applications and here MX300 looks great. What makes SSD good is general performance under mixed load rather than maximum bandwidth in single benchmarks.
If you still wish better results then Crucial is providing feature called Momentum Cache. It’s additional caching option available in Crucial Storage Executive which let to boost storage performance.
As you see above, results are simply great and should satisfy even more demanding users.
