| Standing screen display size | 2.5 Inches |
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| Hard Drive | 512 GB Solid State Drive |
[OLD MODEL] Crucial MX100 512 GB SATA 2.5-Inch 7mm Internal Solid State Drive CT512MX100SSD1
| Digital Storage Capacity | 512 GB |
| Hard Disk Interface | Solid State |
| Connectivity Technology | SATA |
| Brand | Crucial |
| Special Feature | Portable |
| Hard Disk Form Factor | 2.5 Inches |
| Hard Disk Description | Solid State Drive |
| Compatible Devices | Desktop |
| Installation Type | Internal Hard Drive |
| Hard Disk Size | 512 GB |
About this item
- Sequential Write: 300/500MB/s - Sequential Read: 550MB/s
- Available as 2.5" 7mm SATA III at 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB capacities
- 256GB and 512GB incorporate Micron's new 90 Series 16nm 128GB NAND
- Performance at all capacities represents a significant improvement over M500
- Every MX100 includes a download of Acronis True Image 2014 OEM Edition PC backup and recovery
- with 9.5mm Adapter
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| Compatible Devices | Desktop | Laptop | Laptop, Desktop | Desktop, Laptop | Laptop, PC | This drive is compatible with desktops and laptops that accept 2.5" 7mm SATA drives |
| Data Transfer Rate | 6 Gb per second | 560 Mb per second | 350 Mb per second | 7000 Mb per second | 560 Mb per second | 540 MB per second |
| Device Type | Solid State Drives | Solid State Drive | Internal Solid State Drive | Internal Drive | Solid State Drive | Internal Solid State Drive |
| Digital Storage Capacity | 512.0 GB | 1 TB | 240 GB | 1 TB | 2 TB | 480.0 GB |
| Hard Disk Form Factor | 2.50 inches | 2.50 inches | 2.50 inches | 2280.00 inches | 2.50 inches | 0.00 inches |
| Hardware Interface | SATA 6.0 Gb/s | SATA 6.0 Gb/s | SATA 3.0 Gb/s | Solid State Drive | SATA 6.0 Gb/s | SATA 6.0 Gb/s |
| Hardware Platform | PC | PC | laptop | PC | PC | PC, Mac, Linux |
| Item Dimensions LxWxH | 5.12 x 0.75 x 5.12 inches | 3.94 x 2.76 x 0.27 inches | 3.94 x 0.28 x 2.75 inches | 3.15 x 0.87 x 0.09 inches | 3.94 x 2.76 x 0.27 inches | 3.95 x 0.27 x 2.75 inches |
| Item Weight | 4.96 ounces | 2.08 ounces | 1.44 ounces | 1.92 ounces | 2.08 ounces | 2.12 ounces |
| Year | 2014 | — | 2017 | — | — | 2018 |
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| Brand | Crucial |
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| Series | MX100 |
| Item model number | CT512MX100SSD1-NEW |
| Hardware Platform | PC |
| Item Weight | 5 ounces |
| Product Dimensions | 5.12 x 0.75 x 5.12 inches |
| Item Dimensions LxWxH | 5.12 x 0.75 x 5.12 inches |
| Flash Memory Size | 512 GB |
| Hard Drive Interface | Solid State |
| Hard Drive Rotational Speed | 7200 RPM |
| Manufacturer | Crucial |
| ASIN | B0123WA9WG |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
| Date First Available | June 2, 2014 |
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As you likely know, the MX100 is being discontinued. The MX200 is replacing it and the design of the MX200 is substantially different. However, I recommend purchasing this MX100. Why? Check out the customer Reviews here...real-world usage and testing has shown the MX100 to sport excellent performance, outstanding quality NAND, and industry-leading reliability. The MX100 has withstood the test of time, and you can now rest assured that if you buy a MX100 that you will get many years (decades, in fact) of reliable & trouble-free performance. Additionally, the firmware for the MX100 has been revised over time to a point in which the firmware is now optimal for both performance and reliability. (It is also worth noting that the MX200 does NOT outperform the MX100 in many instances and in some cases the MX100 gives faster real-world performance...this is likely in part due to the MX100's maturation time for the firmware and in a few years the MX200 will see increasingly better performance & reliability.)
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WHY CRUCIAL?
The MX100, like previous Crucial SSDs, is reliable, affordable, and fast. Not many SSDs meet ALL of those three criteria.
Virtually any modern SSD will give ridiculously fast performance compared to the older HDDs, but few makers have the reliability of Crucial. The Marvel controller used in the MX100 I consider to be among the best when it comes to removing garbage and leveling disk wear. Crucial's usage of the higher-endurance Multi-Level Cell NAND, the quality of this NAND, and the affordability for a high-quality MLC SSD all weighed in. Previous experiences also played a role. I own various C300, C400, and M4 SSDs. These drives have given flawless performance and many have written over 100-150+ TB on them (far exceeding their advertised rating.) I also like how Crucial SSDs play nice with all the major OS'...I have used them with Win 7, Win 8.1, and the past 5 revisions of OS X. These drives work wonderfully with all of these operating systems.
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DESCRIPTION & SPECS
I do not want to go too in-detail here as many others have done a great job covering it already. More or less, the Crucial MX100 is one of Crucial's mainstream-performance SSDs. It uses MLC flash memory (which has better duration than the cheaper TLC), uses a Marvell controller, and comes in 128, 256, 512 GB sizes. It is one tier below the M550, but it uses the same Marvel controller of the M550. It has been shrunken to the 16nm process. (Side Note: With the next generation of Crucial SSDs, it is very likely we are going to see 2TB SSDs in the 2.5 inch form factor...if you need more than 512 GB - 1 TB, keep your eye out for the 1-2 TB size increase!)
Like most SSDs, the smaller-sized drives have considerably lower write speeds than the larger ones (go for at least the 256 GB size if you want to maximize your write speeds.) All three sizes have a read speed of 550MB/s. The 128GB size has a write speed of 150MB/s, the 256GB writes at 330MB/s, and the 512GB writes at 500MB/s. (My usage of the 256GB size has write speeds right around 300 MB/s and read speeds right around 500MB/s, so speeds are very close to as-advertised.) Random read and random write speeds also increase with larger sizes. The lifespan of the drive is advertised at 72 TB...this estimate is likely EXTREMELY conservative. The disk supports various encryption capabilities, including the venerable AES-256. The drive comes with a 3-year warranty from Crucial.
Firmware updates are available from Crucial, which allows one to update their firmware using various methods. Over the past few years, their options have become much more flexible (during the M4 era, FW updates on OS X was a difficult process.) Crucial firmware updates generally have direct support for Max OS X, Win 7, and Win 8/8.1.
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BENCHMARK TESTING AND SSDs
Benchmark testing, which is measuring the disk speed in a closed environment, can provide valuable information on hard drive performance. However, there are limitations. One issue is that benchmark performance may or may not translate to similar real-world performance. Another issue is that virtually all modern SSDs are so fast that discussion about what SSD is the fastest is kind of splitting hairs for most users. Finally, benchmark testing on performance tells us very little about the drive's durability, longevity, and wear patterns...and for most users, reliability is probably more desirable than the fastest possible performance. Companies have released some SSDs with the intention of them being 'the fastest', these SSDs received substantial tech media attention, many people bought these products, and eventually it came to light that the reliability was inferior to other products on the market.
Crucial SSDs generally do NOT rank among the top of SSDs in benchmark tests. In fact, many benchmark tests make Crucial SSDs appear "slow". This can be misleading. For actual usage, Crucial SSDs usually give real-world performance that is equal (and sometimes even superior) to many drives that give substantially higher benchmark scores. For example, I have numerous Crucial M4's and an OCZ Vertex 3 from around the same area. The read speeds are pretty similar, but the OCZ benchmarks write speeds about twice that of the M4. In real-world usage, the Crucial M4 works better. It's transfer speeds are more consistent with the Crucial M4, the time it takes to perform most real-world tests favor the M4, and the reliability of the M4 is superior (having had issues with OCZ's SSD reliability, this was the last OCZ SSD I purchased.)
The bottom line here is that Crucial drives provide better real-world performance than they do benchmark scores. If real-world performance is more important to you than a numerical benchmark score (like it is for me), don't disqualify Crucial from consideration due to these numerical figures. They do not accurately speak to the quality of the User experience.
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DURABILITY & RELIABILITY
Crucial SSDs are class-leading when it comes to durability and reliability. Like many Samsung & Intel SSDs, Crucial has developed a reputation for reliable flash memory products. You are trusting a company to produce a product that protects your valuable data, and Crucial is a great company to put this trust in.
The advertised life of this drive is 72 TB of endurance. In reality, that is probably a very conservative estimate given some Reviewers have tested SSDs beyond the 2 PETABYTE marker (that is, 2,000 TB or 20,000 GB.) If you use this drive to write/read 6.5 GBs of data every day, it would take around 30 years just to reach the 72 TB mark, and this 72 TB mark is likely a small fraction of how long this drive can operate for. In other words, the usable life of the MX100 is going to far exceed the time period it will be technically useful. With a good SSD like this, we are talking some serious durability.
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CONCLUSION
The MX100 is not the fastest SSD on the market, but it's still quite fast and capable of tackling many data-heavy tasks. Along with these speeds comes reliability from a company known for reliable and durable flash memory products, and a company that frequently (and promptly) will update their firmware to give you optimal performance, reliability, and security. To make things even better, the MX100 is priced competitively. This MLC drive is less expensive than many TLC drives, and the quality of the MLC flash used in this Crucial is of outstanding quality (as is the controller that manages it.)
Since this product provides performance, durability, and value into a single package, it gives the MX100 the versatility to meet a wide range of user needs. Therefore, I highly recommend the Crucial MX100.
Note: Crucial's packaging was so cheap looking. It came in a little box that looked like someone just picked it up from garbage. I seriously mean it, their packaging looks so bad that nobody would believe that I paid 180 bucks to it. That's how pathetic it looks. And there is small white slip with Acronis product key. How cheap can you get than this? Having consumers to download(waste of time) things to make their product go up and running..whao. Shouldn't they be including a CD with software? They seem to care less about their packaging and content to go with it. I can't recommend this product to non-geek. It's just too much of a hassle and am not even sure how long this device is gonna last for me. I'll keep posting.
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I wanted this for only one thing. You guessed it! Video editing. I have two 1080p monitors and have been reading recently about what it takes to get video to work semi-professionally at a budget level. I'm using Sony Vegas 11 video editor. Great software, I highly recommend it! I've been fumbling about with video editing for years now and this is the first time I've been in a position to have two quality 1080p monitors and a good HD video camera.
Some people say that for video editing all you need is a really fast processor and a good graphics card. We'll thats true, if you're rendering animation type stuff from 3D models, etc. You want a fast processor to churn through all that data so that the final rendering takes as little time as possible. In that regard, all you need is a really good fast processor. However, when you're working with video editing for the purpose of making art film or something of that nature, then it's a little bit harder to balance a fast hard drive, memory and cpu, especially if you're on a budget. A lot of people seem to use two independent computers.
No matter what though, a fast processor is always good but perhaps it has it's limits when it comes to certain tasks. Perhaps you have 30 minutes of video taken with an HD camera or something similar. It will come in it's own compressed format, usually as avi, mpg, mp4, mov, motion jpeg, etc. In this case, the cpu will be decoding the compression algorythm but your hard drive is the beast thats going to make or break how it appears on your screen in real time. Especially when you start to make cuts and splits and then add transistion effects. It turns out that although a fast processor is essential, you will be at a stand still without extremely fast read speeds from your hard drive. That is, if you want to visually experience the work you're creating so you know how the finished video will appear. In this situation, most people are previewing their work at lower resolutions and usually on a single monitor. I wanted to do this all at 1080p full rendering resolution using two monitors. Sounds crazy? I thought it did, until now.
In this experiment, I'm using a lowly 4ghz A6 AMD FM2 GPU (I do have a new cpu (still in it's box) but I'll tell you about that later). This old A6 is at the bottom end of the spectrum of AMD's FM2 line. It's 2 cores clocked at 3.9ghz but I stepped it up to 4ghz just because anything thats "3.9" is just about as annoying a velcro shoes. I'm running a mini-itx motherboard which is a Gigabyte F2A88XN-WIFI FM2+. After many painful BIOS updates and giving it a brutal kick in the behind when it was wasn't watching, it's up and running pretty good. You'll need at least 1866mhz DDR3 memory. Ideal memory would be something like the G-Skill 8GB Ripjaws X DDR3 2133. Thats what I have but this system still has the old 1866mhz memory installed.
Now here is what is interesting. With my old 7200rpm hard drive I have to admit, I was able to edit video fairly well. That is, if all I did was edit it (chop chop snip snip) and did nothing else. Here though, I wanted to do the impossible. I wanted to split a video stream into two pieces. And then in Sony Video Vegas, drag and dop each time line over the other one so that you get a blending effect of one piece of video slowly merging into the next piece. It's a very common video edit. Something my old system could do but only at medium quality settings and 1/3rd resolution. If I tried to "up" the resolution, well, thats where my system would fall flat on it's face. I thought for ages that it was the processor holding it back. Then I thought it was the graphics card holding it back. Was it a combination of the two? I didn't even give the hard drive much consideration. I was one of those fools who bought into the hype SATA-III 6GB/S. When in fact my 7200rpm hard drive was actually churning through about 80 to 100megs a second (on a sunny day).
Anway, with my old hard drive, you could add in all kinds of effects and still you'd get pretty good results if you didn't mind low rendering resolution. You had to wait until you rendered the entire scene into mpg to inspect the qauality for artifacts. Often times I'd see that it just looked very bad in final rendering. Frustrating!
So now I have two monitors (picture this in your mind) both running 60mhz 1080p. The video from Sony Vegas is being sent to the second montor at full rendering resolution and it will do perfect transistions. I was really impressed. Even at 60 frames per second. I kid you not. Not one stutter even at 60 frames. Thats exactly what I've been looking for. And you know how mechanical hard drives have a tendancy of running very quickly one minute and then farting along the next as though it's dealing with all this cache and stuff? Well thats not happening here. The results are consistent (knock on wood). Pure solid state. Nothing mechanical.
Loading up a 1080p MKV video (a highly compressed avi format) the real time rendering is put to the the test. However perfect results. MKV is not the best source material to use. The video from a HD camera will be less taxing than MKV, so that gives me confidence.
Now, I did this but also realized that I wanted effects introduced into the film as well. Would effects work while going through a transistion into another clip that also had effects? I usually want to fix contrast and colour and things like that. Who doesn't? So I started to add in various effects and filters to the video expecting it to fall flat on it's face, because I know that this stuff is all CPU dependant and we've allready established that my cpu kinda sucks. But I have to say that although I'm puting some stress on the cpu, the fan didn't kick into overdrive to cool it down and it seemed pretty happy with about 3 effects on each clip. However, certain effects were more taxing than others because of the algorythms they use (I'm supposing). But basically I can run 3 or 4 filter effects at once and it only slows down slightly and only during the transistion. So video editing can really be broken down into two simple catagories, perhaps 3 if you consider the DDR3 aspect.
So for the price I paid for this 250GB hard drive it's pretty amazing. I waited ages and ages for the prices to come down and almost made the mistake of buying the old M500 because I thought the "500" meant that it was better and faster. Remember to get the MX series and not the M series!
I wrote this review intentionally with my old cpu and memory installed. Remember I said I had a new cpu and would tell you about it later? I have a brand new FM2+ AMD A10 7850K. This is AMD's latest offering and it should give this video editing machine a good edge when it comes to churning through filters. I'll post an update when I install it and run some tests. I have a good feeling about it but I'm not expecting the earth to shake. I don't think it's going to be as impressive as the hard drive.
The reason I did the review this way was to show you my ordinary run-of-the-mill life experience with the new hard drive. I think a lot of people are similar to me in that regard because they don't always have the best of everything. I personally wanted to see just what a slow poke my very poorly rated cpu is. However, it's not that bad at all with the new hard drive. It gave me a good perspective and I hope it helps someone else out there who's looking to do the same. I totally recommend getting the hard drive first before a new cpu or memory!
All and all, not a bad bang for your buck kind of thing. I highly recommend it.
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Quick Update: I haven't installed my new processor yet, but today I installed a program called Fraps which is designed for gamers who wish to capture their live game play in perfect video resolution. I think people upload these videos for their friends to see on youtube. I used it to capture the spectacular 3D rendering produced by the plugin Milkdrop that comes with the Winamp mp3 player. I had the plugin set to 100% max rendering settings at 60fps. Fraps was also set to capture everything at max at 60fps. The result was perfect 1080p captures with no dropped frames. However setting everything to 30fps produced just as good results.
Force m'est de constater que Crucial tient bien les promesses annoncées avec cette gamme MX et même dans les petites capacités (256Go=240Go une fois formaté).
L'amélioration est sensible par rapport aux modèles qui précèdent (M4/M500), au moins pour les modèles 256 et surtout 512 Go (que j'achèterai pour mon usage personnel bientôt en remplacement de mon M500/480Go qui me rend toujours une fière chandelle).
Quand je lance un PC ou un mac, même avec un disque dur 7200/10000rpm, quel sacré retour en arrière, que de temps, de productivité perdue. Pourquoi ces mêmes constructeurs s'évertuent encore à vendre des bécanes sans SSD.
C'est comme faire installer l'électricité chez soi et pédaler ensuite sur une bicyclette pour fournir le courant à toute la maisonnée...
Je ne peux que le recommander et à mes proches et à vous aussi qui lisez ces lignes : s'il y a bien un périphérique informatique qui n'est pas un gadget et est ABSOLUMENT INDISPENSABLE c'est celui-là, la transfiguration de votre ordinateur est à votre porte ! Qu'attendez-vous pour lui laisser place (quand je vous dis que je m'enflamme pour ce produit ;-)
Le rapport qualité prix permet de se payer un modèle 512Go pour le prix d'un 240Go d'il y a à peine 18 mois et ils sont rapides les bougres en plus (jusqu'à 550Mo lecture/500 Mo écriture pour le modèle 512Go) !
Il ne manque plus aux constructeurs de PC d'intégrer une interface digne de la vélocité de ces disques et d'atteindre le Go/sec comme c'est déjà présent sur les MacBook Pro et iMac 2013/2014, grâce au pci-express par exemple.
Pour cloner le disque dur système (livré souvent en 5400rpm sur les PC portables, sic :-( , j'utilise de préférence le logiciel gratuit EaseUs Todo Backup Free qui permet de copier toutes les partitions y compris celles des constructeurs qui sont cachées, permet d'optimiser celle-ci pour le SSD quel qu’il soit, mais aussi redimensionner (avant clonage) les partitions de destination à la taille souhaitée.
Chez Crucial, même s'ils permettent de télécharger un logiciel de même type, celui-ci me semble moins "souple" dans son utilisation.
Le petit plus qui permettrait vraiment à cette marque de se distinguer, c'est de proposer un logiciel "centre de contrôle" du SSD, comme Samsung Magician, SSD Tweak (gratuit), qui gérerait au quotidien l'optimisation, les mises à jour et l'intégrité. Ils y travaillent d'après les infos glanées sur le net...
Le M550 du même constructeur, à mon sens, n'est utile que si l'on doit impérativement posséder une capacité au-delà des 512Go ou des formats spécifiques comme le mSATA.
Ce sont mes amis qui sont ravis quand je leur installe ce type de disque dur qui change vraiment le quotidien de tout utilisateur PC/Mac même sur des configurations d'il y a plusieurs années.
N'hésitez pas à sauter le pas, vous ne le regretterez surtout pas et votre portefeuille vous remerciera !
Es macht jetzt wieder richtig Spass mit dem MB zu arbeiten und die Überlegung, aufgrund der Performance, sich was neues, kostspieliges von Apple anzuschaffen, rückt in die Ferne:-))
Der Einbau ist bei diesen MacBook Modellen relativ einfach, lediglich für die Installation des Betriebssystems u. Migration der Daten, in meinem Fall OSX 10.0.5 Maverick, usw. sollte man sich schon etwas mit Computern bzw. Apple Produkten auskennen.
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Die Leistung der Crucial MX100 SSD 256 ist für meine Zwecke absolut ausreichend und der Preis von wenig mehr als 100.- € absolut top und auf alle Fälle sinnvoll investiert.
Lediglich die Aktualisierung der Firmeware gestaltet sich zumindest bei OSX etwas kompliziert bzw. komplizierter als bei Windows. Daher auch 1 Stern Abzug. In meinem Fall lief 4 Monate alles reibungslos, dann wurde von Crucial offensichtlich die Firmeware aktualisiert u. das MB bootete nicht mehr:-( -> Zuerst dachte ich an einen defekt der SSD:-((
Nach etwas Recherge im Netz und anschl. Rücksprache mit der Crucial Hotline war mir klar, dass es wohl an der Firmeware liegen muss. Das Einspielen einer neuen Firmeware ist bei Windows über ein Programm das Crucial zum Download bereithält wohl relativ einfach möglich, bei OSX funktioniert dieser Weg leider nicht und muss etwas komplizierter per CD-ROM ( nach vorherigem brennen der Firmeware ) eingespielt werden.
Es gibt aktuell hierzu leider nur eine, für meine Begriffe, realtiv komplizierte Beschreibung von Crucial und ein ziemlich schlechtes verpixeltes YouTube Video! Dennoch habe ich es mit etwas Geduld und Sachverstand letztendlich hinbekommen:-) und alles flutscht wieder:-))))
Nichts desto trotz eine klare Kaufempfehlung von mir, da Preis und Performance passt!
I thought about spending money upgrading the memory from 2gb of ram but when i ran the memory scanner it recommended this SSD drive. Everything I read said it would not run a SSD very well due to its age and there may be BIOS issues etc etc. But had to give the old girl a chance and took the plunge.
Crucial drive comes with licence for True Image from Acronis to clone the drive but I also purchased their SSD upgrade kit which provides all the leads and a spare case to turn the old HDD into a portable drive. Probably dont need this is you know what you are doing and have the correct leads but this helped me. I had terrible problems getting the drive cloning to work from within windows but read that it is more reliable using a boot disk version created within True Image to USB. I did this and it cloned first time in about 15 minutes. It allocated the extra storage equally across the 2 existing partitions which was fine.
My new SSD fitted perflectly in the cradle with the 4 existing screws. I then fired it up and held my breath and to my amazement it started perfectly. Windows loaded and all my programs and files were there. It needed one reboot to settle everything into place and now works perfectly just as before but feels slightly quicker but a lot more stable.
In terms of speed then it is not a massive improvement. The drive is read/writing about 125mb/s which is roughly a quarter the speed you would expect from sata 3 but it feels like a much more stable machine. No long pauses, no getting all muddled and freezing for ages when switching between chrome and explorer, files all load quickly and boot up and shut down much quicker.
Overall really delighted. Its put off upgrading my laptop for a while longer. This laptop has served me well and upgrade has prolonged the life and put off the need to use the dreaded windows 8 hopefully forever.
Anyway I'm babbling, I was a little apprehensive about copying the data from my old drive to the new, but needn't have been. The Acronis software takes care of the process nicely. I chose the recovery method (because I didn't notice the clone option), so I backed up my old boot drive to one of my mechanical drives via the software, created a bootable usb drive, swapped the old SSD drive for the new, rebooted to usb, followed the recovery prompts (I got a bit ahead of myself here and forgot to 'add new disk' first, so couldn't find the new drive to recover to at first), located the backup...and basically that was it - A perfect duplicate of my existing drive, the only slight issue I had is that the software will also only duplicate the old disk/partition size, so just jump into manage disk and free up the remaining unallocated space.
I wasn't bothered about benchmarks, I did a lot of review reading and was already familiar with the brand, which I trust, having brought both an SSD and memory from them in the past when building my rig. I personally haven't noticed a major difference, and that's likely down to my computing habits, but I'd say it's got to be on par if not somewhat better than the SSD I had before. YOU WILL NOTICE A MAJOR DIFFERENCE IF UPGRADING FROM A MECHANICAL DRIVE! And for the price, this is amazing! It's a no brainer.














