Despite the systematic reduction in the cost of fast and compact NVMe drives, old-fashioned SATA-connected SSDs are not losing ground. For example, MX drives from Crucial, which at one time were presented in the status of "people's SSD" and 4 years after their release, continue to be in the top bestsellers of most east european online stores. In the eyes of many buyers, such a reliable yet affordable drive is the perfect option to speed up an old computer or replace an outdated hard drive in a laptop.


The main advantage of these drives is competent pricing and high quality control, which is achieved through the use of high-quality memory controllers and memory modules of our own production. Due to the use of the SATA 3 bus, speed indicators are in the range of 520 – 560 MB / s. IOPS indicators usually do not exceed 100K. Plus, most MX models support LDPC ECC hardware error correction algorithms, SMART monitoring, and the TRIM command.

The Crucial MX500 drives, which replaced the unsuccessful MX300, are the most loved by buyers in the MX series. These SSDs are based on 64-layer TLC 3D NAND memory from Micron (note: the company that owns the Crucial brand). Instead of unsuccessful Marvell controllers, they use proven Silicon Motion SM2258 chips, which boast high-quality SLC caching algorithms and, accordingly, are more tolerant of speed drops when copying large data arrays.