Crucial BX300 (480GB)

Review: Crucial BX300 (480GB)

Conclusion

...the BX300's attractive pricing and decent performance plays well with folks planning on sub-£1,000 base-unit builds..

Crucial debuts the BX300 range of entry-level SSDs and targets them at users who are yet to experience the lift that having an SSD can give to a budget system.

Available in capacities ranging from 120GB to 480GB, we feel as if the BX300's attractive pricing and decent performance plays well with folks planning on sub-£1,000 base-unit builds.

Now using MLC memory in a multi-layer, 3D setup, the BX300 blurs the line between it and the dearer MX300, though Crucial continues to effectively segment the two by offering the MX series in other form factors.

Crucial's aim with the BX300 was to create a series of SSDs that offer a combination of solid performance, attractive pricing and good potential for reliability. From our testing the BX300 480GB is able to hit those notes well. Recommended if you are looking to step into the world of SSDs and want to go with an established name.

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Good value Solid performance Backed by Crucial infrastructure		Only available in 2.5in form factor

Crucial BX300 (480GB)

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The BX300 480GB SSD is available to purchase from Crucial.com.

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Good value? The state of modern consumer SSDs is so depressing. A few years ago the 850 EVO 250GB was selling for 53 UKP on Amazon, now look at where we're at, what a mess. SSDs are more expensive, RAM is more expensive, GPU pricing has gone up, the whole PC scene costs substantially more. Great that MLC is still around, but really not much has changed since the 850 EVO came out.

A few years ago the £ was also worth more than a handful of magic beans to add to the pot of overpricing

mapesdhs
… what a mess. SSDs are more expensive, RAM is more expensive, GPU pricing has gone up, the whole PC scene costs substantially more. …

As adidan so eloquently points out:

adidan
A few years ago the £ was also worth more than a handful of magic beans to add to the pot of overpricing

But to put a bit more detail on that - in 2014 the dollar was worth ~ 60p. Now the dollar is worth > 75p. So slap 25% on every price you remember from 2014 before you do any comparisons.

Of course, there are a number of other factors in play here too - most obviously a global NAND and RAM shortage as demand outstripped expectation and fabs have had to either play catch-up or reconsider the split between NAND and RAM they churn out (and apparently the transition from 2D to 3D NAND had an impact too). But the currency issues amplify all the other problems…