Crucial MX300 1TB SSD Review

ATTO & CrystalDiskMark

ATTO v3.05

ATTO is one of the oldest drive benchmarks still being used today and is still very relevant in the SSD world. ATTO measures transfers across a specific volume length. It measures raw transfer rates for both reads and writes and places the data into graphs that can be very easily interpreted. The test was run with the default runs of 0.5KB through 64MB transfer sizes with the total length being 256MB.

ATTO – MX300 1TB:

Benchmark Results: ATTO showed the Crucial MX300 1TB SSD maxing out at 535 MB/s read and 516MB/s write in the standard overlapped I/O benchmark. Crucial rates this particular model at up to 530 MB/s read and 510 MB/s write, so it looks like they left a little overhead in the drive to ensure they hit the rated performance numbers.

CrystalDiskMark 5.1.2 x64

CrystalDiskMark is a small benchmark utility for drives and enables rapid measurement of sequential and random read/write speeds. Note that CDM only supports Native Command Queuing (NCQ) with a queue depth of 32 (as noted) for the last listed benchmark score. This can skew some results in favor of controllers that also do not support NCQ.

CystalDiskmark – MX300 1TB:

Benchmark Results: The MX300 1TB drive reached 534 MB/s read and 513 MB/s write in the standard sequential write test. The Random 4K performance on the MX300 1TB drive was 31 MB/s read and 136 MB/s write. When we ran the test again set to 0Fill mode and all the scores remained basically the same.

Let’s look at some other benchmarks!