Are you mulling over a potential move to an SSD? If it’s a 2.5-inch solid-state drive you’re after, then Amazon has quite a bargain with a 750GB offering from Crucial which has been slashed to just £106.
The MX300 750GB SATA 2.5-inch SSD (with 9.5 mm adapter) is Amazon’s best-selling internal SSD.
Normally, this 3D NAND-toting drive would run to £212, so with this offer on Black Friday you’re getting the SSD for half price; a tempter indeed.
Particularly seeing as this represents a good-sized chunk of solid-state storage for the money – the big problem with the move away from a traditional spinning disk being securing a replacement drive with a decent capacity, without burning too big a hole in the wallet.
Crucial speeds
Want some stats on the MX300? It’s manufacturer-rated with sequential read and write speeds of up to 530 MB/s and 510 MB/s respectively, with random read and write speeds of up to 92k and 83k.
This drive is also friendly to your laptop’s battery, as it sips 0.075W of power, and also boasts adaptive thermal protection tech to help your system stay cool.
The MX300 also comes with some bundled software including Crucial Storage Executive, which uses caching to speed up the drive, and the company claims it can boost performance by up to 10 times.
