A fantastic-value SSD with great speed; a real Best Buy

We find it hard to list any negative for the MX100. With the performance and feature set, combined with pricing, the choice is obvious, unless you are an enthusiast or professional with a heavy IO workload.

Crucial SSDs have an established reputation with Mac users. This one went into a late 2010 MacBook Pro without problems (it was a snug fit without the supplied spacer - it's not really an adaptor - so I didn't bother with it).

Great bang for the buck, whilst not the fastest it is noticeably faster than the three year old Intel SSD that this replaced. I benchmarked it at Seq 405/302 so not as good as the manufacturer says, but not bad at all.

It was selling for almost the same price as the older, slower and purportedly less reliable MX 500. While apparently the writing speeds aren't as fast as the Samsung equivalent, you would be hard pressed to notice any difference (especially if you are used to HDDs).

In the technology world, innovation can come in two ways: One is to push the performance envelope regardless of price, while the other is to drive down the price at the expense of performance.