Crucial has rearranged its’ MX300 SSD lineup.
The following capacities are being added to the MX300 lineup:
- 1TB $260 ($0.26/GB)
- 525GB $130 ($0.25/GB)
- 275GB $70 ($0.25/GB)
- 275GB * M.2 2280
The new capacities will be what is sold moving forward (starting ‘late August’), with the 750GB model shifting to ‘Limited Edition‘ status. That $0.25/GB carrying all the way down to the lowest capacity is significant, as typically we see higher cost/GB due to controller/PCB/packaging have more impact. Without that coming into play, we get a nearly 300GB SSD coming in at $70!
Specs and expected performance remain the same across all capacities, sans a dip in random read performance on the 275GB models, mainly due to the reduced die count / parallelism.
