Crucial MX100 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CT256MX100SSD1

The choice between speed and capacity is over. Choose both.

The Crucial MX100 SSD is great choice for your new system build, or upgrade from traditional HDD. Leveraging years of R&D and the latest NAND technology, the Crucial MX100 offers a low cost per GB, combined with unrelenting performance and one of the most complete feature sets available. Its ultra fast read/write speed breathes new life into your system – boot up is faster, program loading is quicker, and system shuts down in seconds. Plus, your system is quieter, cooler and consumes less power than spinning HDD, and your data is safer thanks to the Crucial exclusive data protection.

Available in capacity of 128GB, 256GB and 512GB to suit your needs.

Feature-Packed Capacity. Proven Reliability.

The Crucial MX100 provides plenty of cost-effective storage for your photos, music, videos, and documents - all while backing your data with a higher level of reliability than a hard drive or competing SSD.

Run Your System Longer than Ever Before - Using Less Power.
With Extreme Energy Efficiency technology, the Crucial MX100 is up to 89% more energy efficient than a typical hard drive.*

Protect All of Your Data - Even if the Power Goes out.
With Power Loss Protection, if you happen to be saving a file and you suddenly lose access to power, your data will still be preserved.**

Keep Your Memories, Photos, and Files Safe.
When a photo or file gets corrupted, it often becomes unusable. Prevent this from happening in the first place with the Crucial MX100 SSD, which arms every storage component with four layers of Exclusive Data Defense to guard against corrupt files.

Push Your Drive to the Limit and Avoid Overheating.
Adaptive Thermal Protection technology enables the Crucial MX100 to dynamically adjust storage component activity based on how you're using the drive, allowing your system to stay cool and react to changes in use.

Unrelenting Performance. Top-Notch Security.

Boot up almost instantly. Load programs in seconds. Accelerate demanding applications. And encrypt and protect your data with no loss in performance.

Do More - Faster.
Get true 550 MB/s sequential reads on both compressible and incompressible data - and leave your old 177 MB/s hard drive in the dust.***

Save and Transfer Files in Seconds rather than Minutes.
The exclusive Native Write Acceleration technology spreads the drive's workload across several elements, enabling you to write data in seconds rather than minutes.

Get Best-in-Class Hardware Encryption.
Keep personal files and sensitive information secure from hackers and thieves with AES 256-bit encryption - the same grade used by banks and hospitals. The Crucial MX100 is one of the only drives available that meets Microsoft® eDrive®, IEEE-1667, and TCG Opal 2.0 standards of encryption.

Attain Consistently Fast Speeds without Compromising the Reliability of Your Data.
The engineers created RAIN technology to protect your data at the component level, similar to how RAID is used with multiple hard drives. This enterprise-class technology increases the security and protection of your data to a level that's rarely available in consumer-class SSDs.

Micron Quality - a Higher Level of Reliability.

As a brand of Micron, one of the largest flash storage manufacturers in the world, the Crucial MX100 is backed by the same quality and innovation that has produced some of the world's most advanced memory and storage technologies. With over a thousand hours of prerelease validation testing and hundreds of SSD qualification tests, the Crucial MX100 has been thoroughly tried, tested, and proven. Make the switch to the Crucial MX100 SSD and start outlasting and outperforming your hard drive.

* Hard drive active average power use based on published specs of 1TB Western Digital® Blue WD10JPVX internal hard drive. According to NPD data published February 2014, this was one of the most popular hard drives available and an accurate reflection of a common internal hard drive.

**Refers to data at rest only.

***Performance level based on comparative AS SSD benchmark ratings of 512GB Crucial MX100 SSD and 1TB Western Digital® Blue 7200 RPM hard drive (WD10EZEX-00U). Actual performance levels may vary based on benchmark used and individual system configuration. Test setup: Intel® DZ87KLT-75K motherboard, Intel i7-4770K 3.50GHz processor, BIOS Rev. 0446, and Windows® 7 Ultimate 64-bit operating system using AS SSD test suite.