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title: "Crucial MX300 525GB SATA 2.5 Inch Internal Solid State Drive - CT525MX300SSD1"
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# 530 MB/s sequential read speed 525GB high-capacity SATA SSD 90x more energy efficient than HDD Crucial MX300 525GB SATA 2.5 Inch Internal Solid State Drive - CT525MX300SSD1

**Brand:** crucial
**Price:** 96158 som
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🚀 Upgrade your workflow with speed and efficiency that keeps you ahead of the curve!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Crucial MX300 525GB SATA 2.5 Inch Internal Solid State Drive - CT525MX300SSD1 by crucial
- **How much does it cost?** 96158 som with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.kg](https://www.desertcart.kg/products/48143231-crucial-mx300-525gb-sata-2-5-inch-internal-solid-state)

## Best For

- crucial enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted crucial brand quality
- Free international shipping included
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- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Blazing Fast Load Times:** Experience lightning-quick bootups and app launches with up to 530 MB/s read speeds.
- • **Energy-Smart Performance:** Save battery life and reduce heat with over 90x better energy efficiency than traditional hard drives.
- • **Momentum Cache Technology:** Leverage RAM caching to accelerate small file handling and extend SSD lifespan—perfect for multitasking pros.
- • **Massive Storage, Sleek Design:** 525GB capacity in a slim 2.5-inch form factor fits perfectly in laptops and desktops alike.
- • **Seamless Setup & Compatibility:** Plug-and-play SATA interface with broad PC and Mac support plus 3-year warranty for peace of mind.

## Overview

The Crucial MX300 525GB SATA 2.5-inch SSD delivers up to 530 MB/s sequential read speeds and 510 MB/s writes, dramatically boosting system responsiveness. Its advanced Momentum Cache technology uses RAM to optimize small file transfers, reducing wear and enhancing performance—ideal for developers and gamers. With over 90x better energy efficiency than HDDs and devSleep support, it extends battery life and drive longevity. Compatible with both PC and Mac, this sleek, reliable SSD offers a perfect balance of capacity, speed, and power savings backed by a 3-year warranty.

## Description

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Review: Works really well on laptops with Crucial momentum cache enabled - I’ve been a big fan of Samsung drives, but the price difference on the 1TB was enough to make me jump ship to Crucial. I use it in a gaming laptop as my data drive (I have a 250GB system drive and then the Crucial 1TB for data, games and applications). The laptop is a recent (2017) MSI Apache 17”. It has space for one PCIe SSD and one standard SATA 3. I chose to go with a standard SATA because I’m lazy and didn’t want to mess about with moving the system disk. Anyway, all good, and decent for a SSD (but not outstanding figures) in CrystalDiskMark. That is until I downloaded Crucial Storage Executive and enabled momentum cache. The figures speak for themselves (see my screenshot of CrystalDiskMark). I've also added a second image from Task Manager showing how momentum cache works. The G drive is a traditional HDD transferring 25GB of data to F, a 1TB SSD with momentum enabled (I'm actually installing the game Fallout 4 from G to F). You can see that the SSD only occasionally writes data (about once every 10s). So, a very good thing about Momentum cache is the way it handles small files; it caches them to memory and only writes them to the physical SSD occasionally. This not only saves wear on your SSD, but it also makes certain tasks fly. I am a web application developer, and my build process (which involves working with literally thousands of javascript files) is now super fast (it would be even faster if node/npm was multi-threaded, but that's another story!). What are the downsides of doing this? Momentum cache uses your PC memory as a read/write cache, so you need to have a decent amount of memory. My laptop has 16GB, so all good there. I suspect it will work less well for 4GB systems, or if you are using a power-hungry application (such as Adobe Premiere, which I use). It also increases the CPU overhead. EDIT: I're realised Windows 10 Task Manager > Memory shows you the RAM cache (its marked as 'memory that has to be saved to disk before it can be used for something else' or words to that effect). I copied over the full install folder of Fallout 4 plus DLCs (29.6GB) onto a Momemtum enabled drive and the cache varied between 1 and 1.5GB. So the 4GB is never reached; more like >2GB. Crucial strongly recommend a battery backup if you use momentum cache (i.e. you can lose the cached data on a power fail), so other things equal you should only really enable it on a laptop. The cache is written to the real SSD on power off, so system shutdown takes longer (by 5-10s, so significant). But yeah, just look at those figures; well recommended for laptops with memory to spare; your system flies! Edit: Another good thing about the Crucial I'm finding is that it uses devSleep much more often than other SSDs. Since writing this review (5 months), the up-time for my SSD (according to CrystalDiskInfo) is only 9 hours when the physical up-time has been office hours (8.5 hours a day, 5 days a week). The low up-time saves both power and wear and tear, with no noticeable affect on access time. DevSleep only seems to kick in on laptops (it does not seem to affect my desktop), but is certainly something that will extend your laptop battery life (especially if you have two drives) and the life of the SSDs themselves. Oh, I also suspect the up-time is coming out so low because of Momentum Cache (RAM caching means less access requests to the SSD and more devSleep down-time), so devSleep and Momentum cache probably work together).
Review: Good performance, easy to set up and good price - It's my first SSD, so I am naturally impressed with the considerable improvement in boot up time and the neat, compact nature of the drive. It was easy to install in my tower (with a separately purchased 3.5" drive bay bracket and cables; the '9.5mm Adapter' that comes with this SSD is merely a hollow rectangular frame that sits underneath the SSD, I think it is only useful for laptops and I didn't use it), and the Acronis software key provided allowed me to download and use Acronis to simply transfer the contents of my hard disk drive. This transfer process took, if I remember rightly, between 30 and 40 minutes (you click through a few screens, making sure correct disks are being copied from and to, then leave it to do its thing for the vast majority of this time). I advise looking at a few videos on Youtube for instruction on physically fitting the SSD and preparing it with the software (Crucial have some of their own videos on Youtube, and videos by other SSD manufacturers and members of the public could be helpful too). Note that this SSD (and all the other ones I browsed) doesn't come with a 3.5" bracket to fit in a standard desktop drive bay, nor does it come with any cables to connect it to the power supply and motherboard. You will have to buy these items separately unless you have them already (if you keep boxes after buying a new PC, with manuals and original discs etc, check them; there are often spare cables), but they are cheap and available from lots of online retailers. As I mentioned at the start, my PC boots up faster now. It reaches the desktop screen quicker, and once there, there is no extra loading- on my HDD I would often be waiting about twenty seconds for anything to become responsive as it was still loading startup programs. I've noticed a few games load up faster too, which is nice. This performs well, no problems encountered, and at a good price. I needed a little more than 240/250 GB capacity which are the norm at this end of the scale, but didn't want to go up to 480/500GB prices.

## Features

- Sequential reads/writes up to 530 / 510 MB/s on all file types
- Random reads/writes up to 92k / 83k on all file types
- Over 90x more energy efficient than a typical hard drive

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B01IAGSD68 |
| Best Sellers Rank | 150,158 in Computers & Accessories ( See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories ) 722 in Internal Solid State Drives |
| Box Contents | Tray |
| Brand | Crucial |
| Brand Name | Crucial |
| Cache Memory Installed Size | 525 |
| Color | Silver |
| Compatible Devices | PC/notebook |
| Connectivity technology | SATA |
| Customer Package Type | Standard Packaging |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 11,926 Reviews |
| Data Transfer Rate | 6 Gigabits Per Second |
| Digital Storage Capacity | 525 GB |
| Digital storage capacity | 525 GB |
| Enclosure Material | Nand Flash |
| Form Factor | 2.5-inch |
| Global Trade Identification Number | 00649528777201, 04058154115589, 06953040952966 |
| Hard Disk Description | Solid State Drive |
| Hard Disk Form Factor | 2.5 Inches |
| Hard Disk Interface | Serial ATA |
| Hard Disk Rotational Speed | 530 RPM |
| Hard disk form factor | 2.5 Inches |
| Hard disk interface | Serial ATA |
| Hard-Drive Size | 525 GB |
| Hardware Connectivity | SATA 6.0 Gb/s |
| Hardware Platform | PC & Mac |
| Installation Type | Internal Hard Drive |
| Item Dimensions L x W x Thickness | 7L x 7W x 7Th millimetres |
| Item Part Number | CT525MX300SSD1 |
| Item Weight | 0.01 Kilograms |
| Manufacturer | CRUBC |
| Manufacturer Part Number | 150084 |
| Media Speed | 510 MB/s |
| Model Name | MICRON CONSUMER PRODUCTS GROUP, INC |
| Model Number | CT525MX300SSD1 |
| Network Connectivity Technology | SATA |
| Number of Items | 1 |
| Product Features | ECC^Internal^Operating temperature range:0 - 70 °C^RoHS compliance^S.M.A.R.T support^Security algorithms:256-bit AES^TRIM support |
| Product Warranty | 3 year limited warranty |
| Read Speed | 530 Megabytes Per Second |
| Special feature | ECC^Internal^Operating temperature range:0 - 70 °C^RoHS compliance^S.M.A.R.T support^Security algorithms:256-bit AES^TRIM support Special feature ECC^Internal^Operating temperature range:0 - 70 °C^RoHS compliance^S.M.A.R.T support^Security algorithms:256-bit AES^TRIM support See more |
| Specific Uses For Product | Gaming |
| UPC | 649528777201 |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** Crucial
- **Colour:** Silver
- **Compatible devices:** PC/notebook
- **Connectivity technology:** SATA
- **Digital storage capacity:** 525 GB
- **Hard disk description:** Solid State Drive
- **Hard disk form factor:** 2.5 Inches
- **Hard disk interface:** Serial ATA
- **Installation type:** Internal Hard Drive

## Images

![Crucial MX300 525GB SATA 2.5 Inch Internal Solid State Drive - CT525MX300SSD1 - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61givkW8ZSL.jpg)
![Crucial MX300 525GB SATA 2.5 Inch Internal Solid State Drive - CT525MX300SSD1 - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51Wbt27fGkL.jpg)

## Available Options

This product comes in different **Size, Style** options.

## Questions & Answers

**Q: Would this work on a 2009 macbook pro ddr3**
A: Yes. DDR3 is your type of RAM and has no effect on the compatibility of the hard drive. I've got Crucial ssd's in a 2007 MBpro & 2011 Mac mini.

**Q: Hi, Is anybody using this with an X-box one please?**
A: Xbox one is USB 3.0 and its super fast loading, as long as you have usb 3.0 caddy

**Q: Is this a laptop drive or 1 for a desktop computer ?**
A: 2.5mm model, u can use for replace laptop hdd bay or desktop as well

**Q: Does it fit game max silent sound proofed gaming case**
A: Fitted mac book pro no issues.. may need a drive cady or cage as drive is about 2.5 inch wide, check connection type and size mount of existing drive before ordering, thats what I did

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Works really well on laptops with Crucial momentum cache enabled
*by S***B on 9 September 2017*

I’ve been a big fan of Samsung drives, but the price difference on the 1TB was enough to make me jump ship to Crucial. I use it in a gaming laptop as my data drive (I have a 250GB system drive and then the Crucial 1TB for data, games and applications). The laptop is a recent (2017) MSI Apache 17”. It has space for one PCIe SSD and one standard SATA 3. I chose to go with a standard SATA because I’m lazy and didn’t want to mess about with moving the system disk. Anyway, all good, and decent for a SSD (but not outstanding figures) in CrystalDiskMark. That is until I downloaded Crucial Storage Executive and enabled momentum cache. The figures speak for themselves (see my screenshot of CrystalDiskMark). I've also added a second image from Task Manager showing how momentum cache works. The G drive is a traditional HDD transferring 25GB of data to F, a 1TB SSD with momentum enabled (I'm actually installing the game Fallout 4 from G to F). You can see that the SSD only occasionally writes data (about once every 10s). So, a very good thing about Momentum cache is the way it handles small files; it caches them to memory and only writes them to the physical SSD occasionally. This not only saves wear on your SSD, but it also makes certain tasks fly. I am a web application developer, and my build process (which involves working with literally thousands of javascript files) is now super fast (it would be even faster if node/npm was multi-threaded, but that's another story!). What are the downsides of doing this? Momentum cache uses your PC memory as a read/write cache, so you need to have a decent amount of memory. My laptop has 16GB, so all good there. I suspect it will work less well for 4GB systems, or if you are using a power-hungry application (such as Adobe Premiere, which I use). It also increases the CPU overhead. EDIT: I're realised Windows 10 Task Manager > Memory shows you the RAM cache (its marked as 'memory that has to be saved to disk before it can be used for something else' or words to that effect). I copied over the full install folder of Fallout 4 plus DLCs (29.6GB) onto a Momemtum enabled drive and the cache varied between 1 and 1.5GB. So the 4GB is never reached; more like >2GB. Crucial strongly recommend a battery backup if you use momentum cache (i.e. you can lose the cached data on a power fail), so other things equal you should only really enable it on a laptop. The cache is written to the real SSD on power off, so system shutdown takes longer (by 5-10s, so significant). But yeah, just look at those figures; well recommended for laptops with memory to spare; your system flies! Edit: Another good thing about the Crucial I'm finding is that it uses devSleep much more often than other SSDs. Since writing this review (5 months), the up-time for my SSD (according to CrystalDiskInfo) is only 9 hours when the physical up-time has been office hours (8.5 hours a day, 5 days a week). The low up-time saves both power and wear and tear, with no noticeable affect on access time. DevSleep only seems to kick in on laptops (it does not seem to affect my desktop), but is certainly something that will extend your laptop battery life (especially if you have two drives) and the life of the SSDs themselves. Oh, I also suspect the up-time is coming out so low because of Momentum Cache (RAM caching means less access requests to the SSD and more devSleep down-time), so devSleep and Momentum cache probably work together).

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good performance, easy to set up and good price
*by D***D on 10 November 2016*

It's my first SSD, so I am naturally impressed with the considerable improvement in boot up time and the neat, compact nature of the drive. It was easy to install in my tower (with a separately purchased 3.5" drive bay bracket and cables; the '9.5mm Adapter' that comes with this SSD is merely a hollow rectangular frame that sits underneath the SSD, I think it is only useful for laptops and I didn't use it), and the Acronis software key provided allowed me to download and use Acronis to simply transfer the contents of my hard disk drive. This transfer process took, if I remember rightly, between 30 and 40 minutes (you click through a few screens, making sure correct disks are being copied from and to, then leave it to do its thing for the vast majority of this time). I advise looking at a few videos on Youtube for instruction on physically fitting the SSD and preparing it with the software (Crucial have some of their own videos on Youtube, and videos by other SSD manufacturers and members of the public could be helpful too). Note that this SSD (and all the other ones I browsed) doesn't come with a 3.5" bracket to fit in a standard desktop drive bay, nor does it come with any cables to connect it to the power supply and motherboard. You will have to buy these items separately unless you have them already (if you keep boxes after buying a new PC, with manuals and original discs etc, check them; there are often spare cables), but they are cheap and available from lots of online retailers. As I mentioned at the start, my PC boots up faster now. It reaches the desktop screen quicker, and once there, there is no extra loading- on my HDD I would often be waiting about twenty seconds for anything to become responsive as it was still loading startup programs. I've noticed a few games load up faster too, which is nice. This performs well, no problems encountered, and at a good price. I needed a little more than 240/250 GB capacity which are the norm at this end of the scale, but didn't want to go up to 480/500GB prices.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Perfect Solution to Speed Up Most Systems
*by M***A on 21 January 2017*

My ageing and bruised Lenovo Z580 has been showing its age for some time. The system needed to be woken from sleep mode several minutes before I actually needed it. And whenever the message popped up that Windows needed to restart, I died a little inside, knowing how long the laptop took to reboot. Of course, it's not the most powerful laptop, but I knew what was dragging it down was the slow 5400RPM HDD. With an unexpected Amazon gift voucher coming my way, I decided it was time to sort out this little annoyance. I already own a Crucial MX100 SSD in my desktop and have been more than happy with that, so I opted for the 275GB version of the MX300. I also purchased a caddy to take out the obsolete optical drive and pop the HDD in for storage. Installation is simple enough. Crucial provide a key for Acronis cloning software so that you can clone your old installation, which may or may not save you time depending on how many applications you have on your old drive and whether you have backups of the documents elsewhere. It's worth noting that the installed capacity is 255GB (this is due to Windows and manufacturers using different measurements for capacity). 255GB, however, is ample for most of your basic programmes. If you're wanting to do my setup (SSD + HDD) you should move your Documents, Pictures, Videos and Music libraries to the HDD. So speed? Yep, as you expect from an SSD, perfectly speedy. The little Windows 10 loading dot-circle-thing scarcely manages a single rotation before Windows is logging me in. If you've been struggling through Windows startup lag, you will struggle no longer. Once you're at the desktop, you can click your web browser and it'll be loading up within seconds. Depending on the rest of your hardware, there may be a few moments of low-level lag within the first thirty seconds or so, but the fact is your system should be usable the moment you hit the desktop. And that's what you want! So, if like me, you've got an old laptop or computer that is capable of doing everything you want it to but is being dragged down by an old mechanical drive, consider this as the perfect upgrade. My Z580 still isn't going to be running Crysis on max settings anytime soon, but I no longer feel like sobbing when a restart is required. EDIT: I have since decided to plump for the 1TB version of this drive to speed up a Lenovo Y50-70 laptop. Installation was a bit tricky but only due to getting the backplate off the laptop without snapping anything! Before the SSD, my Y50 would take 2 to 3 minutes just to get to the Windows login screen. It would take a further couple of minutes to become half-way usable, and then every action seemed sluggish. Load up a folder? Slow. Load up a picture folder with lots of photos in it? That's your afternoon gone. Try and play a game? Enjoy looking at loading screens! Although I'm yet to actually play any games on it since installing the SSD (opted to do a clean installation), I can already see the phenomenal difference in usability. From power button to Windows desktop inside 25 seconds. Usable almost immediately. The problems of the past are gone for good, and this system might actually run Crysis now!

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