windmor.blogg.se - Crucial storage executive

Micron's conservative past is far from over, but suddenly there is an enthusiasm that we haven't seen in some time.

Familiar names are popping up in press releases, LinkedIn profiles have changed, and with the new blood comes a new spirit. It isn't just the performance that links Crucial SSDs to products from companies you most likely have never heard of in some cases, the components inside the drives are identical.īut now Micron, Crucial's parent company, has a revamped leadership team, many of which led SanDisk before it was sold to Western Digital. Some of Crucial's products even have similar performance to SSDs coming from tier-two and tier-three manufacturers. Since then, Crucial's consumer SSDs have trailed the competition, and the performance gap between Crucial and other tier-one manufacturers has grown. We've felt let down by the company that introduced us to the C300, which was the world's first SATA 6Gbps SSD.

Crucial MX500 1TB (1TB Blue) at Amazon for $90.99įor years, we've overlooked the Crucial brand for our enthusiast recommendations.

Micron's new 64-layer NAND, which makes its way into the Crucial MX500, promises to tip the scales in the other direction with competitive performance and superior pricing. The SSD industry has been in a race to the bottom of the barrel, but due to the NAND shortage, we've often been given the bottom without the price drops to match.