Micron has three bits between its PC disk-killing flash teeth

Micron is targeting consumers and SMBs with a disk-replacing three bit Crucial-brand SSD. This BX200 triple-level cell (TLC) 2.5-inch flash drive uses Micron NAND chips, 16nm ones, and comes in 270GB, 480GB and 960GB capacity levels. It is driven by a Silicon Motion SM2256 controller operating Micron firmware. The basic …

[Chris 244]

Actual reviews are ... not good

The thing is slow slow slow. Significantly slower than what it replaces. Slower even than Micron's very first SATA 6Gb/s drive. As slow as spinning rust under some workloads.

TL;DR Slow

[tacitust]

Re: Actual reviews are ... not good

Initial reviews have not been good, but remember "slow" is a relative term. Compared with the standard 500GB HDDs that come in most laptops these days, the BX200 is still blazingly fast.

[404]

Only three year warranty?

I've been replacing my office and home HDs with Samsung Pro 850 SSDs for OS/program drives after comparing all the manufacturers. Of all the SSDs I looked at, only Samsung & Sandisk offer a 10 year warranty, but the Samsung Pro has a higher endurance spec than the Sandisk and has faster read/writes than this new Micron product.

Love the Samsung 850 Pro, my office dev machine goes from cold boot to Win8.1 login in <6 seconds - color me impressed.

[Steve Knox]

Meh.

You can buy better-performing SSDs from Sandisk or Mushkin at the same price. Or you can buy a similar-sized, albeit slower, WD HDD for 1/6th the price.

Disk-replacing? I hardly think so. These are low-end SSDs being sold at the price range moderate-level SSDs have been sitting at for the past six months. They need to move the performance up or the price down.