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
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 …
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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.
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.