Quite honestly the MX200 series in general and the MX200 1TB in specific is easily one of the best deals to be found in the consumer marketplace right now. This is not all that surprising as Crucial has dominated this corner of the market for years and have been a driving force behind lower and lower price per GB models for just as long a period of time. What is surprising is that thanks to the MX200 series they not only dominate the value end, but also the mainstream end of the marketplace. Yes there are faster, there are certainly cheaper, and there are even larger options available to consumers; but the MX200 drive has the best blend of all these attributes available today. Simply put, the MX200’s blend of performance, price, capacity, and yes even value simply make it too good a drive to pass up.
This drive’s value is so good that while $340 for a ‘D’ drive is still on the upper end of reasonable, there are a lot of reasons to go this route instead of the typical Hard Disk Drive route. When compared to ‘fast’ extoic solutions that try to satisfy both capacity and cost like the Seagate Desktop SSHD series, those solutions simply look like the compromise that they are – and really do not satisfy either budget or performance concerns. As for hard drives, even the speediest of HDDs are not even in the same league as the MX200 – and can’t even really claim to be all that cheaper anymore either. As we said this series delicately walks the tight rope between performance and price with a deftness and finesse that is rarely seen.
With that being said, while the MX200 does indeed offer more than enough performance and more than enough capacity to satisfy mainstream consumers it will not be right for all consumers. Consumers who crave bleeding edge performance and do not mind dropping the cost of an entry level system on a single storage device will still flock to the Intel 750 series. Conversely consumers who need more room than what the MX200 series has to offer will still be better served by HDD and SSHD drives from Seagate, Western Digital, etc.
That however are the only two groups of consumers who will not be fully satisfied with the MX200 has to offer. The typical enthusiast, down to the entry level consumer, to even the typical mainstream consumer will invariably be impressed with what Crucial were able to create. If you are looking for a new storage device, you really would be doing a disservice to yourself if you do not give the MX200 series the long hard look it deserves.
