@squall_leonhart wrote: there are many factors that affect storage drive performance,  storage drivers being one of them. Now tell me something I don't know!!!!   So how do you explain Micron/Crucial SSDs poor performance figures in the reviews?   Every single Micron/Crucial SSD is performing poorly. I don't know if there is a problem with the NAND or the controller or both. The bottom line is Micro/Crucial are producing substandard SSDs. ... View more

  The following link from the Crucial website states the MX300 Sequential Read/Write  of 530/510. MB/s   http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/storage-ssd-mx300?cm_re=top-nav-_-flyout-ssd-_-us-ssd-learn-about-mx300   However the following review of the MX300 reveals that real testing does not match Crucial's claimed specifications. With Sequential Read/Write of  491/337 MB/s   http://www.anandtech.com/show/10274/the-crucial-mx300-750gb-ssd-review-microns-3d-nand-arrives/7   I would return the drive and get a refund and get a better performing SSD which you can see in the review.   You get what you pay for. I would rather pay a little bit more and install a quality SSD in a Mac than a Crucial.         ... View more