Crucial MX300 2TB

The only writer we know who’s owned multiple Porsches, Jeremy Laird  sullies his hands with the cheapest 2TB SSD in town.

- Jeremy Laird

Solid-state storage is one of the wonders of the modern world. Thinking about it, we’re reminded of the immortal words of Arthur C Clarke, the great science fiction writer. He reckoned that any sufficiently advanced technology will seem like magic.

Go back 100 years, and what would anyone make of, for instance, a 256GB MicroSD card? (they’d probably think it was chewing gum – Ed) The notion that something so tiny could store hundreds of thousands of books would surely seem like witchcraft. Nowadays, it’s pretty impressive that you can bag a 128GB USB stick for under £25.

Despite that, SSDs aren’t yet the default option for mass storage. That will happen eventually. But not yet, not even thanks to Crucial’s 2TB MX300. It’s about as close as you’ll get to a really big SSD aimed at a mainstream audience, but at £480 it’s getting on for eight times the price of the cheapest 2TB magnetic hard drive.