Crucial MTFDDAK2T0TBN-1AR12ABYY 2048 GB Micron 1100 2.5-Inch SED Solid State Drive with Sequential Read/Write up to 530/500 Mbps

First, from the picture i thought this was going to be a bare board. It isn't. Packaged in a standard 2.5" metal case. Don't forget, this is a SATA drive not a M.2. The picture shows M.2, I believe. I was replacing a 512gb Crucial SSB in an older HP Pavilion D7. I used AOMEI Backupper to clone the drive. AOMEI also makes a partition manager that I ended up using also. Both are freeware. I would recommend them highly. I also used the Anker USB 3.0 to SATA adapter Anker USB 3.0 to SATA Portable Adapter with 3ft Cable and Power Adapter for 2.5 / 3.5 inch HDD and SSD that I can't recommend highly enough. Everything worked like a champ. It's just as fast as my older Crucial SSB if not a little faster. I was actually expecting it to almost be a little slower. The only downside was I ended up splitting the drive into two different partitions. I suspect if I was willing to spend more time figuring it out I could've made it all one but I wanted to get this done and having the second partition (Win 10 - C & F drives) was not a big deal to me. Don't be put off by the low price. Well worth it. Sorry I didn't take a picture before I installed it. Not going to take it apart now! But, it looks just like the Crucial I replaced except for the Micron label.

Excellent SSD overall. You really can't beat the price, and the quality seems top notch. Write speeds are fast compared to many other budget SSDs. However, I wanted to point out that I tried exfat per a review here. However, it caused the drive to use far more space for my games. (Size on disk was about 25% larger than actual size). I ended up just cloning my 480GB SSD I was replacing, which was NTFS. I ran several tests with both file formats, and found them to be comparable. 4k 1QD reads test between 20-25MB/s, which while not mind blowing, is more than acceptable. Sustained writes, sequential read/rights, latency, and general usage have all been great for a drive at this price point.

Outstanding value - exactly as described - new, 2TB SSD, with perfect performance. At the time of my purchase, the value of this was so exceptional, that I checked and re-checked the offer from the seller. Other reviewers have posted their speed tests, and my experience matches theirs. The only thing I can usefully add is that a DriveDX analysis of the S.M.A.R.T interface on this SSD confirms that the SSD reports as new, with 100% lifetime and has zero errors after 3.6 TB were written to it. I performed 3 tests: 1) a secure, 3-pass erase, to be sure that the SSD firmware exercised every block. 2) Carbon Copy Cloning over three days of 100's of gigabytes. 3) DriveDx Test. In all cases, the drive performed flawlessly. In case it's useful, I've attached the DriveDX report on the unit I received. Every condition is marked 100% passing. I just ordered a second unit.

This SSD worked great until it didn't. I was glad to have the speed and capacity until I started getting at least one bsod a day. I pulled this drive and my machine was fine again. Buyer beware.

I purchased this Micron 1100 2TB SATA drive to replace my Crucial MX100 512GB SSD. I needed a larger drive to store my games on. Out of the box, I formatted the drive to exFAT indicates about 1.86tb (1908GB) of usable space. I used the crystal disk mark to test performance and the numbers were comparable or better than my crucial drive. I proceeded to clone the crucial over to the micron. Once everything was cloned over I ran another test and the write performance started to underperform. I checked the drive format and it was now formatted as NTFS which was the format my crucial had. I ran tests on the crucial 512SSD and it had no issues, the read/write speeds were fine. I decided to format the micron as NTFS with nothing on the drive and ran the tests again, the write performance underperformed again. Formatted the micron a 3rd time to exFat and ran the test once more and the write performance was much better as exFAT format. Decided to copy over the data instead of attempting to clone. Tested the micron again and the numbers excelled once more. It seems like that this SSD doesn't perform well when formatted to NTFS. For the price per GB and overall it does perform well when formatted as exFat I am overall happy with the purchase and is a good bang for the buck. Note: My experience with the drive has been a day so far. Not certain if quality/performance will deteriorate over time. Tests: I used crystal disk mark to test the micron SSD and 3 other SSD's that I had. A 512gb crucial (year old purchase) A 240GB PNY (at least 2 years old) and a 128GB Kingston SSD (many many years old) Build this was tested on: Windows 10 pro intel 6700k @ 4.0GHz w 32GB ddr4 Evga GeForce 1080ti. Tests align with the pictures. Test 1: 32GB read/write test empty drive formatted exFAT. Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 535.229 MB/s Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 519.486 MB/s Random Read 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 379.742 MB/s [ 92710.4 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 344.481 MB/s [ 84101.8 IOPS] Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 365.238 MB/s [ 89169.4 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 342.688 MB/s [ 83664.1 IOPS] Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 29.780 MB/s [ 7270.5 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 128.836 MB/s [ 31454.1 IOPS] Test : 32768 MiB [L: 0.0% (0.0/1907.7 GiB)] (x5) [Interval=5 sec] Test 2: 32GB read/write test empty drive formatted NTFS Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 534.970 MB/s Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 509.170 MB/s Random Read 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 248.433 MB/s [ 60652.6 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 18.720 MB/s [ 4570.3 IOPS] Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 243.961 MB/s [ 59560.8 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 28.491 MB/s [ 6955.8 IOPS] Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 24.822 MB/s [ 6060.1 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 21.940 MB/s [ 5356.4 IOPS] Test : 32768 MiB [A: 0.0% (0.2/1907.7 GiB)] (x5) [Interval=5 sec] Test 3: 32GB read/write test formatted NTFS cloned from 512GB Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 533.659 MB/s Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 491.099 MB/s Random Read 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 209.003 MB/s [ 51026.1 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 28.188 MB/s [ 6881.8 IOPS] Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 204.664 MB/s [ 49966.8 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 15.443 MB/s [ 3770.3 IOPS] Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 20.608 MB/s [ 5031.3 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 26.303 MB/s [ 6421.6 IOPS] Test : 32768 MiB [A: 23.9% (455.3/1907.7 GiB)] (x5) [Interval=5 sec] Test 4: 32GB read/write test formatted exFat with 450GB data copied over. Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 535.026 MB/s Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 520.402 MB/s Random Read 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 306.615 MB/s [ 74857.2 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 342.565 MB/s [ 83634.0 IOPS] Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 305.021 MB/s [ 74468.0 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 340.622 MB/s [ 83159.7 IOPS] Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 25.102 MB/s [ 6128.4 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 129.213 MB/s [ 31546.1 IOPS] Test : 32768 MiB [L: 23.1% (440.1/1907.7 GiB)] (x5) [Interval=5 sec]