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The Crucial 128GB C300 SSD is the first we’ve seen to use the new SATA III interface, which is increasingly found on the newest motherboards. We tested it both over SATA III as well as the older, more widespread SATA II.
When connected over SATA III, we were taken aback by how quickly the C300 blitzed through our test reading large files – it did so at a staggering 213.5MB/s. This is so much faster than any other SSD or hard disk we’ve seen before, we had to double check our results and reran the test just to be sure.
It wasn’t as record-breakingly fast at writing large files, but at 123MB/s it’s still 10MB/s faster than the fastest hard disk we’ve seen. It’s also very fast at copying small files, writing them at 95.4MB/s and reading them at 108MB/s. Although still faster than any hard disk, the difference isn’t as large as it is in reading large files test.
The C300 is very fast, but it’s also expensive at £254. At £1.98 per gigabyte, it’s not bad value at all for a SSD, but unless you have money to spare we’d rather opt for a cheaper, smaller SSD accompanied by a large hard disk.
