Let's spend a little time thinking about the past, and especially the Crucial BX series. It all started back in 2015 with the outstanding BX100 SSD, a drive that was affordable and at the same time had zero compromises in build quality, and most importantly in its performance. After a few months came the BX200 SSD. It was the first TLC SSD from Crucial, and continued to be an affordable replacement for your HDD, but the TLC NAND was the limiting factor for write performance.

Now Crucial has released the BX300 SSD, an SATA 2.5? drive that it comes in three capacities, 120GB, 240GB, and 480GB. At the moment it is only available as a 2.5? SATA drive, but that is not what's impressive. The new 3D MLC NAND is the part that got me excited, and hopefully it will bring back the glory days of the BX100 SSD, both for performance and pricing.

So let's move on and start this review by taking a look at the packaging and its contents, followed by some benchmarks.