New Crucial MX100 SSD Series Coming Soon

Crucial will soon officially announce its new 16nm MX100 solid state drives but their specifications have alerady appeared online. The MX100 series will include 128 GB, 256 GB and 512 GB versions. The SSDs will be the first to utilize Micron's 16 nm MLC NAND flash memory.

The MX100 drives come in a 7 mm-thick 2.5-inch chassis, have a SATA 6.0 Gbps interface, use Marvell 88SS9189 controllers and are backed by a two-year warranty.

According to specifications that appeared online by a Crucial distributor, the new SSDs will offer sequential read speeds of 550 MB/s while write speeds top 350 MB/s for the 128 GB and 500 MB/s for the, 256 GB and 512 GB models.

The MX100 features Native Write Acceleration, Adaptive thermal monitoring, defect, error management and hardware encryption technologies. The series is also compatible with Microsoft's eDrive standard.

The drives are listed online priced at €70 (128GB), €95(256 GB) and €185 (512 GB).

*Crucial MX100 2.5-inch SSD series specs* (unconfirmed)
Capacity	128GB	256GB	512GB
Type	2.5-inch
Height	7 mm (9.5mm with included adapter)
Memory	Micron 16nm MLC NAND
Controller	Marvell 88SS9189 with Micron custom firmware
Interface	SATA 6Gbps
MTTF	1.5 million hours
Endurance	72 TB total bytes written (TBW), equal to 40GB per day for 5 years
Hardware encryption	AES-256 encyption engine, TCG Opal 2.0 compliant, IEEE-1667 compliant, Microsoft eDrive compliant
Other features	Native Write Acceleration, Redundant Array of Independent NAND, Multistep Data Integrity Algorithm, Adaprive Thermal Protection, Power Loss Protection, Data Path Protection, Active Garbage Collection, TRIM support, Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology (SMART), Error Correction Code (ECC)
Sequential read	550 MB/s
Sequential write	350 MB/s	500MB/s	500MB/s
4K random read	90,000 IOPS	90,000 IOPS	95,000 IOPS
4K random write	75,000 IOPS	80,000 IOPS	85,000 IOPS