The C300 RealSSD™ Drive—Available Soon at Crucial.com
We created quite a buzz when we announced the C300 RealSSD drive last month—the world’s fastest client SSD. Following the announcement, many of you were eager to know: Where can I buy it? How soon will they be shipping?
Today, we have answers to those questions.
I’m happy to announce that Lexar Media will be carrying the C300 at www.crucial.com. Many of you already know Crucial as a reliable retailer of top-quality performance memory upgrades, so the RealSSD drive is a perfect addition to their high-caliber line of products. The details:
Where: www.crucial.com
Models: 2.5”, 128GB and 256GB
Availability: February
If you missed our benchmark videos, scroll through the blog history to see what all the buzz was about. Or just wait a few weeks for the first set of independent reviews—we’re confident that the C300 RealSSD drive will solidly establish itself as the SSD all others are compared to.
2 Comments to “The C300 RealSSD™ Drive—Available Soon at Crucial.com”
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It’s great news that the C300 will be available soon! I was wondering if Micron plans to support Macs(specifically the Late 2008 Macbook Pro). Obviously the drive should “just work,” given that it uses the SATA interface, but from a firmware upgradability standpoint, will Micron support Macs? Intel does this with their X25-M.
Thanks,
Mike
Thanks for the question, Mike. We’ve been running Macs in our qual labs from the beginning with great results. There’s really nothing special drives need to do to support Mac hardware—you’re right, the RealSSD C300 is a simple plug-and-play installation.
We do not expect to require firmware updates in the field, but the drives are firmware upgradable should a serious technical issue be discovered. Should such a situation arise, Micron will work with our customers to provide the tools necessary for updating the firmware.