CONCLUSION

   When the M600 arrived here the only thing I could think was the just how good (or bad) it would end up being against the more expensive M510DC. Of course back then I still hadn’t opened the enclosure so I thought that the difference in price had something to do with performance. In the end however this wasn’t the case since the M600 is better than the M510DC in pretty much every single test. Now the reason the M510DC is more expensive is its full power loss protection thanks to the much larger and more advanced tantalum capacitors something which the M600 lacks since it offers just basic (data-at-rest) power loss protection (not every SSD has that feature however so it’s a lot better than none at all). Also we may not have been able to test Microns dynamic write acceleration feature since it’s only available in the 128/256GB models but it does sound quite promising. Granted you shouldn’t expect much from a firmware tweak that basically makes MLC NAND flash modules behave like SLC ones but even the slightest boost in read/write performance is always welcome. As for the Momentum Cache feature well we’ve seen similar DRAM caching technologies in the past with RAPID being the most popular out there. You are getting a slight performance boost but due to the relatively small amount of DRAM systems have it can only come in handy with relatively “light” workloads (on the other hand if you have over 64GB of DRAM you may want to give it a shot).

   If you liked our review of the M600 512GB SSD by Micron then you may be interested to know that you can currently get it for just USD208.90 inside the USA (Amazon.com) and for 249.49Euros inside the EU (Amazon.de). Once again we see that although pricing inside the USA is well balanced the same does not apply for the EU so I sincerely hope Micron can “tend” to that. In the end since the M600 512GB is following very closely the slightly more expensive 850 Pro 512GB SSD by Samsung we know for a fact that it’s a solid competitor at around the USD200 price range and for that it gets our Golden Award.

PROS

- Build Quality
- Great Overall Performance
- Features (Momentum Cache/eDrive Support/Dynamic Write Acceleration)
- Storage Executive Software
- Partial Power Loss Protection
- Available In 1TB

CONS

- Current Price EU (For Some)