Shiny unspectacular

In my Maximus IV Extreme P67 board the BX 100 is detected easily on all types of connection.
Both as a USB Drive in USB3.0 docking station, as well as to the integrated SATA 3GB and 6GB ports.
For pure data transfer rate but performance varies greatly between 3GB and 6GB port.
The true Leistungsfreudigkeit finds only the fastest SATA port instead - later in the text and images customers their respective benchmarks by CrystalDiskMark.

Crucial extols the longevity that is to be twice as high as normal magnetic disks.
This will only show the future, but the experience with previous Crucialplatten confirm this rather,
have for SSDs not only a low failure rate, they lose over time also little performance.

So Crucial is not just an SSD for tight budgets, but they do not need to hide their speed.
Especially in practice, as the operating system disk, where it depends more on the IO performance than pure transmission speeds,
one notices the differences even less.
One should consider, however, whether it would not equal taking the next major version.
It costs only 70 euros more, but offers twice as much space for programs and more.

SATA 6Gb >>>
Sequential Read: 532 881 MB / s
Sequential Write: 375 385 MB / s
Random Read 512KB: 371 131 MB / s
512KB Random Write: 376 108 MB / s
4KB Random Read (QD = 1): 24 139 MB / s [5893.3 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD = 1): 52 494 MB / s [12816.0 IOPS]
4KB Random Read (QD = 32): 259 147 MB ​​/ s [63268.4 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD = 32): 270 785 MB / s [66109.7 IOPS]

SATA 3Gb >>>
Sequential Read: 275 796 MB / s
Sequential Write: 261 556 MB / s
Random Read 512KB: 223 101 MB / s
512KB Random Write: 256 893 MB / s
4KB Random Read (QD = 1): 23 114 MB / s [5643.0 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD = 1): 49 925 MB / s [12188.7 IOPS]
4KB Random Read (QD = 32): 182 292 MB / s [44504.9 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD = 32): 204 929 MB / s [50031.6 IOPS]

Test: 1000 MB [L: 0.8% (2.0 / 232.9 GB)] (x5)
Date: 14/03/2015 15:25:49
OS: Windows Enterprise 8.1 [6.3 Build 9600] (x64)