The new BX 100 SSD from Crucial (a branch company of Micron) is the new entry-level hard drive, the budget model in the Crucial model series. While the MX 200 from the same home clearly addresses the performance conscious users or gamers, Performance offers the BX 100 with a low initial price, but already raised a lot for the SSD or outsiders. The biggest difference to expensive MX 200 except slightly worse performance figures is the lack of any hardware encryption within the hard drive. The BX 100 is equipped with a SATA 6Gb / s-iterface, best prerequisite for smooth data transfer. Crucial are then also for the BX 100 sequential readings of up to 535 MB / s, which seq. Write values are in the tested specimen with 250 GB capacity with 370 MB / s. As always reached the CrystalDiskMark test with me not quite the promised values, but lay with 495 MB / s read and 347 MB / s when writing not very far from the values ausgelobten away. I must also give to remember that my current Windows 8.1 probably represents a brake in its present constitution. Subjectively I found the BX 100 very quickly, with the copied image as Windows anyway significantly faster than with my elderly Crucial M4 CT128.
The SSD has the form factor 2.5 "(7mm), suitable for example for Ultrabooks, a so-called. Spacer 7mm to 9.5mm for sticking is the hard drive at. Crucial is an average life expectancy of 1.5 million hours at and for the BX 100 a total of 72 TB to write what counted to 5 years is equivalent to 40 GB per day.
All Crucial SSDs include the so-called Data Path Protection, Active garbage collection, Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology (SMART), TRIM support and Error Correction Code (ECC). For the price, I can highly recommend the BX 100.
