Good, solid entry level SSD, but at present is the slightly faster MX100 even cheaper

The BX100 is the new entry-level SSD model from Crucial, which could position itself with quite affordable SSDs on the market, the MX100 is here at the moment a very attractive price and is also producing.

Equipment side brings the BX100 as entry-level model with not much. Hardware data encryption or data loss during a power failure in vain, here the MX100 has more to offer. It comes with only a compensation framework to increase the height of 7mm to 9.5mm. The promised performance lie in the (price) classes typical area and on par with the MX100.

So much for the paper layer.

Who wants to use the SSD as a replacement of an older HDD following note:
Cloning a HDD to the disk (USB 3.0 housing) succeeded without any problems by means of appropriate programs, only the MBR must be repaired manually and the cloned operating system partition are entered. Startup Repair from Windows 8.1. has not managed. On the web this purpose are numerous instructions. Space technology stand at the 250 SSD, incidentally 232.76 GB actually to Verfüfgung.

In the tests, the board gave a (for the class) from fairly good performance.
Crytal DiskMark gave the following values:

Seq read: 512.2 MB / s write --- Seq: 379.3 MB / s
512 k read: 336.1 MB / s --- 512 k write: 376.7 MB / s
4K read: 23.49 MB / s --- 4K write: 82.27 MB / s
4K QD32 read: 287.9 ​​MB / s --- 4K QD32 write: 311.4 MB / s

Some of the board is here on the values ​​of the MX100 and the promised performance were almost reached. Only in the 4k services the plate falls but behind the back of the MX100 ewtas (almost 15%). Although no huge difference but the 4k performance is a value that is not entirely irrelevant in normal office use, since frequent small data packets are written to disk and read a lot more of this.

The sake of completeness, the data of the AS SSD Benchmark:

Seq read: 504.1 MB / s write --- Seq: 361.22 MB / s
4k Read: 21.87 MB / s --- 4K write: 67.61 MB / s
4k 64Thrd read: 70K IOPS 4K --- 64Thrd write: 62K IOPS
Access read: 0.105 ms --- write access: 0.051 ms

Again the same picture, good value especially considering the price, with the exception of the somewhat weaker performance 4k.

Who can not do anything with the data to be said: Even a very topical notebook with powerful processor, but normal HDD, benefited very considerably from the SSD: The Boot times were much shorter and also the operation load times were greatly reduced. The use of an SSD worth here in any case.

Very pleasing was the heat. In operation, the plate showed a temperature of 34 degrees, even after prolonged exposure, a very good value. A Kingston HyperX SSD was already here at the same load at about 40 degrees and the regular HDD at almost 50. Particularly for notebooks a not insignificant factor because the fan has to get rid of less waste heat.

Conclusion:
The Crucial BX100 brings as a new entry-level model good performance values ​​for the class and waives any extras. So good performance for purists. There are certainly more performant SSDs, but you have then usually deeper into their pockets. I say deliberately almost, because currently the price of the BX100 has not yet stabilized. The slightly more powerful and better equipped MX100 is still cheaper and brings even Acronis True Image with (and 6 GB more capacity). Since it is also further produced, it is likely to be even longer available. The time must show where the BX100 will settle priced. At the moment I would rather not resort to the MX100, even if the BX100 is a good entry-level SSD. Therefore, (still) only 4 stars. If the price, there's also the fifth