Crucial BX100 250 GB

[W1zzard]

Crucial's new BX100 SSD is a cost-optimized solid state drive that can be had for an ultra affordable price. Built around a Silicon Motion controller, it delivers fast, consistent performance that's just within 1% of the Crucial MX100.

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[Folterknecht]

"Conclusion:

...or when building a cost-optimized system for relatives and friends where performance is not so important."


The most important thing in that case - a proven track record! Who cares about 10$, when the MX100 is running without any known issues for many months now? Plug&Play with the MX series and maybe suprises with the BX for the less tech savy, I would have to fix later on - nope stick with what I know works. Let others do the longer term testing I say.

 

[W1zzard]

The most important thing in that case - a proven track record! Who cares about 10$, when the MX100 is running without any known issues for many months now? Plug&Play with the MX series and maybe suprises with the BX for the less tech savy, I would have to fix later on - nope stick with what I know works. Let others do the longer term testing I say.

That's a very good point. But given Crucial's track record I am quite confident the BX100 will work just as fine.

 

[Ferrum Master]

I am kind of disappointed about 850th performance, their premium cost doesn't justify it. But yea... Crucial's been my favorites too, had M4 and now M550, I guess no need to change anything for me at all - just bullet proof.

 

[alwayssts]

For once, I don't really have anything to add. Great work, W1z.

Crucial makes great drives; performance is good-to-great edging towards the later when you consider (almost always the lowest $/GB) price. MX100 has proven it's meddle, BX100 should be a great replacement if the price can drop just a *smidge* lower (10-15% in my personal opinion), which according to Crucial will indeed be the case. Even with the crop of new drives upcoming, they've said they still plan to be the least expensive drives on the market.

Bang on summary, imho.

 

[W1zzard]

For once, I don't really have anything to add.

woohoo

Looking at the drive and PCB, I think there is still a ton of headroom in it for price reductions. But right now the BX100 is the cheapest SSD on the market (ignoring the slightly cheaper drives that are not faster than an SD card). So why would Crucial go any lower now.

 

[agent00skid]

And from where I'm from, the BX100 is MORE expensive per gigabyte at 250 and 500GB capacities than MX100 at 256 and 512GB... I don't get it. Not by any noticeable margin though.

 

[1c3d0g]

I am missing the power consumption numbers...other than this small omission, great review, as usual.

 

[Lucky Luciano]

I disagree about the 3 year warranty being a plus. This is the norm now, not something outstanding.

"Conclusion:
MX100 is running without any known issues for many months now? .

Not true. Crucial might not officially admit it but the MX100 seems to have a power management bug. Probably affects a small portion of users but it's there
http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Crucial-SSDs/MX100-will-not-boot-sometimes/td-p/158815/page/13
other topics http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Crucial-SSDs/bd-p/ssd

 

[Aquinus]

Not true. Crucial might not officially admit it but the MX100 seems to have a power management bug.

I don't think that impacts the longevity of the SSD though and considering SSDs are so light on power anyways, I doubt it would ever be a deal breaker. I've bought 3 Crucial SSDs in the last couple years and they're all still working great. Crucial makes some pretty good low cost memory products across the spectrum with respect to both volatile and non-volatile memory.

 

[Lucky Luciano]

By power management bug what I mean is it will turn itself off or stop communicating with the computer causing blue screens or boot failure. Something like the bug Intel used to have http://www.myce.com/news/intel-530-ssds-get-fix-for-hanging-computer-on-wake-68587/

 

[stefanocapp]

Hello. I'm here trying to choose whether to buy the MX100 until there are leftovers in the stores or jump to the BX100. I read there are some technologies the MX has that BX hasn't: RAIN, power loss protection, and similar. Are these important in the day by day usage or in the long term?
I will use it to upgrade my 2009 MacBook Pro.

thanks!

 

[W1zzard]

Hello. I'm here trying to choose whether to buy the MX100 until there are leftovers in the stores or jump to the BX100. I read there are some technologies the MX has that BX hasn't: RAIN, power loss protection, and similar. Are these important in the day by day usage or in the long term?
I will use it to upgrade my 2009 MacBook Pro.

thanks!

For the 250 GB drive the difference is $10, which is close to nothing. If you can afford that, go for the MX100, otherwise BX100. I doubt you'll notice any speed difference, and I would say those features don't matter to you (you should always have backups anyway).

 

[stefanocapp]

For the 250 GB drive the difference is $10, which is close to nothing. If you can afford that, go for the MX100, otherwise BX100. I doubt you'll notice any speed difference, and I would say those features don't matter to you (you should always have backups anyway).

Thanks for the reply. But then, 1- if I won't need those features, why choose the MX100 and not go with the BX100?

2- Let me try: to cut prices they cut some features too but managed to keep performance up. So, since prices are almost identical, buy the MX. Later in the year maybe the BX will drop its prices and at that time the BX will be a great purchase. For now, buy the MX100.

Have I correctly understood your point of view? Please answer both 1 and 2.

thanks!

 

[W1zzard]

MX100 is slightly faster and has been longer on the market, so if there were issues they'd be uncovered by now.
BX100 has a different controller than MX100.

You really can't go wrong with either drive, but personally I'd buy the MX100.

 

[AsRock]

If i needed a SSD ASAP one of these looks like a winner, i got my Sammy 850 pro for $100 a few weeks back so i guess you just got to get when you need at the time or wait for a sale.

Sheesh one of these on a sale would be crazy .

 

[charlie1939]

If i needed a SSD ASAP one of these looks like a winner, i got my Sammy 850 pro for $100 a few weeks back so i guess you just got to get when you need at the time or wait for a sale.

Sheesh one of these on a sale would be crazy .

You are right. I just scored a 250GB Bx100 for $81 with the added replacement warranty on a Newegg Shell Shocker Deal @ $0.32/GB!