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Review: Crucial BX100 (500GB)

by Tarinder Sandhu on 18 March 2015, 16:00

Tags: Crucial Technology (NASDAQ:MU)

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Conclusion

...the BX100 remains a fine choice for a wide range of systems.

Crucial has designed the BX100 SSD to hit an enviable price point for entry-level drives. The 500GB model retails for £160 and offers solid performance in all of our tests.

There are faster drives out there, not that you'd notice in a typical desktop environment, and while it lacks some of the enterprise-class features found on the MX200 or rival Samsung drives, the BX100 remains a fine choice for a wide range of systems.

Backed by a three-year warranty and with no major weaknesses, the question you have to ask yourself is whether the 10 per cent financial premium for the MX200 - £175 vs. £160 - is worth it over the BX100. If every penny counts, then the Crucial BX100 500GB should definitely be considered.

The Good
  
The Bad
Good value
Available in 1TB capacity
Solid performance
3-year warranty
  
Endurance not brilliant



Crucial BX100 500GB

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The Crucial BX100 500GB is available to purchase from Crucial.com/uk.

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Posted by MorrisR - Wed 18 Mar 2015 16:30
Something wrong in the table? Model name and capacity appear to be out of synch. I can't believe there is a 50% overhead.
Posted by Jowsey - Wed 18 Mar 2015 17:32
MorrisR
Something wrong in the table? Model name and capacity appear to be out of synch. I can't believe there is a 50% overhead.

Also, the top of the conclusion, the 250GB model doesn't retail at £160, the 500GB does.

All in all, good review though.
Posted by miniyazz - Wed 18 Mar 2015 18:58
Steadily improving price/capacity then! Less than 8x as expensive now as 2.5“ HDDs - more importantly, looking to replace them in storage density also (is 1TB really the max 2.5” density?). A little way to go in the 3.5" market, considerably >10x as expensive.
Posted by crossy - Thu 19 Mar 2015 11:23
miniyazz
Steadily improving price/capacity then! Less than 8x as expensive now as 2.5“ HDDs - more importantly, looking to replace them in storage density also (is 1TB really the max 2.5” density?).
No 1TB is definitely not the limit for 2.5" form factor, with a few people doing >1TB drives, although you seem to need (a) SAS connections for most and (b) pretty deep pockets; if you want one of these.
SanDisk 2TB Optimus Eco 6Gb/s SAS 2.5" SSD, MLC, Up to 500MBs Throughput, Limited 5 Year Warranty (Amazon US)
"SanDisk Optimus Max 4TB SAS SSD Announced" (Storagereview)
And some US company called Foremay is PR'ing SATA 4TB and 8TB 2.5" drives, (details available in this PR PDF)
Although given that the 2TB Sandisk is being sold through Amazon at a shade more than US$3000, I'd shudder to think what a 4TB, never mind 8TB, would go for! :o
miniyazz
A little way to go in the 3.5" market, considerably >10x as expensive.
I thought the focus was on the 2.5" FF - mainly because (I'm guessing) it's easy to sell those the builders of Ultrabooks and Bladeservers.
Posted by [jF] - Thu 19 Mar 2015 13:23
Got one of these for £135 from Amazon about a month ago, absolutely awesome drive for the money 8)

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