Crucial BX100 500GB Solid State Drive Review

Final Thoughts

Pricing

When Crucial creates a budget drive, they take that seriously. At the time of writing this Crucial BX100 500GB SSD can be had at Amazon for £134.99, Overclockers UK for £149.99, Scan Computers for £149.87, and Aria PC for £143.94. In the US, it can be had at Amazon or NewEgg for $179.99 while German readers can pick it up starting at €179.49.

Conclusion

The Crucial BX100 promised us the same great performance figures over the entire scale, whether the drive would be full or empty and also with both compressible and incompressible data. And we were not let down. The BX100 500GB SSD showed us some great performance figures through all of our the tests and all of them were straight on par. The results were actually so even and on top of each other that I had to manually reposition a lot of values in the charts to make them readable – because they were right on top of each other.

We saw performance figures up to and also slightly over 540MB/s while reading and 460MB/s while writing. The access times climed a little bit as the drive filled with data, but they still stayed at very reasonable numbers and never higher than 0.09ms. The random 4K performance was equally impressive with 70K IOPS at both reading and writing.

The drive in itself is very simplistic as Crucial drives always are. On top of the silver coloured drive, we find the usual sticker with the series background and the Crucial logo. On the rear of the drive, we find another sticker with all the relevant information such as serial numbers, capacity, and certifications. What could one want more from a storage drive.

Pros

• Great performance
• Cheapest drive per GB tested
• Handles all file types equally well
• 9.5mm adapter included

Neutral

• No 3.5-inch adapter

“The Crucial BX100 500GB is clearly the cheapest SSD we’ve tested per GB of storage and with read figures up to 540MB/s reading and  460MB/s writing you get some serious bang for the buck.”

Thanks to Crucial for providing us with this sample