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so it's time to review the M so it's time to review the MX I mean the bx 100 from so it's time to review the end the live available Emmett so let's take a look at crucial new entry-level SSD and that is the bx 100 welcome back to tech yes it is brian coming back to you guys today with the bx 100 review this is the 500 gigabyte model and the great thing about this review is today is I've got the previous generation MX 100 to directly compare it to and there's also some other things that I'll be able to tell you about today and that is how the MX 100 has held up after six months of usage as I have been using it as my main drive and the honestly the results are pretty good for both these drives but anyway let's take a look at the bx 100 and what it features then we'll look at the benchmarks and then we'll get on to a conclusion so the bx 100 is essentially an even further cut-down version of the MX 100 and what crews will have decided to do is cut away a few features from the MX 100 that probably the home user would not find themselves benefiting from and then also decided to cut the price down even further so currently the 120 gigabyte model comes in at 69 99 or seventy dollars recommended retail price the hunt 250 gigabyte version comes in at a hundred and six dollars also in other parts of the world I'll quickly show you guys some recommended retail pricing here so this is for Australia and this is for the UK so what are the key differences let's have a look here basically the bx 100 has a different controller than the MX 100 so crucial have decided to go this time around they've decided to go with a company called silicon motion for the controller as opposed to the previous generation in the MX 100 they went with the Marvel controller now in the benchmarks I'll show you what the key difference is though the silicon motion controller for what it's worth is a pretty good controller there's no denying that also another key feature that they've gone away with the bx 100 is hardware level encryption so it's a more of a feature for businesses and server type applications though that i don't think the home user will sort of be at a disadvantage from losing this feature and another final thing that they've gone away with is thermal protection as well so if things are getting very hot where your pc is then obviously that thermal protection can protect your SSD from overheating and case of a serious event so also taking a close look at the bx 100 we can see that this time around in the 500 gigabyte model list they've decided to go with 64 gigabyte nand flash banks here so this is I think the first time that they're implementing these banks as opposed to the previous MX 100 where they were using 16 by 16 gigabyte flash ROM banks in that drive so that's a key thing about the bx 100 so it is using larger banks so another thing with the bx 100 that i really liked was this time around they've gone with a steel back plate with the bill construction so in the MX 100 ease the plastic build plate there which kind of put the color a little bit off and it's just these little things that when a company listens it makes a good company a great company in my opinion so kudos to crucial for doing that so with the bx 100 you also get seventy two terabytes total bytes written of the lifetime as well which accounts to about sixty six gigabytes per day for three years so i think it's a great thing that crucial are being transparent and i like that companies like crucial are publishing these numbers however the big question on your mind is how does the bx 100 perform especially compared to its little brother or its big brother in this case the MX 100 let's find out so let's get on to the benchmarks and i'm sorry in advance from a microphone it's this microphone stands broken so we're going to get some kind of live tech their city commentary action going here for you guys but anyway let's get on to the benchmarks in the first two benchmarks I've decided to use a SS SD and HD tune pro SSD is such a good benchmarks my favorite benchmark for benchmarking SSDs as it just gives you the numbers that you really want to know and then I decided to go with HD tune pro and gigabyte Wow sorry do a transfer benchmark of a 1 gigabyte file just to find out what's going on in real time with these SSDs so let's get on to the benchmarks here and the as you can see here the MX 100 is first up here the 256 gigabyte version i love this SSD it's currently my favorite SSD out of all the SSDs out there especially in terms of value for money now this SSD scored really well in the these scores and I have to make one point clear and that this was used as the main OS drive at for doing all these benchmarks as well so if anything it's a slight hindrance compared to the other SSDs also another thing is before I run all my benchmarks I do make sure that my computer is flatlining as i call it and that is that there's no hiccups that could interfere potentially with the benchmarks so i do recommend if you guys are going to benchmark your hard drives or SSDs you do the same anyway let's look at this numbers here anyway sequential reads 500 megabytes per second that's pretty much as good as it gets on the schedule reads sequential writes could be a little bit better though there are solid 330 megabytes per second very good score there the 4k read and write 26 megabytes per second great speeds on those almost touching a hundred megabytes per second on the 4k writes very important so that's a pretty important school that's probably my most single-handedly most important school and the MX 100 scores fantastic in this regards access times are really good as well as the queue depth scoring a respectable 95,000 662 input outputs per second there so I ops there are fantastic on the MX 100 as well and this whole drive came together to give it a total score of a thousand and 46 nasss d so very good they're moving on to HD pro here we can see that I ran three different tests different three different data patterns actually just to get an idea of what's going on here and you see here the lines are just pretty smooth all across the board so this is a again a big shout-out i guess to the marvel controller because this is why people love the Marvel controller on the SS this is such a good controller this will take care of giving you a smoothest experience when it comes to the SSD performance that being said let's move on now to the next SSD so moving on now to the bx 100 this is a 500 gigabyte version so if anything it should perform slightly better than the 256 gigabyte MX 100 though let's get into the benchmark scores here d sequential reads were really good over 500 megabytes per second as good as it gets across that side of 36 gigabit per second cap there the write speeds 423 megabytes per second this scored quite a bit higher than the MX 100 did though I'll talk about this a little bit later the 4k read and writes great speeds there on the reads the rights were a little bit slower than the MX 100 and this is one of the most crucial points or pun intended of a drive where you want to get a good score even though it did score slightly slower than the MS 100 that is still a very good score for desktop usage don't be alarmed that it's got a little bit slot on MX 186 megabytes per second on those random right fork a rat's ass is still a really good score anyway let's look at the queue depth here we've got mainly we're looking at the input outputs per second on the red side of things you can see that it performed significantly lower than the MX 100 so that's curious as to why that is but on the other side of things it's not too much to worry because this is more of the queue depth benchmark of the 426 case 6 64 kilobytes threaded test is more of a server sort of benchmark there wouldn't be too alarmed by it the access x 37 nanoseconds and 38 nanoseconds correct me if I'm wrong but that is extremely low that's pretty much as good as it gets in this regard and both these scores came together to score a total of nine hundred and thirty-one nasss DSO the MX 100 did edge out the bx 100 nasss d and so that's interesting to note another thing i wanted to note was the HD tune protests here we look across the three different patterns here we can see on the right side of things here we can see these dips and they were consistently coming up I did benchmark this numerous times to try and if it see if it was an anomaly but it wasn't this was these dips are real so this I guess I can attribute this to the difference in the controller's the silicon motion controller is not as good as the Marvel controller so that's something key to note however let's move on now to the final benchmark that's the Intel and you can see that the bx 100 and the MX 100 will be in a different league compared to this next SSD so here's the intel 335 240 gigabyte version so you see an d thus quentel reads were really high as well though it fell behind in the right speeds and keep in mind though I have been using this drive for quite a while as as well as I have been using my MX 100 so the MX 100 is a very durable dry very tough drive but the Intel's kind of starting to show its age here a little bit and the 4k random read and rates are still really good as well so it's nothing to worry about the queue depth there is not as good as the other two drives and the other two crucial drives and the access times are a little bit slower than both the crucial drives this came together to score a total of six hundred and ninety six points moving on to HD tune-pro and when we get to sort of the mixed and random data patterns here we can see that it does have a lot of dips here I guess this because the drive does have a lot of information on it though keep in mind that my MX 100 does have a lot of information on it as well so they're both running OS is on them and they both filled up with kind of similar data so I'm kind of surprised to see that the sand force was kind of falling behind by this much in this particular benchmark okay with those three benchmarks out the way we can then look at the two drives that actually matter so let's look at these two drive side by side so I decided to pick out the most important part of HD tune on both days because I believe it represents what we're looking at with these drives we can see here that the Marvel controller is probably a better control in general then the silicon motion though it is important to know that the silicon motion doesn't look too bad I could just imagine it once I started filling it up with a lot of data you'd probably get even worse so kudos to Marvel I think they do make the best controllers at the moment on SSDs what about Samsung that's probably a question some of you guys will ask Samsung want to send me over an SSD to review then they're more than welcome my door or my post box is open anytime guys so you're welcome to send me one over for review but okay so getting back to the benchmark scores here we can see that the MX 100 was edging out the bx 100 in d and I mean the access times were better on the bx 100 and the sequential writes were slightly better though did sort of fall a little bit behind in those 4k write speeds but anyway something to take out of this is that the bx 100 is a great drive just the mx1 hundreds a little bit better so if anything they're both fantastic drives for the money especially for the end home user I think what the important thing to take out who these benchmarks is is that the bx 100 if you put it in your home pc or you put an MX 100 in your home pc they're both going to do a great job though i do take preference to the MX 100 just because i've used it for six months now it's absolutely amazing i mean these scores are just impressing me a lot because i've had the chance to put data on it give it a solid durability test and it's still performing like a champion the bx 100 in time i will report back on it and tell you how performs but it is looking great just like the MX 100 is and if anything I've learned over time to trust crucial every product I've got from crucial has been an absolute stellar champion that's one thing I can take out of my experience with crucial drives but anyway that being said let's move on now to a conclusion for you guys and we'll snap it up in black and white and make a solid recommendation for you guys so in conclusion I sort of found myself liking the MX 100 even more when then when i first reviewed it i mean this thing has held the test of time already six months of just heavy usage and it still performs like it did on day one so kudos to crucial with the MX 100 i mean i fell in love with this thing when i first got it and i still am in love with the MX 100 the bx 100 still posted good numbers but it kind of i mean it didn't shine as hard with the MX 100 i mean this is the 256 gigabyte version and it was our performing the 500 gigabyte p x 100 so I was kind of left at a crossroads here and like where do I go with this recommendation and my recommendation is going to be pretty simple and that is still the crucial make fantastic drives for the money I mean if you're looking for an SSD or you're looking for ddr3 memory ddr4 memory my recommendations are still the same as they always are you can go and buy a crucial product and know that you're getting good value for money even if you bite at the recommended retail price which is a great thing to say about crucial now clean and cut simple answer for a recommendation if you can't get the MX 100 then get the bx 100 that would be my recommendation i do prefer the x 100 / DP x 100 simply because it's using that Marvel controller and as you saw in that HD tune benchmark the MX 100 showed more smoother lines I mean a little friend here the S the intel SSD that didn't do too well though to this credit mean this drives been used a lot as well so i will say that about this drive but i mean just yeah i mean both these drives just kick the living piss out of this thing so it was a no comparison so the bx 100 is a great drive for the money and i can see there and recommend it if you can't pick up an MX 100 I just think the MX 100 offers that better bang for buck even if it is a little bit more expensive you just got that Marvel controller there you've got some more smoother lines on the benchmark so in a nutshell I think it would just be plain and simple like this if you're a business user or you're using this in a business environment you might want to look at the MX 100 or even the new really at least MX 200 though if you are looking for the cheapest SSD for your buck then the bx 100 is great for a end home user so there's no denying that both drives the great drives i would have liked to have seen the MX 200 come through here even if it was a only a 256 gigabyte model that would have been pretty cool to compare the MX 100 against the MX 200 though as it stands the MX 100 is still a slightly better drive than the bx 100 anyway what do you guys think which one would you prefer let me know in the comments below I'd love to hear your thoughts and as always if you ladies video please give it a thumbs up and if you haven't already subscribe to take a city where I'll be coming back with you to you guys with more tech reviews and news also one more thing before I go is that all these drives the MX 100 the bx 100 and the Intel they all work together with one another in Windows 8.1 seamlessly so there was no conflicts unlike my last review where the MX 100 refused to work with the Intel and vice versa in windows 7 and also the speeds were slightly faster I thought in Windows 8.1 so I guess that's spells that Windows 8.1 maybe is slightly better for our SSDs since the OS natively supports SSDs so anyway guys I hope you enjoyed this review and I I'm out of here piece off now bye