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so today it's time to take a look at crucial latest budget SST offering and this is the BX 200 ladies and gentlemen welcome back to tech SC this is brian coming back to you guys today with a review of the crucial BX 200 I'll be reviewing the 480 gigabyte SSD variant I'll also be doing some quick tests here through a SSD and HD tune Pro and telling you guys what I think of the performance however until then we'll quickly go over the features of this drive and what's included in the box as soon as you get the package in you'll notice that it comes packaged pretty well for a budget entry drive you also get a little bracket there and the Akron estroux software program there which is really good if you wish to clone programs I've actually got a tutorial where I use this exact program on cloning however looking at the drive itself it is a 2.5 inch solution there and it is only 70 millimeters thick so it's very light you've got an all steel construction on the case which also works as a heat sink for the actual controller on the SSD going into the drive itself out we can see there we've got 60 gigabyte Bank there of TLC flash there which is 16 millimeter flash from micron we've also got these silicon motions sm 2 to 6 v controller on there as well as the fact that we've got a 6 cubic case of DRAM and SLC memory there for caching the drive for faster read and writes moving on to the back of the PCB you've just got some empty brackets there since is the 480 gigabyte model which allows this drive to come in 960 gigabyte variants so quickly moving back to the drive there you have the BX branding with the crucial logo on there also on the side there you have screw mounts or screw holes if you wish to mount this to an adapter also on the bottom you have screw drives if you wish to just directly screw it into your case so quickly moving on to some figures here with the BX 200 it's scored a 965 points in a SSD so coming in quite a little bit under there under the MX 100 and also the Samsung 850 Evo and these are smaller variants might have had as well and also the it did beat the BX 100 by about 60 points I managed to see a score of 897 in that particular benchmark also quickly looking at the inputs and outputs scores they're the max input-output score I recorded on this drive with seventy two thousand four hundred and seventeen on the red side and on the right side seventy eight thousand one hundred and eighty one the bit contrasting that to the predecessor the BX 100 it's called sixty nine thousand five hundred and thirteen and sixty nine thousand seven hundred and seventy respectively however only MX 100 side of things we could see that blowing as high as ninety six thousand three hundred and sixty eight and seventy four thousand six hundred and twenty six however it is important to note when I did some big file transfers here I noticed that the performance severely tanked after five or six gigabytes on the right sides they're going to as low as 80 megabytes per second consistently this is severely or a severe drop in performance here even losing to some hard disk drives which should not be happening on an SSD now when we contrast this to the predecessor of the bx 100 which uses the same silicon motion controller that performed a lot better over bigger file writes also one thing i will mention about the bx 200 however is that the right consistency in that first group of performance figures was a little bit better than the pressor predecessor the bx 100 so we can see that the silicon motions controller has improved somewhat so in collision what can I say about the bx 200 well I'm actually not impressed at all with the performance of this drive I mean in ways I think it's backwards from the back 100 and it's also still under the MX 100 there and this is a product that's almost coming on two years later so I'd really like to see crucial get back on their game with their budget line series of SSDs and get back on top which when they released the it makes 100 they were on top everyone was just recommending these drives I was blown away by the MX 100 at the time especially the 256 gigabyte variant however I will quickly mention the pricing on this SSD we have for the 240 gigabyte variant their 159 AUD which is a little bit more in NZD also the 480 gigabyte variant there will be 289 a you do and then the 960 gigabyte version will set you back a little bit more so the pricing is definitely there from the retail standpoint expect to pay a little bit less from the actual retails itself as we always know street prices generally are a little bit cheaper than the retail prices though honestly at this price I have to give this product two and a half stars out of five as I just simply was not impressed with the performance even though the initial figures there from s SSD scores were pretty good and the right consistency in those initial fire transfers were pretty good and it was a step up in that regard from the BX 100 the overall performance was just simply lackluster especially compared to the BX 100 and the MX 100 and take into account that the competitors products have stepped it up a lot especially in terms of value for money anyway guys that's about it for me today guys if you love these concise and precise reviews then you know what to do hit that thumbs up button and I'll be coming back to you guys in another tech review very soon peace out for now and also don't forget to subscribe to tech yes City for the latest tech news and reviews bye