Crucial BX100 250 GiB SSD Review

Compressible Data Test

As you will have gathered from the previous page, we measured the performance of each drive using CrystalDiskMark. It is important to note that we connected the SSDs to a SATA-600 port on our motherboard rather than a SATA-300 port, which could cause performance limitations. First, we set CrystalDiskMark to “All 0x00 Fill mode” to evaluate the performance of the SSD when dealing with compressible data.

In the sequential read test, the BX100 was 5.4% slower than the Neutron XT.

On the sequential write test, BX100 was 27% slower than the Neutron XT.

On the random read test with 512 kiB blocks, the Crucial BX100 was 31% slower than the Neutron XT.

On the random write test with 512 kiB blocks, the BX100 was 26% slower than the Corsair Neutron XT.

On the random read test with 4 kiB blocks, the model from Crucial was 77% slower than the Corsair Neutron XT.

On the random write test with 4 kiB blocks, the BX100 was 22% slower than the Neutron XT.

And on the random read test with 4 kiB and queue depth of 32, the Crucial BX100 was 5.6% slower than the Corsair Neutron XT.

On the other hand, on the random write test with 4 kiB blocks and queue depth of 32, the BX100 was 5% faster than the Neutron XT.