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Crucial BX100 250GB SSD Review

Storage/SSD by stefan @ 2015-09-02

With the BX100 we have another very good product for the price which is able to sport very good read speeds and decent writes for the 250GB model, while the 500GB and 1TB versions have even higher rating write speeds. For conserving the costs, the manufacturer has used an aluminum chassis with no screws, but the build is high quality and the internal PCB is kept steady and secure inside. While BX100 does come initially in a 7mm format, we are getting a free spacer with adhesive in order to able to mount it on more systems.

Test Setup and Extra Info

Test Bench:

CPU : Intel i5 3570K Retail

CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D14

Motherboard : ASRock Z77 Extreme6

RAM :GeIL PC3-17000 2133MHz 8GB EVO Leggera

Video : Sparkle X560 Calibre

Power Supply : Cooler Master 850W

HDD : OCZ Vector 150

Case: Cooler Master ATCS 840

The drive is shipped unformatted:

Here is the total free space reported by Windows:

With the help of AIDA64, we could extract more information regarding the drive:

In order to access extra information about the drive and to run certain processes, we can always install the Storage Executive software, which Crucial places to our disposal for free; the application opens up in a browser window and the menus are located on the left side; from the System Information tab, we are able to check out PC information, but also some info on the installed drives:

By accessing Drive Details menu, we will be told more information regarding the BX100 like drive usage, current temperature, serial number, total bytes written and more; here we can also check if the latest drive firmware has been installed:

Advanced S.M.A.R.T. details can be looked at from the next menu:

The Firmware Updates menu is in charge of the firmware update process:

Drive sanitization must be made when we intend on discarding the drive in order not to recover data from it or sometimes can be made to bring it to factory settings:

PSID Revert process can be enabled only on supported drives:

We can say the same thing about Momentum Cache:

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