Crucial MX100 (256GB & 512GB) Review
by Kristian Vättö on June 2, 2014 3:00 PM ESTAnandTech Storage Bench 2011
Back in 2011 (which seems like so long ago now!), we introduced our AnandTech Storage Bench, a suite of benchmarks that took traces of real OS/application usage and played them back in a repeatable manner. The MOASB, officially called AnandTech Storage Bench 2011 - Heavy Workload, mainly focuses on peak IO performance and basic garbage collection routines. There is a lot of downloading and application installing that happens during the course of this test. Our thinking was that it's during application installs, file copies, downloading and multitasking with all of this that you can really notice performance differences between drives. The full description of the Heavy test can be found here, while the Light workload details are here.
In our Heavy workload trace, the story changes. Now the 256GB M550 is faster than the 256GB MX100 but the 512GB MX100 still leads the Crucial pack. I'm thinking that the 256GB M550 is more optimized for non-steady-state operation as that's more common for client workloads, which would explain why it performs poorly in the 2013 bench but is better in the 2011 Heavy test. What's surprising is that the 256GB MX100 is much faster than the 256GB SP920 despite that fact that the only difference between them should be the NAND lithography. Maybe Micron/Crucial didn't give ADATA the highest performing firmware after all.
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sonny73n - Saturday, December 20, 2014 - link
Samsung Evo comes to mind ;-)MikeMurphy - Monday, June 2, 2014 - link
330MB/s reads with zero random access penalty is ample for 99.99% of the users out there.There isn't much (or any) real world difference between this and something faster.
isa - Monday, June 2, 2014 - link
Yes, I'd love to see a link to a $100 external SSD with 550MB/s at 95k IOPS.UltraWide - Monday, June 2, 2014 - link
Do you plan to include tests with encryption enabled in the future? Thank you.Zoomer - Tuesday, June 3, 2014 - link
And does it support bitlocker eDrive / OPAL, etc?stickmansam - Monday, June 2, 2014 - link
Dang those prices look goodMakes me wish I had waited to grab the MX100 instead of getting the SP920
Similar sustained performance but MX100 has better GC and consistency
nfriedly - Monday, June 2, 2014 - link
Neither of the Samsung buttons work for the last chart on http://www.anandtech.com/show/8066/crucial-mx100-2...The error in the firebug console is "TypeError: document.getElementById(...) is null"
JarredWalton - Monday, June 2, 2014 - link
Fixed, thanks!MikeMurphy - Monday, June 2, 2014 - link
Why are 4k random reads so much slower than 4k random writes? Or, are the graphs mislabeled and mixed up?khkha - Tuesday, June 3, 2014 - link
I have just bought seagate 600 for my early 2011 mbp. Should I return the drive and buy this instead for 30gb space bump?Thoughts anyone?