ATTO - Transfer Size vs Performance

ATTO is a handy tool for quickly measuring performance across various transfer sizes and it's also freeware that can easily be run by the end-user.

Crucial BX100 120GB

 

AS-SSD Incompressible Sequential Performance

Similar to ATTO, AS-SSD is freeware as well and uses incompressible data for all of its transfers, making it a valuable tool when testing drives with built-in compression engines (e.g. SandForce).

Incompressible Sequential Read Performance

Incompressible Sequential Write Performance

Mixed Read/Write Performance Idle Power Consumption & TRIM Validation
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  • SeanJ76 - Monday, April 27, 2015 - link

    -and Crucial has the worst reliability record when it comes to SSD's, right next to OCZ, two of the worst SSD makers today.........that's why their so dirt cheap!
  • MarkHunt - Sunday, May 3, 2015 - link

    BX100 250GB running excellent on an old SATA 2 motherboard based C2D Hackintosh, the boot speed is incredible and applications such as Logic open with little lag, which used to happen with previous HDD. TRIM is also simple to enable with Clover bootloader.
  • rogerdpack - Thursday, May 14, 2015 - link

    unfortunately it appears the 120GB version has dramatically worse write performance, just a heads up, than its counterparts: http://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Crucial-BX100...
  • kadajawi - Thursday, May 21, 2015 - link

    Wait a minute. According to pretty much every other reviewer, news site etc. the power loss capacitors are missing from the BX100, yet Anandtech says they are there. What is it now? To me that's a pretty big deal, as I don't run my laptop with a battery and the power plug may occasionally slide out...
  • LeonS - Monday, October 19, 2015 - link

    Has anyone found a definitive answer for this yet? I have searched high and low, but cannot find an answer!
  • sligett - Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - link

    Are the idle power consumption labels switched for the BX100 250GB and 120GB?
  • marvalsys - Monday, October 12, 2015 - link

    Just spent way too much time trying to clone a 500GB WD hard disk with Windows 10 to a BX100 to use in a new Lenovo Flex 3 15". Clone went fine (booting from a True Image 2015 CD) but with cloned SSD installed laptop wouldn't boot / wouldn't even POST or allow booting from any other drive. Same exact clone to a Samsung 850 EVO worked flawlessly. Call to Crucial tech support resulted in rep saying that they have no current SSDs compatible with Flex 3 15 (even though their website lists 7, including the BX100). Seems to be some confusion - buyers beware!

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