Crucial MX200 (250GB, 500GB & 1TB) SSD Review
by Kristian Vättö on May 22, 2015 8:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Storage
- SSDs
- Crucial
- MX200
- Micron 16nm
AnandTech Storage Bench - Light
The Light trace is designed to be an accurate illustration of basic usage. It's basically a subset of the Heavy trace, but we've left out some workloads to reduce the writes and make it more read intensive in general. Please refer to this article for full details of the test.
Now the 250GB MX200 enjoys a small benefit over the larger capacities when the drive is empty as the SLC cache is in its most effective state (the Light trace writes so little that all can be written in SLC). However, once the drive is full, the 250GB again loses a substantial part of its performance drops below any other SSD we have tested. Overall the BX100 is a better fit for light workloads, although the difference isn't huge (10-15%).
Power consumption remains good and competitive against other high-end drives, except for the full 250GB model that draws a lot more power as it needs to write all data twice.
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yolomolo - Tuesday, April 19, 2016 - link
Can i get some advice from you PRO, should i better go get mSata : Samsung EVO 850 or CRUCIAL MX200 ?petar_b - Sunday, September 4, 2016 - link
I've been using Crucials 960GB and few OCZs since their early appearance. 24/7 for 3-4 years, all drives work well, health 100% according OCZ and Crucial health tools.(Funny that OCZ Limited Eddition 100GB still works surviving decent load being bought in 2010... after reading Anand's review about SF-1500 inside).
The only alternative I considered was SanDisk Extreme, but I like Enterprise features in Crucial: pseudo-SLC, Power Loss Protection, Redundant Array of Independent NAND, 256-bit encryption. The "Adaptive Thermal Protection" (shutting down unused storage components) allows me to use them 24/7... I wish I know if other drives have these features...
I think a life expectancy is up to 320TBW, while Samsung 850 Pro is maxed out at 150TBW, so maybe performance isn't the best, but I would keep on going with Crucial because I never lost a drive.