Crucial BX200 960 GB SSD Review Benchmark values and test results

Benchmark values and test results …

Let us continue with the benchmark results. SATA3 drives are tested with an ASRock 890GX Extreme3 motherboard for comparison and test results of mSATA and M.2 modules are performed using an ASRock Z97 Extreme6 motherboard. At present, Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Edition is used as the operating system.

The SSD drive speed was examined and compared with the following benchmark software:
AS SSD Benchmark 1.4.3704.27281 – Download
ATTO Disk Benchmark v2.46 – Download
CrystalDiskMark 3.00 – Download
HD Tach 3.040 – Download
SiSoftware Sandra 2011 – Download
Windows practice test

AS SSD benchmark results

The AS SSD benchmark values offers a very good reference point of the maximal possible reading and writing performance, the speed with smaller files and the respective access time. The Crucial 960 GB SSD achieved like the previously tested Crucial 480GB SSD a good sequential read and write speed in AHCI mode.

Although you should operate the SSD in AHCI mode, we have spared no effort to run all benchmarks additionally in IDE mode. The total score in the IDE mode (indicated by pciide below firmware) reached 367 points. However, the result is however more than twice as high in AHCI mode.

Here is a screenshot of AS SSD benchmark values (SATA3 IDE):

In AHCI mode also another result beneath the better read performance is much higher than in IDE mode and that is the important value “4K-64Thrd”. 4K means that small 4K blocks are read and/or written and with the 4K 64Thrd this is distributed on 64 Threads at the same time. Thus the benchmark program simulate for example a typical program start.

Because the weighting of this value in the AS SSD benchmark tool is very high, the total score in AHCI mode is with 811 points more than twice as high. The Crucial BX200 480 GB SSD reached 731 points, the Crucial BX100 1 TB SSD reached 792 points, the Crucial MX200 1 TB SSD reached 861 points, the Crucial MX100 512 GB SSD reached 856 points, the Crucial M550 512 GB SSD reached 907 points and the Crucial M500 480 GB SSD reached 685 points – tested in AHCI mode on the same test system.

The usable capacity of the Crucial BX200 is 894.25 GB, slightly below the Crucial BX100 and MX200 1TB SSD with 931,51 GB each. With the latest version of the Crucial storage Executive tool you can also customize the Over Provisioning area and therefore decide how high you would adjust the SSD durability vs performance.

Tip:
Who now think about changing the SATA port in the BIOS from native / legacy IDE to AHCI, should first change for example only one part of the SATA port, where the drive with the operating system is not installed, if this is supported by the motherboard. Because if one like to save the new Windows installation, one must install the hard disk controller driver before changing SATA mode from IDE to AHCI – alternatively there are also Registry entries for it. If you like to upgrade from HDD to SSD, you should not copy the content 1:1 only with a tool like Norton Ghost or Acronis Backup. It is better to install a fresh Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 10 or adjust at least the SSD Alignment. We help you with questions to this topic or all other PC related questions at any time 24/7 in our PC Forum.

Here is a screenshot of AS SSD benchmark values (SATA3 AHCI MU02):

For comparison to the MU02 firmware here’s a screenshot of the AS SSD benchmark values with the pre-installed firmware (SATA3 AHCI MU01):

And here is yet a screenshot of AS SSD iops results (SATA3 AHCI):

Here is a screenshot of the AS SSD copy benchmark values (SATA3 AHCI):

The AS SSD benchmark comparison results are extended with each new HDD/SSD test. Here you can see some SSDs in comparison to the Crucial 1TB BX200 SSD, and the graphic will be updated periodically with new SSD drives. At the moment the top of total AS SSD scores is lead from the Intel SSD 750 1.2TB PCIe SSD, followed by the Plextor M6e 256GB M.2 PCIe SSD, then some other SSDs and a few SSDs before the BX200 480GB SSD joins the BX200 960 GB SSD.

Here is a comparison of the AS SSD benchmark values, which are getting updated with new drives:

ATTO disk benchmark results

The ATTO disk benchmark values gives a very good overview about the write and read rate on different file sizes. These values are maximum ratings, which are different to the continuous transfer rate benchmarks, since this benchmark may even reach a higher overall performance with slower SSDs.

At the Crucial BX200 960 GB SSD is the read speed (green) even at the minimum transfer size of approx. 0.5 KB, except the slower transfer in the middle, higher than the write speed (red) and reaches the maximum read result of 543808 KB at a transfer size of 128 KB.

Here is a screenshot of the ATTO Disk benchmark values (SATA3 AHCI):

The ATTO disk benchmark values are compared with a small transfer size of 32KB and a large transfer size of 8192KB. The bar chart already includes a comparison to some SSDs and HDDs, where the Crucial BX200 in ATTO can classify only at the bottom.

Here is a comparison of the ATTO disk benchmark values, which are getting updated with soon coming drives:

CrystalDiskMark results

With CrystalDiskMark one receives a balanced measurement of the performance with different transfer sizes.

Here especially the 4K-64Threads values like before has relatively good sequential read values of 500.3 MB/s and write values of 451.7 MB/s.

Here is a screenshot of the CrystalDiskMark values (SATA3 AHCI):

The following diagram shows the CrystalDiskMark results again in comparison to the other SSDs and hard drives, which will be expanded step by step. In the CrystalDiskMark comparison one can see significant differences between the to-date tested of the Solid State Drives and Hard Disk Drives.

Here is a comparison of the CrystalDiskMark values, which are getting updated with soon coming drives:

HD Tach results

With HD Tach one can measure the gradient of the performance, but the SSD transfer is not comparable with a conventional HDD. New logical NAND cell access of the SSD controller results like some other equal designed SSDs in strong varying values with the latest HD Tach Version 3.0.4.0 version, which is written for hard disk drives.

HD Tach shows the Crucial 960 GB BX200 SSD in AHCI mode during write operations some peaks and a well-known continuous read rate with the lowest displayed access time display of approx. 0.0ms.

Here is a screenshot of the HD Tach benchmark values:

Here is a comparison of the HD Tach benchmark values, which are getting updated with soon coming drives:

SiSoftware Sandra benchmark results

Of course, SiSoftware Sandra benchmark should not be missing in this test series. SiSoftware offers with their SiSoft Sandra program a very comprehensive tool, which contains a lot of tools to get very reliable test results of all hardware components.

The average access time of the Crucial BX200 960 GB SSD is in SiSoftware Sandra with 24us extremely low and the drive index of 519.74 MB/s is already very high.

Here is a screenshot of the SiSoftware Sandra benchmark read values (SATA3 AHCI):

In the write performance measurement, the average access time of the Crucial BX200 960 GB SSD in SiSoftware Sandra is also at extremely low 23us and the drive index reached relatively high 462.5 MB/s.

Here is a screenshot of the SiSoftware Sandra benchmark write values (SATA3 AHCI):

Here is a comparison of the SiSoftware Sandra benchmark values, which are getting updated with soon coming drives:

Windows practice test results

As with the BX200 480GB SSD, we’ve made a practical BX200 960 GB test to get a better impression of the new combination with SLC cache and TLC flash.

Here we’ve copied 20 GB test data from a Crucial MX200 1TB SSD to the Crucial BX200 1TB SSD and see at the beginning of the copy a pleasant high transfer rate of approx. 465MB/s.

If however the fast SLC write cache is filled and this is after a copy operation of about 12 GB (3 GB SLC for the 240 GB TLC SSD, 6 GB SLC for the 480 GB TLC SSD and 12 GB SLC for the 960 GB TLC SSD), the transmission suddenly falls down to 75MB/s.

Now we have copied 20 GB test data from the Crucial BX200 1TB SSD back to the Crucial MX200 1TB SSD and see a relatively high transfer rate of about 400-480MB/s at the beginning.

It then falls on 370MB/s and remains at this level, so the read values remain in the green zone.

Crucial BX200 960 GB Result and general impression …

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