Crucial MX200 250GB two-, three- and four-way SSD RAID Review Benchmark values and test results

RAID Benchmark values and test results …

Let us continue with the benchmark results. SATA3 drives are tested with an ASRock 890GX Extreme3 motherboard and test results of mSATA and M.2 modules and RAID 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

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.

Here you can see screenshots of AS SSD benchmark values with one SSD, with two RAID0 SSDs, with three RAID0 SSDs, and again with four RAID0 SSDs:

1x Crucial MX200 250GB SSD SATA3 AHCI:

2x Crucial MX200 250GB SSD SATA3 RAID0:

3x Crucial MX200 250GB SSD SATA3 RAID0:

4x Crucial MX200 250GB SSD SATA3 RAID0:

As you can see very good, doubles the transfer rate with twice the number of SSDs in RAID0. 516.61 MB/s with one SSD, 969.71 MB/s will be with two SSDs in RAID0 and 1387.71 MB/s with three SSDs. Only from the magical limit of four drives in RAID0 array there is for technical reasons no speed increase and thus it remains even with four SSDs at almost the same performance as with three SSDs, or 1383.25 MB/s.

Here again are screenshots of the AS SSD iops results for comparison:

1x Crucial MX200 250GB SSD SATA3 AHCI:

2x Crucial MX200 250GB SSD SATA3 RAID0:

3x Crucial MX200 250GB SSD SATA3 RAID0:

4x Crucial MX200 250GB SSD SATA3 RAID0:

And here are screenshots of the AS SSD copy benchmark values:

1x Crucial MX200 250GB SSD SATA3 AHCI:

2x Crucial MX200 250GB SSD SATA3 RAID0:

3x Crucial MX200 250GB SSD SATA3 RAID0:

4x Crucial MX200 250GB SSD SATA3 RAID0:

In comparison, one Crucial BX100 500GB SSD reached 803 points, one Crucial MX200 500GB SSD reached 882 points, the Crucial MX100 512GB SSD reached 856 points, the Crucial M550 512GB SSD reached 907 points und the Crucial M500 480GB SSD reached compared to 685 points – each in AHCI mode.

The usable capacity of the RAID0 array is added together exactly to the size of SSDs. One Crucial MX200 250GB SSD has 232.88 GB, two 465.76 GB, three 698.64 GB and four 931.53 GB.

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 MX200 250GB 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 AS SSD total score of the Intel SSD 750 1.2TB PCIe SSD, followed by three MX200 250GB, four MX200 250GB, both MX200 250GB and then by the Plextor M6e 256GB M.2 PCIe SSD. You can already take two MX200 250 GB SSDs in RAID0 for excellent results.

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

And here is an excerpt of the latest AS SSD benchmark results will be gradually replaced with latest drives for clarity:

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 previously continuous transfer rate benchmarks, since this benchmark may even reach a higher overall performance with slower SSDs.

Here are screenshots of the ATTO Disk benchmark values:

1x Crucial MX200 250GB SSD SATA3 AHCI

2x Crucial MX200 250GB SSD SATA3 RAID0

3x Crucial MX200 250GB SSD SATA3 RAID0

4x Crucial MX200 250GB SSD SATA3 RAID0

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

And here is an excerpt of the latest ATTO disk benchmark values for a better overview will be gradually replaced with latest drives:

CrystalDiskMark results

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

Here are screenshots of the CrystalDiskMark values:

1x Crucial MX200 250GB SSD SATA3 AHCI

2x Crucial MX200 250GB SSD SATA3 RAID0

3x Crucial MX200 250GB SSD SATA3 RAID0

4x Crucial MX200 250GB SSD SATA3 RAID0

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:

And here is an excerpt of the latest CrystalDiskMark values will be gradually replaced with latest drives for clarity:

HD Tach Ergebnis

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.

Here are screenshots of the HD Tach benchmark values:

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

And here is an excerpt of the latest HD tach benchmark values that will be gradually replaced with latest drives for clarity:

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.

Here are screenshots of the SiSoftware Sandra benchmark read values:

1x Crucial MX200 250GB SSD SATA3 AHCI