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Crucial 480GB BX200 TLC SSD Review

Storage/SSD by stefan @ 2016-04-02

As we have seen with the Trion 100, Crucial is also settling into the affordable and high-capacity SSD market with their BX200 by incorporating Micron 16nm 128Gbit TLC NAND, a Silicon Motion SM2256 and also DRAM cache which varies in size depending on the total capacity of the drive. When writing up to 6GB files to the drive, the SLC cache takes up the effort and we are able to see good read/write speeds all over the board; however, if we are planning on working with very large files most of the time, the cache will fill up quite quickly and we will be forced to perform read/write operations directly to the TLC NAND, which is considerably slower.

Packaging, A Closer Look

In our test lab we have recently received the BX 200 SSD from Crucial, which does also employ TLC NAND as the OCZ Trion 100, but this time a Micron 16nm 128Gbit NAND; the product is rated with a sequential read speed of 540MB/s, write of 490MB/s, random read IOPS at 66K and random write IOPS at 78K. BX200 is offered by Crucial inside a tiny cardboard enclosure, with an opening technique which we have found only with this company and the top cover also lets the user know the total storage capacity of current model:

The bottom area shows the box contents, the link where we will be able to download several resources, the supported standards but also the product serial number on the plastic seal:

After lifting the top cover, we will be able to check out the BX200, which is placed inside a plastic mold, but also wrapped inside an anti-static bag:

Besides the main product we will also receive a spacer which increases the product height from 7mm to 9.5mm (compatibility purposes), but also one Acronis True Image HD software activation key; this software makes migration of data from the older drive a breeze:

Crucial saw fit to include the same design of the enclosure and top sticker as they have done with the BX100 we have reviewed some time ago:

On the bottom we do get to see another sticker which shows the product serial numbers, factory code name, power rating, installed firmware but also total storage space and supported standard:

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