Crucial's BX100 and MX200 solid-state drives reviewed

When Micron introduced its M600 SSD in September, it was only a matter of time before the other shoe dropped. The memory giant fabs its own NAND and sells SSDs to PC makers and other corporate customers, but it doesn't make Micron-branded drives available to everyday consumers. Instead, that market is covered by its Crucial division, which draws from the same pool of in-house technologies. Sooner or later, the M600's funky SLC/MLC caching scheme was destined pop up in an equivalent Crucial product.

That product is the MX200, which Crucial announced at CES last month. The drive has the same DNA ...