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Crucial Launches Budget BX200 SSD
Crucial announced their Crucial BX200 solid state drive (SSD), which offers affordable performance. The drive, designed for consumers and SMBs, allows users to load applications in seconds, boot up almost instantly, and accelerate every day applications.
The new BX200 provides sequential read and write speeds up to 540 MB/s and 490 MB/s respectively on all types of data, as well as random read and write speeds up to 66k and 78k IOPS respectively. Additionally, when compared to a typical hard drive, the new BX200 is more than 13 times faster and 40 times more energy efficient for almost instantaneous access to data, resulting in longer battery life and a cooler, quieter system. The new drive utilises a Silicon Motion SM2256 Controller and is coupled with Micron verified firmware, allowing users to upgrade their existing infrastructure at an affordable price, which is a great alternative to buying a whole new system.
"The new Crucial BX200 SSD is an ideal solution for consumers whose computers are slowed down by an old or inadequate hard drive," said Jonathan Weech, senior worldwide product manager, Crucial. "This SSD is the perfect blend of performance and value, allowing a user to get more done and have more fun. Installing a BX200 will help users enjoy their computers again."
Robert Fan, vice president and general manager of Silicon Motion U.S.A., said, "We are excited about our latest partnership with Crucial on the new BX200 SSD. Our high-performance and low power consumption SM2256 controller combined with Micron 16nm TLC NAND helps make the BX200 reliable, fast, energy efficient and affordable."
In the USA prices for the 240GB-, 480GB- and 960GB-ssd's repectively are 84,99, 149,99 and 299,99 dollar. Here in the EU Crucial places focus on the 480GB-model with a price of 149,99 euro.
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#5182719 Posted on: 11/04/2015 12:24 PM
TLC problems almost definitely won't exist for the 850 Evo, it's a different type of design of nand in contrast to the 840 Evo. I have the 840 Evo as my boot drive, and with the latest firmware there are no read speed degredation of old data issues - they've fixed it - I reckon you can be completely confident in your 850 Evo, and you could always use Macrium Reflect to image your OS partition for quick & easy recoveries if things did go wrong, but I'm sure they wouldn't.
Perhaps, but I just can't trust the TLC EVO enough. I have actually two 830s right now: 128GB (OS) and 256GB (games). I'll shift the 256 model to the OS, and use the new EVO for games. Perhaps I'll also use the 128 for games as well, although I'm running out of sata sockets unless I start to use the dubious Marvell one.
TLC problems almost definitely won't exist for the 850 Evo, it's a different type of design of nand in contrast to the 840 Evo. I have the 840 Evo as my boot drive, and with the latest firmware there are no read speed degredation of old data issues - they've fixed it - I reckon you can be completely confident in your 850 Evo, and you could always use Macrium Reflect to image your OS partition for quick & easy recoveries if things did go wrong, but I'm sure they wouldn't.
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#5182793 Posted on: 11/04/2015 02:54 PM
Yeah, I have been using both the Windows backup and Reflect on different externals for years. Samsung does, however, market both EVO and Pro despite the speed difference over sata3 getting quite insignificant. I'd imagine they still do it for a reason, which must be reliability.
There are some logistical considerations as well. The current 128GB is getting too small for the OS+programs, but 500 for it would be excessive. Games are getting more and more bloated, so no amount is too much for them. Nobody does partitions these days anymore (unless for dual boot), I haven't for years, so I'm not going to go down that route. I also want to keep my games away from the OS disk as much as I can. The 256GB 830 is faster than the 128GB one, so I'll see a slight speed difference even sticking to my original plan.
Yeah, I have been using both the Windows backup and Reflect on different externals for years. Samsung does, however, market both EVO and Pro despite the speed difference over sata3 getting quite insignificant. I'd imagine they still do it for a reason, which must be reliability.
There are some logistical considerations as well. The current 128GB is getting too small for the OS+programs, but 500 for it would be excessive. Games are getting more and more bloated, so no amount is too much for them. Nobody does partitions these days anymore (unless for dual boot), I haven't for years, so I'm not going to go down that route. I also want to keep my games away from the OS disk as much as I can. The 256GB 830 is faster than the 128GB one, so I'll see a slight speed difference even sticking to my original plan.
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#5182977 Posted on: 11/04/2015 06:41 PM
Yeah, I have been using both the Windows backup and Reflect on different externals for years. Samsung does, however, market both EVO and Pro despite the speed difference over sata3 getting quite insignificant. I'd imagine they still do it for a reason, which must be reliability.
There are some logistical considerations as well. The current 128GB is getting too small for the OS+programs, but 500 for it would be excessive. Games are getting more and more bloated, so no amount is too much for them. Nobody does partitions these days anymore (unless for dual boot), I haven't for years, so I'm not going to go down that route. I also want to keep my games away from the OS disk as much as I can. The 256GB 830 is faster than the 128GB one, so I'll see a slight speed difference even sticking to my original plan.
(I partitioned my 250GB Evo drive into 60GB OS partition & the rest is for games - I did that so that I could Macrium Reflect image a small partition & restore the operating system quickly independant of the games on the same physical disk, makes sense to me at least)
Yeah, I have been using both the Windows backup and Reflect on different externals for years. Samsung does, however, market both EVO and Pro despite the speed difference over sata3 getting quite insignificant. I'd imagine they still do it for a reason, which must be reliability.
There are some logistical considerations as well. The current 128GB is getting too small for the OS+programs, but 500 for it would be excessive. Games are getting more and more bloated, so no amount is too much for them. Nobody does partitions these days anymore (unless for dual boot), I haven't for years, so I'm not going to go down that route. I also want to keep my games away from the OS disk as much as I can. The 256GB 830 is faster than the 128GB one, so I'll see a slight speed difference even sticking to my original plan.
(I partitioned my 250GB Evo drive into 60GB OS partition & the rest is for games - I did that so that I could Macrium Reflect image a small partition & restore the operating system quickly independant of the games on the same physical disk, makes sense to me at least)
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#5183374 Posted on: 11/05/2015 10:10 AM
I have the BX100 250GB in my Laptop and it's great zero issues thats with a AMD A8 4500M. Seems faster than my Desktop which has the OCZ Agility 3 480GB and thats on a Intel Core i7 4790K @ 5GHz. Which is kinda surprising.
I have the BX100 250GB in my Laptop and it's great zero issues thats with a AMD A8 4500M. Seems faster than my Desktop which has the OCZ Agility 3 480GB and thats on a Intel Core i7 4790K @ 5GHz. Which is kinda surprising.
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Perhaps, but I just can't trust the TLC EVO enough. I have actually two 830s right now: 128GB (OS) and 256GB (games). I'll shift the 256 model to the OS, and use the new EVO for games. Perhaps I'll also use the 128 for games as well, although I'm running out of sata sockets unless I start to use the dubious Marvell one.