Crucial BX100 Review (500GB) - Great Bang for Buck SSD Drive (Comparison Vs MX100 256GB model)
### Full Article: Crucial BX100 SSD Review
#### Introduction
It’s time to review the **Crucial BX100**! Today, we’re taking a closer look at Crucial’s new entry-level SSD, the BX100. This is the 500GB model, and what makes this review special is that I’ve also got the previous generation **MX100** on hand for direct comparison. Not only will we dive into the features of both drives, but we’ll also explore how the MX100 has held up after six months of heavy usage as my main drive. The results so far have been pretty impressive for both SSDs.
Let’s kick things off by diving into what makes the BX100 different from its predecessor, the MX100.
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#### Key Differences Between MX100 and BX100
The **BX100** is essentially a further cut-down version of the **MX100**, with some features removed that likely won’t benefit most home users. The goal here was to reduce costs while maintaining performance for everyday use.
Here are the key differences:
- **Controller**: The MX100 used the **Marvell controller**, while the BX100 now uses the **Silicon Motion controller**. Both controllers are capable, but we’ll see how this impacts performance later in the benchmarks.
- **Hardware-Level Encryption**: This feature has been removed from the BX100. While useful for businesses and server environments, it’s not a major loss for home users.
- **Thermal Protection**: Another feature that’s no longer included in the BX100. If your PC tends to run hot, this could be a minor drawback, but most home users won’t notice the difference.
One significant upgrade in the **BX100** is its build quality. Unlike the MX100, which used a plastic backplate, the BX100 features a **steel backplate**, giving it a more premium feel. This might not impact performance, but it’s a nice touch that shows Crucial listening to feedback.
The BX100 also boasts larger NAND flash banks—64GB compared to the MX100’s 16GB banks. This could lead to better performance in certain scenarios, though we’ll need to see how this translates in real-world benchmarks.
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#### Features of the BX100
- **Capacity Options**: The BX100 is available in 120GB (RRP: $69.99), 250GB (RRP: $106), and 500GB models (tested here).
- **Lifetime Write Limit**: The drive offers a generous **72TB total bytes written**, which equates to about 66GB per day for three years—more than enough for most home users.
- **Compatibility**: Like the MX100, the BX100 is compatible with Windows 8.1 and newer, though it’s worth noting that it didn’t work as smoothly with older versions of Windows (as seen in previous reviews).
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#### Performance Benchmarks
To determine how the BX100 stacks up against the MX100, I ran several benchmarks using **AS SSD** and **HD Tune Pro**. The MX100 was tested first to establish a baseline.
##### MX100 Benchmark Results:
- **Sequential Read/Write**: 500MB/s read and 330MB/s write—top-tier performance for an entry-level SSD.
- **4K Read/Write**: 26MB/s read and 86MB/s write—excellent scores, especially for random access operations.
- **Access Times**: 37 nanoseconds—a testament to the quality of the Marvell controller.
- **IOPS (Input/Output Per Second)**: 95,662 in queue depth testing, which is impressive for an SSD in this price range.
The MX100 scored a total of **1,046** in AS SSD, solidifying its reputation as one of the best-value SSDs on the market.
##### BX100 Benchmark Results:
- **Sequential Read/Write**: Over 500MB/s read and 423MB/s write—slightly better than the MX100’s write speeds.
- **4K Read/Write**: 26MB/s read and 84MB/s write—slightly slower than the MX100, but still excellent for everyday use.
- **Access Times**: 37 nanoseconds—a tie with the MX100 in this category.
The BX100 scored a total of **931** in AS SSD, which is slightly behind the MX100 but still impressive for an entry-level drive.
One area where the BX100 struggled was in HD Tune Pro’s mixed data patterns benchmark. The Silicon Motion controller showed some dips compared to the Marvell controller used in the MX100, though these were minor and not a deal-breaker for most users.
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#### Conclusion
After spending significant time with both the MX100 and BX100, I can confidently say that both SSDs are excellent choices for home users. However, if you’re looking for the best performance and value, the **MX100** still edges out the BX100 in most categories due to its superior controller and smoother benchmark results.
If budget constraints prevent you from picking up an MX100, the **BX100** is a fantastic alternative. It’s more affordable and still delivers impressive performance for everyday use.
Crucial continues to impress with its SSD lineup, offering drives that are both reliable and cost-effective. Whether you’re running Windows 8.1 or newer, these SSDs will work seamlessly and deliver fast, responsive performance.
In the future, I’d love to see how the **MX200** (Crucial’s latest SSD) stacks up against both of these drives. But for now, if you need an SSD, you can’t go wrong with either the MX100 or BX100.
Let me know in the comments below which drive you prefer and why! As always, if you enjoyed this review, please give it a thumbs-up and subscribe to **Tech Yes City** for more tech reviews and news.
Peace out, and thanks for reading!
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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso it's time to review the m so it's time to review the mx i mean the bx 100 from so it's time to review the mbr so let's take a look at crucial's new entry level ssd and that is the bx 100 welcome back to tech yes it is brian coming back to you guys today with the bx 100 review this is the 500 gigabyte model and the great thing about this review is today is i've got the previous generation mx 100 to directly compare it to and there's also some other things that i'll be able to tell you about today and that is how the mx 100 has held up after six months of usage as i have been using it as my main drive and the honestly the results are pretty good for both these drives but anyway let's take a look at the bx100 and what it features then we'll look at the benchmarks and then we'll get on to a conclusion so the bx100 is essentially an even further cut down version of the mx100 and what creature decided to do is cut away a few features from the mx100 that probably the home user would not find themselves benefiting from and then also decided to cut the price down even further so currently the 120 gigabyte model comes in at 69.99 or 70 dollars recommended retail price the 250 gigabyte version comes in at 106 also in other parts of the world i'll quickly show you guys some recommended retail pricing here so this is for australia and this is for the uk so what are the key differences let's have a look here basically the bx 100 has a different controller than the mx100 so crucial have decided to go this time around they've decided to go with a company called silicon motion for the controller as opposed to the previous generation in the mx-100 they went with the marvel controller now in the benchmarks i'll show you what the key difference is though the silicon motion controller for what it's worth is a pretty good controller there's no denying that also another key feature that they've gone away with the bx 100 is hardware level encryption so it's a more of a feature for businesses and server type applications though i don't think the home user will uh sort of be at a disadvantage from losing this feature and another final thing that they've gone away with is thermal protection as well so if things are getting very hot where your pc is then obviously that thermal protection can protect your ssd from overheating in the case of a serious event so also taking a close look at the bx 100 we can see that this time around in the 500 gigabyte model at least they've decided to go with 64 gigabyte nand flash banks here so this is i think the first time that they're implementing these banks as opposed to the previous mx 100 where they were using 16 by 16 gigabyte flash rom banks in that drive so that's the key thing about the bx100 so it is using larger banks so another thing with the bx100 that i really liked was this time around they've gone with a steel backplate with the build construction so in the mx-100 they used a plastic build plate there which kind of put the color a little bit off and it's just these little things that when a company listens it makes a good company a great company in my opinion so kudos to crucial for doing that so with the bx 100 you also get 72 terabytes total bytes written of the lifetime as well which accounts to about 66 gigabytes per day for three years so i think it's a great thing that crucial are being transparent and i like that companies like crucial are publishing these numbers however the big question on your mind is how does the bx 100 perform especially compared to its little brother or its big brother in this case the mx 100 let's find out so anyway let's get on to the benchmarks and i'm sorry in advance for my microphone it's uh this microphone stands broken so we're going to get some kind of live tech gear city commentary action going here for you guys but anyway let's get on to the benchmarks and the first two benchmarks have decided to use uh assd and hd tune pro ass ssd is such a good benchmarks my favorite benchmark for benchmarking ssds is it just gives you the numbers that you really want to know and then i decided to go with hd tune pro and gigabyte uh sorry do a transfer benchmark of a one gigabyte file just to find out what's going on in real time with these ssds so anyway let's get on to the benchmarks here in the as you can see here the mx 100 is first up here the 256 gigabyte version i love this ssd it's currently my favorite ssd out of all the ssds out there especially in terms of value for money now this ssd scored really well in the ass ssd scores and i have to make one point clear that this was used as the main os drive for doing all these benchmarks as well so if anything it's a slight hindrance compared to the other ssds also another thing is before i run all my benchmarks i do make sure that my computer is flat lining as i call it and that is that there's no hiccups that could interfere potentially with the benchmarks so i do recommend if you guys are going to benchmark your hard drives or ssds you do the same anyway let's look at this numbers here anyway sequential reads 500 megabytes per second that's pretty much as good as it gets on the sequential reads scranton writes could be a little bit better though there are solid 330 megabytes per second very good score there the 4k read and writes 26 megabytes per second great speeds on those almost touching 100 megabytes per second on the 4k right it's very important so that's a pretty important score there's probably my most single-handedly most important score and the mx 100 score is fantastic in this regards uh access times are really good as well as the queue depth scoring a res highly respectable 95 662 uh input outputs per second there so iops there are fantastic on the mx 100 as well and this whole drive came together to give it a total score of 1046 in assd so very good there moving on to hd pro here we can see that i ran three different tests um different three different data patterns actually just to get an idea of what's going on here and you see here the lines are just pretty smooth all across the board so this is a again a big shout out i guess to the marvel controller because this is why people love the marvel controller on the ssds it's such a good controller this will take care of giving you a smoothest experience when it comes to the ssd performance that being said let's move on now to the next ssd so moving on now to the bx 100 this is a 500 gigabyte version so if anything it should perform slightly better than the 256 gigabyte mx 100 though let's get into the benchmark scores here as sd sequential reads were really good over 500 megabytes per second as good as it gets across that sata 3 uh 6 gigabit per second cap there uh the write speeds 423 megabytes per second this scored quite a bit higher than the mx 100 did uh though i'll talk about this a little bit later the 4k read and writes great speeds there on the reads the rights were a little bit slower than the mx 100 and this is one of the most crucial points or pun intended of a drive where you want to get a good score even though it did score slightly slower than the mx-100 that is still a very good score for desktop usage don't be alarmed that it scored a little bit slower on mx100 86 megabytes per second on those random right 4k writes us is still a really good score anyway let's look at the queue depth here we've got mainly we're looking at the input outputs per second and on the read side of things you can see that it performed significantly lower than the mx100 so that's i'm curious as to why that is but on the other side of things it's not too much to worry because uh this is more the q depth benchmark or the four to six case 64 kilobyte threaded test is more of a server sort of benchmark there i wouldn't be too alarmed by it uh the access times uh 37 nanoseconds and 38 nanoseconds correct me if i'm wrong but that is extremely low that's pretty much as good as it gets in this regard and both these scores came together to score a total of 931 in assd so the mx 100 did edge out the bx 100 in ass sd uh and so that's interesting to note another thing i wanted to note was the hd tune protests here if we look across the three different patents here we can see on the right side of things here we can see these dips and they were consistently coming up i did benchmark this numerous times to try and see if it was an anomaly but it wasn't this was these dips are real so this i guess i can attribute this to the difference in the controllers the silicon motion controller is not as good as the marvel controller so that's something key to note however let's move on now to the final benchmark that's the intel and you can see that the bx 100 and the mx 100 will be in a different league compared to this next ssd so here's the intel 335 240 gigabyte version so uh you see in asus ssd the sequential reads were really high as well though it fell behind in the right speeds and keep in mind though i have been using this drive for quite a while as well as i have been using my mx100 so the mx100 is a very durable drive very tough drive but the intel is kind of starting to show its age here a little bit uh and the 4k random read and writes are still really good as well so there's nothing to worry about the queue depth there is not as good as the other two drives and the other two crucial drives and the access times are a little bit slower than both the crucial drives this came together to score a total of 696 points moving on to uh hd tune pro and when we get to sort of the mixed and random data patterns here we can see that it does have a lot of dips here i guess this because the drive does have a lot of information on it though keep in mind that mx100 does have a lot of information on it as well so they're both running os's on them and they're both filled up with kind of similar data so i'm kind of surprised to see that the sand force was kind of falling behind by this much in this particular benchmark okay with those three benchmarks out the way we can then look at the two drives that actually matter so let's look at these uh two drives side by side so i decided to pick out the most important part of hd tune on both these because i believe it represents uh what we're looking at with these drives we can see here that the marvel controller is probably a better controller in general than the silicon motion though it is important to know that the silicon motion doesn't look too bad i could just imagine it once i started filling it up with a lot of data it'd probably get even worse so kudos to marvel i think they do make the best controllers at the moment on ssds what about samsung that's probably a question some of you guys will ask if samsung want to send me over an ssd to review then they're more than welcome my door or my post box is open anytime guys so you're welcome to send me one over for review but okay so getting back to the benchmark scores here we can see that the mx 100 was edging out the bx 100 in a sd uh and i mean the access times were better on the bx 100 and the sequential riots were slightly better uh though it did sort of fall a little bit behind in those 4k write speeds but anyway something to take out of this is that the bx 100 is a great drive uh just the mx-100 is a little bit better so if anything they're both fantastic drives for the money especially for the end home user i think what the important thing to take out of these benchmarks is is that the bx 100 if you put it in your home pc or you put an mx 100 in your home pc they're both going to do a great job though i do take preference to the mx 100 just because i've used it for six months now it's absolutely amazing i mean these scores are just impressing me a lot because i've had the chance to put data on it give it a solid durability test and it's still performing like a champion uh the bx100 in time i will report back on it and tell you how it performs but it is looking great just like the mx 100 is and if anything i've learned over time to trust crucial every product i've got from crucial has been an absolute stellar champion that's one thing i can take out of my experience with crucial drives but anyway that being said let's move on now to a conclusion for you guys and we'll snap it up in black and white and make a solid recommendation for you guys so in conclusion i sort of found myself liking the mx 100 even more when then when i first reviewed it i mean this thing has held the test of time already six months of just heavy usage and it still performs like it did on day one so kudos to crucial with the mx100 i mean i fell in love with this thing when i first got it and i still am in love with the mx100 the bx100 still posted good numbers but it kind of uh i mean it didn't shine as hard with the mx 100 i mean this is the 256 gigabyte version and it was uh outperforming the 500 gigabyte bx100 so i was kind of left at a crossroads here and like where do i go with this recommendation and my recommendation is going to be pretty simple and that is still that crucial make fantastic drives for the money i mean if you're looking for an ssd or you're looking for ddr3 memory ddr4 memory my recommendations are still the same as they always are you can go and buy a crucial product and know that you're getting good value for money even if you buy it at the recommended retail price which is a great thing to say about crucial now clean and cut simple answer for a recommendation if you can't get the mx100 then get the bx100 that would be my recommendation i do prefer the mx100 over the bx100 simply because it's using that marvel controller and as you saw in that hd tune benchmark the mx 100 showed more smoother lines i mean our little friend here the s the intel ssd that didn't do too well though to this credit i mean this drive has been used a lot as well so i will say that about this drive but um i mean just yeah i mean both these drives just kicked the living piss out of this thing so it was a no comparison so the bx 100 is a great drive for the money and i can sit here and recommend it if you can't pick up an mx100 i just think the mx100 offers that better bang for buck even if it is a little bit more expensive you've just got that marvel controller there you've got some more smoother lines on the benchmark so in a nutshell i think it would just be plain and simple like this if you're a business user or you're using this in a business environment you might want to look at the mx100 or even the new released mx200 though if you are looking for the cheapest ssd for your buck then the bx 100 is great for a end home user so there's no denying that both drives though are great drives i would have liked to have seen the mx200 come through here even if it was a only a 256 gigabyte model that would have been pretty cool to compare the mx 100 against the mx200 though as it stands the mx 100 is still a slightly better drive than the bx100 anyway what do you guys think which one would you prefer let me know in the comments below i'd love to hear your thoughts and as always if you like this video please give it a thumbs up and if you haven't already subscribe to tech yes city where i'll be coming back with to you guys with more tech reviews and news also one more thing before i go is that all these drives the mx100 the bx100 and the intel they all work together with one another in windows 8.1 seamlessly so there was no conflicts unlike my last review where the mx100 refused to work with the intel and vice versa in windows 7. and also the speeds were slightly faster i thought in windows 8.1 so i guess that's uh spells that windows 8.1 maybe is slightly better for ssds since the os natively supports ssds so anyway guys i hope you enjoyed this review and i am out of here peace out for now byeso it's time to review the m so it's time to review the mx i mean the bx 100 from so it's time to review the mbr so let's take a look at crucial's new entry level ssd and that is the bx 100 welcome back to tech yes it is brian coming back to you guys today with the bx 100 review this is the 500 gigabyte model and the great thing about this review is today is i've got the previous generation mx 100 to directly compare it to and there's also some other things that i'll be able to tell you about today and that is how the mx 100 has held up after six months of usage as i have been using it as my main drive and the honestly the results are pretty good for both these drives but anyway let's take a look at the bx100 and what it features then we'll look at the benchmarks and then we'll get on to a conclusion so the bx100 is essentially an even further cut down version of the mx100 and what creature decided to do is cut away a few features from the mx100 that probably the home user would not find themselves benefiting from and then also decided to cut the price down even further so currently the 120 gigabyte model comes in at 69.99 or 70 dollars recommended retail price the 250 gigabyte version comes in at 106 also in other parts of the world i'll quickly show you guys some recommended retail pricing here so this is for australia and this is for the uk so what are the key differences let's have a look here basically the bx 100 has a different controller than the mx100 so crucial have decided to go this time around they've decided to go with a company called silicon motion for the controller as opposed to the previous generation in the mx-100 they went with the marvel controller now in the benchmarks i'll show you what the key difference is though the silicon motion controller for what it's worth is a pretty good controller there's no denying that also another key feature that they've gone away with the bx 100 is hardware level encryption so it's a more of a feature for businesses and server type applications though i don't think the home user will uh sort of be at a disadvantage from losing this feature and another final thing that they've gone away with is thermal protection as well so if things are getting very hot where your pc is then obviously that thermal protection can protect your ssd from overheating in the case of a serious event so also taking a close look at the bx 100 we can see that this time around in the 500 gigabyte model at least they've decided to go with 64 gigabyte nand flash banks here so this is i think the first time that they're implementing these banks as opposed to the previous mx 100 where they were using 16 by 16 gigabyte flash rom banks in that drive so that's the key thing about the bx100 so it is using larger banks so another thing with the bx100 that i really liked was this time around they've gone with a steel backplate with the build construction so in the mx-100 they used a plastic build plate there which kind of put the color a little bit off and it's just these little things that when a company listens it makes a good company a great company in my opinion so kudos to crucial for doing that so with the bx 100 you also get 72 terabytes total bytes written of the lifetime as well which accounts to about 66 gigabytes per day for three years so i think it's a great thing that crucial are being transparent and i like that companies like crucial are publishing these numbers however the big question on your mind is how does the bx 100 perform especially compared to its little brother or its big brother in this case the mx 100 let's find out so anyway let's get on to the benchmarks and i'm sorry in advance for my microphone it's uh this microphone stands broken so we're going to get some kind of live tech gear city commentary action going here for you guys but anyway let's get on to the benchmarks and the first two benchmarks have decided to use uh assd and hd tune pro ass ssd is such a good benchmarks my favorite benchmark for benchmarking ssds is it just gives you the numbers that you really want to know and then i decided to go with hd tune pro and gigabyte uh sorry do a transfer benchmark of a one gigabyte file just to find out what's going on in real time with these ssds so anyway let's get on to the benchmarks here in the as you can see here the mx 100 is first up here the 256 gigabyte version i love this ssd it's currently my favorite ssd out of all the ssds out there especially in terms of value for money now this ssd scored really well in the ass ssd scores and i have to make one point clear that this was used as the main os drive for doing all these benchmarks as well so if anything it's a slight hindrance compared to the other ssds also another thing is before i run all my benchmarks i do make sure that my computer is flat lining as i call it and that is that there's no hiccups that could interfere potentially with the benchmarks so i do recommend if you guys are going to benchmark your hard drives or ssds you do the same anyway let's look at this numbers here anyway sequential reads 500 megabytes per second that's pretty much as good as it gets on the sequential reads scranton writes could be a little bit better though there are solid 330 megabytes per second very good score there the 4k read and writes 26 megabytes per second great speeds on those almost touching 100 megabytes per second on the 4k right it's very important so that's a pretty important score there's probably my most single-handedly most important score and the mx 100 score is fantastic in this regards uh access times are really good as well as the queue depth scoring a res highly respectable 95 662 uh input outputs per second there so iops there are fantastic on the mx 100 as well and this whole drive came together to give it a total score of 1046 in assd so very good there moving on to hd pro here we can see that i ran three different tests um different three different data patterns actually just to get an idea of what's going on here and you see here the lines are just pretty smooth all across the board so this is a again a big shout out i guess to the marvel controller because this is why people love the marvel controller on the ssds it's such a good controller this will take care of giving you a smoothest experience when it comes to the ssd performance that being said let's move on now to the next ssd so moving on now to the bx 100 this is a 500 gigabyte version so if anything it should perform slightly better than the 256 gigabyte mx 100 though let's get into the benchmark scores here as sd sequential reads were really good over 500 megabytes per second as good as it gets across that sata 3 uh 6 gigabit per second cap there uh the write speeds 423 megabytes per second this scored quite a bit higher than the mx 100 did uh though i'll talk about this a little bit later the 4k read and writes great speeds there on the reads the rights were a little bit slower than the mx 100 and this is one of the most crucial points or pun intended of a drive where you want to get a good score even though it did score slightly slower than the mx-100 that is still a very good score for desktop usage don't be alarmed that it scored a little bit slower on mx100 86 megabytes per second on those random right 4k writes us is still a really good score anyway let's look at the queue depth here we've got mainly we're looking at the input outputs per second and on the read side of things you can see that it performed significantly lower than the mx100 so that's i'm curious as to why that is but on the other side of things it's not too much to worry because uh this is more the q depth benchmark or the four to six case 64 kilobyte threaded test is more of a server sort of benchmark there i wouldn't be too alarmed by it uh the access times uh 37 nanoseconds and 38 nanoseconds correct me if i'm wrong but that is extremely low that's pretty much as good as it gets in this regard and both these scores came together to score a total of 931 in assd so the mx 100 did edge out the bx 100 in ass sd uh and so that's interesting to note another thing i wanted to note was the hd tune protests here if we look across the three different patents here we can see on the right side of things here we can see these dips and they were consistently coming up i did benchmark this numerous times to try and see if it was an anomaly but it wasn't this was these dips are real so this i guess i can attribute this to the difference in the controllers the silicon motion controller is not as good as the marvel controller so that's something key to note however let's move on now to the final benchmark that's the intel and you can see that the bx 100 and the mx 100 will be in a different league compared to this next ssd so here's the intel 335 240 gigabyte version so uh you see in asus ssd the sequential reads were really high as well though it fell behind in the right speeds and keep in mind though i have been using this drive for quite a while as well as i have been using my mx100 so the mx100 is a very durable drive very tough drive but the intel is kind of starting to show its age here a little bit uh and the 4k random read and writes are still really good as well so there's nothing to worry about the queue depth there is not as good as the other two drives and the other two crucial drives and the access times are a little bit slower than both the crucial drives this came together to score a total of 696 points moving on to uh hd tune pro and when we get to sort of the mixed and random data patterns here we can see that it does have a lot of dips here i guess this because the drive does have a lot of information on it though keep in mind that mx100 does have a lot of information on it as well so they're both running os's on them and they're both filled up with kind of similar data so i'm kind of surprised to see that the sand force was kind of falling behind by this much in this particular benchmark okay with those three benchmarks out the way we can then look at the two drives that actually matter so let's look at these uh two drives side by side so i decided to pick out the most important part of hd tune on both these because i believe it represents uh what we're looking at with these drives we can see here that the marvel controller is probably a better controller in general than the silicon motion though it is important to know that the silicon motion doesn't look too bad i could just imagine it once i started filling it up with a lot of data it'd probably get even worse so kudos to marvel i think they do make the best controllers at the moment on ssds what about samsung that's probably a question some of you guys will ask if samsung want to send me over an ssd to review then they're more than welcome my door or my post box is open anytime guys so you're welcome to send me one over for review but okay so getting back to the benchmark scores here we can see that the mx 100 was edging out the bx 100 in a sd uh and i mean the access times were better on the bx 100 and the sequential riots were slightly better uh though it did sort of fall a little bit behind in those 4k write speeds but anyway something to take out of this is that the bx 100 is a great drive uh just the mx-100 is a little bit better so if anything they're both fantastic drives for the money especially for the end home user i think what the important thing to take out of these benchmarks is is that the bx 100 if you put it in your home pc or you put an mx 100 in your home pc they're both going to do a great job though i do take preference to the mx 100 just because i've used it for six months now it's absolutely amazing i mean these scores are just impressing me a lot because i've had the chance to put data on it give it a solid durability test and it's still performing like a champion uh the bx100 in time i will report back on it and tell you how it performs but it is looking great just like the mx 100 is and if anything i've learned over time to trust crucial every product i've got from crucial has been an absolute stellar champion that's one thing i can take out of my experience with crucial drives but anyway that being said let's move on now to a conclusion for you guys and we'll snap it up in black and white and make a solid recommendation for you guys so in conclusion i sort of found myself liking the mx 100 even more when then when i first reviewed it i mean this thing has held the test of time already six months of just heavy usage and it still performs like it did on day one so kudos to crucial with the mx100 i mean i fell in love with this thing when i first got it and i still am in love with the mx100 the bx100 still posted good numbers but it kind of uh i mean it didn't shine as hard with the mx 100 i mean this is the 256 gigabyte version and it was uh outperforming the 500 gigabyte bx100 so i was kind of left at a crossroads here and like where do i go with this recommendation and my recommendation is going to be pretty simple and that is still that crucial make fantastic drives for the money i mean if you're looking for an ssd or you're looking for ddr3 memory ddr4 memory my recommendations are still the same as they always are you can go and buy a crucial product and know that you're getting good value for money even if you buy it at the recommended retail price which is a great thing to say about crucial now clean and cut simple answer for a recommendation if you can't get the mx100 then get the bx100 that would be my recommendation i do prefer the mx100 over the bx100 simply because it's using that marvel controller and as you saw in that hd tune benchmark the mx 100 showed more smoother lines i mean our little friend here the s the intel ssd that didn't do too well though to this credit i mean this drive has been used a lot as well so i will say that about this drive but um i mean just yeah i mean both these drives just kicked the living piss out of this thing so it was a no comparison so the bx 100 is a great drive for the money and i can sit here and recommend it if you can't pick up an mx100 i just think the mx100 offers that better bang for buck even if it is a little bit more expensive you've just got that marvel controller there you've got some more smoother lines on the benchmark so in a nutshell i think it would just be plain and simple like this if you're a business user or you're using this in a business environment you might want to look at the mx100 or even the new released mx200 though if you are looking for the cheapest ssd for your buck then the bx 100 is great for a end home user so there's no denying that both drives though are great drives i would have liked to have seen the mx200 come through here even if it was a only a 256 gigabyte model that would have been pretty cool to compare the mx 100 against the mx200 though as it stands the mx 100 is still a slightly better drive than the bx100 anyway what do you guys think which one would you prefer let me know in the comments below i'd love to hear your thoughts and as always if you like this video please give it a thumbs up and if you haven't already subscribe to tech yes city where i'll be coming back with to you guys with more tech reviews and news also one more thing before i go is that all these drives the mx100 the bx100 and the intel they all work together with one another in windows 8.1 seamlessly so there was no conflicts unlike my last review where the mx100 refused to work with the intel and vice versa in windows 7. and also the speeds were slightly faster i thought in windows 8.1 so i guess that's uh spells that windows 8.1 maybe is slightly better for ssds since the os natively supports ssds so anyway guys i hope you enjoyed this review and i am out of here peace out for now bye\n"