Crucial BX100 500GB SSD

Name: Crucial BX100 500GB
Brand: Crucial
SKU: CT500BX100SSD1
Rating: 4.8 (121 reviews)

Crucial BX100 500GB 2.5" SATA3 CT500BX100SSD1

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Outlast and outperform your hard drive.
Boot up almost instantly. Load programs in seconds. And accelerate demanding applications with ease. It all starts with ditching your hard drive.
Engineered to outlast and outperform your hard drive, the Crucial BX100 SSD makes nearly everything on your computer faster and more efficient.

Specifications Overview

Model	CT500BX100SSD1
Release Date	January 2015 * First availability for purchase, it may not correspond to the actual market launch date.
Series	BX100
Capacity	500 GB
Interface	SATA 6 Gb/s
NVME	No
Form Factor	2.5"
SSD Controller	Silicon Motion SM2246EN
NAND Flash Type	MLC
Max Sequential Read	Up to 535 MB/s
Max Sequential Write	Up to 450 MB/s
MTBF	1,500,000 hours

	Old Name	Current Name	Branding	Data Speed	Port
USB 2.0	USB 2.0	USB 2.0	Hi-Speed USB	480 Mbit/s	diverse
USB 3.0	USB 3.1 Gen 1	USB 3.2 Gen 1x1	SuperSpeed USB	5 Gbit/s	diverse
USB 3.1	USB 3.1 Gen 2	USB 3.2 Gen 2x1	SuperSpeed USB 10Gbps	10 Gbit/s	diverse
USB 3.2	USB 3.2 Gen 2x2	USB 4.0 Gen 2x2	USB4 20Gbps	20 Gbit/s	only USB-C
USB4	USB 4.0 Gen 3x2	USB4 1.0	USB4 40Gbps	40 Gbit/s	only USB-C
USB4v2	USB 4.0 Gen 4	USB4 2.0	USB4 80Gbps	80-120 Gbit/s	only USB-C

Crucial BX100 500GB Performance comparison with similar Solid State Drives

(Higher is better)

Crucial BX100 500GB Performance

Sequential read/write speed, Random 4K read/write speed

Crucial MX300 750GB (276th)		101%
Crucial M550 128GB (276th)		101%
OCZ Vertex 450 256GB (276th)		101%
Corsair Neutron XTi 960GB (276th)		101%
SanDisk Extreme II 120GB (282nd)		~
ADATA SU800 256GB 3D-NAND (282nd)		~
Patriot Ignite 480GB (282nd)		~
OCZ ARC 100 120GB (282nd)		~
Corsair Neutron XTi 1920GB (282nd)		~
Adata Ultimate Su800 256GB (282nd)		~
Crucial BX100 500GB (282nd)		100%
Western Digital WDS250G2B0A (289th)		98%
Transcend SSD370 512GB (289th)		98%
Crucial MX300 1TB M.2 (289th)		98%
OCZ Vector 128GB (289th)		98%
Transcend 370 1TB TS1TSSD370S (289th)		98%
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB (289th)		98%
Transcend SSD370 256GB (295th)		97%
OCZ ARC 100 480GB (295th)		97%
WD Blue 1TB Internal SSD (295th)		97%
PNY CS2211 240GB Pro (295th)		97%

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Description

Capacity	120GB	250GB	500GB	1TB
Part Number	CT120BX100SSD1	CT250BX100SSD1	CT500BX100SSD1	CT1000BX100SSD1
Box contents	2.5" (7 mm) SSD,7 mm–9.5 mm spacer,Acronis®True Image™HD certificate	2.5" (7 mm) SSD,7 mm–9.5 mm spacer,Acronis®True Image™HD certificate	2.5" (7 mm) SSD,7 mm–9.5 mm spacer,Acronis®True Image™HD certificate	2.5" (7 mm) SSD,7 mm–9.5 mm spacer,Acronis®True Image™HD certificate
Sequential Read MB/s	535	535	535	535
Sequential Write MB/s	185	370	450	450
Random Read IOPS	87 k	87 k	90 k	90 k
Random Write IOPS	43 k	70 k	70 k	70 k

Expert reviews

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100

Crucial's MX100 SSD was a star performer in the budget SSD stakes last year, and it's now been superseded by the BX100. Now, the MX range denotes high performance (also superseding the M550 SSD), while the new BX moniker is for budget drives. But...

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