Crucial MX200 500Gb SSD Storage Review

The Marvell 88SS9189-BLD2 controller and a Quad-Die NAND below, if you’ve managed to disassemble a Crucial SSD below, this will all look familiar.

Crucial have been sticking to the same formula for design for a while now, at least in the short legacy of the SSD.

Test Set Up

All synthetic tests are carried out three times with the best result taken. We have decided to test in a couple of conditions. Firstly single disk and RAID 0 configuration. This is to demonstrate the performance differences with RAID 0 and how they could benefit you.

Secondly, we have tested on an X99 Intel Chipset and a Z170 Chipset, hopefully demonstrating the recent forward steps Intel have taken with their embedded Chipset storage performance.

Our X99 test bench first;

• Operating System – Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
• Processor: Intel i7-5820K
• Motherboard: Asus Rampage V Extreme
• Graphics: MSI GTX 970 GAMING Twin Frozr V
• Memory: 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666Mhz
• Drives: Crucial BX100 500Gb SSD
• Cooler: Scythe Mugen MAX CPU Cooler
• PSU: Corsair HX1000i

Then our Z170 test bench next and we used the same general components except for the following;

• Processor: Intel i7-6700K
• Motherboard: Asrock Extreme 4

Both systems were tested for single disk and RAID 0 configuration. We tested on both chipset platforms swapping only the core components as needed.

Synthetic Tests

• IOMeter
• AIDA64 Engineer
• PCMark08 Professional
• CrystalMarkx64

First up, CrystalMarkx64. We set the bench to run three times with nine passes each, we then took the highest result.

Straight away the Z170 takes a strong and a little bit of an embarrassing lead over the X99 Chipset in Read performance. The Crucial MX200 500Gb shows its capable given a logically compatible pathway.