SATA 6 Gbps standard which is around 530MB/s read and 500MB/s write.Ĭrucial is utilizing the Silicon Motion SM2258XT controller in the BX500 which lacks DRAM cache. When an SSD uses the AHCI interface, that means that the read/write speeds will be limited by the bandwidth of the Were popular but it's also used today with modern SATA SSDs SATA SSDs use the AHCI interface which is an old hardware interface that was created back in the days when hard drives Publish that information for every drive they release.
#Ssd testing software from crucial series
In this review, we will focus on the Crucial BX500 480GB and 960GB models.Ĭrucial advertises the BX500 series with sequential read speeds of up to 540 MB/s and sequential write speeds of up to 500 MB/s.Ĭrucial has not published any random read and write performance for the BX500 which is a little strange since they always Making it DRAM-less has allowed Crucial to reduce component cost significantlyīut all of this comes at a performance hit.Ĭrucial's BX500 series feature a 3-year limited warranty and come in capacities of 120GB ($28), 240GB ($43), 480GB ($80) and 960GB ($130). The release of the BX500 is an interesting one becauseĮverybody expected Crucial to use QLC NAND to keep the price low but that's not the case here.Ĭrucial is using TLC NAND but in order to keep the price low, they have decided to not use a DRAM chip.
The BX series has always been the company's budget oriented line that is basically a stripped down version of the MX line The BX300 that was released more than two years ago. Which is an affordable entry-level NVMe PCIe SSD targeted at users where every dollar counts.īy utilizing QLC NAND, Crucial is able to release a high capacity NVMe SSD for a lot less than what it would normallyĬost them if they were to use a TLC or MLC NAND.Ĭrucial also recently expanded their mainstream SATA SSD line with the addition of the BX500 which is the successor to Note: This review has been updated on Februwith the testing of the 960GB version.