Crucial MX200 250GB: SSD SATA6Gbps with Dynamic Write Acceleration
Crucial MX200 SSDs will offer customers more demanding home – but not only – with cuts that can get to 1 TB, hardware data encryption technologies and Dynamic Write Acceleration, to increase write performance.
Many will wonder what could differ today from a SSD SATA 6Gbps another, whereas long the interface itself is a bottleneck, and all manufacturers have somehow dealt the shooting unit to propose very high performance and apparently aligned level performance.
The reality is this but the performance, although important, are certainly not the only parameter to look at when you buy a Solid-State Drive. That’s why many manufacturers, including Crucial, marketing units SATA 6Gbps increasingly sophisticated from a technical standpoint, as the series MX200. The similarities with the MX100 units (which will not disappear from the lists) are many, such as the Marvell 88SS9189 and chips made with manufacturing process 16nm MLC 2 bits per cell.
The differences lie in the adoption of technology Dynamic Write Acceleration (DWA) and the integration of hardware data encryption AES 256 bit, thus making the Crucial MX200 unit to be evaluated for professional / enterprise.
The Dynamic Write Acceleration technology is in some ways similar to that adopted by some competitors to speed up performance in certain circumstances; Crucial in the case of the DWA (not present on the cutting unit with 500 GB and 1 TB 2.5-inch form factor) is to use the cells memory MLC is not used exploiting them as if they were SLC.
Taking advantage of the empty cells and using them as a cache SLC, write processes and the resulting speed in terms of MB/s is expected to increase, according to allegations made by Crucial. The amount used may vary depending on the availability of unused cells; 500 GB and 1TB drives in the 2.5-inch form factor the DWA is not present because the controller channels are saturated by the presence of a larger number of chips, thus making ridiculous the benefits of the technology mentioned above.
These performances are for the Crucial MX200 250 GB drive to 555 MB per second read and 500 MB per second in writing, in line with the best production of the competition. We conducted some quick tests on the unit under test, which is shown below.
The recorded values are good and in line with the best units on the market, both in scenarios with compressible data that incompressible. As in other cases, the maximum value for reading with AS SSD and CrystalDisk Mark is next to 500MB per second, while figures to see more similar to be said (always for reading) can be observed with Iometer tests (in our case, 543 MB/s).
Crucial also declares a great performance stability over time, thanks to algorithms designed for just this purpose. Source warranty on the 250 GB drive is accredited to 80 TB of total entries, which calculated on a daily basis for the 3-year warranty it can be read as approximately 75 GB per day.
Crucial on the official website you can see that the price of the unit Crucial MX200 250GB suggested amounts to $ 109.99 including VAT, but as a quick reference of some sites to shop online, we can safely say that you can find less.
