New series of SSD from Crucial BX200, with very aggressive prices

Crucial renews its line of SSD with the presentation of BX200 series, which does not hide the intention to attack the consumer market with excellent prices since the presentation.

Crucial has unveiled a new series of solid-state drive consumer who goes by the name BX200, designed as a replacement of the existing (and appreciated) BX100. The company does not hide its intention to propose to the public units of good capacity and a very attractive price, in order to gain significant market share.

These units are the standard SATA 6 Gbps with slim 7mm form factor, with read performance up to 540 Mb/s and 490MB/s read. Normal values ​​for SSDs with SATA 6 Gbps, obtained in this case with the support of the SM2256 controllers (Silicon Motion). The data declared closed with the IOPS read / write random 4K, respectively 66,000 and 78,000, while the chips are 16nm TLC NAND Flash

Included with the unit comes with software Acronis True Image HD, as well as the tools Crucial Storage Executive for the management unit. The warranty is 3 years, the MTTF of 1.5 million hours and the potential of writing total of 72 TB, than for any consumer Crucial equates to approximately 40 GB per day for 5 years (oddly are counted and not the five years 3 of warranty).

The interesting part is the price: available in three cuts, the BX200 series Crucial is proposed (in US dollars) at $ 84.99 for 240 GB, $149.99 for 480 GB and $299.99 for the unit bigger, 960 GB. Launch prices are really low considering the type of product and competition.