Performance
Performance has been measured on the MSI X99S-SLI Plus motherboard. Since Crucial MX200 is a SATA M.2 drive, our usual motherboard – ASUS Rampage V Extreme was not supporting it. Before you decide on M.2 SSD, check if your motherboard is supporting SATA or PCIE drives. Most motherboards are supporting both standards but it’s always better to check it to be sure.
ATTO Disk Benchmark
ATTO is showing us that MX200 in M.2 version is able to work faster than we could expect looking at declared maximum bandwidth. Maximum read bandwidth in this benchmark passed 563MB/s while write was above 508MB/s. In both cases we also see that interface is clearly limiting this drive.
SATA drives are usually not passing 550MB/s in sequential transfers. I still wish to see MX200 based on PCIE M.2 interface which is faster but not supported on some devices.
CrystalDiskMark 3.0.3 x64
CrystalDiskMark results are not as good as in ATTO and maximum bandwidth is slightly above 500MB/s. It’s still a good result but lower than expected.
What is more important in this benchmark are random transfers which are pretty good for all high end SATA SSD. Random bandwidth is actually the most important in SSD as most of the operations in daily work are based on random read and write.
AS SSD Benchmark
AS SSD is already old benchmark but I thought it will be good to check it and compare to CrystalDiskMark. In both these benchmarks results are similar. We could expect more from sequential bandwidth while random bandwidth results are at respectable level.
Total score in AS SSD is quite high as not many SSD can reach nearly 1100 points mark.
Anvil’s Storage Utilities
Anvil’s Storage Utilities is similar to other presented benchmarks but base on a different test files. Also here results are good but could be better.
Pretty good looks again random bandwidth what is most important.
PCMark8 – Storage Suite
PCMark8 is showing us performance in daily work, based on a popular applications. We can see that average bandwidth is much higher than we could see in MX100 ( in earlier review ). Even though most previous tests were not showing big differences then PCMark8 proves that Crucial improved performance in MX200 comparing to MX100.
I think that presented results are good and all users will be satisfied about overall MX200’s performance.
