Performance
Performance has been tested on the Intel Skylake-X platform which contains the i9-7900X processor, ASUS X299 TUF Mk.2 motherboard and 64GB Ballistix Elite DDR4-3000 RAM. All tests were performed in Windows 10 x64 environment which is the most popular for new computers.
First test as usual is ATTO so one of the most popular storage benchmarks which is also free so all our readers can compare results at home.
The BX300 performance looks great in ATTO. I wasn’t expecting so high sequential bandwidth especially it’s not the highest Crucial SSD series. We could see nearly 565MB/s maximum read bandwidth what is probably the highest result we’ve seen in our redaction!
CrystalDiskMark is showing similar results in sequential bandwidth but also high random transfers which are even more important for daily work. Typical inexpensive SSD series can’t pass 30MB/s random 4K read while most higher SATA SSD can’t make much more than 32-33MB/s. The BX300 offers over 31MB/s what is pretty good result.
The most interesting are results in Anvil’s Storage Utilities. Usually this benchmark is showing the lowest bandwidth in all tests. Here we see not the highest sequential results but great random transfers which are even better than in CrystalDiskMark. It’s showing that the BX300 is fast and regardless of environment, we can count on high performance even though it’s inexpensive SSD.
I guess that most users will be satisfied with Crucial BX300 performance. 480GB version is the fastest but I don’t think that lower capacities are much slower.
