If you like to upgrade from HDD to SSD, you should not copy the content 1:1 only with a tool like Norton Ghost or Acronis Backup. Because if one like to save the new Windows installation, one must install the hard disk controller driver before changing SATA mode from IDE to AHCI – alternatively there are also Registry entries for it. Who think now about changing its SATA port in the BIOS from native IDE and/or legacy IDE to AHCI, should change first for example (if possible) only one part of the SATA port, where the drive with the operating system is not installed. The usable capacity of 931.51 GB is by the way identical to the MX200 1 TB SSD – slightly higher than the M500, but compared to the MX100 and M550 it has fallen back slightly. The previously tested BX100 500GB SSD reached 803 points, the Crucial M500 480 GB SSD reached 685 points, the Crucial M550 512 GB SSD reached 907 points, the Crucial MX100 512 GB SSD reached 856 points and the Crucial MX200 500 GB SSD reached 882 points – all results are tested in AHCI mode on the same test system. Thus the benchmark program simulate for example a typical program start.īecause the weighting of this value in the AS SSD benchmark tool is very high, the total score in AHCI mode is with 792 points more than twice as high.

4K means that small 4K blocks are read and/or written and with the 4K 64Thrd this is distributed on 64 Threads at the same time.

In AHCI mode also another result beneath the read performance was much higher than in IDE mode and that is the important value “4K-64Thrd”. Here is a Snipping screenshot of AS SSD benchmark values (SATA3 IDE): However, the AHCI mode results are considerably much higher. The total score in the IDE mode (indicated by pciide below firmware MU01) reached 370 points. The Crucial 1TB drive achieved in AHCI mode a very high sequential read and write speed.Īlthough you should operate the SSD in AHCI mode, we have spared no effort to run all benchmarks additionally in SATA IDE mode.

The SSD benchmark values offers a very good reference point of the maximal possible read and write performance, the speed with smaller files and the respective access time. The SSD drive speed was examined and compared with the following benchmark software: At present, Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Edition is used as the operating system. SATA3 drives are tested with an ASRock 890GX Extreme3 motherboard and test results of M.2 modules are performed using an ASRock Z97 Extreme6 motherboard. Let us continue with the benchmark results.

Crucial m500 vs bx100