Crucial MX100 128GB: A Cheap But Good SSD For Linux Systems

Written by Michael Larabel in Storage on 18 June 2014 at 04:00 PM EDT. Page 4 of 5. 8 Comments.
Crucial MX100 Series SSD Linux Testing

When running Dbench, the 128GB Crucial MX100 drive was now outdone by the Samsung EVO 840 by about 28% for this Linux disk benchmarking.

Crucial MX100 Series SSD Linux Testing

The performance of the Samsung SSD 840 and Crucial MX100 were close for an 8GB write test using IOzone.

Crucial MX100 Series SSD Linux Testing

The Samsung 840 SSD had a big advantage over the Crucial MX100 with carrying out random writes using the Threaded I/O Tester.

Crucial MX100 Series SSD Linux Testing
Crucial MX100 Series SSD Linux Testing

The MX100 ended with a slight win over the Samsung SSD 840 when it came to the compile test inside Compile Bench but then for the initial create workload lost slightly to the Samsung SSD 840.


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