Crucial's new BX100 SSD is now available!　120GB/250GB/500GB/1TB

Crucial's new SSD "BX100" is now on sale at PC House Toei and Toei Land. The products on sale are parallel imports.

The BX100 is a 7mm thick 2.5-inch SSD that supports SATA 6Gbps and is available in four capacities: 120GB, 250GB, 500GB, and 1TB.

The onboard controller is Silicon Motion's SM2246EN, and the NAND flash uses the company's 16nm MLC manufacturing process. Read speed is 535MB/sec common to all models, and write speeds are 185MB/sec, 370MB/sec, and 450MB/sec (same for the 1TB model) in order of capacity. Random performance is 87,000 IOPS (120GB/250GB models) and 90,000 IOPS (500GB/1TB) for read and 43,000 IOPS (120GB) and 70,000 IOPS (250GB/500GB/1TB) for write.

The endurance is 72 TBW of total write bytes, which is equivalent to 5 years at 40 GB of write capacity per day. 1.5 million hours MTTF.

In addition to the 2.5-inch version, the BX100 series is also available in mSATA and M.2 formats, but the timing of their release has not yet been determined.

Pricing is as follows

CT1000BX100SSD1
51,840 yen (including tax): PC HOUSE TOEI
CT500BX100SSD1
25,920 yen (including tax): PC House Toei
CT250BX100SSD1
14,250 yen (including tax): PC HOUSE TOEI
14,250 yen (including tax): Toei Land
CT120BX100SSD1
9,070 yen (including tax): PC HOUSE TOEI
9,070 yen (including tax): Toei Land