The PNY CS1311 and CS2211 SSD Review: MLC vs TLC at 15nm
by Billy Tallis on April 15, 2016 8:00 AM ESTAnandTech Storage Bench - Heavy
Our Heavy storage benchmark is proportionally more write-heavy than The Destroyer, but much shorter overall. The total writes in the Heavy test aren't enough to fill the drive, so performance never drops down to steady state. This test is far more representative of a power user's day to day usage, and is heavily influenced by the drive's peak performance. The Heavy workload test details can be found here.
The CS2211 drives both perform well overall and are bracketing a tight cluster of drives that perform similarly, though some of the competitors don't handle a full drive as well as the CS2211 does. The 240GB CS1311 is roughly tied with its competition while the other two capacities are clearly behind, though not by an embarrassing margin. On such a write-heavy test, it's no big surprise to see the MLC drives running 70% faster than the equivalent planar TLC drive.
Average service time isn't a strength of either PNY model. The CS2211 is the slowest MLC drive in this bunch, and the CS1311 is the slowest of the lot when full. At 480GB the OCZ Trion 150 retains a clear lead over the other planar TLC drives.
The latency outliers above 10ms put the CS2211 in a favorable light while the CS1311 mostly performs better than the ADATA SP550 but worse than the Trion 150. The huge gap between PNY's MLC and TLC models shows how a write-heavy workload can burn through a drive's pseudo-SLC cache and make TLC's weaknesses felt.
The CS1311's power efficiency is worse than almost everything else, but not horrendously so. The CS2211 is about average. The gap beterrn the 15/16nm TLC drives and the rest of the field is small but clear.
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Ascaris - Friday, April 29, 2016 - link
My PNY 760 is still going strong too. No plans to replace it at present, as it still does what I need.StrangerGuy - Friday, April 15, 2016 - link
I know this is an SSD, but...PC industry: "Hey, let's continue to make gaudy looking hardware to appeal to the xtremez hardcorez teenage gamerz crowd instead of adult gamers with actual disposable income."
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watzupken - Saturday, April 16, 2016 - link
I have to agree that at the mid/low range, currently the Samsung 850 Evo seems like the best buy in terms of performance and endurance. Still I wonder why so many manufacturers are jumping in and piling up with budget SSDs.hlmcompany - Tuesday, April 19, 2016 - link
They want a piece of the pie. They figure that with their brand on a popular item, they will be able to reap some profit. Over the years, my best selling SSD's have been Intel and Samsung. Lately, I've been impressed with SanDisk and have included them to my lineup.hlmcompany - Monday, April 18, 2016 - link
The SanDisk X400 512GB SATA SSD at $122.00 from Amazon USA is also a good option.slowdemon21 - Thursday, April 28, 2016 - link
you guys are so two-faced, the #1 complaint of SSD is too expensive, so a new lower cost SSD appears and your answers are, i.e. "not worth it...pay a little more for better" LOL bi-polar much?Ascaris - Friday, April 29, 2016 - link
Do you know for sure it's the same people making those comments? It's not hard to imagine that one site could have readers of both types commenting.slowdemon21 - Thursday, April 28, 2016 - link
one more thing...if your looking for 3 or SSD's, the extra $$ adds up. e.g. a desktop, laptop. PS4...maybe a 2 year old laptop. Bingo! four already... [talking real world]slowdemon21 - Thursday, April 28, 2016 - link
OCZ TRION 150 BENCHED IN THE MIDDLE OF MOST OF THESE TEST, there's the Winner