PNY CS2211 240GB SSD Review

1. Introduction2. PNY CS2211 240GB3. Testing Methodology4. Crystal Disk Mark5. ATTO Disk Benchmark 6. AS SSD7. IOMETER8. Real Life File Transfers9. Final Thoughts10. View All Pages

For testing, the drives are all wiped and reset to factory settings by HDDerase V4. We try to use free or easily available programs and some real world testing so you can compare our findings against your own system.

This is a good way to measure potential upgrade benefits.

Main system:
Intel Core i7 4790K with 16GB of DDR3-2133 RAM, Sapphire HD7750 Ultimate and an ASRock Extreme 6 motherboard.

Other Drives
ADATA SX930 240GB
Crucial MX100 256GB
Intel 335 240GB
Intel SSD730 240GB
Kingston HyperX Savage 240GB
Micron M600 256GB
OCZ Agility 4 256GB
OCZ ARC 100 240GB
OCZ Trion 100 240GB
OCZ Trion 150 240GB
OCZ Trion 150 480GB
OCZ Vector 150 256GB
OCZ Vector 240GB
OCZ Vertex 3 240GB MAX IOPS
OCZ Vertex 450 256GB
OCZ Vertex 460 240GB
Patriot Wildfire 240GB
Plextor M5 Pro 256GB
Plextor M6V 256GB
PNY XLR8 240GB
Samsung 840 EVO 250GB
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB
SanDisk Extreme II 240GB
SanDisk X400 256GB
Seagate 600 Pro 200GB

Software:
Atto Disk Benchmark.
CrystalMark 3.0.3.
AS SSD.
IOMeter

All our results were achieved by running each test five times with every configuration this ensures that any glitches are removed from the results. Trim is confirmed as running by typing fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify into the command line. A response of disabledeletenotify =0 confirms TRIM is active.

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