PNY CS2030 240GB PCIe NVMe M.2 drive Review

1. Introduction2. PNY CS2030 240GB3. Testing Methodology4. CrystalDiskMark5. ATTO Disk Benchmark6. AS SSD7. IOMETER8. PCMark8 - Storage Consistency9. PCMark8 - Individual Test Suites10. PCMark8 Storage Test- Individual Test Suites11. Performance Stability12. Real Life File Testing13. Closing Thoughts14. View All Pages

To test real life performance of a drive we use a mix of folder/file types and by using the FastCopy utility (which gives a time as well as MB/s result) we record the performance of  drive reading from & writing to a 256GB Samsung SSD850 PRO.

60GB Steam folder – 29,521 files.
50GB File folder – 28,523 files.
12GB Movie folder – 24 files (mix of Blu-ray and 4K files).
10GB Photo folder – 621 files (mix of .png, raw and .jpeg images).
10GB Audio folder – 1,483 files (mix of mp3 and .flac files).

As you might expect from a PCIe SSD, transferring files to and from it poses no problems at all. As an example, it takes just under two minutes to copy the 50GB file folder to the drive and a mere 2m 45 seconds to copy it back.

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