PNY XLR8 CS3040 1TB SSD Review

1. Introduction2. PNY XLR8 CS3040 1TB3. Testing Methodology4. CrystalDiskMark5. ATTO Disk Benchmark6. AS SSD7. 128KB Sequential Performance8. 4K Sustained Random Read9. 4K Sustained Random Write10. 4K Random 70/30 mix Read/Write.11. 4K Random Performance QD1-QD812. Throughput13. PCMark 10 Full System Drive Benchmark14. Performance Stability15. Drive Temperatures16. Real Life File Testing17. Closing Thoughts18. View All Pages

We used CrystalDiskMark 8‘s custom settings to test the Sequential read and write performance of the drive through a range of queue depths. The setup for the tests is listed below.

128KB Sequential Read / Write.

Transfer Request Size: 128KB, Thread(s): 1, Outstanding I/O: 1-32.

The XLR8 CS3040 produced a best sequential read figure of 5,004.82MB/s, a fair bit short of the official maximum of 5,600MB/s. The best sequential write figure we saw was 4,284.17MB/s which is not so far away from the official maximum of 4,300MB/s.

128KB Sequential Read MB/s v QD compared.

The XLR8 CS3040 sits at the halfway mark in result charts at QDs 1, 2 and 4 but by the QD32 test, it has dropped to the bottom of the list.

128KB Sequential Write MB/s v QD compared.

At a QD of 1, the PNY CS3040 sits in the bottom half of the results chart but at QD2 its is in last but one place and at QDs 4 and 32 it sits in last place.

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