Question PNY 240gb SSD vs 250gb ? What is the differnce?

[Farkle333]

This is driving me crazy Both the 240gb and the 250gb is the same price so other than size what the difference ? I cant find this info anywhere. Even on PNY website they have the same specs other than size...?

 

[rgd1101]

pny is the brand. what is the model?

 

[Farkle333]

pny is the brand. what is the model?

SSD7CS900-240-PB and SSD7CS900-250-RB That PB and RB dont know what that stands for.

 

[kanewolf]

SSD7CS900-240-PB and SSD7CS900-250-RB That PB and RB dont know what that stands for.

There could be a couple of reasons. It could just be marketing. It could be that the firmware or controller is different and the drive reserves less of the total memory for spares. The firmware/controller difference could be because the drives are intended for different markets and the amount of expected writes is different.

 

[Farkle333]

Hmmm with an extra 10 gigs on the 250 that is kinda nice to have IDK suprised I cant find a benchmark of both so I could see what it was. OK well thanks for the help.

 

[kanewolf]

Hmmm with an extra 10 gigs on the 250 that is kinda nice to have IDK suprised I cant find a benchmark of both so I could see what it was. OK well thanks for the help.

That "extra 10GB" shouldn't be important. You don't want to fill your disk above 80% full. If you believe that 10GB is important then you need a 500GB disk.

 

[Farkle333]

This is driving me crazy Both the 240gb and the 250gb is the same price so other than size what the difference ? I cant find this info anywhere. Even on PNY website they have the same specs other than size...?

Well were going to find out I have a PNY 240gb SSD and I just bought the PNY 250gb SSD going to bench and I will let you know,,,it will take a few days for Amazon. If anyone is interested check back I will update:

 

[drparton21]

Well were going to find out I have a PNY 240gb SSD and I just bought the PNY 250gb SSD going to bench and I will let you know,,,it will take a few days for Amazon. If anyone is interested check back I will update:

I'm interested in seeing your results!

 

[Farkle333]

OK Simple bench Crystal Disk 6.0.2 :
PNY 240... Read: 471 -Write:485
PNY 250... Read: 482 -Write:480
So not much difference and if there the same price surly the 250 is the better deal. These were blank and just formatted clean drives same machine. Note im not a spend all day benchmark guy I just hooked them up and ran 1 test I would neve make them a boot OS drive my main computer I would use them for a second drive to store a game or whatever.