PNY CS1311 SSD Review

[Guest]

The CS1311 we're testing today employs Toshiba's 15nm TLC NAND for more value-oriented shoppers. PNY's PS3110-S10-powered drive uses Phison's latest firmware with the new direct-to-die sequential write algorithm to increase performance.

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[cknobman]

Another one bites the dust.

Sorry but I cannot see much of a reason to go with anything besides the Samsung right now.

 

[2Be_or_Not2Be]

Thanks, Chris, for showing why we shouldn't buy this "one-step-back" SSD.

It reminds me of when Honda introduced their new (new at the time) Insight hybrid. If you don't beat, match, or at least get very, very close to the market leader's (Prius) performance, you're not going to do very well with that model.

These "new" SSD models that have serious shortcomings aren't even worth purchasing for the price-savings over the EVO.

 

[Psi2k]

Thank you for the review. Maybe the mx300 will have a shot against the 850 evo.

 

[3ogdy]

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn.
There are so many players and products on the market in the SSD space right now that releasing more makes no sense unless there's anything special about it. They're all capped at SATA 6Gbps and performance sacrifices aren't worth the price difference ($7?!). I remember back in the day when SSDs were interesting. Now announcing a new SSD is like announcing a brand new higher-clocked Pentium IV CPU.
That's without even considering the already boring pricing on these things. Samsung's been selling the 500GB EVO for around $150 for way too long. Thankfully, they've come up with V-NAND, otherwise SSDs feel like '90s products already. At least 10 years on the market and no progress (thank you, SATA). Wake me up when 500GB drives are sold for less than $100 and then, maybe then, we could get this whole turtoise of an industry just a frucking bit forward. Until then, SSDs are not worth reviewing, except for a new case design they could feature. Meh.

 

[jojesa]

Most users wont see the difference in performance. I have installed both SSDs on the same Dell Latitude model and they bootup time, apps loading and shut down time looks exactly the same. I cannot tell the differences.

 

[zodiacfml]

Please don't praise the Samsung too much as we don't want them monopolizing the SSD market. I think they are squeezing the prices down to prevent competitors from growing.

 

[Jack_565]

I would buy this just for the outward appearance of the SSD, if it goes on sale then i might consider one.
Makes me wonder why cosmetic SSD Skins/Cases aren't a thing, ignoring voided warranties.

 

[mapesdhs]

Again nothing to compete usefully with the 850 EVO, though at least in the UK pricing for 850 EVOs has been going up a lot since xmas, especially the 250GB which reached a low of 53 UKP over the holiday season, but now is back right up to over 70 UKP. The 500GB has been more stable, and better value, but IMO a "good" SSD like the 850 EVO 500GB is not dropping below 100 UKP here because it doesn't need to. This happened before with the Samsung 830 a few years ago, people were happy to pay a lot more than the 125 UKP price offered by one UK seller for a couple of weeks (they sold over a thousand units), so pricing for 256GB models in general went up for several months.

What happened to the competition SanDisk said they were going to bring to the market? I'm sure toms reported a couple of years ago that SanDisk was planning an 8TB model reasonably soon.