PNY SSD Reliability

[TechGurl]

Are PNY SSD's any good. Are they reliable? I have never used one before and there is one currently on sale that I am looking to purchase for my laptop. Also what would be the fastest 120ish GB ssd available on the market today. I have heard that Samsung SSD's (840 Pro's) are good.

 

[kenrivers]

I have no experience with PNY SSDs but have used Intel, Samsung, Kingston, and Patriot Memory drives. I am currently using Samsung SSD drives in three laptops and a desktop computer. I am pleased with the performance. The 840 Pro's are good and have a good warranty.

 

[Raceyb]

I just requested an RMA on a new PNY 240GB SSD that was dead on arrival. I'm going with the Samsung EVO because of it's reliability rating, warranty, and good reviews online. If you are looking at TigerDirect, my return request experience was 1 out of five stars. I was advised to contact PNY for an RMA, after arguing that it was TD that charged my card, they forwarded the request for me and advised it would be 5 business days to receive an RMA... I would steer clear if I were you.

 

[JoeStav]

I just requested an RMA on a new PNY 240GB SSD that was dead on arrival. I'm going with the Samsung EVO because of it's reliability rating, warranty, and good reviews online. If you are looking at TigerDirect, my return request experience was 1 out of five stars. I was advised to contact PNY for an RMA, after arguing that it was TD that charged my card, they forwarded the request for me and advised it would be 5 business days to receive an RMA... I would steer clear if I were you.

Wow. I was just about to pull the trigger on this one. In my opinion, an RMA should kick in After the end of the return period, not instead of. Some day there may be a regulation that requires retailers to honor returns for a set period of time, no matter what the reason. Until then, the only power we have is to use our wallets as a voice. I will not be purchasing this product from Tiger. Thx for the info.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Samsung EVO or Pro , I own 5 of them , flawless.

 

[Raceyb]

I agree with you 100%. I was disappointed in TigerDirect for handling my return request this way. I've only had the drive two days, and and am well within their advertised return, refund/exchange window. The online chat rep was kind of rude too, telling me the product page clearly shows the item is a 3rd party merchant with differing return policies. The link is below, please let me know how clearly you think this policy is conveyed to a potential customer...

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=8945533&CatId=5300

I also just submitted a one star review, advising others of TD's 3rd party merchant policy... I'll bet that review doesn't get posted. I signed it "No longer a TD customer

I just requested an RMA on a new PNY 240GB SSD that was dead on arrival. I'm going with the Samsung EVO because of it's reliability rating, warranty, and good reviews online. If you are looking at TigerDirect, my return request experience was 1 out of five stars. I was advised to contact PNY for an RMA, after arguing that it was TD that charged my card, they forwarded the request for me and advised it would be 5 business days to receive an RMA... I would steer clear if I were you.

Wow. I was just about to pull the trigger on this one. In my opinion, an RMA should kick in After the end of the return period, not instead of. Some day there may be a regulation that requires retailers to honor returns for a set period of time, no matter what the reason. Until then, the only power we have is to use our wallets as a voice. I will not be purchasing this product from Tiger. Thx for the info.

 

[rendered]

I just requested an RMA on a new PNY 240GB SSD that was dead on arrival. I'm going with the Samsung EVO because of it's reliability rating, warranty, and good reviews online. If you are looking at TigerDirect, my return request experience was 1 out of five stars. I was advised to contact PNY for an RMA, after arguing that it was TD that charged my card, they forwarded the request for me and advised it would be 5 business days to receive an RMA... I would steer clear if I were you.

The one that is on sale currently for $110? I was hesitant about buying it too.

 

[JohnnyLucky]

I normally recommend Samsung. Their ssd's perform very well and have a proven track record.

I maintain the ssd database listed in a sticky at the very top of this forum section. Here is the link:

http://www.johnnylucky.org/data-storage/ssd-database.html

Scroll down to the PNY section or any other brands you are interested in and follow the links to the technical reviews.

 

[popatim]

I would take screenshots of the sites add and inform the attorney generals office of this deceptive marketing ploy. I see no mention at all of this being a 3rd party seller. I even put 2 in my cart.

 

[Raceyb]

Update:

Three days later, I'm still waiting on an return authorization from TigerDirect. I've contacted the BBB and filed a complaint. I don't see how they maintain an A rating with so many cases filed against them. They have 30 days to respond, which of course is after the window to accept returns, so I'm not hopeful there. My next step is to dispute the transaction with my CC company.

I was assured by a CSR that I would receive the RA via email yesterday, and it still hasn't come. After Googling Tiger Direct Complaints, and reading all of the similar stories to mine, I have determined to never spend another dime there. They have repeatedly been accused of false advertising, misrepresentation, and unfair practices. My advice is to avoid this company at all costs...

On another note, I contacted PNY for technical assistance three days ago and have yet to hear back from them as well. My Samsung SSD just arrived from Amazon so I have something good to report.

 

[Raceyb]

I would take screenshots of the sites add and inform the attorney generals office of this deceptive marketing ploy. I see no mention at all of this being a 3rd party seller. I even put 2 in my cart.

Thanks for following up. I agree, there is no mention of a 3rd party vendor or a 3rd party return policy on that page. The first representative, Apollo Dinco argued that there was. I challenged him to show me where and he ignored my request and assured me it was there. I also spoke with Phia at extension 492147 and her promise of a speedy resolution failed to come through as well.

 

[Raceyb]

I just requested an RMA on a new PNY 240GB SSD that was dead on arrival. I'm going with the Samsung EVO because of it's reliability rating, warranty, and good reviews online. If you are looking at TigerDirect, my return request experience was 1 out of five stars. I was advised to contact PNY for an RMA, after arguing that it was TD that charged my card, they forwarded the request for me and advised it would be 5 business days to receive an RMA... I would steer clear if I were you.

The one that is on sale currently for $110? I was hesitant about buying it too.

I wold advise that you steer clear of TigerDirect for the reasons mentioned in this thread.

 

[Credo1970]

Are PNY SSD's any good. Are they reliable? I have never used one before and there is one currently on sale that I am looking to purchase for my laptop. Also what would be the fastest 120ish GB ssd available on the market today. I have heard that Samsung SSD's (840 Pro's) are good.

They might be OK as a lone system drive, but for expansion drives I'd personally avoid them.

My experience:

I got a trio of PNY SSD drives for two different systems (one AMD, one Intel) and they've given me constant fits on both platforms. They are of the following models:
SSD25C120G5LC709B121-510
SSD25C240G3LC709B121-460P

I had intended to use them as expansion drives for streaming audio samples and tracks in real time applications.

At first they only gave my DAW applications that need to 'stream data' problems. I've no idea why, because despite the drives seeming to pass latency checking tests with flying colors, and having decent transfer speeds and search times, they still cause my streaming audio to GLITCH. Something about the driver causes a system interrupt that none of my DAW software can cope with without introducing nasty pops and glitches.

I thought my issue might be related to my host-adaptor, so I tried it on more than one of them...four of them in fact, on two different systems (one AMD, the other Intel Xeon)...nasty little drives for anything that needs to stream. Also not good for apps that hit a page-file often that might be on the drive.

Here lately, since upgrading from Windows 7 to 10, the problems have compounded, as the drives decide to go to sleep under windows 10, and refuse to wake up without a total COLD reboot. That's right...I have to cut ALL power to my system and count to 20, then restart to get the drives to show up again.

This started about a week ago (as of 2/16/2016) with some mysterious Windows 10 update. I can't figure out how to keep these drives awake without doing a constant write to them every few minutes!

I do not get these issues with my Samsung 830, 840, and 850 series drives.