The PNY CS1311 and CS2211 SSD Review: MLC vs TLC at 15nm
by Billy Tallis on April 15, 2016 8:00 AM ESTAnandTech Storage Bench - Light
Our Light storage test has relatively more sequential accesses and lower queue depths than The Destroyer or the Heavy test, and it's by far the shortest test overall. It's based largely on applications that aren't highly dependent on storage performance, so this is a test more of application launch times and file load times. This test can be seen as the sum of all the little delays in daily usage, but with the idle times trimmed to 25ms it takes less than half an hour to run. Details of the Light test can be found here.
The average data rates on the Light test don't show a clear separation between MLC and TLC drives; only a handful of drives stand out with particularly low performance, mostly due to being small TLC drives. Full drive performance reveals more interesting differences than the empty drive performance. The CS2211 pays one of the largest full-drive penalties among MLC drives. In the TLC segment, the OCZ Trion 150 holds that distinction, but it starts with high enough performance when empty that it generally remains faster than the CS1311.
The CS2211 again has the slowest average service times of all MLC drives, but with only a moderate gap between it and the others. The CS1311 is roughly tied with the ADATA SP550 and slower than the Trion 150.
The rankings of the PNY drives going by latency outliers are similar to the rankings for average service time. None of the drives are truly overwhelmed by the Light test, but the smaller capacities of the CS1311 do suffer significantly from a full drive.
The power consumption over the course of the Light test does little to distinguish any of the drives. On light workloads, the idle power will matter more than the figures reported here. That said, it is interesting that the 240GB CS2211 comes out slightly ahead despite being slower than the 480GB CS2211. The smaller 4-channel S10 controller may be saving a bit of power over the full size.
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Ascaris - Friday, April 29, 2016 - link
My PNY 760 is still going strong too. No plans to replace it at present, as it still does what I need.StrangerGuy - Friday, April 15, 2016 - link
I know this is an SSD, but...PC industry: "Hey, let's continue to make gaudy looking hardware to appeal to the xtremez hardcorez teenage gamerz crowd instead of adult gamers with actual disposable income."
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watzupken - Saturday, April 16, 2016 - link
I have to agree that at the mid/low range, currently the Samsung 850 Evo seems like the best buy in terms of performance and endurance. Still I wonder why so many manufacturers are jumping in and piling up with budget SSDs.hlmcompany - Tuesday, April 19, 2016 - link
They want a piece of the pie. They figure that with their brand on a popular item, they will be able to reap some profit. Over the years, my best selling SSD's have been Intel and Samsung. Lately, I've been impressed with SanDisk and have included them to my lineup.hlmcompany - Monday, April 18, 2016 - link
The SanDisk X400 512GB SATA SSD at $122.00 from Amazon USA is also a good option.slowdemon21 - Thursday, April 28, 2016 - link
you guys are so two-faced, the #1 complaint of SSD is too expensive, so a new lower cost SSD appears and your answers are, i.e. "not worth it...pay a little more for better" LOL bi-polar much?Ascaris - Friday, April 29, 2016 - link
Do you know for sure it's the same people making those comments? It's not hard to imagine that one site could have readers of both types commenting.slowdemon21 - Thursday, April 28, 2016 - link
one more thing...if your looking for 3 or SSD's, the extra $$ adds up. e.g. a desktop, laptop. PS4...maybe a 2 year old laptop. Bingo! four already... [talking real world]slowdemon21 - Thursday, April 28, 2016 - link
OCZ TRION 150 BENCHED IN THE MIDDLE OF MOST OF THESE TEST, there's the Winner