PNY CS1311 SSD Review (120GB/480GB)

CRYSTAL DISK BENCHMARK VER. 4.0.3 X64

Crystal Disk Benchmark is used to measure read and write performance through sampling of random data which is, for the most part, incompressible. Performance is virtually identical, regardless of data sample so we have included only that using random data samples.

120GB

480GB

Benching in Crystal Disk Mark we see the PNY CS1311 reaching sequential read speeds up to 564 MB/s and write speeds up to 534 MB/s. 4K QD1 performance isn’t that stellar but good to say the least. Read reached 32MB/s and write followed with 80MB/s. Overall, these results were expected considering the CS2211’s performance in our previous review.

AS SSD BENCHMARK VER 1.8

The toughest benchmark available for solid state drives is AS SSD as it relies solely on incompressible data samples when testing performance. For the most part, AS SSD tests can be considered the ‘worst case scenario’ in obtaining data transfer speeds and many enthusiasts like AS SSD for their needs. Transfer speeds are displayed on the left with IOPS results on the right.

120GB

480GB

During our AS SSD benchmarks we can see that the 480GB model has a very slight lead over the 120GB model due to its faster write speeds. Overall, the 120GB model reached 903 points while the 480GB model reached 1113 points! These results are very good given the nature of this SSD. Both drives reach 525MB/s read and 120GB mode reaches 441MB/s write while the 480GB model nearly reaches 500MB/s. 4K QD1 performance is good, reaching 37MB/s read and 71MB/s write. Access times (latency results) are also very good. During the Copy benchmark, both drives delivered decent results as well.

ANVIL STORAGE UTILITIES PROFESSIONAL

Anvil’s Storage Utilities (ASU) are the most complete test bed available for the solid state drive today. The benchmark displays test results for, not only throughput but also, IOPS and Disk Access Times. Not only does it have a preset SSD benchmark, but also, it has included such things as endurance testing and threaded I/O read, write and mixed tests, all of which are very simple to understand and use in our benchmark testing.

120GB

480GB

Finally, in Anvil we see that the performance is in line with what we have seen in the other tests. Overall, the 120GB CS1311 reached a total score of 3608 while the 480GB model delivered a much higher score of nearly 4,800 points. Let’s continue on and see how these drives handle our more realistic PCMark test suites.