Announced January 19th PNY has launched the XLR8 SSD. The CS2211 targets the Gamer/Enthusiast Market with read speeds of up to 565 MB/s. Today we have hands on the 480Gb model and we are going to see exactly how it performs in our system.
Specifications:
- Capacity: 480 GB
- Part Number: SSD7CS2211-480-RB
- Form Factor: 5 inch
- Height*: 7mm
- Interface: SATA-III 6Gb/s; backwards compatible with SATA-II 3Gb/s
- Max Sequential Read Speed: 565 MB/s
- Max Sequential Write Speed: 540 MB/s
- Max Random Read Speed: 95,000 IOPS
- Max Random Write Speed: 95,000 IOPS
- NAND Type: MLC
- Ideal For: Gaming, Hard disk drive replacement, photo and video storage, and boot drives
- Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF): 2,000,000 Hours
- Error Correction Code: Up to 120 bits per 2K sector
- Secure Erase: Standard, Enhanced Secure Erase
- Product Health Monitoring: Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T)
- Full End-to-End Data path protection: Supported
- RAID (0/1): Supported
- Performance Optimization: TRIM (requires OS support)
- Service & Support: 4-Year Limited Warranty, Toll free technical support lines
Running the PHISON PS3110-S10 controller, this drive offers the full range of features you’d expect to come in an SSD. The four-year warranty is no joke either, although it’s not hard to stand behind a product boasting 2 million hours mean time between failures.
