Testseek.com have collected 33 expert reviews of the PNY 2.5 inch XLR8 Series SATA600 and the average rating is 80%. Scroll down and see all reviews for PNY 2.5 inch XLR8 Series SATA600.
September 2015
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The editors liked
Aggressively styled outer shell
Four-year warranty
Competitive 4K write speed
The editors didn't like
Overall performance not quite up to that of competing drives at close pricing
No in-box software or utilities
Similarly priced Samsung EVO drive offers longer warranty
The PNY XLR8 CS2211 combination of excellent performance at a very reasonable price is what is sure to make it a favorite for system builders and knowledgeable consumers. Brilliant stuff!
Overall performance not quite up to that of competing drives at close pricing, No in-box software or utilities, Similarly priced Samsung EVO drive offers longer warranty
PNY's latest enthusiast SSD aims at gamers and, with its flashy chassis, upgraders with windowed PC cases. Like-priced competing drives performed better overall in our benchmarks, though. Read More…...
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Published: 2015-02-17, Author: Sean , review by: thessdreview.com
PNY's latest SSD is on fire! The drive can not be matched in terms of looks with its flaming tiger graphic design. It is also powered by a Silicon Motion SM2246EN controller and Micron's L95B NAND flash memory to offers robust endurance and performance. ...
Compared to the popular Kingston SSDNow V300 120 GiB SSD, the PNY XLR8 120 GiB performed well. In the test with compressible data, they both performed the same way, but in the test with incompressible data, the XLR8 was slower at read and faster at write...
Published: 2012-11-22, Author: Andrew , review by: tomshardware.com
Abstract: Over the past year, we've seen the cost per gigabyte of solid-state storage drop in a major way. Once upon a time, we shopped for affordable 60 and 80 GB drives. Now we really want 256 GB drives in our desktops. Meet the last 10 models to land in our lab....
Abstract: PNY has been a well known name in computer items like RAM, flash memory (flash drives, SD cards, etc.), graphics cards and more. It currently has two lines of SSDs, the XLR8 and the Prevail series, both of which are well ranked in performance, however the...
The PNY XLR8 SSD 1TB Gaming Kit combines one of the fastest Gen 4.0 drives on the market with an effective and thoughtfully designed heatsink for one of the best PS5 SSD options on the market...
4K performance a little disappointing in some of our tests, Faces some serious competition,
The CS3040 is the mainstream Gen4 sibling to the high-end CS3140 in PNY's XLR8 gaming portfolio of SSD drives. It uses a combination of a Phison PS5016-E16 controller (the CS3140 uses the 2nd generation PS5018-E18) and 96-layer 3D TLC NAND.The drive is av...
Because of the higher price per gigabyte a 120 GB SSD is not a good choice for most people. However, under certain circumstances you can save some money by buying one of these. For example in a computer for grandpa and grandma extra storage capacity mig...
Samsung's 850 Pro SSDs are without a doubt the fastest SSDs of this moment. Given that this product does not seem to have any flaws, we heartily recommend it to those who are looking for the fastest possible SSD. The Vector 150 and AMD Radeon R7 SSDs ar...
