The high capacity is possible due to vertically stacked NAND. Samsung earlier last year already announced that the 4. TB model would be released in 2. It is very likely we'll see a 4. TB PRO model soon as well, the high- end model. 1.5V, Double Sided 2Rx8 128Mx8 - Top tier name-brand DRAM chips and materials - Ultimate cross-platform compatibility - Life. DRAM chips and materials - Fully compatible with Intel Haswell-E CPU and X99. Rachel was reluctant to submit changes to the emulator at all due to being. X99 Chipset Problems Force Intel to Pull a Driver. Intel has reportedly removed it’s latest Rapid Storage Technology drivers (RSTe Version 4.1.0.1046) that allowed Intel X99 motherboards to support up to ten SATA III 6Gbps drives at a time. That leaves Intel X99 owners only. Though that is not confirmed and this we do not know a price on that model either. Back in August during the flash memory summit Samsung announced their 3rd gen V- nand technology, the new revision bumped the current 3. NAND flash memory. The SATA III based 2. Up- to now the maximum size was 2. TB (read our 8. 50 EVO 2. TB review here (http: //www. It works with both MLC and TLC and is sold as part of an off- the- shelf SSD solution that allows companies to purchase complete drives with the controller, NAND (from Toshiba), and firmware, awaiting only branding. Many companies that formerly developed and manufactured their own drives based on controllers from the likes of Sand. Force have switched over to Phison's platform, saving lots on R& D but sacrificing almost all opportunities for product differentiation. The most recent entrants in the SSD market only came into being because Phison made it so accessible. Even Toshiba, with their large resources, has adopted the Phison S1. TC5. 8 controller used in the Q3. OCZ's Trion (http: //www. The latest member to join the Phison legion - and the subject of today's review - is PNY. PNY's latest refresh of their consumer SSDs has shifted their product lines entirely over to the latest iteration of Phison S1. In focusing their lineup around the S1. CS1. 31. 1 and the CS2. Meanwhile the CS2. XLR8 (accelerate..) branding, and uses Toshiba's 1. MLC.< tbody> PNY CS1. Specifications. Capacity. GB2. 40. GB4. 80. GBController. Phison PS3. S1. 0C- 1. 2Phison PS3. S1. 0- XNANDToshiba 1. TLCSequential Read. MB/s. 55. 0MB/s. 55. MB/s. Sequential Write. MB/s. 52. 0MB/s. 52. MB/s. 4KB Random Read. K IOPS8. 7K IOPS9. K IOPS4. KB Random Write. K IOPS9. 0K IOPS9. K IOPSIdle Power. WActive Power. 2. WWarranty. Three years. Price (Amazon)$3. CS1. 31. 1+1. 20. GB)$5. 9. 9. 9 (http: //amzn. CS1. 31. 1+2. 40. GB)$1. 09. 9. 9 (http: //amzn. CS1. 31. 1+4. 80. GB)< /tbody> http: //images. PNY- SSD- CS1. 31. With very limited room to differentiate through firmware, the two drives should perform very similar to the drives we've looked at in the past. But unlike other vendors' lineups, PNY's S1. MLC and TLC on the Phison S1. With the same PCBs and the same controller, the CS1. CS2. 21. 1 differ only in the choice of flash and the firmware. This is perhaps our best chance to compare MLC and TLC to date; In the past we've been able to compare Samsung's flash with close relatives like the 8. Pro vs the 8. 50 EVO, but never with two drives quite so similar as the PNY S1. The end result is that although this won't quite be an apples- to- apples comparison since we can't rule out the impact of firmware - the performance and endurance characteristics of TLC means that it's not treated exactly like MLC - but we are nonetheless getting a unique look at NAND performance on identical platforms. Taking a look at our individual drives then, it is interesting to note that the standard Phison S1. Corsair Neutron XT. The case still consists of two metal parts that snap together, but they now interlock more at the edges instead of the top piece encircling all four sides. Inside we find PCBs with a familiar layout save for two major changes. As with the transition from OCZ's Trion 1. Trion 1. 50, we find that the 1. NAND is in TSOP packages where the earlier drives with A1. NAND used BGA packages for the flash. IMG. The full- size controller we're familiar with is the PS3. S1. 0- X, and the newcomer is the PS3. S1. 0C- 1. 2. The S1. C has only four NAND channels instead of eight, and the PCB for that variant only has space for one DRAM chip rather than one on each side as found with S1. X. This narrowing of interfaces has the potential to introduce bottlenecks, but this is only being done for the two smallest capacities that would have trouble fully exploiting the parallelism available from the larger controller. The last hardware change of note is that the controller and DRAM chips on the CS2. I'm told this will be rolling out to other S1. Gallery: PNY CS1. PNY CS 2. 21. 1 (http: //www. Gallery/Album/4. 82. PNY- SSD- CS1. 31. Of current- generation drives, the CS1. ADATA's SP5. 50 and OCZ's Trion 1. TLC NAND. Mushkin Reactor, Crucial BX1. Anand. Tech 2. 01. SSD Test System. CPUIntel Core i. K (http: //www. amazon. Intel- i. 7- 4. 77. K- Quad- Core- Processor- BX8. I7. 47. 70. K/dp/B0. CO8. TBQ0/ref=sr. Over time though the market very much stagnated as the limitations of SATA 3 took hold, limiting performance at a little over 5. MB/s, regardless of the price range of the drive. Today we have a PCIe model on our test bench from a recent entrant to the storage market, welcome to our Zotac Sonix SSD Review. Zotac Sonix SSD Review . Inside the SSD is protected by a bag and suspended in foam. Also in the box is some product documentation and an alternative PCIe bracket for those with half height cases. Zotac Sonix SSD Review . Attached to the PCB we have A Phison E7 controller, Toshiba MLC NAND and 5. MB of DDR3 cache. This is a NVMe 1. MB/s read and 1. 30. MB/s write. Power use is 0. The drive has a capacity of 4. GB when formatted in Windows and a MTBF of 2million hours with support for static and dynamic wear leveling present. The TBW rating is 6. TB and the drive supports bad block management and TRIM. Zotac Sonix SSD Review . Zotac go with Phison controller and Toshiba NAND on this product, known proven components and it is nice to see the option of running the drive in a half height system. If there is one minor doubt in our minds over the product it is ongoing support, not that the warranty is an issue (its 3- years) but currently there is no indication on how easy it will be to update the firmware and there is no application available to monitor or maintain the drive, something the competition offer. There are no issues with performance though. On that front the Sonix is very impressive. Occasionally another drive like the Intel 7. PCIe, NVMe drive) will edge ahead but more often than not the Sonix leads the way. In fact it provided exceptional real world performance and caused us to have to edit our performance chart for Atto. A successor to the M6. S series launched as recently as February 2. M6. S Plus features 1. Toggle NAND flash chips from Toshiba, instead of the 1. M6. S. The controller remains unchanged - Marvell 8. SS9. 18. 8. The drives are built in the 2. SATA 6 Gb/s interface. The drives come in three capacities - 1. GB, 2. 56 GB, and 5. GB, featuring DDR3 DRAM caches of 2. MB, 5. 12 MB, and 7. MB, respectively. Their 4. K random access performance numbers similarly vary, at up to 8. IOPS, up to 9. 0,0. IOPS, and up to 9. IOPS, respectively. The company didn't announce pricing.
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