PNY XLR8 CS2211 240GB SSD in 2-Disk RAID Review
Bohs Hansen / 8 years ago
Testing & Methodology
Hardware
- Supermicro C7Z97-OCE
- Intel Xeon E3-1230Lv3
- Corsair Vengeance 16GB 1866MHz
- Kingston HyperX 240GB SSD
- Sapphire R7 240 2GB
- be quiet! Dark Power Pro 11 850W
- Thermaltake Water 3.0 Performer
- Lian Li PC-T60
Software
- AIDA64 Storage Benchmark
- Anvil’s Storage Utilities
- AS SSD Benchmark
- ATTO Benchmark
- CrystalDiskMark
- IOMeter
- PCMark 8 Storage Benchmark
- Windows 7 Ultimate
I will be testing the drives with the onboard Intel RAID controller in each possible drive mode: RAID 0, RAID 1, Recovery, and as single disk setup. I will then running a series of benchmarks with the software mentioned above on each setup before destroying it and moving onto the next to repeat it again.
The SSD with the operating system is running on a different SATA controller to avoid a possible performance impact. Each of the following pages will display a list of screenshots from each test as well as comparison charts for a quick overview.
