The speed of technology development is really fast, PCIe4I haven't experienced the speed of 0 SSD yet, PCIe50 is coming, but don't dwell on it, believe me at this time pcie4An SSD with 0 is the most fragrant. As a hobbyist, I have also tested many PCIe4s0*4 m.2 SSD, I recently found that PNY has launched a new CS3140, hurry up and start a piece to test whether it is enough for extreme speed.
If you start mIf the 2 SSD is used as the main disk of the computer, 2T is the starting point for the current hard disk**. The PNY CS3140 is a PNY flagship SSD that supports PCIe40, as can be seen from the information on the package, PNY CS3140 is in PCIe4On the basis of 0, the speed has been achieved to the top grid, and the specific performance will be tested later.
The advantage of the simple packaging is that it is compact, but as a model that supports NVME14 transmission protocol of the ultra-fast SSD, will inevitably face the problem of heating, PNY CS3140 does not provide heat dissipation silicone and fixing screws and other accessories, this SSD is for gamers, positioned as a game SSD, but it is inevitable that some enthusiasts will also choose, so it is also recommended that manufacturers complete the heat dissipation silicone grease, thermal conductive sheet, etc., so that users can save more energy.
PNY CS3140 has some basic information about this SSD posted on the front and back, the most important of which is that it is a domestic SSD.
In terms of capacity, the PNY CS3140 has 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, and 8TB of ultra-high capacity, and the current mainstream storage capacity is 2TB.
This PNY CS3140 SSD in my hand is 2TB. After removing the stickers on both sides, you can see that this SSD uses Phison Phison PS5018-E18 main control, using 12nm process, and most of the main control chips of flagship SSDs are using 12nm process, which also ensures the performance of SSD to a certain extent, combined with PCIe40*4 lanes, can achieve a speed of up to 7000MB s, while the PNY CS3140 SSD can break through this limitation, and the speed can go up to 7500MB S.
Next to the main control chip, we can see that the PNY CS3140 SSD also has a DRAM cache area, the model is Hynix SKHYNIX H5AN8G6NDJR-XNC, and there are 4 flash memory particles and 1 DRAM on the front and back, each DRAM has a capacity of 1GB, and the model is DDR4-3200. As we all know, the current SSD with DRAM cache is generally a mid-to-high-end product, and the DRAM cache is mainly used to store FTL flash mapping tables in SSDs, which is used to temporarily store part of the data, reduce the time of table lookup, and thus improve the running speed.
The PNY CS3140 SSD adopts a double-sided PCB design, which also allows this SSD to accommodate more flash memory particles, but the double-sided PCB inevitably has to give up some use scenarios, such as ultra-thin notebooks may lack installation space due to the design of double-sided PCBs.
In terms of flash memory particles, the PNY CS3140 SSD uses 3D NAND TLC particles (as can be seen in the previous picture), the particle number is TA7BG95AYV, and each flash memory particle has a capacity of 256G. This chip comes from Kioxia's BICS5 112-layer stacked 3D TLC flash memory, which improves the IO performance of the 112-layer stacked flash memory by 50%, and the flash interface transmission bandwidth is up to 1600MTS, and the read latency is lower. The PNY CS3140 SSD double-sided PCB is embedded with a total of 8 flash memory particles, and the entire SSD has a total storage capacity of 2T.
It is worth mentioning that the PNY CS3140 SSD series has a variety of storage space to choose from, up to 8T, which is relatively rare in the current market, but in terms of performance, the two versions of 2T and 4T are the highest.
Although at the moment a lot of m2 The 2280 SSD will be used to assemble a portable SSD, but due to performance limitations such as interfaces, it is wasteful to use SSD. The one that can play the performance of the SSD must be directly connected to the interface of the motherboard, such as the PNY CS3140 SSD, which supports PCIe4For SSDs with 0*4 channels, only motherboards that support this number of channels can be directly connected to maximize performance. Of course, the performance of the CPU has a significant impact on the performance of the SSD, so the performance test is actually a barrel effect, and it is really good to be good for everyone.
I happened to recently buy a small host that supports PCIe40*4 channels, so it is used to test the performance of PNY CS3140 SSD, and the test results are for reference only.
Test machine parameters:
cpu：amd ryzen 7 7840h w/ radeon 780m graphics 3.80 ghz
ram：64gb
System: Windows
The most indispensable part of testing an SSD is speed measurement and running score.
From the disk information, it can be seen that the PNY CS3140 SSD supports PCIe40*4, and supports NVME14 Protocols.
Test software 1: CrystalDiskmark
In the multi-queue single-threaded sequential read and write test, the PNY CS3140 SSD speed test result is 7000MB s, which is the speed of PCIe40*4 channels are considered top-of-the-line, and they have not reached the nominal extreme speed of 7500MB s, and the bigger root is that my test platform is a small host, and the computing power of the CPU is relatively low, which will affect the speed test results. Under the same test conditions, the write speed also reached the level of 6200MB s.
In the multi-queue single-threaded 4K random read and write test, the PNY CS3140 SSD has a read speed of 800MB s and a write speed of 650MB s, which corresponds to the speed of file opening, closing, moving and other operations.
Test software 2: txbench
The SSD limit speed results tested by Txbench are basically the same as those of CrystalDiskmark. The overall performance was good.
Test software 3: AS SSD benchmark
In the process of testing this test software, you will find that each speed will go back and forth several times, in fact, the result of his measurement is an average calculation, so the speed test result is visible to the naked eye than the previous two only take the limit speed is lower.
The results measured by the speed test software are for reference only, after all, different computer configurations still have a very large impact on the performance of the SSD.
Test 4: Large file copies.
The common use scenario of our daily SSD is file copying, and the speed of file copying will affect our work efficiency.
* A high-definition movie, size 159GB, using this file as the test file, the PNY CS3140 SSD file copy speed is tested.
When the file is written, the speed is stable at 25GB s or so, a 159GB files can be copied in 10s, and the speed is relatively stable.
When the file is read, the instantaneous speed can be as high as 37gb/s。
In the PC environment, in addition to the above-mentioned file copying scenarios, software opening and use is a frequent scenario. Take the common adobe photoshop**processing software, for example, from the moment you double-click the software icon to open the software and enter the control interface (which is why part of the screen is blank in the desktop, photoshop is open for a short period of time without any visual response), the overall time is about 7s.
Tested the ** editing software Adobe Premiere Pro again, under the premise of installing the software on the PNY CS3140 SSD, it took 8 hours from clicking on the software to start the timer and jump to the normal editing page of the softwareAbout 5s.
I found a game Genshin Impact and did a loading speed test. It takes about 35s from clicking to start the game to completing the data loading and jumping to the interface where you can enter the game.
Although PCIe50 has been launched, but cost-effective products still exist in support of PCIe40 protocol SSDs and like heating and other aspects of PCIe40 control is more reasonable.
The PNY CS3140 SSD is the flagship product in the PNY SSD product line, and the sequential read speed can be up to 7500MB S, which surpasses the general support for PCIe40*4 SSD, the 2T version of the TBW in my hand has 1400, which is slightly higher than the common 2T SSD on the market, and the design of the 2GB DRAM cache also provides this SSD with more optimized performance. Another point of purchase, the PNY CS3140 SSD comes with a five-year limited warranty, which is also a reason for users to buy.
At present, the price of the PNY CS3140 SSD 2TB version is 729, and the price of other brands of SSDs with the same main control is relatively higher, and the limit speed is slightly lower.
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