PHISON – PNY CS2150 Review: Budget Price with Performance Trade-Offs

“The CS2150 is powered by the Phison E31 controller, a low-cost, DRAM-less design that’s been appearing in many of the more budget-focused Gen5 drives. Technically, it supports PCIe Gen5 x4 and quotes speeds of up to a modest 10,300MB/s read and 8,600MB/s write, which is still significantly lower than the speeds of the other Gen5 drives we tested. Therefore, users should temper their expectations if they plan to go this route.

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Powered by the entry-tier Phison E31 controller and using a DRAM-less design, the CS2150 lands well below the performance ceiling of faster Gen5 drives, often trailing by several gigabytes per second in sequential workloads and thousands of IOPS in random operations. Ultimately, it performs more like a high-end Gen4 SSD across many real-world scenarios, including gaming (DirectStorage), video production (Blackmagic), and AI tasks (LLM load times).”- storagereview.com

Source: storagereview.com