The PNY Optima isn't the fastest SSD on the market, but it doesn't have to be. The worst case performance after an unrealistic load takes the drive down to just 115 MB/s.

PNY sent a few SSD reviewers Optima 240GB SSDs to review. The initial advertising to us in an email stated these used the new SMI, short for Silicon Motion, controller.

When Tweaktown inquired as to the situation, PNY sent back the following: "Yes we did ship some Optima SSD's with SandForce controllers, but only if they meet the minimum advertised performance ...

According to a Tweaktown blog post, the new PNY Optima drive should feature the Silicon Motion controller, but the user who bought it later discovered that it features a different firmware and a ...

This range of PNY High Speed Optima SSD’s is faster, more robust and more reliable than the majority of SSD drives on the market. Moreover, PNY has selected high quality Flash memory with MLC ...

Hence the introduction of its Optima High Speed SSD, available in both 128GB and 256GB capacities, priced at £309.99 and £599.99, respectively.

PNY's LX3030 PCIe 3 drive sustains long writes with the top performers and is rated for a staggering 27,000TBW per TB of capacity—many times what's offered by the average NAND SSD.

The CS2140 is a PCIe 4 x4, M.2 2280, NVMe SSD employing a Phison PS5019-E19-35 controller to move data in and out of unspecified NAND. We researched the numbers on the chips to no avail and PNY ...

The PNY XLR8 SSD 1TB Gaming Kit bundles the PNY CS3140 Gen 4x4 NVMe SSD with an integrated heatsink designed exclusively to replace the PS5's own M.2 port cover. Retailing for $250, and promising ...