Product Details
- Size: 64 GB
- Color: black/metal
- Brand: PNY
- Model: P-SSD2S064GM-CT01RB
- Format: CD-ROM
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .37" h x
2.63" w x
3.93" l,
.20 pounds
- Hard Disk: 64GB
Features
- Read: 230 MB/s, Write: 100 MB/s
- Compatible with Windows 7, XP, Vista, Linux, Mac OS X and above
- 64 MB Onboard Cache, Seek Time: less than 0.1ms
- TRIM enabled - provides a safeguard from performance degradation, allowing the SSD to stay closer to peak performance over time
- mini-USB 2.0 port - storage portability
Product Description
The PNY Optima Solid State Drive is the latest offering in a suite of PNY products that factor in improving the experience in and around your personal computer. The Optima SSD is the latest in storage technology over traditional notebook hard drives, offering improved operations across your entire system in terms of superior performance, faster application loading, longer battery life and greater shock resistance. Unlike hard drives, PNY's Optima SSD has no moving parts and is comprised of MLC Flash which offers the right mix of performance and durability with 240MB/sec read and 130MB/s write speeds that easily outperform the fastest hard drives. Also featured on the drives, is 64MB of onboard cache – a DRAM buffer that ensures the SSD performs at its best by reducing the possibility of bottlenecks within data transfers. Optima’s SSDs are TRIM enabled, providing a safeguard from performance degradation – allowing the drive to stay closer to its peak performance over time. The SSD has a 2.5-inch form factor and features a SATA II interface which is backwards compatible with SATA allowing it to be an easy drop-in replacement for your notebook hard drive. The drives are compatible with Windows 7, Vista, and XP as well as Linux and Mac OS X and later.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
By Rodney Duckworth
I'll preface this by saying I am a Level 2/3 systems admin by day, so I do know my way around Windows and PC hardware, broken and not.I've had this drive since mid-August 2010 and, right off the bat, I'll say this drive is incredibly fast. I have been using 7200rpm hard drives since they existed. Always OK, but I read some good things about SSD technology and thought it was time I get on the wagon. As a boot partition, this disk replaced a 7200rpm 160GB WD drive. My boot time from the time Windows 7 Pro started loading (i.e. not counting BIOS/POST) to the login screen went from 29 seconds to 15 seconds. Blew me away. I reinstalled my games, copied all my profile data back (music/photos/documents,etc.) and got back to the way I was before the HD replacement. All was grand for a while.In late September (~1.5 months after installing), I was opening the Pictures folder and found it wouldn't open. Got an error to tune of "Could not locate data." I freaked for a second, but I have a backup, so I rebooted. On restart, chkdsk kicks off automatically (I didn't schedule it) before I get to the login screen. It scans my disk, finds an enormous list of errors in the Pictures folder, repairs them and all was well again.Then November 1. I was away for almost a week with everything shut down. Power my computer on and no Windows. BIOS sees the disk, but nothing loads. After POST, my screen goes black except for a random spattering of red, blue and green dots, about 2x2pixels each, spread all across my screen. It stayed there for hours. When I was satisfied it wasn't going to do anything else, I hit the reset button and got the same thing, only this time it only lasted a second or two before Windows 7's built-in startup troubleshooter kicked in and started scanning for problems. I tried every option available in this pre-boot area (there are many) and nothing brought my computer back. In the end, my final option was to restore from a system image backup. I did this and everything was back to normal. As far as I can tell, nothing disappeared.Then Christmas. Exact same thing. I had been away for about a week and came back to find a non-working computer. Same spattering of dots. Same failed repair. Had to restore system image.Then early February. Exact same thing again. Intense frustration led me to dig into the logs of the startup troubleshooter. I discovered the problem it was finding was that HAL.DLL was corrupt and couldn't be repaired. Using the built-in tools, I was able to replace HAL.DLL with a good copy. Restart and I made it to the login screen, pretty much. I heard the startup sound and saw the Shut Down and Ease of Access buttons at the botton of the screen, but no user names, no password box, just a black screen with the two buttons at the bottom - which worked BTW - and a new error box saying that HID.DLL was from an unrecognized version of Windows. I booted back into startup repair and replaced that file the same as I had HAL.DLL. On restart, I didn't get the error anymore, but I still had the black login screen. After more repairs and chkdsks, I threw in the towel and restored from system image again.After the latest incident I did some thinking and believe I have found a possible commonality in all three cases. I regularly put my computer in Sleep or Hibernate mode. Only when I have problems, will be away for a while, or install Windows updates that require a reboot will I actually shut down. All three times, this problem occurred after an extended period (30+ days) of not shutting down. I don't know what that means, but there's no way it's a coincidence.To wrap this up, the drive was and is very fast if you're moving from a standard hard drive to SSD; there's no doubt about that. However, the constant data corruption means this thing is useless in the long run. I would not recommend anyone purchase without a solid backup plan in place and lots of patience for system restore.At present, I haven't yet contacted PNY for warranty service. I'm sure they'll cover it albeit with a refurbished drive, no doubt. There are also no firmware updates available, so that wasn't an option.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
By Hazel McPherson
For the money, I thought that this drive would give me a fantastic improvement on my regular hdd - and it did! However, after having the drive installed for only 1 month, trouble has started and reliability of drive has made me seriously think hard about ssd's.Like others, I too am having problems with this drive in that during the last month it's been installed, twice it has randomly refused to be recognised in the BIOS. Everything installed OK, no issues at all for about a month then BSOD and on reboot drive didn't exist! I unplugged all cables to the drive and reseated and on reboot it went straight in. However, today on boot up it refuses to do anything and just sits at the HP POST screen (not had chance to investigate myself yet but suspect its the same issue as before!). How can the drive just 'get lost' ? ? Otherwise a nice speedy drive but reliability is poor :(
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
By J
I decided to get the PNY SSD for my desktop tower and was pleasantly surprised with it's performance. At $225 the PNY was cheaper than other 128GB drives. Back around the 7th of July, 2010 there weren't any reviews or people even talking about it which made it hard to know what to expect. However, because the specs looked really good, I figured why not give it a try. The first thing I did when I got my drive was to copy my Windows 7 HD partition to it using acronis. There are of course many other ways to do this, or a clean install is also good. Right off the bat I noticed that Windows 7 seemed to load in less than 1/2 the time! Originally my i7 based pc would boot from a western digital HD in about 22 seconds. But now it was like 10 to 11!! The very next thing I did was to run Crystal Disk Mark 2.2 and got a sequential read speed of 244 MB/sec! and write speed of 156 MB/sec which is way better than my HD. The 512K result got 186 for read and 147 for write. The 4K was 20.04 read and 23.46 write. It gets everything PNY was advertising. Also when I got the drive, the box has upgraded numbers that put the write speed at 150 and not 130 like Amazon describes. Sometimes it got up to 248MB/sec read and 167MB/sec write as numbers can change on subsequent tests. But all benches were in that rough range of figures. It's write speed is also quite a bit faster than Intel X-25 series drive as they only seem to get about 80 MB/sec on sequential writes.Next I loaded some favorite applications and they came up much faster. Games, browsers, video editors, studio applications etc all loaded notably faster. What I'm finding out is that the PNY is actually one of the faster SSD's on the market in it's price range, or perhaps even $75-$100 more. Of course there are faster drives out there, but I've found that many that are around double the price aren't usually that much faster. Of course there are a few ultra high end drives that are even better, but I didn't set out to buy the most expensive drive. Given that the write performance is faster than a lot of comparably priced drives out there, and maybe almost twice as fast as the Intel X25M I kind of disagree with another review here that says this is the "5400 rpm drive" of SSD's. It kind of gives the impression the PNY is like the slow, economy, version of SSD's which isn't true. I agree it's not top end, but this PNY is no slouch. In fact it may just be the best bang for the buck, in the SSD market right now. Because I "image" my HD backups I was also able to test XP. From the point it first says loading windows, I got to he desktop in 9 seconds most times, but a couple of times it was like 10 which is roughly what win 7 got. That of course could vary with the installation and depends on what kind of hardware a person has. But I'd think any one could get a boost over HD performance with this, give or take.. I also didn't have to fool around with AHCI or any other settings. I just connected it and it acted like like a regular HD. Of course that could be different on other BIOS's and motherboards, but it did work out easily for me. Plus the drive also includes TRIM. Another nice touch is they managed to fit a mini USB connector on the back of this very thin drive. Normally I'd use the SSD for a system drive, but I hooked up a USB cable and found it acts just like a giant USB flash drive. I could then walk up to any pc with USB ports and copy files with no problems. The strange thing is that PNY doesn't seem to do a very good job of advertising their drive at all. You would never know it's a good drive by visiting their site for example which is unfortunate. And few people are talking about it. That said, I give this 5 stars for being a good price per GB and faster than I expected.
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