PNY XLR8 120 GiB SSD Review

Incompressible Data Test

For this test, we set CrystalDiskMark to the default mode, which uses incompressible data.

In the sequential read test with incompressible data, the PNY XLR8 was 26% slower than the Kingston SSDNow V300. However, in the sequential write test, the XLR8 was 22% faster than the V300.

Moving on to the random read test using 512 kiB blocks, the PNY XLR8 was 29% slower than the SSDNow V300. Again, in the write test using 512 kiB blocks, the XLR8 120 GiB outperformed the V300 120 GiB by 21%.

In both the random read and write tests using 4 kiB blocks, the PNY XLR8 performed the same way as the SSDNow V300.