PNY Optima SSD

[LogicalDrm]

I'm helping friend upgrade system and he saw this 480gb drive on sale for 180€. While competition is at 350€ I find price bit suspicious. I told him that this drive is on middle level, basicly same with my HyperX 3K. Any thoughts if this is good deal or not? I can still have him change the order.

[Jade]

IIRC, PNY was switching the consumer products with lower grade stuff, after getting good reviews and all that. May be wrong though.

[LogicalDrm]

IIRC, PNY was switching the consumer products with lower grade stuff, after getting good reviews and all that. May be wrong though.

 

I read that too. But was it mentioned which series were affected? I mean XLR8 is their better product line and Optima is the lower end stuff.

[VulsaviiK]

Try and look for some reviews on the drive maybe. 180 euros seems sketchy as hell for a 480gb SSD, full stop, assuming my understanding of the european market is correct

[GloriousPain]

I'm helping friend upgrade system and he saw this 480gb drive on sale for 180€. While competition is at 350€ I find price bit suspicious. I told him that this drive is on middle level, basicly same with my HyperX 3K. Any thoughts if this is good deal or not? I can still have him change the order.

yeah that's a bit suspicious make sure it's not used or something.

[Peter Vaughan Truslow]

performance will not be up to par with the higher end brands, neither will reliability. it does have value though. as long as it doesn't fail on them, which is unlikely under most consumer workloads, most consumers won't know the difference in performance and won't use the missing features.

if he gets it and it lasts a month, it will probably last several years. I bought budget SSDs (a 96gb OCZ vertex 3 for $90 when any SSD under $140 was a good deal and a 120gb Agility 3 for $65 when 120gb under $100 was unheard of) and they are still kicking, the vertex 3 getting the most torture being in a PC that is always on and used as a media center in which live TV is being cached on the SSD for pausing and rewinding. now that I think of it, that's probably REALLY bad for a budget consumer SSD. I should check how much has been written to it. I'll bet it's over 50 TB by now

[Peter Vaughan Truslow]

performance will not be up to par with the higher end brands, neither will reliability. it does have value though. as long as it doesn't fail on them, which is unlikely under most consumer workloads, most consumers won't know the difference in performance and won't use the missing features.

if he gets it and it lasts a month, it will probably last several years. I bought budget SSDs (a 96gb OCZ vertex 3 for $90 when any SSD under $140 was a good deal and a 120gb Agility 3 for $65 when 120gb under $100 was unheard of) and they are still kicking, the vertex 3 getting the most torture being in a PC that is always on and used as a media center in which live TV is being cached on the SSD for pausing and rewinding. now that I think of it, that's probably REALLY bad for a budget consumer SSD. I should check how much has been written to it. I'll bet it's over 50 TB by now

to be exact, 14000 power on hours and 11000GB written. that's 11 TB written to a budget SSD

[Ren]

PNY wasn't doing anything sketchy, people just misread shit. Kingston was actually swapping out components and advertising it as unchanged or something along those lines..

 

 

The drive is not terrible nor a bad deal at that price but I'd prefer to buy Crucial M500/550 for a bit more.

Edit: Kingston HyperX 3K drives weren't the screwed up ones, either.

[LogicalDrm]

Try and look for some reviews on the drive maybe. 180 euros seems sketchy as hell for a 480gb SSD, full stop, assuming my understanding of the european market is correct

 

Reviews from Tweaktown etc give high scores. Newegg has 3 starts, but I don't trust them to be very helpful since just slow delivery can be enough for bad review.

[PhantomChevron]

My friend has one, it is a pretty good budget SSD, and it does things pretty well, it is not a bad choice if your friend plans on getting it

[Manny Calavera]

PNY wasn't doing anything sketchy, people just misread shit. Kingston was actually swapping out components and advertising it as unchanged or something along those lines..

 

 

The drive is not terrible nor a bad deal at that price but I'd prefer to buy Crucial M500/550 for a bit more.

Edit: Kingston HyperX 3K drives weren't the screwed up ones, either.

v300 ones were however

 

why m500 or 550 when MX100 is dirt cheap

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/parts/internal-hard-drive/#sort=a6&qq=1&t=0

 

256 gb for 100$, put in raid 0 x 2

[Dimwitted]

Actually what happened was PNY had to change the controller in an already reviewed drive. They didn't bother to tell anybody and it came out. The bad thing was it happened at the same time as the Kingston debacle and nobody was interested in realizing that the controller was better than the press samples. So they *improved* their drives and got tarred with the same brush as Kingston.

[hojnikb]

Just get mx100 512gb

its even cheaper and performs better

[LogicalDrm]

Just get mx100 512gb

its even cheaper and performs better

 

That actually would be cheaper if PNY wasn't on sale, now its 20€ more expensive.