Review on 💾 PNY XLR8 SSD9SC240GMDA-RB - 240GB SATA 6Gbps 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive by Johnny Chambers

FWIW. It's not clear what you're getting in this drive, but a Hardware Secrets review suggests it's an MLC drive supported by the SF-2241 controller. . Since PNY doesn't list any specs they could always pick and change for the past 2 years (UPC on the list has changed so they probably have). Anyway: Bought in 2014, lightweight but recently used as a boot drive in a laptop, repurposed as a file server. It was running 24/7 but was sitting idle as data was being downloaded to/from the external hard drive and then out of nowhere after a few seconds at every boot attempt the computer froze and blue screened. And then the laptop would not boot at all. Cannot see the SSD. Tried two other computers and neither could see the SSD (using a working SATA->USB bridge as well as a native SATA interface). Contacted PNY and sent the disc back to them hoping to get a replacement. There is currently no reason to buy OG PNY XLR8 drives because they are overpriced (0.50p/GB? No thanks). These SSDs aren't magic and have a terrible failure rate. They're not the fastest either, and especially for the money in 2016 you can get a faster, more reliable drive from any major vendor. You'll be a complete *FOIL* if you buy one of these in 2016.