PNY has unveiled the CS3250, the company's latest PCIe 5.0 SSD, engineered to compete with the best SSDs on the market. The M.2 2280 drive boasts transfer speeds of up to 14.900 MB/s, making it a likely direct contender to the TeamGroup Z54E.
The company is keeping its lips tight regarding the ingredients of the CS3250. Given the release timeframe and the rated performance, it could be using Phison's latest E28 PCIe 5.0 SSD controller. On the NAND side, it's likely BiCS8 218-layer TLC flash, either from Sandisk or Kioxia. These are our speculations, which we won't be able to confirm until we review the unit. However, our sources have told us the E28 drives are favoring Sandisk BiCS8 flash, because although the flash is the same as the Kioxia one, the performance isn't.
