Among the 2.5-inch SSDs, the Samsung 870 QVO took first place with very high speed and very good programme acceleration. This also applies to the first-placed PCIe 3.0 SSD: The SK Hynix Gold P31 not only took the test victory, but also the price-performance victory. The Samsung 990 Pro did the same with the PCIe 4.0 SSDs: It also achieved the test and price-performance victory here...

The PNY XLR8 CS3140 1TB NVMe SSD offers 1,000 GB of storage space and knows only one path: forward! With excellent performance values, especially in the very important read tests, the SSD overtakes the competition and pushes itself to the top of the test field. The price-performance ratio for this first-class M.2 SSD model is good, but still inferior to the direct competition.

During daily typing, you should hardly notice which SSD is in the PC - the Transcend PCIe SSD 112S is fast enough for that. Only if you frequently move large amounts of data is it worth investing in a faster SSD. In this category, PNY XLR8 CS3140 and Seagate FireCuda 530 are very similar and the benchmark results are hardly different...