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The CS2211 comes in a small, black and white box. Along with a picture of the drive, the front advertises a number of its key features including its 480GB capacity, 2.5-inch form factor, SATA 6Gbps interface and 3 year warranty. The back of the box provides a bit more information regarding its features and specifications.
PNY doesn't include a lot of extras with the CS1311. In addition to the SSD, the box contains a mounting spacer for use with traditional 9.5mm drive bays as well as a small, fold out guide with instructions on how to download, install and activate the included Acronis data migration software.
Physical Features:
Like PNY's other SSDs, the CS1311 is very well constructed. The outer casing is made entirely out of metal and is covered by a nice, matte black finish. The top of the drive is also covered by a large black and red sticker with a white "PNY" logo on it
Like the CS2211, the CS1311 uses Phison's PS3110-S10 controller chip. The PS3110-S10 is powered by a quad-core CPU and supports up to 8 NAND flash channels as well as features like end-to-end data path protection, SmartECC error correction and AES encryption. The controller also supports Device Sleep (DEVSLP) but for whatever reason it is not enabled on the CS1311.
For the CS1311, PNY opted to use Toshiba's 15nm TLC NAND flash. Looking at the pictures above, you can see that there are eight 64GB NAND flash packages on the top of the PCB. The drive also has a single 512MB NANYA DDR3L SDRAM memory chip that is used for caching and garbage collection.
