M.2 drive with 200,000 IOps R/W

Question

Recently, I've been eye-ing the PNY CS2030, and it has quite the specs to share. According to the specs, it boasts 201kIOps Read, and 215kIOps write. Additionally, it says a read speed 2.75 GB/s and write of 1.5GB/s.

I'm looking for close comparing competitors. Specifically, under the following qualifications:

• Under 150 USD
• 220 GB or more capacity
• 150k IOps in read and write or more
• At least 2GB/s read
• At least 1GB/s write
• M.2 Form Factor
• available in the US (but it doesn't have to be exclusive)

Bonus if it beast out the PNY in some aspects for its price.

Thank you all in advance!

Answer 1

That PNY SSD is pretty good, but looks like I can just barely beat you out ;)

SAMSUNG 960 EVO M.2 250GB

$128 @ newegg ships free in the US

• 250 GB
• 300,000 IOPS 4K Random Write
• 330,000 IOPS 4K Random Read
• 3.2 GB/s read
• 1.5 GB/s write
• M.2 Sata NVMe PCIe

I've had great sucess with Samsung SSD products. The cheaper Samsung evo Sata (non M.2 and slower as a result) SSDs are also a great upgrade to older computers. I personally own a 940 evo and stand by it.