CONCLUSION

     Toshiba's Storage Division once again managed to design and manufacture a great device that can easily go up against similar products in the market regardless of price and in most situations finish first. Of course this is largely thanks to the cooperation between the brand new Marvell controller chip and the 19nm toggle NAND Flash Modules by Toshiba but since firmware also plays a large part we do expect its performance to get even better in time. However much like in the past Marvell controllers have a slight compatibility issue with some benchmarking applications (which unfortunately didn't change with the latest one) like the HD Tune Pro and AIDA64 and because of that the performance numbers we recorded in those two were nowhere near the ones we got from the remaining five. I say five and not six because we are not 100% convinced that the issue in IOmeter is a compatibility problem like with the other two (although it's very possible). If this gets resolved with a future FW update we will be sure to retest the drive and post the correct performance numbers here.

   Since the Toshiba THNSNF512GCSS 512GB SSD is a brand new product (and also because i think it was initially targeted towards system builders and not consumers) we didn't really expect to encounter good availability levels around the world and unfortunately we were more than just right. So currently we couldn't find the THNSNF512GCSS for sale anywhere inside the USA (and thus we can't comment on its price) however it retails for around 440Euros inside the EU a price tag that puts it roughly 50Euros less than the Vector 512GB by OCZ (at least in quite a few countries). With that in mind you are basically getting lightning fast top of its class performance, excellent reliability and 3 years warranty for just 0.92Euros per Gigabyte and that's more than enough for us to give our Golden Award to the THNSNF512GCSS 512GB by Toshiba.

PROS

- Build Quality (Toshiba 19nm Toggle NAND Flash/Marvell Controller)
- Blazing Fast Performance
- 477GB Of Space
- 3 Years Warranty
- Price 

CONS

- Availability
- IOmeter Performance