PNY CS2130 500GB M.2 PCIe NVMe Gen3 x4 Internal Solid State Drive (SSD), Read up to 3,500 MB/s - M280CS2130-500-RB

At the time of buying this it is at a great value

Great speeds, great capacity, great love for life.

I bought this SSD to add to my new Samsung Galaxy Book Pro 15.6 (2021 model). The Galaxy Book Pro has an M.2 2230 SSD by default, and its hard to find a 1TB with 2230 or is expensive if it is available. Good thing the laptop has an extra M.2 2280 NVME slot for upgrades. So instead of replacing the SSD, I just got this PNY CS2130 1TB as an additional drive. The installation was quick and easy, the laptop was able to recognize and formatted it without any problem. I wont go over the details of the read/write speeds of this drive, but I can tell, this one is very snappy. I was able to open up 64 megapixels RAW images in Adobe Lightroom really quick, and exporting these images into jpegs to the drive is fast. Before, when I am exporting a hundred images to a spinning drive, I can stand up, get some coffee before it gets done. But with this setup, I dont even have time to stand for it to finish exporting a hundred images. Ive been using this drive for barely a week now, and I am impressed. If this lasts me at least 5 years, then its worth it. Highly recommendable.

Very fast and Im happy with my purchase.

Used product for new computer build.

Value for money

Muy buen m.2

Reasonably close to manufacturer claims - its 2022 after all and you cannot expect companies to be honest in their marketing. Writing less than 64GB gets you speeds that are much closer to what PNY claims this drive should be able to do.

I have been purchasing Crucial or usually Samsungs 970 EVO plus but never PNY for SSDs. I was pleasantly surprised with this ones performance, which is $20 cheaper than the rest. So far it has been performing well with all my benchmarks installation was a breeze.

Really fast for the money quality 15 sec load time on startup