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

a must if your motherboard supports a CPU controlled M.2 slot. PC will boots like it was only sleeping, not all the way off.

Really love this SSD as I am able to remove my older 1tb HDD and 256 external SSD, very slim and small and doesnt need wires to hook it up. One big issue that I found though was that it did not come with the full 2TBs of storage as advertised, instead when I did a clean windows 10 install and formatted the SSD, it only came to 1.8 TBs, missing 200gbs of extra storage that was supposed to be on it. The speed of downloading and installing games is incredible and launching games is now even faster.

I like it what I was thinking

I bought this for a new PC build. Its running on a Asus ROG Strix B460-H gaming motherboard and a i7-10700KF. I have added two images showing the speeds. One from CrystalDisk and the other UserBenchMark website. Using CrystalDiskInfo i was getting temperatures at 44C. My motherboard has a heat-sink that sits on the top of this.

When I first installed the SSD, the sequential write speeds did reach up to 3000MB/s. Now that it is nearly full (88%) the sequential write speed has fallen to ~1000MB/s. I used to have the Samsung 970EVO 500GB and that drive was fast but I was struggling with the capacity as you can tell since I have already used up 88% of 2TiB. The performance difference to me is not perceivable so I would take the 2TiB capacity over the fast and consistent speeds. (1000MB/s sequential write is still good enough for me). I dont do any photo/video editing or any I/O heavy tasks, only use the drive for my OS, games, web browsing/e-mails, discord, etc. Using the Final Fantasy XIV Shadowbringers Benchmark, my average total load times were about 14.5 seconds which is extremely good considering that my friend who has a 1TiB Samsung 980 Pro has total load times of about 11.5 seconds. If the price difference isnt too much, probably go for the XLR8 or CS3030 drive instead for the consistent write speeds. Im assuming that drive will perform better as it fills up (they have the same specs at 2TiB). All in all, I am satisfied with my purchase

I bought 2 different modules and neither worked in my MSI GT72 2QD Dominator. Whatever is going on, the PNY SSD is preventing my PC from even turning on. I thought the first module may have been defective, so I bought a replacement. Probably a good product if it works. Easy return so thats why its a 3 star as opposed to a 1 star.

instalado y en perfectas condición. el equipo trabaja perfectamente. muy buen desempeño.

PNY es de las mejores marcas que he usado, cumple las velocidades que promete a un muy buen precio

I love the capacity, having 4 TB of fast storage is amazing and the lack of sata cables makes building a new rig much easier. id confidently recommend this generic 4 TB m.2 nvme drive to anyone who is requiring more storage and has a free slot open but only if they can find it for less than 450 dollars shipped any more expensive just get a sata 2.5 inch ssd. this is my secondary drive filled with mostly AAA games and mods for fo4. I have some powerful programs and media work being done on this storage device aswell. With that being said i doubt ill recommend it as an OS drive, but for anything else go for it just what that price tag. my 2022 pc build i7 12700k [OC 5.0 all pcore / e core stock] noctua NH-U12A chromax balck. MSI ZTRIO RTX 3080 12GB LHR MSI Z690I UNIFY DDR5 GSKILL RIPJAWS 5200 2TB SAMSUNG 980PRO GEN4 M.2 NVME 4TB PNY CS2130 monitor LG 27GP83B-B

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.