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

Works with my ASRock A520M-ITX motherboard. No complaints.

Ive been a fan of PNY for years and this 1TB SSD was at a great price and worth getting. This is the 2280 size, which is the longest, so do make sure you have the space for it if youre putting it in a laptop or enclosure. Mine sits in an enclosure and does backups for me. Great price point on a solid drive.

Used product for new computer build.

I bought this hard drive as secondary storage for my 1-year-old laptop. The system recognized it as a hard drive, but it would not initialize for set up. After reinstalling it twice, I left it alone in the computer, not adding any files. But its presence alone cause my laptop to overheat, sending the fans into overdrive anytime the computer was on for more than three minutes. At first I thought bought the wrong kind of hard drive or that there was something wrong with the computer. I replaced this drive with a SanDisk model of the same type of hard drive. That one worked instantly. I could set up partitions and save files on it right away. So far, the computer is not overheat nor are the fans operating like an airplane propellers. Based on the second hard drive, I think that this PNY hard drive is a dud. Spend more money and get a better brand.

You can not go wrong with PNY products. I have used them for years and have never had to send anything back. Their stuff just works. I bought this as a replacement hard drive, and it clipped right in, and does its job perfectly. My machine had a slower card in it before, so this one is noticeably faster. Excellent experience, their instructions were right on the money, easy install and on and on. Worth every penny.

Read and write times are lower than described but it still does its thang.

Faster loading for my laptop easy intall!

product was as advertised and arrived early

Product fit my motherboard well, and installation was a breeze. Drive cloning went very smoothly as well.

Update: read speeds are only 1800 MB/s, which is very disappointing since this drive is advertised to reach up to 3000 MB/s. Have to knock off 2 stars for that. Better than a SATA drive, but spend the extra money to buy a Samsung 800 or 900 series. Works flawlessly on an ASRock Z170 Pro4. Installed Windows 10 to this drive with no issues. File copy speeds far surpass those of my old sata SSD (and especially my old HDD too). Bought mainly because in January 2021, this 1 TB NVME SSD had the fewest top critical reviews on Amazon. Will update if I have any issues.