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

First m2 SSD drive. My tests were around 3000 Read up as described. Killer price too. 5 stars

There’s not so much to say, fast great looking M.2 drive, it delivers great performance and capacity at a great price, awesome product from PNY here.

Value for money

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

Product purchased to install in spare m.2 slot in my laptop. Windows disk manager made quick work of initializing and formatting the drive. 2TB is nice additional storage for games, music, photos, and videos. No screw was provided to secure the SSD in the slot is the reason for the 4 stars. I had to find one inside the chassis and then remove the unused SSD bracket I took it out of so it wasnt loose. Make sure youre comfortable pulling the necessary cover off your laptop to install it. Thirteen tiny screws and a credit card were required to remove the entire bottom of my laptop. Warranty likely voided. Oh well.

Have no complaints. Plug and play fast storage. Doesn’t run too hot or anything that would cause any issues. Definitely recommend this for a budget blazing fast storage option.

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.

All my usual retailers were out of stock, or overpriced. Also, it was great to be able to see the country of origin!