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

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

It worked as advertised. I ran the CrystalDiskMark 8.0.0 X64 and got 3469 Read and 1914 Write speeds. Note that this is for the 1TB model and speeds may be different from the 500GB or 2TB models.

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

Good. Inexpensive. Works on Mac. Not the fastest drive, just the most compatible for Mac.

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 upgraded my internal PC HDD with this SSD mounted in my PCI-E slot and its roughly 100x faster than my old drive! very happy.

Great product, price, and supplier! Easy install & upgrade on Dell Inspiron 16. M.2 recognized by system on start up after going into storage manager under Win11 and formatting. Great performance.

Great Drive if you can afford an NVME M.2 And can use it in your computer dont hesitate to add this one. Ive trusted PNY drives for years and theyve never let me down yet.

Added to my Acer Nitro5 laptop for game storage. When I moved my Steam library from the current SSD to this one, it was absolutely shocking. I should have benchmarked it, but I have literally never seen data move that fast, this is the fastest storage deice I have ever owned. Ive had it for about a year now I think, and its flawless.

Used for the 2nd drive in my laptop and working great, easy to install