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

Great price for a fast 1TB M.2 drive. In use for 3 months and no issues.

I have owned several ssd memories but I am loving these kind, they are a bit faster and they are hidden in the motherboard and they are pretty small.

Pc now boots in seconds instead of minutes, everything is instant. Worth the price to me.

So far, Ive been extremely impressed with the speed of my computer since I added this 1TB PNY SSD. It has been extremely reliable.

I got this as an external drive for my son at college. I dropped it into an enclosure and initialized it. It quickly showed up in my list drives. Small form factor is great for tossing in his backback for classes and labs.

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.

I like it what I was thinking

Great value for the money. Initially was looking at Samsung 970 EVO Plus for slightly more, but the specs are relatively the same. Decided to save the $$ and definitely not disappointed with my purchase. Would recommend.

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.

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