PNY M280CS1030-500-RB M.2 NVMe PCIe Gen3 x4 Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

Works exactly as advertised. No complaints so far at all.

I used this to upgrade an oldish loser acer nitro suckface edition desktop that I am going to be giving to my wife for her use. I used some cloning software to move the preinstalled 5400rpm laptop hard drives data(might be why that desktop was on clearance as this was its only hd), to this so very much faster nvme ssd. Boots and is usable in seconds rather than minutes. The price was right too while on sale at $47. It has been very stable, though only had it for less than two months and only home to use it for about two weeks of that. I think she will definitely like the performance of this with a larger monitor, over using just a cheap laptop for her surfing and blogging needs.

I originally bought it for my older laptop before getting a new one about 3 years ago and sticking it in as a secondary drive in the new one. It still runs strong to this day and will probably transplant it into the new desktop I'm building. It's still plenty fast with only large files 50+gb taking awhile to duplicate on the same drive. For copying a lot of smaller files it is still very fast. Reading the steam library is also still fast for being gen 3. It's a good workhorse and definitely got my money's worth out of it.

I had a 13 inch Macbook AIr Early 2015 model running macOS 12.5 with 8GB RAM and a paltry 128GB SSD. I purchased this PNY CS1030 500GB SSD, installed it into a SSK SHE-C325 NVMe USB C enclosure, attached it to the Mac, and used Carbon Copy Cloner 6 to perform a "Legacy Bootable Copy" to the drive.Then I opened up the Mac and swapped the SSD (using an Macbook-NVMe adapter for the new drive to get it to fit) and it worked like a charm. Came right up, saw the extra space etc.Sequential write speeds with the stock 128GB drive were ~300MBps write and ~1100MBps read. With the new drive they're ~1100MBps write and ~1300MBps read.I will say that if your Mac doesn't see the drive after installing it, double check that you seated it properly. Try to remove it and reseat it and really make sure you push it in firmly all the way. The SSD plus adapter is pretty long and when fully seated I couldn't tighten the retaining screw all the way down. But it was still snug and I was able to button up the machine without issue.

I paired this with the SSK Aluminum M.2 NVME SATA SSD (10gbps) Enclosure Adapter and it works great. Didn't need blazing fast speeds and wanted to minimize heat. I'm getting write speeds of 920.9MB/s and read of 561.5MB/s when I use USB-C to USB-C on my Mac mini, which is fast enough for me. When I use USB-C to USB-3 I get a little over 400MB/s for both read and write. The SSD does run pretty cool. I went with PNY because I've had PNY thumb drives that I've abused for many years and still work. Will update if there are any problems with this SSD. Would recommend! 4 1/2 stars

Purchased this to replace my old 256 GB SK hynix BC511 which was my main system drive in a 2020 HP TE01. I used an enclosure and cloned the old drive on to this and it booted up on the first go and seems to be running well so far. Definately an upgrade. One thing I will say is Acronis's free cloning software for PNY doesn't recognize this drive so I had to find another free cloning program. I was suprised because PNY is listed as one of the companies that acronis is supposed to support, but not this drive apparently. Anyway, that aside, this seems to be a great unit to upgrade an older machine. Hopefully it will be reliable in the long term.

Great for the price

Excelente producto