PNY CS900 500GB 3D NAND 2.5" SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) - (SSD7CS900-500-RB)

I used the PNY CS900 500GB 3D NAND SSD to store the OS for my home arcade build, and it’s been a great choice!What I love:Fast and Reliable: The 500GB storage is perfect for my setup, and the SSD provides quick boot times and seamless performance. I never have to worry about lag or slow load times when launching games.Sufficient Storage: With 500GB of space, I have plenty of room for the OS and other essential software, with room left over for some games and media.Energy Efficient: The SSD is much more power-efficient compared to traditional hard drives, helping keep my arcade setup running smoothly without putting strain on the power supply.Easy Installation: The 2.5" form factor makes it easy to mount and connect to my build. It was a breeze to set up, and it’s been running great since installation.Overall, the PNY CS900 has delivered excellent performance for my arcade, and I highly recommend it if you're building or upgrading a gaming rig, media center, or any system that needs reliable and fast storage.

I placed this in an older 27” HP All-in-one with mismatched RAM (8GB SKHynix 2666, 4GB Micron 2700) with 32 (2x16) GB of 19-19-19-43 Crucial RAM.The PNY flies! It replaced a WD Rust Spinner and everything feels like a responsive, efficient system. The RAM upgrade keeps it from bottlenecking with the i7-8700T and I’m running web development on WSL2. This drive outperforms any platter drive, and WSL installs and handles containers much better now. I know there are faster options, but this one is extremely fast per dollar and meets or exceeds all advertised speeds. I approve!

I picked this up on a lightning deal at just the right time and price. This is the 2nd drive I have bought from here. It works really well and plenty fast read and write speeds. Perfect for upgrading an older laptop with a core i7 and can only take a 2.5inch drive. The first drive I bought from here was also installed in one of my older laptops that predates mSata or NVME. I have come to really like PNY products and have bought many of their usb flash drives in the past as well, they are the best working drives I still use daily.

Great little budget ssd for an old laptop that came with a spinning HDD, much improved boot time and overall snappiness. I don't know if these have any cache, which you usually get with the more expensive models but either way it smacks around a sata HDD on all performance metrics.

It works very fast but then it slows down a lot after about 250gb of data copied.

I am transferring old files I want to save from spinning drives to SSDs. I put this one in an enclosure and have stored some of those old files on it. PNY has always been a reliable brand in my experience and I am gettin good use out of the 1 TB drive.

I added this drive to my niece's PC build I just completed as a misc. drive. No problems yet but this drive is fast and will allow her to have extra storage so her two NVME drives only have what she accesses regularly.

Replaced an older laptop hard drive (from an HP Pavilion laptop) with this PNY SSD. Plug-ins on the SSD and my hard drive were the same (as displayed on the Amazon site), and I had no issues with the installation of both the SSD and Windows. I read that some manufacturers provide a spacer, to fill in the extra space in the hard drive's drive bay; the PNY did not provide such a spacer. Was able to find a spacer on Amazon that did the job.Post installation: boot-up of the laptop with the PNY SSD seemed fast.