PNY CS2241 500GB M.2 NVMe Gen4 x4 Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) - M280CS2241-500-RB

Was the best 2TB value at the time (cheaper than 3.0 drives). I don't regret buying it - it performs well as a system drive, can be put in older computers as well as new ones, and stays cool even when doing lots of reading (what I use it for - searching in large pdf library). About ten times faster than the drive it replaced - an external 2.5" hard drive. Still reads as 99% healthy a year in.

MX · 2026-02-01 · via amazon

Easy to install, good speeds, good drive quality and great storage capacity all my M.2s are PNY and I would recommend to anyone looking for a good priced M.2

Tyler R · 2025-10-10 · via amazon

Bought this as a new Steam drive. Works fine, no hiccoughs. Performance is excellent and the $/GB (when I bought it at least) was among the lowest out there. (Although it seems like prices have increased since.) I've had a lot of good experiences with PNY over the years, and this is another device in a long line of purchases I don't regret.

David Pierce · 2026-02-01 · via amazon

Works perfect in my Beelink ME Mini NAS.

Ozzie · 2026-03-22 · via amazon

I would not normally buy a almost new SSD, but this 4TB PNY SSD was being sold by Amazon. I was a little worried about security. PNY does not have software to secure erase or update firmware. The drive appeared to be already sanitized, but I wanted to be sure. A used drive should be secure erased both before selling and using. I booted from a USB with MINT and used Linux to sanitize. The drive supports a block level sanitize and it completed quickly. Perhaps the firmware is really so good that it is never updated. (It might happen.) I did want to refresh or update the firmware just in case it was tampered with, but this is not an option. The lack of PNY firmware support is why the 4 star instead of a 5 star. Runs "cool" for a M.2 SSD. Performs as expected on benchmarks. SMART shows typical wear for a few months read and write. The values were consistent so tampering is not likely. The power on time was only 2 hours. After using it a few days it's now at 3 hours. (This is controller active time, not the time power is supplied. It will never reach 65000 hours on my old SAMSUNG drive were the same SMART counter is the power supply time. Standards are nice, but it helps to know which one to use.) So far I'm happy with the purchase.

Rocky Road · 2026-01-10 · via amazon

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