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1TB PNY CS900 2.5" SATA III Internal Solid State Drive

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Various Retailers have 1TB PNY CS900 2.5" SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD7CS900-1TB-RB) for $57.99. Shipping is free or choose curbside pickup where stock permits.

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Available:Key Features:
  • 1TB Storage Capacity
  • 2.5"/7mm Form Factor
  • SATA III 6 Gb/s Interface
  • Up to 515 MB/s Sequential Write Speed
  • Up to 535 MB/s Sequential Read Speed
  • Triple-Level Cell NAND Flash Memory
  • 2 Million Hours MTBF
  • TRIM Support (OS Dependent)
  • 2.5mm Spacer Included for 9.5mm Bays
  • Windows, Mac, Linux & Ubuntu Compatible

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Various Retailers have 1TB PNY CS900 2.5" SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD7CS900-1TB-RB) for $57.99. Shipping is free or choose curbside pickup where stock permits.

Thanks to Deal Hunter choafun for finding this deal.

Note, pickup availability will vary by location.

Available:Key Features:
  • 1TB Storage Capacity
  • 2.5"/7mm Form Factor
  • SATA III 6 Gb/s Interface
  • Up to 515 MB/s Sequential Write Speed
  • Up to 535 MB/s Sequential Read Speed
  • Triple-Level Cell NAND Flash Memory
  • 2 Million Hours MTBF
  • TRIM Support (OS Dependent)
  • 2.5mm Spacer Included for 9.5mm Bays
  • Windows, Mac, Linux & Ubuntu Compatible

Editor's Notes

Written by SlickDealio
  • About this deal:
    • This price is $38 lower (40% savings) than the list price of $95.99.
  • About this product:
    • Rating of 4.7 from over 20,000 Amazon customer reviews.
  • About this store:
  • Please read the Forum Thread for more deal discussion.

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schlack
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It's not even extra. Can find those for the same price from TeamGroup. Though some people need a 2.5" drive and not an M.2 so there's that use case.
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ben7337
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Nice to see prices dropping, but I can't help but feel an nvme drive would be worth the little extra.
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WingsOfF
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DRAM affects the effective transfer speed. The read/write specs given for SSDs are PEAK speeds in the most ideal conditions (empty SSD, amortized over larger reads and writes, etc). The actual speeds varies quite a bit. DRAMless SSDs generally provide lower speeds than SSDs with DRAM because the translation tables on where to find or store data are stored on the slower NAND which needs to be looked up or written to at every separate I/O. The more the SSD is filled up, the worse it gets. Also, the internal processing within SSD to move things around for wear leveling, etc., gets slow. The random access speeds really suffer.

The nvme drives don't suffer as much because the protocol allows dramless nvme SSDs to use memory on the host computer. SATA drives cannot do that. Dramless SATA drives made sense when SSDs with dram were really expensive and these brought SSDs into affordable range. That premise isn't as strong anymore.

They will still be faster than using HDDs, so if that is the bar to judge, then it doesn't matter but if the premium for an SSD with dram is marginal especially amortized over the life of that SSD, then why bother with dramless?

If you just sequentially read and write files of the order of 80GB without any random access, then the problem won't be as bad with dramless. The size of the SLC cache will be more critical for writes.
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Oct 5, 2022 2:53 AM
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sillywabbittwixOct 5, 2022 2:53 AM
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delete please
Last edited by sillywabbittwix October 4, 2022 at 08:10 PM.
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Oct 5, 2022 3:16 AM
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TonyT7302Oct 5, 2022 3:16 AM
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Amazon also has the PNY 2TB SSD on the same page for $169.95 23%off original price. @$85/TB
Oct 5, 2022 3:49 AM
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sixtyfpsOct 5, 2022 3:49 AM
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Should work fine for a PS2 drive. (Nope, not a typo!)
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Oct 5, 2022 5:19 AM
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Stevendom1987Oct 5, 2022 5:19 AM
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Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank

Quote from WingsOfF View quoted comment :
Not a good price for a dramless SATA drive. Avoid dramless SATA in particular, the worst of all worlds.

Worth the upgrade to Crucial MX500 in the 70s and dropping.
Why is dramless bad, save me the Google lol. I just need a drive to transfer large files onto temporarily, like 80gb raw video files before I edit them on a different machine. They get deleted afterwards.

Only thing I thought was important for me is transfer speed?
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Oct 5, 2022 9:36 AM
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slimdunkin117Oct 5, 2022 9:36 AM
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Quote from Stevendom1987 View quoted comment :
Why is dramless bad, save me the Google lol. I just need a drive to transfer large files onto temporarily, like 80gb raw video files before I edit them on a different machine. They get deleted afterwards.

Only thing I thought was important for me is transfer speed?
it's not "bad". Normally drives store where everything is on the nand chips, which are slower than dram..dram ssds store all the data on nand, but the file "array" on the dram itself..so it can find the file faster for access.

in your case you don't need it and the difference isn't too large anyway
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Oct 5, 2022 9:48 AM
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maxman11Oct 5, 2022 9:48 AM
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Quote from ben7337 View quoted comment :
Nice to see prices dropping, but I can't help but feel an nvme drive would be worth the little extra.
If you need 1 or 2 drives nvme is faster, but if you want to connect 10 drives, sata is easier. If you have an older computer sata is easier.

There are only so many fast lanes for nvme.
Oct 5, 2022 2:43 PM
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db1014Oct 5, 2022 2:43 PM
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I have 20 bux in BB credit that is expiring soon. Guess I'm grabbing this for my PS4 or XboxOne. Yes, I have old system.

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Oct 5, 2022 3:01 PM
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jlong129Oct 5, 2022 3:01 PM
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Quote from ben7337 View quoted comment :
Nice to see prices dropping, but I can't help but feel an nvme drive would be worth the little extra.
My 2 NVME slots are full as well as PCIE. Limited on space is why I can't pay the extra without having to do several upgrades. But my use case is probably not the norm.
Oct 5, 2022 4:05 PM
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turtle34x1Oct 5, 2022 4:05 PM
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Just FYI: 1TB PNY CS900 2.5" has 450 TBW
Oct 5, 2022 5:29 PM
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WingsOfFOct 5, 2022 5:29 PM
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Quote from Stevendom1987 View quoted comment :
Why is dramless bad, save me the Google lol. I just need a drive to transfer large files onto temporarily, like 80gb raw video files before I edit them on a different machine. They get deleted afterwards.

Only thing I thought was important for me is transfer speed?
DRAM affects the effective transfer speed. The read/write specs given for SSDs are PEAK speeds in the most ideal conditions (empty SSD, amortized over larger reads and writes, etc). The actual speeds varies quite a bit. DRAMless SSDs generally provide lower speeds than SSDs with DRAM because the translation tables on where to find or store data are stored on the slower NAND which needs to be looked up or written to at every separate I/O. The more the SSD is filled up, the worse it gets. Also, the internal processing within SSD to move things around for wear leveling, etc., gets slow. The random access speeds really suffer.

The nvme drives don't suffer as much because the protocol allows dramless nvme SSDs to use memory on the host computer. SATA drives cannot do that. Dramless SATA drives made sense when SSDs with dram were really expensive and these brought SSDs into affordable range. That premise isn't as strong anymore.

They will still be faster than using HDDs, so if that is the bar to judge, then it doesn't matter but if the premium for an SSD with dram is marginal especially amortized over the life of that SSD, then why bother with dramless?

If you just sequentially read and write files of the order of 80GB without any random access, then the problem won't be as bad with dramless. The size of the SLC cache will be more critical for writes.
Last edited by WingsOfF October 5, 2022 at 10:31 AM.
Oct 5, 2022 6:20 PM
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dshopprOct 5, 2022 6:20 PM
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Quote from db1014 View quoted comment :
I have 20 bux in BB credit that is expiring soon. Guess I'm grabbing this for my PS4 or XboxOne. Yes, I have old system.
Can this be used for Xbox One S?
Oct 5, 2022 7:17 PM
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LiCelsiorOct 5, 2022 7:17 PM
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I'd avoid this model specifically, they are prone to go bad. I had purchased a Skytech Gaming Rig in Jan 2020 that came with this SSD and it crapped out in March 2021. Thinking it was possibly a power surge that killed it I purchased another one to replace this and started with a blank state of Windows. Aug 2022, it died again and after doing some research, there were others complaining that they had experienced the same issues. Luckily I reached out to PNY and they warrantied both but now i've moved onto a Samsung 870EVO.

So if you do purchase this, make sure to backup the drive periodically.
Oct 6, 2022 4:41 PM
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potenzaSDOct 6, 2022 4:41 PM
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Can you use something like this SATA to USB c cable to turn this internal drive into external storage on the cheap? https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-c...B0133F30R8
Oct 7, 2022 6:00 PM
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princebargainOct 7, 2022 6:00 PM
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Quote from potenzaSD View quoted comment :
Can you use something like this SATA to USB c cable to turn this internal drive into external storage on the cheap? https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-c...B0133F30R8
Bump same question

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Oct 7, 2022 10:26 PM
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BorisZX6ROct 7, 2022 10:26 PM
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Quote from heythanks5 View quoted comment :
Does anyone have any recommendations for an internal ps4 drive? Something less than $100?
Right here

edit: scratch that I thought it was ps5 drive you are looking for...

ps4 should be fine with this

Limited-time deal: Crucial MX500 1TB 3D NAND SATA 2.5 Inch Internal SSD, up to 560MB/s - CT1000MX500SSD1 https://a.co/d/9pwLx5W
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