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expiredBluegrassPicker posted Dec 06, 2022 05:36 PM

PNY CS900 3D NAND 2.5" SATA III SSD: 500GB $27, 240GB

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B&H Photo Video has PNY CS900 3D NAND 2.5" SATA III Solid State Drives on sale from $16.99 (discount will show in cart). Shipping costs start at $3.99 or are free for the 500GB.

Available:Features:
  • Exceptional performance offering up to 550MB/s seq. Read and 500MB/s seq. Write speeds
  • Superior performance as compared to traditional hard drives (HDD)
  • Ultra-low power consumption
  • Backwards compatible with SATA II 3GB/sec

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Amazon has PNY CS900 3D NAND 2.5" SATA III Solid State Drives on sale from $16.99. Shipping is free w/ Prime or on orders of $25+.

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B&H Photo Video has PNY CS900 3D NAND 2.5" SATA III Solid State Drives on sale from $16.99 (discount will show in cart). Shipping costs start at $3.99 or are free for the 500GB.

Available:Features:
  • Exceptional performance offering up to 550MB/s seq. Read and 500MB/s seq. Write speeds
  • Superior performance as compared to traditional hard drives (HDD)
  • Ultra-low power consumption
  • Backwards compatible with SATA II 3GB/sec

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Written by powerfuldoppler | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • This price is $23 lower (58% savings) than the list price of $39.99.
  • About this product:
  • About this store:

Expired:

Amazon has PNY CS900 3D NAND 2.5" SATA III Solid State Drives on sale from $16.99. Shipping is free w/ Prime or on orders of $25+.

Thanks to Community Member BluegrassPicker for finding this deal.

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Model: PNY Technologies CS900 500GB SATA III 2.5" Internal SSD

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edm203
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For everyday use, they are the same. Lots of youtube videos compare loading games, and performance is very similar. Those numbers mean nothing.

nvme is easier to install, however.
harley48
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Folks, you need to LOOK at the drives.
Normal 2.5 SATA, and an M.2 SATA, NOT M.2 NVME. So....same speed.
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Sold by Amazon. This qualifies for 30% off when you use any amount of Discover rewards. I used a penny of Discover rewards and charged the rest to my Discover card for another 5% off. Only $18 + tax for 500 GB.

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Dec 08, 2022 01:39 AM
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Luigis3rdcousinDec 08, 2022 01:39 AM
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I've built a couple computers with this drive. For basic computing it's fine. Nothing special. It's probably one of the slower SSDs but anything is better than a mechanical drive.

Having said that this is what I discovered. If you download more than 1-2GB of data, the write speed will crawl down to 30-70mbps because of the lack of a dram cache. Which can be super dumb if your installing a game onto it or transferring data back to the drive.

I've done this test on other dram cacheless drives and have gotten similar results except for Kingston and crucial BX series. I've done similar tests with 5-10gb and they still didn't slow down to micro sd memory card speeds.
Dec 08, 2022 01:40 AM
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Luigis3rdcousinDec 08, 2022 01:40 AM
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But it's nice to see cheap 240gb ssds become the price of what they were going for at 120gb
Dec 08, 2022 01:44 AM
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AndrepartthreeDec 08, 2022 01:44 AM
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I guess everyone here has had better luck than me with this particular ssd drive and who knows maybe I just got unlucky Smilie .. it performed just fine running Windows 8 on one desktop PC (obviously this was years ago when these drives were selling for full price) ... but the other desktop PC had problems including frequent blue screens of death ...

.... soon after installing them my kids decided they liked Win 10 better anyways and were booting over to the hard drive with that operating system instead so the one problem drive went unnoticed ... booted into the problem drive as I did every now and then to update Win 8 anyways (programs on Win 8 I want to keep I can't migrate to Win 10 long story) and the one drive could not recover no matter what I did... I ended up just ditching Win 8 on that PC completely as I should have done a long time ago, tried plugging the problem PNY drive into another PC and got the could not do input/output error so it looks like the drive failed completely and within it's 3 year warranty period.

I was lucky in that my credit card just paid me for what I purchased it for back then thanks to the extended warranty a lot of credit card companies offer.. and again I could have just had the bad luck of getting a not so great drive.

One thing I've noticed in my research is the need for a reliable drive if you're going to use it for say Windows given all the read/writes Windows does to a drive... I would personally pay more if it's going to be a Windows drive and go with something like this

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0781VS...PDGS3?th=1

tom's hardware has rated it the best budget ssd drive four years in a row... on the other hand as others have said if you're upgrading a very old PC you don't want to spend a lot of money on anyways then no harm in grabbing these PNY drives and seeing how it goes ... they'll definitely be faster than any non ssd drive, I'm just wondering how reliable they'll be as time goes on.
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Dec 08, 2022 01:44 AM
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ZeoDec 08, 2022 01:44 AM
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Quote from MistaOtter :
Well, I was quoting someone whom was already suggesting a product at MicroCenter. I was just offering another alternative for those who could take advantage.
I didn't mean you shouldn't post a better deal, it's just disheartening to see good deals we can't get at and have to settle for crappier ones from Amazon, Best Buy and the like.
Dec 08, 2022 01:47 AM
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FaithfulTest5283Dec 08, 2022 01:47 AM
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Is this really a deal? The MSRP is just $16 for the 240GB. https://www.pny.com/ssd-cs900?sku...900-240-RB
Dec 08, 2022 01:54 AM
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SwennyDec 08, 2022 01:54 AM
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I know I'm just one person, but mine failed less than 3 months in. Check out my review. Buyer beware

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/revi...ENT&page=2
Dec 08, 2022 02:11 AM
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siddmonDec 08, 2022 02:11 AM
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Prices increased, cannot repro it

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Dec 08, 2022 02:47 AM
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qoiqpwqrDec 08, 2022 02:47 AM
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Apple charges you $200 more if you go for 512GB from 256GB SSD. That's crazy.
Dec 08, 2022 03:44 AM
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NavyWeather4666Dec 08, 2022 03:44 AM
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I've sold probably a 100 to 150 of these over the past couple years and we are getting lots of failures. Look up PNY satafirm controller failures.
Dec 08, 2022 05:19 AM
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atoneaponeDec 08, 2022 05:19 AM
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Quote from NavyWeather4666 :
I've sold probably a 100 to 150 of these over the past couple years and we are getting lots of failures. Look up PNY satafirm controller failures.
I've had a smaller 128gb pny ssd in my laptop for 4 years now, and all still seems fine. But I rarely use the old laptop, and when I do it's only for about an hour or less, ran it much more 2 years ago, but very infrequent past couple years.
But yes, I can believe a normal everyday or relatively frequently used device with these could fail based on what you say, and reviews.
Dec 08, 2022 05:37 AM
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scholzpdxDec 08, 2022 05:37 AM
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Quote from edm203 :
For everyday use, they are the same. Lots of youtube videos compare loading games, and performance is very similar. Those numbers mean nothing.

nvme is easier to install, however.
Agree with this. I use a PCIe 4.0 NVMe in my desktop at home, but also have a SATA 3 SSD booting desktop as well. It's not noticeably slower as everything loads snappy and responsively.
Dec 08, 2022 06:34 AM
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BrendanBDec 08, 2022 06:34 AM
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Quote from jizames :
lol good luck with your dram-less ssd, they are trash on PS4.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PS4/comm...d/gb7u7nm/
Thanks for the heads up, that could save me a headache. For $27, I'll take the gamble. If it works, great, if not, I'll know why. Thank you!
Dec 08, 2022 08:40 AM
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michaelchuteDec 08, 2022 08:40 AM
209 Posts
All these people saying you won't notice the difference between NVME and SATA drives are crazy. You'll definitely notice the difference unless youre only using your computer for simple tasks like web browsing or watching videos. SATA tops out at about 550 mb/s. A good gen 4 NVME transfers 7300+ mb/s. And gen 5 is starting to roll out now and is supposed to be twice as fast as gen 4.

SATA drives arent bad and its still a huge upgrade over traditional HDD's. Im still using mine for the OS and everything else except games. But if your mobo has a M.2 slot you should be using a NVME drive.
Last edited by michaelchute December 8, 2022 at 12:48 AM.
Dec 08, 2022 01:19 PM
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HexiumVIIDec 08, 2022 01:19 PM
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Quote from Andrepartthree :
I guess everyone here has had better luck than me with this particular ssd drive and who knows maybe I just got unlucky Smilie .. it performed just fine running Windows 8 on one desktop PC (obviously this was years ago when these drives were selling for full price) ... but the other desktop PC had problems including frequent blue screens of death ...

.... soon after installing them my kids decided they liked Win 10 better anyways and were booting over to the hard drive with that operating system instead so the one problem drive went unnoticed ... booted into the problem drive as I did every now and then to update Win 8 anyways (programs on Win 8 I want to keep I can't migrate to Win 10 long story) and the one drive could not recover no matter what I did... I ended up just ditching Win 8 on that PC completely as I should have done a long time ago, tried plugging the problem PNY drive into another PC and got the could not do input/output error so it looks like the drive failed completely and within it's 3 year warranty period.

I was lucky in that my credit card just paid me for what I purchased it for back then thanks to the extended warranty a lot of credit card companies offer.. and again I could have just had the bad luck of getting a not so great drive.

One thing I've noticed in my research is the need for a reliable drive if you're going to use it for say Windows given all the read/writes Windows does to a drive... I would personally pay more if it's going to be a Windows drive and go with something like this

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0781VS...PDGS3?th=1

tom's hardware has rated it the best budget ssd drive four years in a row... on the other hand as others have said if you're upgrading a very old PC you don't want to spend a lot of money on anyways then no harm in grabbing these PNY drives and seeing how it goes ... they'll definitely be faster than any non ssd drive, I'm just wondering how reliable they'll be as time goes on.
Unfortunately the MX500 has lots of failures now and it is not the same drive it was 3-5 years ago. Some system admins have posted that half of these drives dying after deploying like 500 of them.
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Dec 08, 2022 01:42 PM
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IndigoPickle3000Dec 08, 2022 01:42 PM
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I got the WD blue sata SSD 500gb for $29 is this one any better ?

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