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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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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:

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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+.

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 03:24 PM
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BlueNarwhal5991Dec 08, 2022 03:24 PM
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Quote from michaelchute :
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.
Nope, unless you're moving files around a lot you won't be able to tell https://youtu.be/4DKLA7w9eeA
Dec 08, 2022 04:09 PM
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Hall3cDec 08, 2022 04:09 PM
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Just strickly for plex streaming to TV would this be OK without dram?
Dec 08, 2022 04:15 PM
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robrichaDec 08, 2022 04:15 PM
102 Posts
I tried to lookup the warranty and it says 3 years or TBW. 3 TBW seems incredibly small.
Dec 08, 2022 07:17 PM
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AndrepartthreeDec 08, 2022 07:17 PM
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Quote from HexiumVII :
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.
well darn Frown ... thank you for warning me about this... I got curious and did some google research and it's weird, on the one hand you have websites like PCMag and wirecutter recommending this particular hard drive .. and then you have this reddit thread which confirms what you said

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin...t_batches/

the alarming thing is I just bought a 1 TB drive crucial MX500 drive and installed it onto my daughter's desktop and on top of that I have the 500 GB version as her " C " drive - cripes I have crucial MX500's as the boot drive for all three desktop PC's based on previous positive reviews and recommendations Stick Out Tongue .. there are some conflicting reports on that reddit thread, some saying you have to worry about firmware M3CR043 or greater and others saying that it's the earlier firmware that's the problem .... I'd recommend taking a picture of any ssd drive you install into your PC so you have this info handy (though I guess technically you could go into windows any number of ways and just grab the info on demand too ) in case you need it later.

So fingers crossed my drives do not fall into the problem batch Stick Out Tongue ... The five year warranty is still personally helpful to me as far there being a good chance of my credit card company simply reimbursing me the purchase price through their extended warranty program though this is probably a great time to highlight the importance of routine backups of Windows and any of your important data files you want to keep ... from what I'm seeing online from certain forums and online reviews Macrium Reflect, even the free edition, appears to be reliable

https://www.pcworld.com/article/4...eview.html

but pcworld lists other options too

https://www.pcworld.com/article/4...vices.html

so if you have a reliable ssd (or even non sss drive) you have lying around and a sata enclosure that works via a usb cable (pretty cheap nowadays especially around black friday/winter xmas sales) you could use macrium or some other program to make a backup that "lives" away from the PC .. apparently this is the best option in case some nasty virus locks up all the drives on your PC the old "ransomware" thing ... or if you're confident everyone living in your household has the know-how to avoid this sort of thing on their computers Smilie you could just do the backups onto another drive you can install onto your PC and be content with that (just make sure you create that bootable rescue media your backup program will hopefully recommend that you make).
Dec 08, 2022 07:45 PM
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Logster99Dec 08, 2022 07:45 PM
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I got a PNY Xlr8 (Prosumer line) 2.5" MLC SSD a number of years ago and it promptly started failing after its 3 year warranty (reads were still good but writes dropped to USB 1.0 speeds):

[Read]
SEQ 1MiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 473.224 MB/s [ 451.3 IOPS] < 2213.10 us>
RND 4KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 24.590 MB/s [ 6003.4 IOPS] < 166.23 us>

[Write]
SEQ 1MiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 6.496 MB/s [ 6.2 IOPS] <156900.42 us>
RND 4KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 6.603 MB/s [ 1612.1 IOPS] < 619.01 us>

Full scan showed no errors, drive health shows good with 75% life with 21 TBW. "Assembled in USA" in their NJ factory. Opened a tech support ticket but was told it was out of warranty and the drive was no longer supported.

Never buying PNY again.
Dec 08, 2022 08:25 PM
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onewhowasDec 08, 2022 08:25 PM
194 Posts
What about this for $1 cheaper?
https://www.amazon.com/Silicon-Po...B07997QV4Z
Best Sellers Rank is #21 in Internal Solid State Drives
Dec 09, 2022 02:15 AM
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mgeoffriauDec 09, 2022 02:15 AM
631 Posts
PNY warranty and support is trash, do not recommend. They denied a warranty claim on a failed SSD because the anti-tamper sticker (which has been ruled illegal and unenforceable in court) was damaged. To be clear, the sticker was intact and not removed; one side of it was slightly peeled/scrunched up from being slid into a tight mounting bracket.
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Dec 09, 2022 06:31 PM
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SalesSizzlerDec 09, 2022 06:31 PM
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Great deal. Snagged the 500gb. Thanks OP!
Dec 09, 2022 06:53 PM
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dailydealsformeDec 09, 2022 06:53 PM
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Quote from onewhowas :
What about this for $1 cheaper?
https://www.amazon.com/Silicon-Po...B07997QV4Z
Best Sellers Rank is #21 in Internal Solid State Drives
Same question - which one is better PNY or Silicon Power
Dec 15, 2022 07:05 AM
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OutsideMeal380Dec 15, 2022 07:05 AM
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Quote from dailydealsforme :
Same question - which one is better PNY or Silicon Power
Silicon Power (mid-range) , hands down. PNY (low-end) is crap.
Dec 15, 2022 10:02 PM
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aerischanDec 15, 2022 10:02 PM
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Quote from michaelchute :
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.
Where you would see the benefit of the high sequentials is when you're copying files to/from the same SSD or when you're copying files to/from an SSD that's equally fast.

I can see video editing or batch photo editing also benefiting from fast SSDs. A lot of the typical tasks though, not so much.

Downloading/installing Steam games? Sadly capped by my 200 Mbps (25 MB/s) internet connection. Maybe game/level loading could benefit for areas that load GBs of data.

Copying files to/from NAS? Bottlenecked by gigabit ethernet (1 Gbps or 125 MB/s).

Backing up files to external HDD? Limited by HDD speeds (50-200 MB/s depending on 2.5"/3.5" HDD & RPM, file sizes, how full the drive is and fragmentation).

That said, DRAM-less drives tend to perform poorly with sustained writes. If I'm buying a 1-4TB SSD for use in a decent PC, I'd opt for Crucial MX500 or Samsung 870 EVO if I need 2.5" SATA or Samsung 980 PRO for NVMe.

Ultra cheap upgrade to a 10-year old PC with mechanical HDD? A DRAM-less SSD at <$20 for 240-250GB or <$30 for 480-500GB is fine.
Aug 30, 2023 01:49 PM
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petersmmAug 30, 2023 01:49 PM
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how do we revive this deal?

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