Designed for media storage, use as a boot drive, or as a replacement for an existing drive, the 480GB CS900 SATA III 2.5″ Internal SSD from PNY Technologies allows users to store and access up to 480GB of data. It is equipped with a SATA III 6 Gb/s interface that is compatible with SATA II 3 Gb/s and fits into your system’s 2.5″ / 7mm drive bay, providing load and access times for files and programs that are faster than those of a traditional spinning hard drive. In terms of speed, this drive offers sequential write speeds of up to 500 MB/s and sequential read speeds of up to 550 MB/s via its Triple-Level Cell (TLC) NAND flash memory. In addition to its enhanced data transfer rates, this drive also offers a life expectancy of 2 million hours MTBF, TRIM support (OS dependent), and S.M.A.R.T support.
With solid-state drive technology you benefit from load and access times for your files and programs that are faster than a conventional 7200 rpm hard drive. As SSDs have no moving parts, they are also more durable than traditional hard drives and are better protected against damage from drops and bumps. Having no moving parts also means that SSDs receive less wear and tear, as there are no read or write heads for the drive media to come into contact with. SSDs also help to deliver improved battery life and cooler operating temperatures. Supported operating systems include Windows, Mac, Linux, and Ubuntu. A 2.5mm spacer is also included, which allows this 7mm SSD to be used in 2.5″ / 9.5mm drive bays. Protection is provided by a limited 3-year warranty.
Ryleigh Upton (verified owner) –
I built my first gaming PC recently and this puppy his loads everything insanely fast!
Madeline Hills (verified owner) –
I use these 120GB SSDs for my virtual machine installs using Proxmox. VM OS installs do not need much space and these are perfect for the low power draw. Hovering around $21, these are perfect. I have many PNY SSD drives still around from years ago and only displaying 7% wearout being on 24/7. Inexpensive, quality drives.
Sunny Hill (verified owner) –
It does what I need it to do and had a good price.
Gerardo Klein (verified owner) –
So it’s a drive and it works, yay. But I learned the hard way that it won’t work as an internal boot drive in older Macs, only as external. Something to do with the Macs using Sata II. Apparently this is Sata III only and therefore not compatible.
Dina Goldner (verified owner) –
Works to upgrade older laptops/PCs to SSD
Lenora Cassin (verified owner) –
Great product and arrived on time and and very good customer service
Tracy Kautzer (verified owner) –
I purchased one recently to replace 5400rpm HDD. Improvement in performance is quite significant. I cannot provide any more information because I have been using it for only 2 weeks. So far I give it 5 stars
Jadon Johnson (verified owner) –
I bought this SSD for my Atomos Ninja Blade and its fast enough for Pro Res 422 hq the highest setting, not even a hiccup.
Lionel Hayes (verified owner) –
First SSD I’ve had that failed. This one was in an HP tablet and failed after 11 months of average use. It started giving read errors for a few days and then failed to boot. The file system is intact but if you try to read certain sectors, it goes off-line. I’ll see what the warranty people say as I don’t have the original shipping box. I’ll stick to Samsung after this as I’ve never had the slightest issue with those.
Lavern Schultz (verified owner) –
PNY did not included cloning (migrate) software. When I contact tech support they recommend use free software from internet. My comment that free software my have trojans ads and required you email address, was NOT answered. NOT RECOMENDED
Pascale Labadie (verified owner) –
desktop works very fast with this
Ed Gerlach (verified owner) –
This more than doubled my drive speed my speed! I’ve never used PNY SSDs before but certainly will again not to mention B&H always has the best prices and reliability!
Lamont Bruen (verified owner) –
Fine for a cheap boot drive for a cheap bang around laptop. Being it does not have a dram cache it is not suited for large file transfers. But for an OS drive it’s more than fine.
Aiyana Doyle (verified owner) –
The actual product had a few scratches once I pulled it out of the box. Didn’t effect the product, but still you want something totally new when you buy it.
Rudolph Hermiston (verified owner) –
Both bhPhoto and PNY are good Company to work with. If I like it you will love it. Thanks to Both.
Carlie VonRueden (verified owner) –
I have installed about a dozen of these drives into older laptops. I have not had any issues at all. In general SSDs will improve the performance over mechanical hard drives, but for top performance you want a drive with the highest IOPS. This one rates high (near 90K for both read and write) compared to most. NOTE: If you motherboard supports M.2 SSDs, that would be faster than the SATA SSDs.
Abner Goodwin (verified owner) –
I purchased two of these drives to eliminate slowness on two older laptops. Boot times and software loading and installing times are much more bearable now. I would recommend and purchase again.
Liliana O’Conner (verified owner) –
I buoyed this device for replace an 1 tb HDD for my wife’s laptop, we the difference between this SSD and the HDD same amount but different technology, now she got better performance, fast boot and more longer battery. I put this on a HP 15 laptop and no problem cloning the Windows 10 to this device totally Windows 10 started to work flawlessly without compatibility issues, no bad for the price.
Helen Torp (verified owner) –
Just got around to installing this drive and nothing will see it.
Ericka Monahan (verified owner) –
Hey it is cheap and it works