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Works on PS5 m.2 expansion bay.

Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2021

It’s been working great on my ps5. It’s been in my system since the latest SSD expansion update was released and upon installing it I got 5636 sequential read speed. Sony calls for 5500 and honestly I think anything too far above that at this point is just to brag about the brand and speed. Just a heads up everyone, we are not gaming at 8K! So this thing should be plenty of speed, I play cold war off of this along with other ps5 games and I haven’t noticed any throttling yet, I also recommend getting a heatsink that fits. May-2023 update: still working great and have not had any issues whatsoever other than the SSD memory size being too small (1 terabyte). Considering prices I would opt for the larger 2 terabyte version but the 1 terabyte version is still great for the money!

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John Bauerle

Not sure why… (PS5)

Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2021

Not sure why but I bought this card thinking it would meet the minimum requirements for my ps5 as it’s advertised that it has speeds that would do so and I’ve watched YouTube videos that confirmed the speeds in a ps5 but for some reason when I installed it in my ps5 the console said it was only reading speeds of about 3859 mb/s which is substantially lower than the 5500 mb/s that the ps5 minimally requires. The card still worked but was about 1700 mb/s what Sony requires for their ssd expansion so I returned it not knowing if this thing would run games 2-3 years into the future. Not sure why mine was reading slower than what all the YouTube videos I watched were showing but I couldn’t chance the possibility that the speeds wouldn’t be adequate in the future when games are larger and more complex.

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Manny

Works on PS5 m.2 expansion bay.

Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2021

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DLA

Inexpensive but great M.2!

Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2022

Capacity: 500GBStyle: SSDVerified Purchase

For people writing about the speeds not working properly? Please take note:

10th gen and below Intel processors will default to 3rd generation speeds so you will see Read speeds in the 3K -4K range. This is an Intel Limitation.

11th generation and 12 Generation are the one that can run the 4th generation speeds. Additionally, you have to install the M.2 in a 4th gen slot for it to work, if you don't you will still wind up at 3rd Gen speeds.

Know what you are buying, and how to use it!

This M.2 works Perfectly.

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Jacob Johnson

Works great for PS5

Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2022

Capacity: 500GBStyle: SSDVerified Purchase

Was looking at a bunch of m2 options and landed on this one since it was the cheapest and has good speeds. I got the 500 gb one since I don’t game a ton, it’s plenty of storage for me. Easy to install, just make sure you get the one without a heat sync and find one that will fit the ps5 slot. Very impressed by this product

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Alnvar

Great

Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2024

Great

Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2023

Capacity: 2TBStyle: SSDVerified Purchase

It works and was pretty easy to install, but the read/write speed shown on PS5 after installing is lower than the speed advertised on the box. Seems to work fine. No issues so far.

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Benushka

Great SSD, will update for reliability

Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2023

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Almost as fast as advertised, I think other reviewers used the secondary m.2 slot. I used the cpu m.2 slot with the gigabyte's nvme cooler that came with my b660 gaming x motherboard. the ssd is very hot though, ambient is 25c, idle ssd temps sitting at 35c, reading temps sitting at 45c and writing temps at 58c. on a hot day, the idle temps were 47c, the ambient was about 32c. this is the cheapest ssd with dram that is available right now. also according to pny its rated for 1800 tbw. this is insane, even the samsung 970 pro is rated for 600 tbw. overall seems like a solid product.

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Tatiana

Excellent Value

Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2022

Capacity: 2TBStyle: SSDVerified Purchase

I now had had the NVMe drive in my PS5 for a month now. No issues easy to install, runs fast and cool because it paired with a heat sink ( recommended ). I play on the PS5 3 to 4 hours a day 4 times a week. Moved over 150GB in about 15 mins at a rate of a little over 5600mbs. It a heck of a deal for the price. You can pay more for a faster NVMe which saves you a few minutes but why!?!?

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CB and Kathy

Working great

Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2022

Capacity: 500GBStyle: SSDVerified Purchase

Using Youtube videos I was able to install the SSD into my HP laptop without any issues. I also cloned my original hard disk to this drive and made it my boot drive using Reflect 8. Everything went just as expected and my laptop which had been dragging is now flying. It gave new life to this machine. I am completely satisfied with the PNY SSD.

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Good storage drive

Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2022

Capacity: 2TBStyle: SSDVerified Purchase

I grabbed the 2TB version of the CS3040 to use as a storage drive in a new Alder Lake build. I'd been using a pair of 6tb WD Black spinners in R0, but as the storage is primarily used for games I decided to go with speed over size.

The upside is there is a definite speed improvement, obviously. In both transfer and random access.

Downside is it's not quite hitting the rated transfer speeds in benchmarks, a few hundred MB/s short in both reads and writes according to CDM. Still faster than a gen 3 NVMe drive, however.

This is in a 12700k build, with a GB Z690 Aorus Pro and a 2x16gb T.Force Delta 6000MHz kit. The 3040 is in the second NVMe slot using the motherboard's included heatsink.

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Lyro

I brought the 4tb one for my PS5, but wasn’t as the advertised “5,600 MB/s?

Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2021

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The Quality is still Great, but it’s not meeting the Recommended Decent speed of 5,600 MB/s like Sony’s Recommended for the PS5 5,500 MB/s.

But when I installed the 4TB one, it was good, but I’m concerned that why my Read Speed on my PS5 was “3,850 MB/s”? Do some QA next time and Optimized for a Budget 4TB SSD Compatible with the PS5. And I hope the revised product will be FULLY compatible with the PS5 System

- The SSD was Great, but doesn’t match or advertised the quality of the Recommended Speed that Sony was supposed to be intended

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