Customer Ratings & Reviews

It's not a fancy SSD. No 3D NAND, no DRAM Cache, but it does have 64 layers of TLC. However, it lacks more advanced functionalities you'd find on the Crucial or Samsung counterparts on the market. So if you want a very GOOD 2.5" SSD, you're gonna have to go for one of those two. But if you need something cheap to store your steam games, ultra high-def videos, or something just to slap in a cheap laptop, this will do it just fine. The read speeds are pretty consistent, getting over the 500MB/s mark pretty consistently for both short and long transfers. Write speeds are, however, where this drive constantly fell short. But that's expected with a DRAM cache, and it was still faster than most spinning drives at around 150MB/s. This drive is being used in a laptop with an M.2 Gen3 NVME boot drive, and this was added as secondary storage. Games that normally would have issues reading on a hard drive such as GTA 5, Gmod, etc seem to load exceptionally quick in this configuration.

I've had this PNY SSD in daily use for approximately two years. Its been 100 percent reliable and it certainly breathed new life into an older AMD Athlon-based tower PC that I use for coding. No doubt you can get much bigger capacity now for the same money over what I purchased years ago. I recommend the PNY brand just based on the reliability I've seen. Be sure to TRIM the SSD periodically to balance wear. Other than that the device just WORKS.

Great drive used to upgrade a little brick PC. It took the image well and has been chugging along with no issues.

PNY 2.5 inch solid state drives have always proven reliable for over 10 years of purchasing this brand. The performance for the price point to upgrade systems with older spinning hard drives is great when you don't have an M.2 or newer option. They are great for expandable storage as well. Highly recommend.

Plug and play compatible with Win 11. Economically priced and performs as expected.

Very easy installation and the speed difference was very noticeably faster than old HDD. cheap and easy upgrade for less than $50.

Not my first PNY drive and as all others has a good compatibility, decent speed and easy imaging upgrade. It took a simple stand alone USB docking station to copy old drive 256Gb to the new 500Gb drive. It was painless upgrade. I am using this drive on a gaming machine with intense hard drive read / write requirements and so far its doing what it is suppose to do. Good SATA drive with very good performance for its interface. However if speed is very critical to your application I would consider PciE NVmE M2 drive but that comes with a higher price tag. If you do, make sure BIOS in your machine supports it and you are running newer OS. Majority of newer (couple years old) computers will support these drives.

Great price fast drive. Works great. Easy install and formatting.

Worked great and the price came out to around $50~ for a 500GB. I grabbed 2 of these to upgrade laptops, both had spinning HDD that needed to be replaced. Pro: - Fit my need for replacement drives for laptops. - Fast enough for most tasks - Quick and easy delivery (same day) Con: - Came with bundled internet security software I don't need. - None really. I've used PNY multiple times over the years and haven't had any issues. Overall the product worked as described, speeds were as listed. I would buy again.

Simple SSD that made my old laptop much faster. Good value and easy install. My laptop stopped working but the ssd is still in good shape.

Bought two of these 500GB SSD's to replace my Internal HDD's and what a difference. I use these gaming and they work great. PNY Rocks.! Also the price is very good.

Got this hard drive for an older laptop that was barely crawling along. For very little money I was able to upgrade the drive with the PNY Solid State. This drive seriously resurrected the laptop. It went from being useless to super quick. Now it’s an old laptop so it’s not a lightning fast gaming computer, but man - better than new. Boots up in almost no time - used to take a year and day to boot up.

Service was awesome, staff were professional, and overall experience was excellent!

Sata SSDs are a great upgrade option for older PCs with spinning drives.

Works exactly as expected. Good price, good quality, you really can’t go wrong.

This was used as part of an upgrade to a gently used Lenovo Legion Y530 laptop that originally came with a HDD. I paired this with 500 GB M.2 SSD, with the intent of using this SSD for more frequent file work (and game files). Installation was easy. The price-per-total storage was very reasonable. I was tempted to spend a little more for more storage space, but for my purposes this 500 GB drive is likely to outlive the laptop. I also had set some specific spending targets, and this was a good fit for my project.

I am extremely satisfied with my PNY SSD Drives. Rasonable price offering excellent speed & all the PNY products that I have owned have been extremely reliable with no failures.

Ease of use, plug in and incredible speeds for transfers and saving data.

This device was recommended by my Geek Squad technician as an improvement to my older laptop's performance (the device had a traditional rotating disc memory). The team installed this solid-state storage overnight, reinstalled the OS, and I was up and running. The laptop performance has been improved ever since.

Computers don’t age very well. With speeds doubling approximately every 2-3 years. They usually just get replaced. Enter inexpensive SSD (PNY). A Dell 3rd gen.I5 laptop that booted to Windows in about 2 minutes…Now only takes 30 seconds. Is “snappier switching programs,web browsing too is painless. At $30 for 500 GB PNY SSD the HP Athlon II was revived . The results would be similar on Any hard drive computer. Money well saved …