Customers highly value the XLR8 CS3030 2TB Internal SSD PCIe Gen 3 x4 for its excellent price and large storage capacity. Many reviewers praised its fast performance and straightforward installation process, noting a significant improvement over previous storage solutions. The drive's reliability was also frequently mentioned positively. Overall, the product receives overwhelmingly positive feedback regarding its value and functionality.
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Pros mentioned:
Price, Speed, Storage
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Priced Lower Than Others I Saw
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Posted . Owned for less than 1 week when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
This SSD was priced well when I compared it to competitors. Given the speed, amount of storage, and price it was a no brainier. So far I haven't have any issues with the SSD. The SSD wasn't inside a static free bag and one side of the SSD isn't protected very well inside the box. The speed is as I expected it to be. I would recommend this to a friend.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Speed
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Unbeatable price per GB
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
This thing performs like a charm, it has very high read and write speeds, a high capacity and it costs the same as 1 TB NVMe from Samsung.
It’s easy to install and setup, I personally did a clean Windows 10 installation and it just worked.
The packaging is bad, it doesn’t seem to protect very good what’s inside.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Performance, Price, Storage
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great value tons of space
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Posted . Owned for 4 months when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
2 TB of fast storage, and I got it on sale for around $130? Great deal. Big upgrade from my 500GB SSD
I would recommend this to a friend
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Performance
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Excellent Product
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
In my HP Envy 795-0020 PC (16 gb RAM, i7-8700 CPU), First I installed 2 tb PNY SSD in a PCIe3 x4 -> NVMe adaptor. I am able to successful cloning the original M.2 SATA 250 gb SSD located in the mother board M.2 slot to the PNY drive. Subsequently replaced the M.2 SATA 256 g SSD with the 2tb PNY drive into the M.2 slot of the mother board without any problem.
PNY drive performance was exceptionally fast as advertised. See the Crystal Disk Mark benchmark figures of PNY NVMe SSD and original SATA SSD.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Price, Speed, Storage
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Excellent Speed and Unmatched Value
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
I was looking for a 2TB NVME SSD to add to my Alienware m17 R2 gaming laptop which only came with 512MB of storage. Some 2TB NVME drives from other brands cost almost double the price, so I was skeptical of the speed and quality of this PNY drive. I'm happy to report that there was really nothing to worry about -- this drive is excellent and nearly as fast as the most popular retail NVME drives from Samsung. CrystalDiskMark reports sequential read speeds of nearly 3,500 MB/s and sequential write speeds of almost 3,000 MB/s. Random 4K read/write speeds are slightly slower than Samsung drives, but it's absolutely not noticeable in day-to-day use.
Bottom line: If you're looking for a high-capacity NVME drive to expand the storage of your laptop or desktop computer, this should be at the top of your list. The value is nearly unmatched at this storage capacity/price point.
Tip for Alienware m17 R2 users: You will have to tweak some settings to get your system to recognize this as a secondary drive. Once you install it in the second NVME slot, you will need to change your system's SATA operation mode from RAID to AHCI. This requires changing the setting in the BIOS as well as running a command via Command Prompt in Windows 10. Search Google for the following phrase and follow the instructions in the first article that appears: "SOLUTION: Switch Windows 10 from RAID/IDE to AHCI operation"
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Price, Speed
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
DIDN'T SLOW ME DOWN
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Posted . Owned for 9 months when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
i purchased this drive as a second nvme drive in order to house my entire steam library on my gaming rig. After installing and uploading all my games, my system remains very snappy. system specs: MSI MPG X570 GAMING EDGE WIFI, RYZEN 5 5600X, 16GB G.SKILL 4000, 1TB WD-BLACK SN750, XFX MERC 319 BLACK EDITION 6900XT. For the price this has been a great drive. if price was a non issue i would go with faster PCIe 4.0 drive, like a WD-850, OR SAMSUNG PRO, although im not sure in real world application they would have made things faster for me. Note: aesthetically i prefer the comparable west dig drive sn750 and the samsung 3.0 models. but for the price, this was the best value for me. i caught this on a good sale.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Price
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Good product
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Posted . Owned for 1.5 years when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Bought it on sale. It's a great value and product. Works well on my computer.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Speed, Storage
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Huge Upgrade for my laptop
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Posted . Owned for 3 months when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Quick speed, large storage, easy to install and use, transfer from previous laptop super fast.
Very happy with the product, worth the price.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Speed
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great Gen3 M.2
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Great Gen3 M.2
This is the first time I've used a pny m.2 ssd,the speeds are on point as advertised. I have 6 rgb fans and this helps keep it cool under load. I also have Sabrent Rocket 4TB Gen4 on my board but that one R/W speeds are double of this one. To make a long story short if your looking for a Gen3 M.2 i would go for this one.
I got on sale for Black Friday $199 thanks for special Best Buy.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Ssd, Storage
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Good performance and value
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
I replaced 512gb Samsung laptop drive with the 2tb PNY NVMe M2 SSD. Laptop is now much more useful for video processing and booted up well after cloning the original SSD. Bought a USB SSD enclosure for the M2 SSD and clone software. Enclosure is useful as portable drive after swapping out the SSD M2 drives. Good value initially and excellent after noting Best Buy price drop that they honored as price match. Longevity is TBD but has good specs for use as laptop system drive.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Performance, Speed
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
PNY - 2TB Internal PCI Express SSD Wonderful
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Posted . Owned for 1 week when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
I could not be more happy with this drive. It reads fast it writes fast and it boots fast. It reliable and can and has been formatted and partitioned Several times to my complete satisfaction! I can recommend PNY - 2TB Internal PCI Express SSD to any one who needs to maximize Disc storage! In reference this product was installed on my HP Laptop - 17-by3613dx.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Performance, Storage
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Excellent value at the time I purchased this
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Posted . Owned for 1.5 years when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
I haven't checked the pricing on this now, but at the time of purchase this was an excellent value for a 2TB NVME Gen 3. Samsung was $100+ more at the time and had about the same performance. Same warranty length - 5 years - and it's been running strong. PNY XLR8 products have been solid in my laptop, desktop, & server.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Speed, Storage
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Super speedy
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
So I installed this drive to a OWC thunderbolt 3 enclosure and it is amazingly fast. I connected to my Mac and it is as good as a native drive with TB3 connection. 2 TB is great for all the 4K video editing work.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Price, Speed
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Excellent m.2 ssd
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
This is an excellent ssd I use it on my Razer laptop and get around 2800 read and 2700 write speeds. Maybe not the fastest ssd on the market, but for me it’s an excellent product for the lower price!
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Speed, Storage
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great way to boost up your computer
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Posted . Owned for 8 months when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
I upgraded my PC storage from 128 GB to this 2 TB SSD. My computer runs super fast and I have a ton of storage for all my photos.
Geek squad installed this for me as and got my laptop back in 2 days.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Performance, Price
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Affordable 2tb SSD
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Great low-cost SSD. I'm using it for game storage on my pc, and it works flawlessly.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Speed, Storage
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
X2
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Posted . Owned for less than 1 week when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
I bought 2 of these I have storage for days then I finally realize how big my library was and how fast it is!!!
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Price, Speed
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great budget ssd nvme
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Posted . Owned for 2 months when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Awesome ssd fast speeds. And, more importanly cheap.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Price, Speed
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Excellent
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Great speed read and write,good price compare to others seller
I would recommend this to a friend
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Ssd
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great drive for the price!
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Posted . Owned for less than 1 week when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Amazing ssd for the money when I got it on sale. This drive has a cache do doesn't suffer from the slowdown that cache's drives do. Recommended!