💥 PNY XLR8 CS3040 1TB M.2 NVMe Gen4 x4 Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) - High-Speed Performance for Next-Level Gaming and Productivity Review

I would like to complain that I can't read loading screens in my games. I want to complain that when I turn on my computer I don't have time to make coffee anymore. But. I can't because that's exactly what I asked for. The switch from 7200 rpm to SATA SSD took me about an hour. Switching from SSD to NVMe only took 40 minutes to clone. I love this drive.

I just got a new high spec Lenovo 7i laptop with Intel 11980HK, 32GB RAM and RTX 3080. One of the NVMe slots is Gen 4 and one of the slots - Gen 3 In the Gen 4 slot I get 4995 MB/s reading, 3929 MB/s writing. On my Gen 3 slot I get 3447 MB/s read and 3467 MB/s write. Original SSDs - Samsung 980 Pro 1TB. They came RAID 0 from the factory and gave me 6934 MB/s read and 6866 MB/s write.

Bought this model to connect to PS5. Lower price per TB than most popular SSDs. It was declared premium the next day and arrived 3 days after purchase but that's no big deal. I downloaded a PS5 game to the SSD and the download times are the same as the internal storage. It would be cool if there was a model with a smaller heatsink, but the $7 model works perfectly with it. I would recommend a more economical solution.

Great 4th Gen M.2 SSD You can easily use it as an OS disk with plenty of room for everything else. I personally only use it for storage as I already have an M.2 OS drive. If you're a video or music editor, this would be a great place to store your final products. Fast and reliable. Just make sure your motherboard is Gen 4, B550 or X570 compatible for AMD. If not then go for Gen 3 as these are cheaper and performance is identical.

This drive meets the recommended minimum requirements for PS5 SSD Expansion. I installed it on my PS5 after installing the PS5 Beta 2.0 firmware. After I installed the disc, the PS5 recognized it and didn't show any compatibility issues. You need to add a thin heatsink to this device. The heat sink used comes from Micro Connectors. The link to purchase the heatsink is here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GNJQ37N?ref=ppx_yo2_dt_b_product_details&th=1

I bought this to use as a replacement for another drive that was running low on capacity, so I started transferring all the data off the old drive, that was about 1 TB. Data. Sometime midway through the ride, the transfer rate dropped from around 1500MB/s (the advertised speed) to under 10MB/s. When moving such a large amount of data, a speed of 10MB/s would take a very long time. I can't determine why this happened, so I don't know if it's because the write cache is filling up or if it's…

From AIDA64 says PNY CS3040 1TB Controller is Phison PS5016. (Oddly, there is no physical information about the SSD on the board, so I had to check "PCI Devices" to find out which driver was installed.) This SSD was a big disappointment, although it performs better in sequential read/write. compared to my old 970 EVO 1TB (last second picture), but for general development, random read/write is not very suitable. This is sometimes even worse than the 970 EVO at 70% memory used. The other issue is

There is (as always) a catch to advertised read/write capability. And it's not just the presence of a Hyper M.2 slot on a mobile phone. Also note that you MUST have at least an AMD Gen 3 processor + an Ultra (Hyper) M.2 slot on the mobo. I had and spent about $500 on a Gigabyte A320 with a Corsair Force running at these speeds, x570mobo, fan, RAM and SSD, and my speeds are barely over what they used to be. In any case, I still like it. I just didn't want to have so many dependencies required to