- Is the PNY CS2241 a good drive for a laptop upgrade?
- Yes, if your laptop has an M.2 2280 PCIe slot. Its single-sided design fits thin laptops, and it is much faster than an old SATA drive.
- Does it need a heatsink?
- Not for normal desktop and laptop use. In a PS5 or a slot with poor airflow, a slim heatsink helps keep temperatures down.
- How does it compare with premium Gen4 SSDs?
- It is slower on paper, around 5,000 MB/s reads versus about 7,000 MB/s, and it has no DRAM cache. For everyday use the difference is small; for large file transfers it shows.
- Is it compatible with a PS5?
- It meets the M.2 2280 size and PCIe 4.0 requirements, but you need to add a heatsink that fits the console's bay.
- What is in the box?
- Just the drive. No screws, heatsink or cloning software are included, so check whether your motherboard provides the mounting screw.
- Is 1TB enough?
- It holds a Windows install plus a good number of games and apps. If you keep a large game library, a second drive or a higher capacity is worth considering.
- Where is the PNY CS2241 1TB M.2 NVMe Gen4 x4 Internal Solid State Drive SSD cheapest?
- At Newegg, for $249.00, as of our latest check.