Gen 5/$150
Amazon is now offering PNY’s CS3250 1TB Gen 5 M.2 NVMe SSD for $149.99 shipped. Originally priced at $170, this drive has climbed as high as $250 following recent storage market price hikes. Today’s deal knocks a solid $100 off that usual going rate, landing at the lowest price we’ve tracked for this model since the industry-wide price hike hit SSDs, memory chips, and so on. It’s a particularly notable deal given that competing 1TB Gen 5 SSDs are still selling for as much as $350. Head below for a closer look.
Built on the PCIe Gen 5 standard, this PNY drive it delivers blazing sequential speeds of up to 14,900MB/s for reads and 13,500MB/s for writes. That puts it in line with similarly specced drives from the likes of Samsung and Acer, making it a great option for gaming, creative workflows, productivity, and so on. Samsung has also equipped it with a new 5nm controller that promises up to 49% better power efficiency compared to the 990 PRO, making it an appealing option for users looking to maximize both performance and power savings. The drive is typically available in capacities from 1TB through 4TB, but only the 1TB model is in stock and discounted right now. This particular model doesn’t have a heatsink, though, so you might want to pick one up if your motherboard doesn’t offer one for its PCIe Gen 5 slot.
