That's almost exactly consistent with PNY's advertised transfer speeds. But as benchmarking software isn't a real-world representation of how an SSD will perform, I also ran some practical tests ...

If your computer’s been wheezing through bootups or freezing when you open more than three tabs, the PNY CS900 500GB SSD is the kind of cheap upgrade that’ll make it feel like it had a full ...

Using the CrystalDiskMark benchmarking software, all three drives gave ... and JPEG files to each drive from my laptop’s SSD. Again, the PNY drive matched the Lexar at about 88 seconds, with ...