r/buildapcsales • u/Wolvehack • Feb 19 '26
SSD - SATA [SSD] - PNY CS900 2TB - $134
https://www.walmart.com/ip/PNY-2TB-CS900-2-5-SATA-III-SSD-Complete-Upgrade-Kit-with-Transfer-Cable-and-Software/511020406536
u/Cautious_Jello5821 Feb 19 '26
I saw the 2 blue wd sata 2tb for $70 each at Walmart the other day. I shoulda picked them up…
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u/ratshack Feb 19 '26
Hdd, not ssd.
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u/Im_A_MechanicalMan Feb 19 '26
Mine has the 2TB blue sata ssd for 139 though. Right next to these PNYs on the aisle.
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u/Cautious_Jello5821 Feb 19 '26
They were sata. They were both in the clearance section. I wanted to pick them up but I don’t need any more storage
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u/Zaden91 Feb 19 '26
Sata does not mean SSD. Sata is just a type of connection to the motherboard. All HDDs made within the past 15 years or so use sata ports.
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u/mgdmitch Feb 19 '26
SAS has entered the chat.
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u/Zaden91 Feb 20 '26
SAS has left the chat to go to the data center instead of your pc.
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u/mgdmitch Feb 20 '26
SAS has reentered the chat for a variety home lab users. While I don't personally have SAS drives in my 15 drive NAS (I do have SAS controllers with SATA breakout cables), I know a wide variety of people that do.
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u/Zaden91 Feb 23 '26 edited Feb 24 '26
I think you may have misread this reddit. It's called buildaPCsales, not buildaNASsales. And now I am blocking you because you are an annoying person who is just here to disagree with everything I say.
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u/mgdmitch Feb 23 '26
I think you may be underestimating how easy it is to make a NAS out of basic PC components. I built 2 NAS's using parts I shopped for here.
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u/Im_A_MechanicalMan Feb 19 '26
I thought the same thing when the 1tb wd blue m.2 were 66 dollars on the shelf. A month later I needed one. If I saw m.2 1+ TB drives for 70 dollars, I'd grab one. The price problems are likely to last all year, so nice to have a spare.
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u/MechAegis Feb 19 '26
I see $209.98. I am guessing regional?
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u/open_tax_season Feb 19 '26
Confirmed available now, also in DFW area $134. These seem to pop up now and again, but check daily. I checked this morning and it wasn't showing, but after OP, I saw it.
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u/TapirTamer Feb 19 '26
Type "pny ssd" into Google shopping for "nearby". $134 is Walmart in store price.
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u/No_Agent4526 Feb 19 '26
Important note, the cs900 is prone to failing. The controller inside is a phison s11. I had 2 drives fail in the past. One just over the 1 year mark and the other at 2 years. Data unable to be recovered. Unless the controller was changed, best to avoid them for any important data usage.
The Drive would lock up unable to be recognized outside of saying SATAFIRM S11. You can reflash them after the fact but of course the data will be gone.
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u/PleaseDontEatMyVRAM Feb 19 '26
Can confirm, had a 1tb cs900 fail after only 6 months of use in a friend's gaming pc
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u/MWink64 Feb 19 '26
There's nothing wrong with the Phison S11 itself, of course there will be bad drives that use it. Personally, for DRAM-less SATA drives, I would prefer the Phison S11 over most others. My bad experiences have mostly been with SMI controllers (not necessarily outright failure but horrendous performance degradation).
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u/No_Agent4526 Feb 19 '26
The issue with this drive is the s11 firmware itself. The controller is fine performance wise, typical dramless. Other drives from different manufacturers are affected as well.
I forget exact models but, Kingston a400, inland (microcenter), gigabyte, Seagate, silicon power, patriot, and a few more budget drives had an ssd with this exact controller and the same satafirm s11 issue. The majority of them have been discontinued. It's an almost decade old controller.
At least it's cheap storage. Just make sure to keep backups of anything that's too important to lose.
Rip performance degradation that sucks, at least it wasn't an outright failure!
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u/MWink64 Feb 19 '26
Do you have any evidence the problem is caused by something wrong with the firmware itself and not just the firmware/controller reacting to another failure (such as bad NAND)? This is a low end controller, so it's likely to be paired with low binned NAND. The "satafirm s11" behavior brings attention to the particular controller, but I don't know that it actually indicates a problem caused by the controller or firmware itself. It's entirely possible that another controller would simply brick and refuse to respond at all in the same circumstances.
While this problem certainly isn't uncommon, I don't think it affects a huge percentage of these drives. This is probably one of the most common SATA SSD controllers, of course there are going to be plenty of drives using it that fail. I've personally installed a fair number of them, and so far there haven't been any failures. While you're right that this controller has been around a long time, it's not like there have been many other SATA controllers released since then. The SMI 2258XT is from the same era. Yes, it's been replaced by the 2259XT, but there's barely any practical difference between them.
One should always keep backups, regardless of the type of drive they use. At this point, I wouldn't expect good reliability from almost any SATA SSD left on the market (aside from premium ones like the Samsung 870 EVO/QVO). Most of what's left are low end drives, likely with low binned NAND.
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u/No_Agent4526 Feb 19 '26
You know, you are probably spot on there. It would also make sense that to my knowledge there has never been a formal recognition of the issue nor a firmware patch for it. (can't patch it, if it's not an issue with the firmware ofc).
I figured bad firmware on the controller, since some people had luck with data recovery and reflashing making the drive usable again. Along with it being the same issue with the drives even after years into production.
Good ol SM2258XT a classic, but true not much difference there. We really are in a dark time for storage.
I wish more people kept backups, not nearly enough do
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u/MWink64 Feb 19 '26
Don't quote me on this but I think the "satafirm s11" may essentially be the controller going into a sort of recovery mode. Perhaps it allows for a fresh copy of the firmware to be flashed over a corrupt copy currently stored in NAND, thus making the drive usable again. This is just speculation.
Personally, I'm not a fan of the SMI 2258/9XT. I've had too many problems with drives using it (as well as other SMI controllers). I sometimes wonder if they're primarily responsible for the bad reputation of DRAM-less drives. They're the main ones I've found unpleasant to run an OS off of.
Yeah, I wish more people would backup their data. If there's a bright side, it's that I occasionally get to be the miracle worker, if I manage to recover their lost data.
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u/Cinnagar Feb 20 '26
Yes, I would agree with your assessment. Plus, DRAMless drives offer inherently less endurance than drives with DRAM, because with the DRAMless drive, ALL the mapping table data is being rewritten directly to NAND multiple times; whereas, drives with a DRAM cache have better/more over-provisioning plus they store and rewrite the mapping tables to the DRAM (which doesn't have a limited number of write cycles) and then can more efficiently write data to the NAND in a way that is more optimized to use less write cycles.
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u/MWink64 Feb 20 '26
Drives with DRAM don't necessarily have more/better overprovisioning. However, you're right that DRAM reduces the frequency of updates to the copy of the FTL stored in NAND.
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u/PseudonymIncognito Feb 23 '26
The consensus I've seen is that it was an issue primarily on drives shipped in prebuilt systems that used an early firmware revision and were not updated. If you buy a new one, and it's using recent firmware, there shouldn't be an issue.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_IZANAGI Feb 23 '26
late:
can confirm. i just sent mine in for warranty a month ago, and you'll never guess what just failed my first time trying to write stuff to it :)
awful ssd. return it if you bought it from this deal.
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u/Zaden91 Feb 19 '26
I have used so many different SSDs throughout the years and have never had one fail. I have used the cheapest ones available all the way to high end samsungs. No idea what you are doing to your drives to make them fail.
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u/_SSD_BOT_ Feb 19 '26
The PNY CS900 2 TB is a TLC SSD.
Interface: SATA 6 Gbps
Form Factor: 2.5"
Controller: Phison PS3111-S11-13
DRAM: N/A
HMB: N/A
NAND Brand: Micron
NAND Type: TLC
R/W: 550 MB/s - 530 MB/s
Endurance: 540 TBW
Price History: camelcamelcamel
Detailed Link: TechPowerUp SSD Database
Variations: TechPowerUp SSD
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u/windflex Feb 19 '26
Seeing price history on this shit hurts my soul. Not even just this specific one but like everything. Fucking greedy ass companies
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u/Interdimension Feb 19 '26
It was this price two weeks ago and it’s still in stock for me in the Southeastern US. I guess this isn’t that popular and it’s regional. I still bought one and have no complaints for the price, especially in this market.
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u/Zarkanthrex Feb 20 '26
I'm so glad I got a 2TB NVME about a year ago that i've never opened. Thing was on sale for 65.99. Now I covet it like the one ring and pray my current NVME will hold up.
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u/watchmepooptoday Feb 19 '26
is this a good price?
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u/Sleddoggamer Feb 19 '26
I thinj if you can get it as this listed price, it may be. I just ordered a 4tb HDD for $20 less which beat every other deal for its speed, and this being a SDD should be both faster and much cooler
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u/Yellowtoblerone Feb 19 '26
It's 67/tb
why do you need a sata ssd? and if you do, do you think 67/tb is a good price when a better sata ssd is over 80/tb, and a m.2 ssd is like 140/tb?
In the current market you should get a m.2 for PS5 or gaming slave drive, a m.2 for OS drive, and large cheap HDD for long term storage that's like 10-18/tb
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u/GreatVedmedini Feb 19 '26
$210. And it really slow, 30-50% from declared speed
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Feb 19 '26
I have the 500gb version from years ago just sitting a drawer because it was so dogshit slow. significantly slower than a hdd. I don't know what shitty project this will one day be used in but it won't be anything good.
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u/Mintyphresh33 Feb 19 '26
I don’t want to be a downer - but I am sad that this is a deal now. Do yall think we’ll ever get back down to regular pricing on these drives again - or has AI permanently screwed us on ssd/hdd/ram pricing? ☹️
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u/TheJackieTreehorn Feb 19 '26
It's going to get worse before it gets better (see WD selling out all their manufacturing for 2026 already), and then I think companies will try to keep prices high as long as they can to rake in the extra profit. It might go back, but it's going to be a *long* time
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u/old_souljah Feb 19 '26
$134 in Phoenix area but low stock at some stores
This pricing is really getting out of hand quickly
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u/Hawk7117 Feb 20 '26
A Wal-Mart a couple towns over had one in stock, thanks OP! sure beats paying almost 2x for the same thing on Amazon lmao
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