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PNY CS3250 High-End-NVMe SSD Review

24.08.2026, 22:11 • Von Andreas Bunen

PNY continues to establish itself in the high-end segment, and with the CS3250, it offers a well-equipped NVMe SSD that uses PCIe 5.0 as its interface and is designed to compete at the very top of the technical pack. We put the 1-TB model through its paces in our test and pitted it against established competitors. Read on to find out how well the SSD performs and whether it throttles.

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