Compared to a traditional hard drive, the PNY solid state drive, or SSD, provides a much speedier response for your gaming needs. In fact, most gaming laptops and desktops only use SSDs these days to help ensure you win that boss battle. It’s designed as an easy swap from a traditional hard drive, and there are no moving parts, making it perfect for laptop upgrades. This PNY option is no different, offering speeds of up to 550Mbps sequence. The read and write speeds are only slightly lower than the sequence speeds at 500Mbps, so you can download and upload anything from games to video content or even just family photos. Also: How to easily connect an internal SSD to a USB-C port It’s also backwards compatible with SATA II 3GB per second for those that require that backwards compatibility.