I bought the 1TB version and at that moment it was cheaper than the cheapest SATA drive.

@user-wq9mw2xz3j

Жыл бұрын

m.2 nvme are cheaper than sata by now, have been over a year (generally)

@MajkelPCLabpl

Жыл бұрын

@@user-wq9mw2xz3j aaand they are much better choice than SATA ;-)

@user-wq9mw2xz3j

Жыл бұрын

@@MajkelPCLabpl well. myah. Not always. How many m.2 slots you have on your mother board? 1? 2? max 3. Many still have 0. Then one needs to go on to using pcie adapters, and for that you need to use pcie slots. If you have that. (plus cost of adapter). Sata sata also much easier to move from one place to another than m.2 But yes, generally better I'd say. If you thought about m.2 sata then yes of course, superior.

@kakurerud7516

Жыл бұрын

This is QLC, NOT recommended for boot drive!!!

@user-wq9mw2xz3j

Жыл бұрын

@@kakurerud7516 barely matters

Bought a 2tb version of this to use as a games drive. After watching several tech videos where they tested real world performance and concluded that in games there is very little difference between the fastest and slowest NVMe drives I decided that I wanted the most capacity at the lowest cost. This drive definitely filled that criteria, whilst actually not performing too badly.

@jonjohnson2844

Жыл бұрын

Outside of benchmarks the difference with a SATA SSD is almost impossible to notice, m.2 is just really good because you don't need a load of extra cables.

@ferrumignis

Жыл бұрын

Speed should be a secondary priority if you value longevity. Odd that she didn't even talk about this using QLC flash, reason enough to avoid it IMO.

@stuartthurstan

Жыл бұрын

@@ferrumignis Very true. The longevity of a QLC drive is definitely inferior, but unless you're using it to write and rewrite continuously it's unlikely to be a problem for most users. I'd rather buy this now and replace it in a couple of years, when another $120 will probably get me a 4tb drive, rather than spend twice as much now for a higher quality drive than I really need that I'll probably still end up replacing in two to three years anyway.

@Canthus13

Жыл бұрын

I have the same and honestly, I don't see any issues with it. It handles my steam library just fine.

@zkc7718

Жыл бұрын

silly spd over cap on system disk and vol over spd. for a storrage. im happy with kyocera as second drv.

That's really funny they didn't want to send you one, it's awesome that you bought one anyway to review it on your own. Thank you!

Your SSD reviews are something else, really original and high quality, thanks !

@Rkcuddles

Жыл бұрын

She has the perfect set for all these cute artsy shots of the ssds hanging out in the planter. It’s great

@1sonyzz

Жыл бұрын

then take off pink glasses and see the world...

@BenState

4 ай бұрын

what's original about it?

I've purchased one of these based on your review. Yeah it's cheap and crappy compared to other NVME's, but it'll make a decent upgrade to my gaming drive, which is currently a 1tb mechanical HDD. Keep up the good work. 👍

@TechTesters

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! And it's OK if you need something cheap imho. So, glad I could help :)

@leopold7562

Жыл бұрын

Oh, definitely yes! It'll make your HDD look like it's using dial-up for transferring data

@gerryakbar

Жыл бұрын

How crappy compared to other PCIe 3.0 SSDs?

@dedge8060

10 ай бұрын

I wouldn't bother, they fail a lot.

@user-wj2np6wy1i

8 ай бұрын

​@@TechTesters Hi I want to buy a fast and longevity SSD so I saw on KZread and some people say that NVMe is "short life" and sometimes "crash" your desktop. I am doubt , I don't know what type of SSD to buy , only fast and longevity, I don't care about prize. Only two things: lifespan, longevity and very fast . Thank you

I like the way you explain the applicability of each test/benchmark. it's common to see buyers choosing SSD based on sequential read and write values ​​alone.

I considered this one for a budget build I was helping with but went with an on sale p3 plus 1TB ($55) instead. Thanks for the thorough review!

They didn't want to send a sample because at launch they advertised it as having a TLC dramless design.. but then they slipped in QLC silently as far as I know without changing the part number. It has a mapping table enabled controller (as SN 570/770, Adata Atom, P3/P3+ and probably also the vanilla 980 I believe). In TLC fashion it performed okayish, in QLC is kinda meh, once the SLC cache is exhausted I saw it bogging down below 100mb/s on some reddit posts.. .. so okayish for a data storage/game folder drive. Not for writing down shadowplay recordings and I'd not use it as a single Windows OS/Mixed data usage. I fear Windows I/O may hammer the SLC cache as any other similar drive.

@Odd_Taxi_epi04

Жыл бұрын

Yah, QLC with SLC cache exausted is terrible, and her's is shown at 4:45 clocking 130 MB/s. I consider it one of the most important benchmarks, as it's when you are making a big copy in an old drive that you will really feel the bad performance as those QLCs can be worse than spinning disks for that. A TLC drive will always be quick enough (generally) even if lagging a bit behind in other benchmarks. Not to mention the general endurance.

@Knebebelmeyer

Жыл бұрын

really?...i have one of these in my laptop! i will check this! i brought a Renegate for my Gaming Rig....its one of the best drive and better than my 1tb 980pro!! (but u notice the difference only in benchmarks)

@JMatrx

Жыл бұрын

@@Knebebelmeyer the renegade is a refined kc3000 that's a fast drive with TLC and dram. The nv2 is the lowest spectrum, better than the nv1 (that can be considered the worst nvme ever produced alongside the crucial P2), neither the P3 nor the nv2 I'd use for Windows or for the sole system drive.

@curtispavlovec

Жыл бұрын

They all do the bait and switch, for a 40 or 50 dollar what do you expect.

@eduardoslabecki6172

Жыл бұрын

@@Odd_Taxi_epi04 It`s okay, is faster than samsumg 980 pci3. You not see this drive to compare to pci4 ones, yo see this one to compare to gen 3 drives, and with a lower price than a gen3 premium one, and better in general than all gen3 ones. so yes it`s worth the value it has, here i can find it cheaper than a gen 3 nvme WD green so... it's value worth its specs really well.

Great initiative to go buy one even if they wouldn't send a test sample! I like that you covered the vague specs in the start- and maybe this deserves a reminder for everyone: Your NV2 and my NV2 may perform very differently, because they can put any old flash chips (and even controllers) as long as it satisfies those specs. That said, I have one, and in reality it's pretty similar to the reviewed one.

@TechTesters

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Unfortunately more and more SSDs are getting super vague specs these days, kinda disappointing. But it gives an opportunity for a really painful review if I end up buying another one in a few months and it ends up much worse ;)

@jirehla-ab1671

9 ай бұрын

Is this nv2 ok for video editing considering it has 300tbw?

Nice review, another thing someone should consider about kingston drives is that they last more than the advertised on their ssd's, so even if they are selling pcie gen 3 speeds the average consumer isn't going to notice it as they are already really fast at a competitive price, basically around normal ssd's price but on nvme factor.

Super useful review to see how close a cheap gen 4 and a better quality gen 3 drive are. I really like seeing how cheaper drives compare to the more expensive ones. I recently got a 4tb teamgroup mp34 gen 3 drive as an upgrade to my saberent rocket 1TB gen 3 drive. I spent $120 back in 2019 so it was really cool to see the 4TB drive almost got to $200. Maybe not the fastest drive but fast enough for CAD and games. I did not realize the lower capacity drives reduced speeds so much so thank you for explaining the recommendation that 500GB is a good minimum moving forward!

Thank you so much for the review!! Was contemplating between the 2TB version and the 1TB KC3000 for my new build since they are on the same price point in my area. Will get the 2TB NV2 for storing my steam games. More storage, MOAR GAMES! 🤪

Great review. Had been looking into a 2TB drive as storage to replace a spinning drive. The boot drive is already an SN770 Black and runs like a rocketship. Less performance on a second drive, if it saves a lot of money, is probably still better than the spinning drive. The second slot is only gen 3 anyway. WD and Sandisk, and Hynix would be my preferences but perhaps this Kingston would work, too. Thanks again. Subscribed.

I got the 2TB model here in Australia 🇦🇺 about 2months ago for roughly $98USD plus local taxes (10% GST) and it’s been a great drive for my photos and extended games library 💪👍🥰. When I first saw the specs of this drive I immediately said it’s a Gen 3 drive (NOT 4 as stated) but it’s performance value for its uses Is exemplary and I would recommend this drive).

I got the 2TB version in the last Black Friday in November. Works fine for my needs and it was priced in the range of some 1TB offerings, so it was a no-brainer to take it. There was better performance ones? Sure. But I was in need of the capacity, and its performance was a big jump from the ancient Samsung 840 EVO SATA SSD I was using at the time.

Very good and balanced analysis. I got 2 of them, and they are close to 50 degree celsius while not used as boot drive a while after i start up the computer. Even mosfets are at 30 degrees. That means they use a lot of power while idle. But for my usecase they perform reasonably well. The Crucial nvmes i use just are at least 20 degrees cooler.

@borschelrh

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the review and the initiative. I ordered one to use solely as external storage using a cheap USB 3.2 case. It should be fine for this purpose and less expensive than USB thumb drives. Here in Hungary, it comes in at a bit over $100 including the 27% VAT. and shipping. It is the cheapest solution for me for on-the-road camera storage.

Bought the 2TB version half a year ago, because it were the actual cheapest 2TB nvme on the market. I needed a fast drive as video cache for video editing. Since this isn't any kind of crucial use-case I also don't mind if it fails.

All in all, this is actually a great deal for MUCH better than SATA performance, at like half the price of other drives with the same capacity. I think I'm going for a 2TB on one of these. Just seems awfully good to pass up, and I run plenty of games from SATA SSD's that this will outperform anyway, and those almost always work just fine regardless.

@saricubra2867

Жыл бұрын

Bought two 1TB of these.

@denniskarlsson6173

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I bought a 2tb version to get rid of one of my two sata ssd's

@majicalpandatech

Жыл бұрын

If you are in the us on Newegg the 670p 2tb is $100 which has dram

@longplaylegends

Жыл бұрын

@@randomguydoes2901 Actually, good point. Current price is like $5 more on Amazon US and it outperforms significantly. Much appreciated! Edit: The sequential write on SN570 is shite. I think the much faster speed in sequential write can make up for SN570's much faster speed in other areas.

@ferrumignis

Жыл бұрын

@@randomguydoes2901 I'd take the SN570 in a heartbeat over this, I just don't understand the love for a middling QLC based drive.

Very informative video, thank you. I wanted to buy one of these for my new 4k system as main ssd, decided to buy the kc3000.

Very good review honest and real . Sometimes cheaper stuffs not always bad and you clarify all the good vs.bad . Many will buy this drive now on your testing too . Thanks

This is exactly what I need for a second game drive. Thanks for the review!

This looks great for a secondary drive. Great review as always 😀

@TechTesters

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! And it is.

@applebro9943

Жыл бұрын

Mine died in 1 hour last day

@papuce2

Жыл бұрын

@@applebro9943 unlucky, but that happens even to the most expensive ones. Just return it :-) Friend bought 2 of these, had 0 problems so far and the performance for gaming is top level, in reality he can't see a difference between this SSD and SSD that costs 2x more :-D

Thank You! Talk about good timing! I'm in the process of building a computer and wanted to install the Kingston NV2.

i bought one of these 1TB version in December 2022, couple months ago. using it in the 2nd m.2 drive slot on the MOBO. using it mostly to store games etc. i have an 870 evo in the same PC. this Kingston drive is faster, its noticeable. I also have the crucial P5 plus in the same system. the crucial drive is running the OS and it crushes! thanks for the review love seeing info about parts in my PC.

I'd say more than good enough as a secondary drive for storing large stuff like game installs or media files. And looking beyond desktops and even laptops this thing is an amazing deal for use with stuff like SBCs and hackable tablets and such

I love these SSDs. They're good enough for your average user and dirt cheap to boot.

Subscribed. Thank you. So nice to hear that nice English language 😊

I'm a photographer, I currently have 2 OWC Thunderbay 4 RAID drives, 4TB each. One is a Thunderbay 4 Mini, with 4 x 1TB 2.5" SSDs, the other has 4x 1TB HDDs. The Mini with SSDs I use as my main external storage for my Lightroom library, and the other RAID is a backup of that main one. I'm about to run out of storage, so I was looking at upgrading both of my RAID drives, when I found the Kingston NV2 2TB at $99 each. That's pretty damn cheap, almost as cheap or cheaper than some 2.5" SATA SSDs, whilst having better performance. At this price, I would get 4 of these NV2 drives and put them in a RAID enclosure like the ones from OWC. I'll then upgrade the 2.5" SSDs to 2TB each, and sell my larger Thunderbay 4 with 3.5" HDD.

Nice job! It was interesting to see how various SSDs perform. I don't buy Kingston anymore, but I often see the NV2 recommended to builders on LTT Forum. Personally, I have 3 Gen 4 M.2 SSDs, of which one was in your comparison: WD Black SN770. I have the Sabrent Rocket 4 (not plus), and I also have the Team Group T-Create Classic. I was surprised to see the variance between drives depending on which tests you ran. Thanks!

@TheSpectre.24

6 ай бұрын

entonces es mejor que me compre un WD BLACK SN770 en ves de un NV2 KINGSTON?

@ThePCExpertAmateur

6 ай бұрын

@@TheSpectre.24 The SN770 is better than the NV2, but the SN850X is better than both of them.

I got a 500gb version for about 39e for my home server OS drive as all the case bays were used. Does pretty well for it as most of large read/write operation are made on the spinning rust data drives and for the rest of the time it mainly sits there idling. If you have a similar use case its a pretty good deal.

@aminesekhri4413

Жыл бұрын

I'm planing to buy the 500gb to use it just for gaming, would you recommend it ?

@unknownoption7013

Жыл бұрын

@@aminesekhri4413 Should do fine. Its slow for a nvme drive sure, but its miles ahead of an hard drive and fast still most similar priced sata ssds. I would recommend, if your motherboard doesn't have it already, to buy a heat sink for it. They're not to expensive.

Very nice video, very clear, straight, easy to undertand. Great.

I own the 2tb version of this drive. And same as she found. It gets hot. And that hurts the drive. I had a spare heatsink and thermal pad. Once I put that on the drive. It's performance was never affected by thermal issues again. So to get it to perform well. You need a heatsink on it.

i bought the 2tb version for 3d assets textures etc. 2TB suppose to be faster, but i am really happy with it after 6 months or so

The issue with the current NV2 drives is that they are now based in QLC flash, that makes them suitable only for low write workloads, they will suffer a higher wear when a high write workload happens.

@dominus6695

Жыл бұрын

What about the WD drives labelled as SLC? I read 'SLC cache', so is cache the whole memory, or just one chip used for caching?

First time here, Strong video/broll/review skills ! nice thanks

I'm totally getting this now! Thx for the honest review~~

What's always so "wrong" with getting something affordable? If it fits the purpose, why wasting more money on it?

@gorrilaunit99

7 ай бұрын

Because you're getting ripped off. No one should be taken advantage of and pricing accordingly.

@carleynorthcoast1915

6 ай бұрын

People have their ego tied up with their tech. It doesn't make sense to get the best because in three years it will be the worst

@user-xl6yo5dr6p

5 ай бұрын

Becseue kc3000 is only 10 dollars more so don't be cheap. I'm annoyed my prebuilt came with kc3000 and this. Just why.

@jeji5860

5 ай бұрын

​@@user-xl6yo5dr6pkc3000 is impressive but i cant afford it

@piadas804

4 ай бұрын

​@@user-xl6yo5dr6p It's literally double the price

I was looking at one of these back in September when I finally upgraded from my old AM3+ platform to AM4. I ended up going with a KC3000 for (at the time since it was on sale) $20CAD more as it clearly had better performance, and would probably be more future-proof than the NV2.

@DDRWakaLaka

Жыл бұрын

sorry but did you really wait until the *end* of am4 to upgrade and not just go am5 😱

@GrizzAxxemann

Жыл бұрын

@@DDRWakaLaka yep. Upgrade was about $1000CAD cheaper.

@williamlau7179

Жыл бұрын

Planning to purchase 3x1tb Kingston fury gen4. 2 for notebook pcie3. So in a few years can move these two fury to new pc.

You have consistently been a good review channel. Thank you for the video!

Thanks! Nice upgrade for the laptop!

They possibly don't want it reviewed not to leak potential higher end customers. As you mentioned, for most users, this much better value drive is all they need.

I like that you mentioned the lack of DRAM Cache ... but one of the first things that I look for in an SSD, is if they have (SLC cache) MLC, TLC, or QLC NAND. Sometimes you have to dig for this info, but a crucial part of my decision making process. QLC is always a no for me ! Also always buy the largest one you can afford (they last longer) ! Thank you for the video Nada !

@RohitCantSing

Жыл бұрын

Could you explain it further or guide me to a video explaining it.? I'm new to this ssd thing

@Herkan97

Жыл бұрын

@@RohitCantSing I looked it up while trying to find SSDs and I didn't even up buying any, so I think you can find it too. Something about read/write endurance, I believe. QLC is the cheapest, but if you want your OS drive dead in 6 months.. You can use backup software that often backs up, like AJC Active Backup or the others that I saw that I didn't like as much or also had to pay for, together with full backups every month to an HDD using Acronis or whathaveyou, anything that gets access and doesn't throw a bunch of errors like 7-zip does and you may be set, I'd use 2 HDDs for the full backups, backup to one and then copy it to the other or use a more complicated setup like RAID but those probably require the drives to be internal or spend a bunch of money on NAS, I don't know as I've never looked this stuff up properly or even at all. Wall of text with partially irrelevant stuff in it: The cheap method is what I started doing, but then I filled up my external drives and I've not done a full backup in 2-3 months..Oops. I just have some cheap 240GB? SSD that I've used twice in a row and the first time it died within 6 months I think, may have been 5 actually, 2022-03-15 to 2022-08-15?, too lazy to check what the range was. More e-waste, presumably. But maybe the higher end stuff requires rarer resources, I don't know which is better if you have the money for either, I still have two SSDs dusting waiting to be installed, I probably should move to one of them, it's what I did with an old laptop HDD I used up. Before the current drive failed, I moved to a different one and then when that failed I moved back and then that failed and now I'm on the second SSD of the same design. Intenso Top 240GB? I think.. It's a miracle it hasn't failed, but my current understanding of its health is based on the previous one I used. Would be nice if this one actually lasted more than a year and the previous one was just poopoo from the start. I didn't have nvme slots in the previous PC config when I still used the previous Intenso Top 240GB? SSD, so it was never on my mind and I read in the manual that two sata slots will be disabled if I use it, I'd rather use 2 SATA slots than one NVME as the speed is entirely irrelevant, clearly. Oh no, a game takes 2 seconds longer to load. I play one game that has been mostly broken for 2 months, it just doesn't do much when starting it for 3+ minutes, one time it was 25min. But yeah, in more realistic settings, nothing takes long enough that NVME is necessary. Most games on HDDs load fast enough, some are questionable like Rainbow Six Siege, I used to be the one that loaded the fastest and I had an HDD, but I think that HDD was failing or there were enough updates that made it take longer and longer, so I became the guy everyone was waiting for, so I got an SSD. It's probably not the right choice as HDDs have lasted a lot longer. Longest SSD I've used was 2 years or so, longest external HDD is 10 years I think and longest internal may be 7 years and I'm currently using it. It is a miracle it hasn't failed like the previous internal HDD I used for the same purpose, considering I bought it before the previous one and I switched to it after. I've also written to it constantly to back up, unlike the one that is broken, at one point it had all my Steam library games installed and I liked that it fit nicely in there. I can't remember, but I think my Steam library at the time took around 3.5TB and the drive was 3.63TB. Not great, supposedly, as 10% space left let's it breathe or whatever. I believe at some point I removed the games and nowadays I wouldn't do something like that, as I wouldn't play 99% of them. Wouldn't have back then either, but I made dumber decisions back then, like removing my Skyrim folder I changed around to work with all the mods I wanted and that took probably a hundred hours, to get space..for stuff that took maybe 2 minutes to get. If I recall correctly, I modified some part of the files with some tool that said what was conflicting in the files, the plugins I think. Maybe it was just Notepad++ and comparing two files? I don't know if I used Notepad++ at that point. Most of the time was spent opening Skyrim, going to places to find out if going there crashes it. Eventually I reached an unstable state where going somewhere wouldn't just crash the game. I think one mod added an entire castle somewhere that was instanced, but still affecting the Skyrim world and going near it crashed the game until I fixed it somehow. I didn't write down almost anything back then, so I have no idea how I did anything or why something may have crashed. But the vanilla is already a bit unstable if you don't use a wiki. Pretty sure I used a wiki for a vanilla playthrough that said what paths taken leads to what issues, basically the place where I would be able to read that grabbing the golden claw without having the quest first, would break the quest or something like that. I used that for everything I did and I still ended up with 3 broken quests after the defeat of Alduin, but I'm uncertain of all of this. I could probably have used console commands to fix them, maybe I was doing a run explicitly to see if I could get to the end with all quests done? I believe I first finished the game on Xbox 360, so I doubt it was that I was trying to do a vanilla playthrough specifically to finish it at all. I know I wanted a save file on PC so I could actually back it up as Xboxes and Playstations are closed systems and I didn't want to touch the jailbreaking stuff.

@valkaielod

Жыл бұрын

TLC was a big no-no as well. They do perform admirably and much better than we expected them to when it was new tech. I think the same is valid for QLC as well. I got the 2TB NV2 4 months ago and use it for all desktop tasks including gaming and running VMs. It rocks!

@williamlau7179

Жыл бұрын

​@@valkaielod nowadays, ssd are either tlc or cheaper qlc in common markets. When prices are not too different，will go for tlc with dram, like Kingston fury $80 for 1tb. Nv2 is not suitable for notebooks due to high heat.

@valkaielod

Жыл бұрын

@@williamlau7179 NV2 is perfect for laptops. Pretty fast and one of the cooler SSDs. I did the exact same thing as you. And would still do it with other models (MX500 vs BX500 for example). But Kingston really nailed this one. I hope they don't begin swapping components with sub-par ones though :)

Great video thank you. I will get a 2TB one of these for movie storage and streaming.

I love your videos! I have one of these as a games and file storage ssd (nothing that intensive) and its so cheap and thats ok for me. But I was curious to use it as a main drive, now I know better and will look for something faster. Thanks for sharing and respect for your great review!

@TechTesters

9 ай бұрын

Thank you! :)

I love your reviews! Especially of these drives. However, there is one drive missing that I would love you to check out - the SK Hynix Platinum P41. It's close overall to the SN_850X but with better thermals even without a heatsink. I would love to see how it stacks up in stress and heavy use compared to the 990 and 850x. Keep up the awesome work!

@AwankO

Жыл бұрын

I have that exact model of the Sk Hynix, it was more competitively priced compared to its Samsung equivalents.

@TechTesters

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I'm actually trying to get one, but I haven't seen any in the EU for a while. If you find one somewhere let me know.

@jasonhurdlow6607

Жыл бұрын

Most reviews show it better than the 850x and a little behind the 990. It's an amazing drive.

@tuhinlavania5730

Жыл бұрын

P41 is mostly limited to NA

@purplencro4855

Жыл бұрын

The Solidigm P44 Pro is basically the same drive with a better firmware and actually available in the EU

It sounds good for mass storage at the very least. I have a 2TB SN770 on its way because WD had a sale going on their site and I got it for $120 (+tax). Still if I decide to get more storage soon, I'd consider it :)

@JinghisKhan

Жыл бұрын

Also consider the Crucial P3. Gen 3 drive but you can get a 2TB one for ~$115 on sale. Great for storage if nothing else, or as a primary drive on budget/M.2 space limited builds.

@jasonhurdlow6607

Жыл бұрын

I was going to mention the SN770 at this price as a much better alternative, but you beat me to it. +1 Also consider the Silicon Power UD90 as another option.

Thanks, this was very informative.

Just watched this video, what an absolutely well researched and presented effort. Subscribing!

I have been using a Kingston NVME as my main drive and I have a higher end system (5800X3D, RTX4090 etc) but I don't care for a few seconds less load time and I don't do much other than game and honestly it has been totally reliable and fast enough to be nice to use daily. I would buy another after owning this

@LatitudeSky

Жыл бұрын

You hit it about boot time. A lot of reviews focus on it but the average person reboots a couple times a day, at most. Maybe once a day or once a week. Does it matter if that takes 3 seconds or just 2? Not to me. I remember PC boot times not in seconds but multiple minutes. My current PC really does boot in 3 seconds. ANY effort or money spent to reduce that would be a waste in my opinion. I boot once a day. I don't care if a second is wasted. In-app performance matters a lot more but almost any SSD will deliver decent results there. Only benchmarks and testing reveal the differences.

This quality content is why you're my first choice for SSD reviews. The only reason I can only guess they didn't want to send a review sample because they make more money by selling the mre expensive models. Thank you.

Was looking for some extra storage and was surprised that this one was cheaper than SATAs, good to see it works good for light usage!

Thank you for the info as always!

I'd definitely make sure to get a DRAM backed drive for boot purposes, but this looks a great offering for secondary drives, especially if you're only doing occasional writes.

@Brukner841

Жыл бұрын

You mean this can't be the main bootable drive?

@Mildewpants

Жыл бұрын

@@Brukner841 It can be, and will be much better than an HDD, but it's betst to have an SSD with DRAM for a boot drive. Makes more of a difference for SATA DDSs compared to NVME however.

It looks to be a good value if you want NVMe bulk storage but don't need max speed. Certainly better than any SATA SSD. I've been very happy with my purchases of Kingston SSDs in all formats over the past 10 years. I still haven't had one fail in any of the PCs I've upgraded with a SATA SSD or any of the new builds I've done with the KC3000 SSD since it was released.

I had an empty spare NVMe to USB3 enclosure and this was perfect to turn it into a giant thumbdrive for doing backups of machines before working on them, or for location to dump data from data recovery software.

@demon6937

Жыл бұрын

this is my plan also

Very informative and detailed review! I will take your advise and go with P3. You earned my sub!

@TechTesters

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

What i hate about NVME or M.2 drives is the absence of disclosure of the existence of caching layers, like DRAM>SLC etc etc, it's really annoying to have to always try to "dig out" this information from some search engine and most of the time, unless it's a very known, respected good drive then yeah you can find information but most of the time you won't be able to, especially for cheaper drives. Yeah i know that most controllers these days support HMB but then the implementation issue is a concern because of size, latency, scheduling and speed is determined by the system's ram itself so everyone's experience with it will be different etc etc, but the most important thing is that nowhere near as reliable for good latency and data retention practices compared the real thing, and then there is TRIM which is where DRAM shines to assist it when the drive performs it. I am not saying drives without their own DRAM shouldn't exist, they have their own use cases i just want it be fully disclosed (including all its related specs like speed, latency, power consumption etc etc), this has to be normalized.

See the reason why Kingston doesn't want people to review that NVMe drive is because it is extremely cheap and gets hot way too fast as a lot of other reviews has pointed out and also for around the same cost you can get the Team Group MP44L instead which has better overall cooling performance and better overall performance in general.

I bought a couple kingston nv1 SSDs last year for archival storage that needs to be thrown in a back pack and travel in a car across America. And work great for me in a ugreen USB type c enclosure. I don't access these drives very often but when I do I need them to work. So far a year later they're still working.

Great review, thanks!

I got it for my laptop and it works fine, the only problem is that I noticed that it does get a little hot while idle and while actually using it. idk if there is something I can do to improve it but the temps are not high enough to be a concern apparently (But it is kinda annoying since the ssd is at a spot where you usually rest your hand and you can definitely feel it). Idle is around 53C and while using it it goes to like 63C. I heard you can put a Thermal pad to decrease it by 2 or so degrees but I am not sure if it is worth it (I have to note that the ambient temperature of my country is pretty hot, when I turn on the ac it gets a little better).

@joebouharb2039

11 ай бұрын

Same here .. having the exact same issue but i think it’s not gonna burn the ssd. Not sure if i’m gonna spend more for thermal pad and heatsink

@Scj10

11 ай бұрын

@@joebouharb2039 as a little update the SSD is still working fine, havent gotten any heatsink. It doesnt really rise over 70 °c which is decent enough but I think that is because my country is hot af, when I turn the ac It gets a little better.

@joebouharb2039

11 ай бұрын

When i play games it stays between 56 c and 61 .. it’s good and idle 49 or 45 but the second installed ssd is 39 degrees on idle, idk if that’s an issue

Here is the way I look at these drives. I'd buy them ALL DAY LONG for inexpensive builds and I don't HAVE a high expectation for a 1TB NVMe that costs $50. For most computers this is all you need. In fact even for a gaming rig this could hold older games, no problem. But for high performance I don't know why a person would be thinking they can get a 1TB NVMe for $50 USD when ALL the highest performing NVMe drives are $100+ USD, with prices getting closer to $150 for the best. You get what you pay for. I have these in NVMe housing for USB. They work fine. I used one of these in a test rig to test a batch of GPUs, and since Win10 is a little more friendly than older OSs I'm about to test a batch of X570 MBs using one of these, where I load the OS on using one X570 and then move it to the other boards. No, the OS doesn't get registered specifically so I can keep swapping hardware.

Thank you for you review, I had just bought this SSD and I find your analysis very honest, complete and professional.

I got a question, i received a Fury Renegate today with the 5pin missing 2 pins(yellow line) is that intented and will be a issue with how it will perform. On this NV2 also were missin 1 pin

Good review. Lots or relevant information based on usage scenarios.

Excellent review! I can see why they didn't want you to review it, it makes sense to buy this instead of some of the high end drives unless you're using demanding software (which most do not) for the masses this drive makes the most sense given its price to performance.

Excellent review thank you

hello, thanks, as this was very enlightening with some important facts brought out. By the time I actually buy I am sure I will make a better decision as to which one.

Your review really helps me to make my decision to buy this ssd. Thanks a lot and keep up the good work.

I'm not a power user and I'm not disappointed at all with the results. I had my mind set on this one as yes, it's the cheapest NVME drive of any kind I've seen where I live, and I just wanted to use the technology instead of a SATA SSD. With that in mind, it's clear the leap is going to be quite big no matter what and I want to grab one of these NV2s just as much as I did before watching the review, or even more. I think I'm the kind of person such a product is targeted to and the value is definitely there. Thank you for taking a look at this product.

Great review! Thank you

@TechTesters

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

Great review, loved all the benchmarks are how they related to real world workloads. Would have been nice to see something about the real world time difference, something like a 100GB game install would take rough x minutes compared to y minutes on the to performing nvme's.

Got a 4 TB Silicon Power for 168 bucks. It rocks. Is the drive 1mm clearance all the way across the top? Or is the controller space (near the connector, front half of the drive .5 mm in profile? Consider this when applying thermal pads.

Does your PSU sponsor use the 1920/1988 circuit or the 2011/2011 Ćuk-buck2 with the bridgeless PF correction circuit?

I bought 2 of these 1Tb at 62€ each in Spain. I was looking for some cheap storage for my VMware Homelab with PCIE4 motherboard and AM5 CPU. Thanks for the awesome review.

I got the 4 TB version of this drive recently from a sale locally here in the Philippines (~USD 65). It replaced a Crucial P3 1 TB Gen 3 that I purchased last I got from Amazon (~USD 60) as a game drive, so a huge upgrade for me.

exactly the review i was looking for. i've had my eye on this ssd for quite some time now

Hi, what software do you use to make your bar charts? It looks very nice.

@TechTesters

11 ай бұрын

Excel. I don’t really like it 😓

Nice review. Got me very interested in the product. But would it fit the needs when using it in a PS5 ?

@theFrizzleFry

Жыл бұрын

Officially it does not meet the performance requirements by Sony, but i can tell you from my own experience with the 2tb variant of this drive that it works without any issues. When you install it, the Setup process benchmarks the drive and warns you that it is not meeting the recommended speeds, but it lets you proceed anyway. Maybe games boot a second slower (i haven't timed it) but there are zero problems when running games. All that being said, there is still a slight risk, that at some point, games will come out that tax the SSD more, to the point where this SSD might actually cause issues, but if that does happen, you could always just move those game to the internal drive.

spot on review, i was wondinging also why no detals ie memory tlc or qlc etc, and love how you mention clean install recomended instead of Clone,, last time i did a clone, it locked me out of all my email accounts, lol, never clone unless for a backup for emergancy use only.

Got the Fury Renegade version of this with 2Tb. No complaints. It almost maxes out cpu core usage during loading. Also came wo heatsink but at least the sticker was on the back so no need to remove it to apply my mobo's M.2 heatsinks.

Thanks for the review, I was looking for a good and cheap storage drive to replace my HDD and found this one. So for pure storage like documents, photos etc. it seems to be a good buy. 2TB for 77 Euros (at this moment), that's almost insane.

In the real world, nobody would ever notice between the slowest M.2 and the fastest. They would literally have to do a side by side comparison and even then we're talking about a second or two.

Great video. I have the 2tb version of the wd blue drive and it’s actually not as slow as the tests say. Also the price need to be in gbp too as here we don’t do dollars or euros

I bought your best, WD SN850X, and a SK hynix Platinum P41...both 2TB versions. The SK P41 was the faster drive. Love them both though and probably can only see the difference in test results and not in real world use. Highly recommend either.

thanks, have been eyeing these...

@TechTesters

Жыл бұрын

Hope it helped!

I'm currently running a pair of these 1TB drives in my new build, one is my Windows 11 install on the Gen 4 slot and the other is my Games drive on the Gen 3 slot. Currently I'm having no issues, and I'm not running either as a storage drive, i use a 2TB Seagate Barracuda SATA 3 spinner drive to minimize the large data writes and reads on the NVME'S. Booting up Windows in 11 seconds or less is really enjoyable compared to the 40+ seconds my last build did on SATA 3 spinners.

Good review. And yeah, a 'games drive' is ideal for cheap nvme's. I built a beast of a system recently, but one area I cut corners to save some money, was getting an Inland 4tb tlc gen 4. It's really quite fast & huge. so 'cheaper' is relative here. But I did want premium brand and the fastest available MLC for a 1 tb OS and 1 tb external storage. When it came to the games drive, 'size' was the main criteria. So I was flexible about the nand type and figured TLC and 'non-premium branding' would be ideal there. In my previous build, the games drive was a 4tb WD black platter-drive actually (the only platter in the system). I say "games drive" but really it's also for any other files which are more 'bulk-storage', and don't really need backing up.

Thanks for the review!

@TechTesters

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

So my thinking is that this would be great for my use case: for an external M.2 case (10Gbps USB) for my photo library (to manage and edit all my RAW photos), which I will probably encrypt using VeraCrypt. The USB connection and the encryption will definitely be a bottleneck for most writing/reading tasks, so it's not really worth buying a better drive. Am I right? Or do you think another drive might still be a little bit more reliable and durable, and possibly perform better for some tasks where encryption isn't the bottleneck, so it might be worth spending 40 Euros more for a Crucial P5 Plus for example?

I bought 2TB in Dec last year for the older laptop with NVME Gen3 after considering 1TB for about the same price and it works just fine even its a from a cheaper spectrum and DRAMless. This is a great value for the regular non workstation laptop with the standard integrated graphics where you intend to do basic every day compute. I've solved cooling with quality thermal pad which is touching aluminium chassis and temperatures are in 30s and 40s Celsius when stressed. The Kingston management SW falls in my opinion behind in comparison to the Crucial or Samsung, but it is to be expected from the SSD in this price range. Overall this SSD is great choice for the older Gen3 PCs, but I would consider other offers as suggested int his video like Crucial P3 Plus and of course if you would like to unlock most of the Gen4 capabilities you should look for the higher level from this one. Thx for this vid review👍

that was well put concise and for the whole part very factual

my corsair p2 nvme ssd just failed last night. So this video really is a huge help. Thanks

@TechTesters

11 ай бұрын

Glad it helped!

This is perfectly suitable for my usage (large sample libraries for music production). Basically the only time a write occurs if I am adding a new library or shuffling things around. I just wish there was a 4 TB version, since sample libraries can be massive (several hundred gigabytes, I have one which is 1 TB just by itself, and a couple others over 500 GB).

@Dreami3Dude

10 ай бұрын

They actually have a 4tb version already, though I may be a bit late to remind you about this

@Justin.Franks

10 ай бұрын

@@Dreami3Dude Thanks! At the time they only went up to 2 TB. It's great that they released a 4 TB version.

Plan to upgrade my 2TB mechanical external drive with this nvme and a Fideco 10gbps enclosure. I'll use it for backups once or twice a month. The speed will be capped by the enclosure to 1000 MB/sec so everything will be fine, or I'm missing something?

this ssd saves my life. I was excited for the SN850X and tried to went to buy 3 SN850X. But I went for 1 SN850X for gaming/os, 1 KC3000 for video storing and 1 500GB NV2 for tenp files and meme, funny images. Good review actually

How in the world does this channel not have 1M+ subs?? Everything from the editing to the content itself is spectacular!

If the components can vary so much and only the sequential data rates are specified, can testing any one device show what performance can be expected in general for the product?

I would love to see you compare this drive to the Lexar NM620!

Great review as always!

@TechTesters

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!