Great price on AU stock. PS5 compatible, no heatsink.
PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2
7,000MB/s Read, 7,000MB/s Write
1600TBW
Includes cloning software
Limited 5-year warranty with free technical support
Kingston KC3000 2TB Gen 4.0 M.2 SSD $309 + Delivery ($0 MEL Metro/Perth, MEL/WA C&C) @ PLE
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It works, it's good. Make sure you have a heatsink that can accommodate the thickness of the KC3000.
Good, time to get one
Edit: shipping $14 meh
Been waiting for PCIe 5.0 drive to launch so that I can dream about getting PCIe 6.0 drive for my 8 year old laptop
BPC was selling for $329 for a month, then now this is $309 + shipping, not much discounts right?
2TB seems to be barren for deals atm, it’s very annoying
Some places have free shipping, for example it's free for me in WA.
How is this one compared with 980 pro? Speed ways are faster write and read, how’s durability like?
1600TBW as described in the description lol
Its SLC cache performance is impressive and it has a very aggressive dynamic SLC cache. However, when its SLC cache runs out, its true TLC NAND write speed is actually inferior than 980 Pro. 980 Pro technically has better 4K random read, especially at low queue depth, so at low queue depth (which is very common usage for general public), you won't notice much difference.
Durability, unclear. Warranty for Kingston SSD is through the retailer so keep your receipt. PLE will be your point of contact for the SSD warranty. Samsung SSDs, you need to go through Samsung RMA. I don't have experience with PLE's SSD RMA. Sometimes, some of the retailers elect to do a full refund (if they don't have the item in stock to do the warranty). My preference with buying Kingston SSDs is buy from retailers which have decent service and stores within driving distance (generally prefer over the counter purchase over online).
I don't trust TBW. All of my failed SSDs happen with less than 5% of TBW. A lot of them failed with less that 1% of quoted TBW. My Kingston SSD which died had less than 0.5% of TBW. However, the retailer was nice and gave me a full refund.
A note on tbw, is its for the life/durability of the nand, not the controller or any other parts. If you're not really writing bulk data to the drive, you'll definitely have it fail well before the tbw limit.
Thank you for your valuable info ;)
Fyi, you do not ever need to go through a manufacturer for remedy. Nor are you required to wait for a retailer to send it off to a manufacturer see what they say.
Australian consumer law is very clear on this, and has fined msy repeatedly for trying to convince people otherwise.
It is the point of purchases problem to fix. Not yours.
For Kingston, MSY was the retailer. MSY gave me a full refund.
Not sure if you are basing the SLC cache performance on your real life experience. Reviews show that when the SLC cache is exhausted on the KC3000, it still writes faster than the 980 Pro. https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/EeDXh7psY2hPJ5ZzH3Wek5-120…
Forgot this is the 2TB model (read the wrong page). For Phison based PCIe gen 4 SSDs, the 2TB model ones are better optimised.
Yes, the 2TB KC3000 is faster than 2TB Samsung 980 Pro.
I sit and wait for these to be 149, or a 4TB at this price, still deciding.
Hoping to update ps5 storage only once.
149 is not very likely tbh, 200 would be a fair price
It'll happen one day. I paid $600 for my first Intel G2 160GB SSD.
It will hit that price when we have the PS7, and we are all on PCIe 6.0 drives.
HODL!
HODL! not long the 4TB will become mainstream, and going cheaper. SN850x in NA is going for around $500AUD now and keeps dropping.
After that, HODL, PCIe gen 5 NVMe SSDs will become mainstream.
Then hodl for pcie gen 6 nvme ssds
Looks compatible with the PS5. Anyone got one installed in your PS5? How does it perform?