Kingston NV2 2TB Gen4 NVMe M.2 SSD $226.64 Delivered @ Amazon US via AU

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2TB version. Well reviewed budget Gen 4 drive competing against performance of higher end Gen 3 drives. DRAM-less TLC, not PS5 compatible.

• Kingston 2TB SSD NV2
• NVMe PCIe 4.0
• Read up to 3,500MB/s
• Write up to 2,800MB/s
• 1.5M Hours MTBF
• 640TBW
• 3 Year/s Warranty

TechPowerUp 1TB Performance Review

With this pricing, the NV2 is near the top of our price/performance charts, definitely worth considering if you're looking for a cost-efficient SSD for a family PC, media PC or as secondary drive for your high-end gaming rig. Kingston's NV1 is roughly similar priced as the NV2, it's really no competition. Even when you only have a Gen 3 capable slot, do buy the NV2, it'll be a lot faster than the NV1. The strongest competitors to NV2 are Samsung 980 non-Pro (similar perf, but $105), WD Blue SN570 (similar perf and price), Crucial P3 Plus (similar perf, but $95), WD Black SN770 (faster, $95, could be worth it).

2TB Benchmark shows respectable Gen3 performance.

2TB NV2 CrystalDiskMark Sequential (SEQ1M Q8T1)

PCIe Gen4 Mode
3700 MB/s Read
2900 MB/s Write

PCIe Gen3 Mode
3200 MB/s Read
2800 MB/s Write

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  lachhelix on 30/10/2022 - 22:37

  -1

  Question: "not ps5 compatible"
  What makes it so? Not the right speed?

  Would a PS5 actually accept the drive but only for storage of PS4 games?

  Thanks!

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    Huntakillaz on 30/10/2022 - 22:48

    +1

    Speed and probably dram cache would be preferable

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    netsurfer on 30/10/2022 - 23:10

    +3

    It will most likely work with a PS5. SN750 SE works with PS5. Technically under the recommended specs, but honestly, no PS5 games currently have extremely high demand of sequential read speed.

    The down side of these low end PCIe gen 4 SSDs (which are more PCIe gen 3 in performance) is that its sustained write is really poor so transferring games from internal SSD to these SSDs do take quite some time (compared to mainstream PCIe gen 4 SSDs).

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      lachhelix on 30/10/2022 - 23:32

      Ahh that makes sense - thanks a lot.
      I wasn't sure if the playstation does some kind of benchmark check and just flat out won't format the drive if it's not fast enough

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      TeddyBear on 31/10/2022 - 01:51

      +2

      Digital Foundry even tested a PCIe 4.0 x2 drive and games ran fine. As long as the drive is 4.0 it should accept it.

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        lachhelix on 31/10/2022 - 10:50

        Interesting! Thanks for that :)

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  Jerry Z on 30/10/2022 - 23:35

  +2

  Still think WD Black SN770 2T at AU$ 279 is a better deal,see: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/731763
  Larger TBW, higher speed, 5y warrant, and not that much more expensive than Kingston NV2 (only 3yr warrant and 640TB of TBW)

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    bex000 on 31/10/2022 - 04:15

    unsure why this is downvoted. SLC based SSDs are good for certain applications

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      Masticccc on 31/10/2022 - 12:34

      -1

      If the only thing people care is "cAn It rUn on Ps5" and "cheapest" then probably they just neg every other deal that is more expensive lol.

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    fiftycentscheaper on 07/11/2022 - 20:33

    If you don't need an SSD immediately it may be worth waiting. The gap between the top end Gen4 drives and the cheapest has closed enough that at this price spending a little extra for the ~$300 980 Pros and SN850s is worthwhile. Unfortunately the cheaper 2TB haven't fallen nearly as much.

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  Beyond on 31/10/2022 - 01:26

  Amazon advertises it as "lower power consumption and less heat, good for small form factors", which separates it from the WD series as I believe they're quite a heated drive.

  It could also help to list the IOPS speeds, Amazon didn't list it and I'm too tired to Google it. Lol

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    fiftycentscheaper on 07/11/2022 - 20:26

    Reviews expect component lottery so I doubt Kingston publishes IOPS. The TPU review has IOPS benchmarks showing good performance.

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  Grumpy Braincells on 31/10/2022 - 09:20

  Crucial P5 2TB is going for $245 on both scorptech and Amazon.
  Might be a better drive than this one?

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    Grumpy Braincells on 31/10/2022 - 09:22

    +1

    actually P5 doubles the endurence at 1200tb for 2TB version this one has 640 TB

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    Masticccc on 31/10/2022 - 12:35

    the main reason getting this one is for PS5, which P5 can't