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Kingston NV2 1TB Gen4 NVMe M.2 SSD $110 + Delivery ($0 to Metro Areas/ VIC/NSW C&C/ in-Store) + Surcharge @ Centre Com

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Kingston NV2 1TB Gen4 NVMe M.2 SSD $110 + Delivery ($0 to Metro Areas/ VIC/NSW C&C/ in-Store) + Surcharge @ Centre Com
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fiftycentscheaper on 28/10/2022 - 21:29 centrecom.com.au (487 clicks)
Last edited 28/10/2022 - 22:00 by 1 other user

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

  • Kingston 1TB SSD NV2
  • M.2 2280
  • NVMe PCIe 4.0
  • Read up to 3,500MB/s
  • Write up to 2,100MB/s
  • 1.5M Hours MTBF
  • 320TBW
  • 3 Year/s Warranty

TechPowerUp 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).

Surcharges: 1.2% Card & PayPal, 2% AmEx

Computing 1TB Computer Component Kingston M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD

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  • Yuri Lowell on 29/10/2022 - 13:04

    Techpowerup review has this drive reaching 7100mb/s reads despite the official specs listing 3500mb/s which they put down to component lottery. Early versions may be faster/better than later iterations. Either way this is a great PCI-e 3.0 drive and if you're lucky a good PCI-e 4.0, even despite being DRAM-less.

    • YogiLife on 29/10/2022 - 14:36

      I thought techpowerup said it caps at 3gb/s write speed and that they were comparing it with 7200mb/s drives?.

      In all it’s an amazing drive for the price! Waaaaay better than the nv1.
      Definitely worth buying.

      Edit: oh you said read 😂 i’ll have to go check them out again! Cheers

  • mortium on 30/10/2022 - 13:54

    What's the best way to replace/clone your main NVMe drive with a larger version? Local PC shop says they want $80 to do it.

    • gabes on 30/10/2022 - 14:36

      I use this a lot for work and it works well. A little pricey but if you only plan to do it once just get it done from your local pc shop.
      https://www.amazon.com.au/ORICO-Dual-Bay-Tool-Free-Duplicato…

      • mortium on 30/10/2022 - 14:58

        Thanks for the heads up

    • fiftycentscheaper on 30/10/2022 - 15:21

      Check if you have 2 M.2 slots on your motherboard. If not, then a cheaper NVME enclosure such as this should work. It is useful to have an enclosure to use old SSDs as USB drives too. Then Macrium Reflect is a common software recommendation for cloning.

      • mortium on 30/10/2022 - 16:06

        I do have a dual m.2 motherboard, but I'm not sure about how it works. Aorus B450 Elite. Apparently some people have tried plugging in 2 but can't see the second?

        • fiftycentscheaper on 30/10/2022 - 16:37
          +1

          Typically one slot under the GPU and one lower on the board. If this is the board then they are here. You can plug in a second SSD and use it as a secondary storage drive. Otherwise you can plug in and clone then swap the faster SSD to the primary top slot.

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