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Mitch Murder

2023-02-08

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Exceptional value for money NVMe SSD of the 4th generation. A one-way street in storage with fast speeds. The speeds are close to half of the expensive Gen 4, but for someone who will use it to store their games or other files, it is the best option currently available at an amazing price.

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Amfilochios_Iordanidis

2023-02-13

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It has the speed, it has the name, it has the capacity, it has the price, and it has the availability.
Now, if it doesn't reach the exact promised speed that is stated and is slightly slower in benchmarks, it doesn't personally bother me - okay, instead of the expected 15-17 seconds (as advertised) to cold boot, it takes around 20... big deal! From a SATA M2 or a regular SSD, it is still more responsive everywhere!
Overall, the system seems responsive, I don't know if it makes sense anymore to obsess over it, since it is already quite fast anyway!
We are now at the point of diminishing returns where for 90% of potential buyers... it will do the job perfectly! - For those who are concerned with measurements and 2-3 seconds here and there... they should try something with a slightly higher price!

UPDATE end of October 2023: I bought it in early February 2023 and while performing basic desktop functions (internet/music/videos), it stayed with me after 8.5 months - without even filling half of its capacity! And I had bought it for reliability, but in the end, it left me in less time... and I even had an additional heatsink on top of the M2 port to help with the heat!

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  Panagiotis_Mytilinaios

  2025-01-20

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  This review is about the capacity: 2000 GB

  Very good and reliable. For my needs, it is satisfactory. Easy installation and Windows 11 loads in 4 seconds.

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  PANOS_MESSIOS

  2025-01-15

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  I've had it for almost a week. Terrible, what can I say, I thought it was defective at first, until I saw other reviews with similar problems, I don't know what to do, maybe I'll return it to the store if skroutz accepts it and get a more expensive one with DRAM. Avoid!!!! Write speed very low, and I tried it on 2 different computers and got the same results.

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  Misty_Blood

  2025-01-15

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  Very fast SSD, everything opens much faster and finally I download games with greater speed from Steam because it can read the files in time.

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  jasonjente

  2025-01-12

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  I got one for myself and one for a friend. Very good value for money, it works just fine in terms of speeds.

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  Cactus_EK

  2025-01-10

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  This review is about the capacity: 500 GB

  I haven't had it for long, but so far it is exactly what one would expect. Fast and reliable. The use I make is casual. I have it for the OS and the games that benefit from the high read speed. It hasn't caused me any problems.

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  Renato_Bruci

  2024-12-30

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  Incredible nvme, the speeds it advertises are real and truly an amazing price. I have used an SSD from the same company and it was flawless, for this reason I trusted it and bought again. 1tb for €50 I believe there is nothing better on the market!

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  Konstantinos_g100

  2024-12-19

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  I have had it for about 2 years and the disk is flying.. Personally, I got the version with 500gb because my budget was limited but in the next build I will definitely grab the 1tb..

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  2 out of 2 members found this review helpful

  Konstantinos_Xeniadis

  2024-11-09

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  This review is about the capacity: 2000 GB

  The disk is one of the most economical options on the market for nvme pcie gen 4, with write and read speeds identical to those advertised.
  It has been purchased 2 times, once as an internal storage disk for various types of files, and once as an external one with a ugreen case. In both uses, it does exactly what it is designed to do, flawlessly.

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  1 out of 4 members found this review helpful

  Midnight Basilisk

  2024-11-01

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  After a considerable amount of use, I have to say that this particular SSD is the best thing I could have gotten!!

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  8 out of 16 members found this review helpful

  thomoglou

  2024-10-30
  This review is about the capacity: 2000 GB

  I bought 10 of these disks in November 2022. 8 of them freeze the system and I have lost a tremendous amount of data.

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  8 out of 9 members found this review helpful

  strs156

  2024-10-29

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  This review is about the capacity: 2000 GB

  Purchase 11/23/2022. The drive started to slow down excessively until it stopped writing and reading. I had it as storage along with another LEXAR 2TB filled to 60%. The PC would start after 3-4 interruptions with the power supply button. I thought the motherboard or the power supply was damaged, but the freeze was caused by the Kingston with its "slowness." Get something better... it's a shame for Kingston to release such "duds" on the market; it will go back with its warranty.

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  Kostas_Karatsiolis

  2024-10-10
  This review is about the capacity: 250 GB

  The lifespan limit of the TBW is very small, as well as the short warranty, 3 years.
  Endurance (Total bytes written)
  250GB – 80TB
  500GB – 160TB
  1TB – 320TB
  2TB – 640TB
  4TB – 1280TB
  For the same money, there is also the ud85 with 1.5 times higher numbers in TBW longevity and a 5-year warranty

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  3 out of 4 members found this review helpful

  Panagiotis_Mytilinaios

  2024-10-10

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  This review is about the capacity: 500 GB

  Very good and economical. I use it daily and its performance has not decreased at all. I was very satisfied and bought a larger capacity one (2Tb).

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  regen

  2024-10-08
  This review is about the capacity: 2000 GB

  Happy New Year - many years
  I am rewriting the entire review from the beginning.
  -DO NOT- buy this drive if you want to store important files. If you want a drive to throw games on, it’s perfect.
  For its price (don’t pay more than €85 for this junk) it has quite good read speeds but the writes, oh my God, my hair will fall out.
  It writes and then after a while it stops working. 0 /bytes, 100% usage while doing nothing. I have the latest firmware that the (ugly) program has me download, and it continues to crawl. This all started happening about 8 months after I bought it. CrystalDiskInfo & HardDiskSentinel tell me everything is fine.

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  2 out of 2 members found this review helpful

  Bruce Wayne

  2024-10-07

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  Amazing speed and responsiveness. Direct new installation of Windows 11, it worked immediately without partition or initialization. I haven't exceeded 20% of the capacity, if anything changes I will update.

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  Dominic King

  2024-10-04

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  This review is about the capacity: 4000 GB

  Fast and at 4 TB it is exactly what I needed for storage space, I am satisfied, it does its job. All good

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  4 out of 4 members found this review helpful

  dabster11

  2024-09-26
  This review is about the capacity: 2000 GB

  I had it as a second one, it did its job just fine but it didn't take long to start lagging until it finally gave up, it might have been a coincidence but I see others with this problem too, personally I wouldn't risk it again, better to spend 10-20 euros more for something better than to end up having to pay for a whole new one after a while

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  3 out of 4 members found this review helpful

  _Dimi_Kar_

  2024-09-13
  This review is about the capacity: 500 GB

  If you are interested in a laptop, NO. The positive thing is that it reaches the speeds it promises. I didn't read the reviews well and wasted my money. In laptop placement, it reaches 69 degrees at idle without any read and write. As I put it in, I will take it out. The disk will not withstand such temperatures. On the other hand, if you want to put it in a desktop, I believe it will be fine if it is hit by air from a fan. In conclusion, a decent value for money choice, but stay away if you want it for a laptop. I will look towards Crucial as a replacement.

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  Alexandros Almar

  2024-09-07
  This review is about the capacity: 2000 GB

  I have purchased two Kingston NV2 PCIe 4.0 NVMe 2TB drives and have encountered serious performance issues with one of them. After 6 months of use, it started to exhibit significant "lagging" with very high response times, especially during the transfer of large files and when using it for demanding tasks, such as gaming and rendering, or even without load. This caused frequent system freezes, resulting in the need for a restart to recover.

  This problem seems to be quite common, as many users have reported the same issues with these drives. Specifically, the fact that Kingston uses different controllers and types of NAND memory in these drives leads to inconsistent performance. Additionally, the fact that the drive is DRAM-less makes things worse, as it cannot reliably handle demanding tasks. Another issue is that the drive sometimes is not recognized by the system, forcing me to restart to get it back.

  For those considering buying the Kingston NV2, I would recommend avoiding it if you need stable and fast performance, especially for demanding applications. The drive may be cheap, but the issues that arise far outweigh its cost.

  Now I am worried about the second one...

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  2 out of 2 members found this review helpful

  xdragon01

  2024-09-07

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  This review is about the capacity: 2000 GB

  Fast and reliable at this price. In the system I have, its performance and speed have not decreased. I do not use the software. I use it as a secondary drive mainly for games.

  Specs:
  i5 - 13600k
  RTX 3090
  32 GB DDR5 5600Mts
  (main drive: Seagate firecuda 530 1TB)

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  kvlantis

  2024-08-24Expert user

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  This review is about the capacity: 500 GB

  UPDATE 11/18/24
  Now in winter with the cold, temperatures range from 40°C - 44°C with the be quiet! cooler. It hasn't given me any problems (yet), but I don't know guys, I'm not very confident in the drive. Time will tell...

  INITIAL REVIEW:
  Temperatures easily reach 60+ during the summer in a well-ventilated case on a motherboard with PCI-X 3.0 x4. I had to install a cooler (be quiet! MC1) and the temperatures dropped by 10°C, but they are still very high at idle. If it gets stressed, where will they go?
  As for reliability, we'll see in due time. I'll come back if needed.

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  soa008

  2024-08-20Expert user

  I installed it on the PC. I don't really care about the speeds; personally, it seems fast to me. I've had it for 1 year and it has no issues.

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  3 out of 4 members found this review helpful

  _SomeoneInThisWorld

  2024-08-18

  Very vfm choice I built my pc with this 1tb ssd in January and since then until today it hasn't given me any issues very good and fast I recommend it 100000 percent

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  3 out of 23 members found this review helpful

  Stavros_Tzourkas

  2024-08-17

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  The PC lags like there's no tomorrow, a well-known issue if you search online for this specific SSD.

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  5 out of 6 members found this review helpful

  Antonis_Vlachos21

  2024-08-16

  I use it as a main drive for my music as a DJ in an external UGREEN case.

  I didn't check the speeds, and it seemed quite fast to me. At one point, IT JUST STOPPED working. Fortunately, I had a backup; otherwise, I would have lost both my earnings and many days to recover my work to the same levels.

  IN THE END, IT WASN'T the drive, but it probably had moved inside the case. I took it out of the case and it worked like it did at first.

  Combined with another review here that mentions it didn't last even 8 and a half months (2 stars), I was scared and thought the drive was to blame initially.

  Anyway, the backup MUST be done (automated and daily) and... IT SAVES LIVES

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  Drmzzy

  2024-08-04
  This review is about the capacity: 2000 GB

  Clearly purchased for game storage. The most VFM NVME SSD. 2TB is enough to meet everyone's needs.

  As an NVME, it may not be one of the fastest, but in games, the loading times show no noticeable difference in speed.

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  Nik_CHro

  2024-08-01

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  This review is about the capacity: 2000 GB

  Obviously, the SSD is decent but personally, I have many games and I would recommend a similar one in 3 or 4TB for a gamer.

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  Vaggelis_Kalosynakis

  2024-08-01

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  It is the 5th Kingston SSD that I have purchased.

  In general, I have never had a problem with Kingston products, so I continue to use them.

  It functions typically, mainly for gaming, and the games have excessively short loading times.

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  vaggelhs4

  2024-07-30

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  This review is about the capacity: 2000 GB

  It is a very honest SSD. I got it as a second Nvme. Due to bandwidth, it works in x2 mode, with 1600mb/sec Read/Write. As hot storage, it is great for editing and transferring photos compared to HDDs with 100mb/sec. To work on my Z270 mobo, I had to cancel a Sata port. Bandwidth issue, of course. In newer systems with more BW, I believe it can work at the speeds the company claims. In any case, do not think that just because Samsung is ahead, other companies are bad. We are talking about Kingston, not some unknown Chinese brand.

  Also, a great value for money purchase if you put it in an NVme enclosure as an external hard drive.

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  8 out of 9 members found this review helpful

  octap

  2024-07-27

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  This review is about the capacity: 2000 GB

  Unfortunately, someone has to do a whole research and learn what the differences are in the specs of the ssd/m.2 technologies, which, fortunately, probably reflect in the price as well. There is a serious reason for the differences in the prices of m.2. And it is not just about the transfer speed. It is also about their expected lifespan, etc. This specific one is among the cheapest because it falls short in all aspects. With the worst being the "throttling" it experiences when you write a lot of data where the speed can drop below 10Mb/s (the maximum I have seen and remember is 550-600MB/s)

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