Coming off a 7200rpm HDD to this, feels like you're driving a ufo or something. Had the SSD for about two weeks now and its a maaaassive difference. When you click it actually goes straight away (obviously depending on other parts/internet speeds) but for the most part it is veeery fast. Can definitely recommend as a boot drive. or even game drive for any game except warzone, just cause warzone is stupidly big, you'd probably need a 2tb for that.Anyways 10/10 if i had money like that, i'd buy again.

Best Value

After looking at multiple NVME SSDs, I settled on this one. I am currently using it to dual boot wi does on my iMac. Running Windows 10 off of this is incredibly fast. It shockingly boots and runs some applications faster than my iMac. Boot time has decreased to under a minute which is better than my 2017 iMac. Overall it works great and so far it's been very reliable and I haven't had issues with corrupt files.

In conjunction with an adapter, I bought this to use with a 2015 Macbook Pro 13"""" Retina displa...

In conjunction with an adapter, I bought this to use with a 2015 Macbook Pro 13"""""""" Retina display. For the life of me, the Apple installer wouldn't pick this drive up. I ended up swapping it with a Silicon Power drive (which was sadly half the size) out of my HP Elite Slice, and the Mac saw that and installed. This Kingston NV1 works perfectly in my Dell Latitude 5480, so it's not the drive itself. Note, this is a """"""""DRAM-less controller"""""""" which might by why the Mac was having trouble. Three stars because it didn't work for what I bought it for, but it still works. Performance is in line with an inexpensive SSD. Not for gaming, but just fine for everyday use.

It's amazing that something about the size of a stick of gum can hold so much data. Installed in ...

It's amazing that something about the size of a stick of gum can hold so much data. Installed in my wife's dell inspiron laptop that came with an HDD with the help of some great youtube tutorials. Fresh install of windows and formatted the old HDD, which is now used as a backup. The whole process only took a couple hours and the laptop is now insanely fast and backed up weekly using freesync. Couldn't be happier.

Laptop Upgrade

The Kinston ssd drive was at a very good price. B&H shipped the item quickly. This installed super easy, being mindful of the steps to take.These cards are so reliable, have one in my desktop, & my PS5 as an extra drive for more space for games.These are great for upgrades and replacing old style hard drives.

My sustained write speeds dropped to around 25 mb/s after I filled 2 of these drives to around 1/...

My sustained write speeds dropped to around 25 mb/s after I filled 2 of these drives to around 1/3 full. If I removed data, write speeds would return. This was not due to thermal throttling, as I checked. Sustained read speeds remained acceptable. I can handle some throttling / decrease in performance when drives get hot or full, but 25 mb/s is unacceptable, as I can download files faster than these drives can write. My WD 850 does not exhibit this behavior, albeit it is much more expensive. For the average user, who is just going to write files once, and not move stuff around much between drives and external drives, the Kingston NV1 would probably be """"""""ok."""""""" Hard pass for me.

Ok so I had a somewhat old laptop (6 yo) that had OEM Windows 10 install. It has i7 6th gen proce...

Ok so I had a somewhat old laptop (6 yo) that had OEM Windows 10 install. It has i7 6th gen processor and 16 gigs of ram, so even if it is old is not supposed to be a slug. But it was dragging because of the harddrive: a 1TB mechanical 5400RPM sllllllow disk. So being that we are carbon-footprint conscious and being the fact that the specs should be not that bad, I decided to get this SSD as I had previously put one on someone else's laptop with successful results. So proceeded to get this, I was able to do a Win10 fresh install (which by the way is revalidated by Microsoft automatically) after putting it on the laptop, and voila! Good as new! Laptop is superspeedy now, the mechanical disk was the one dragging the laptop. So now I have: a 6 year old laptop with a ... MoreOk so I had a somewhat old laptop (6 yo) that had OEM Windows 10 install. It has i7 6th gen processor and 16 gigs of ram, so even if it is old is not supposed to be a slug. But it was dragging because of the harddrive: a 1TB mechanical 5400RPM sllllllow disk. So being that we are carbon-footprint conscious and being the fact that the specs should be not that bad, I decided to get this SSD as I had previously put one on someone else's laptop with successful results. So proceeded to get this, I was able to do a Win10 fresh install (which by the way is revalidated by Microsoft automatically) after putting it on the laptop, and voila! Good as new! Laptop is superspeedy now, the mechanical disk was the one dragging the laptop. So now I have: a 6 year old laptop with a good processor and enough RAM that operates like a jet with this SSD! I got the 500G one as it was super cheap, left the previous Hard Drive on the laptop with all the previous files in there (no information was lost), and for around 60 bucks saved myself like 700 bucks (of the new laptop I was considering for the wife) and reduced carbon-footprint at the same time. Totally worth it for the price! Very satisfied.

Outstanding

I have this drive in an Asus Arion usb-c external enclosure as a back-up drive and to quickly transfer games and movies between my laptop and desktop. Both my desktop PC and laptop are not the best and definitely have some bottlenecks, but even so I get over 600 mb/s transfer speeds 95% of the time for both reading and writing. It's become the drive I reach for the most for large video files especially. I definitely recommend it for this purpose, and I can only assume it would perform astoundingly well inside a pc as Kingston probably intended.

This is a SINGLE-SIDED 2TB disk, with QLC flash chips and DRAM-less controller. If your write per...

This is a SINGLE-SIDED 2TB disk, with QLC flash chips and DRAM-less controller. If your write performance is very bad, make sure the entire SSD is covered with a thermal pad, or the underside is as well (if there is room). I picked this disk because it was EXTREMELY cheap relative to the other QLC SSDs on Home Essentials Direct, and I knew it had no cache coming in. The reason for the rating is the sensitivity to temperature since not all consumers will know about this issue upon purchase, as well as the price have increased tremendously since the time that I bought two. It seems that the memory chips run REALLY hot on this SSD when in use, so, it throttles down to about 160-180MB/s (still pretty fast) if it gets too hot during intense write sessions. I suggest, ... MoreThis is a SINGLE-SIDED 2TB disk, with QLC flash chips and DRAM-less controller. If your write performance is very bad, make sure the entire SSD is covered with a thermal pad, or the underside is as well (if there is room). I picked this disk because it was EXTREMELY cheap relative to the other QLC SSDs on Home Essentials Direct, and I knew it had no cache coming in. The reason for the rating is the sensitivity to temperature since not all consumers will know about this issue upon purchase, as well as the price have increased tremendously since the time that I bought two. It seems that the memory chips run REALLY hot on this SSD when in use, so, it throttles down to about 160-180MB/s (still pretty fast) if it gets too hot during intense write sessions. I suggest, putting a thermal pad of about 2x2cm over the controller area (where the silver/black chip is near the connector) and a larger one on the NAND chips, or one covering the entire SSD. YMMV. This SSD, being cacheless, WILL slow down to 120-180MB/s when the SLC-mode runs out of room since there is NO DRAM cache. This SSD's TBW is actually very decent for QLC memory. Just don't repeatedly fill and empty the disk and it'll last the typical person a decade or much longer. In fact, the TBW is just the warranty span to my knowledge, being that some (forgot the link) have tested MLC, TLC, and QLC and have found the disks to have far higher TBW before failure than advertised. The reason these disks show as 1.81TB is because the other 190GB is overprovisioned space. The same is true of my old Toshiba XG3, which is advertised as a 1024GB Client SSD, which has a total of 954GB usable, so about 7% is overprovisioning. The Kingston disk has about 10% overprovisioned, so it is likely that, that space divided by four (correct me if wrong) may still be used as write/scratch space, despite the lack of a DRAM cache. It's not all bad. P.S. Remember to use a credit card to purchase things like this to get the added warranty if your card has that!

no software

be advised that this product does not come with a license code for cloning software. There is apparently a "kit" that includes that. I had to dig around on Kingston's web site and finally found the answer by going to support and typing in "Where do I find a key for Acronis". THEN I found the little piece of information that said "Please Note: Stand-alone solution does not include accessories or cloning software." On the instructions for downloading the software, it merely said "Note: Acronis True Image Activation key included with select Kingston products". I thought fine, that must mean you don't get the key for Ram purchases. it didn't hint what the "select Kingston products" were. It seems that when "select Kingston products" are marketed and sold, that the lack ... Morebe advised that this product does not come with a license code for cloning software. There is apparently a "kit" that includes that. I had to dig around on Kingston's web site and finally found the answer by going to support and typing in "Where do I find a key for Acronis". THEN I found the little piece of information that said "Please Note: Stand-alone solution does not include accessories or cloning software." On the instructions for downloading the software, it merely said "Note: Acronis True Image Activation key included with select Kingston products". I thought fine, that must mean you don't get the key for Ram purchases. it didn't hint what the "select Kingston products" were. It seems that when "select Kingston products" are marketed and sold, that the lack of this essential software should be noted in the product description.