Kingston NV1 SNVS/500G 500 GB

One of the best SSDs available in 2021 with M.2 interface and 64-layer 3D TLC NAND Flash. Included in the universal consumer series Consumer, most of the products provide an optimal balance between cost, speed, reliability and additional features. As planned, Kingston can equally well play the role of a system drive, a game library or a backup disk in a workstation for processing copyright content.

It has a compact size that complies with the 2280 form factor standard. Compatible with all motherboards equipped with an M.2 port with support for 2/4-lanes PCI-E 3.0. The Kingston NV1 is based on 3D QLC NAND multi-layer flash memory, the Phison PS5013-E13-31 mid-level controller is responsible for controlling the device. The linear write speed declared by the manufacturer is 1700 MB / s, the read speed reaches 2100 MB / s, which is almost 4 times faster than SSD drives with SATA3 interface and 10-15 times faster than conventional HDD drives.

Thus, the drive provides, albeit not a record, but still quite fast loading of the operating system, browsers with a large number of cached tabs, resource-intensive professional applications and current games. The manufacturer gives a 3-year warranty, and the MTBF is 150 TB. This is quite enough for everyday home use, but may not be enough for a workstation on which tens of gigabytes of audio or video materials are rewritten daily.