Kingston A2000 M.2 NVMe

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Kingston's A2000 is a real bargain. It's plenty fast enough for the average user, and what little you lose in performance you'll likely never notice.

-- As reviewed by PCWorld

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Last revision on November 29, 2021

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Good everyday performance
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5-year warranty

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Maybe it's the 96-layer NAND, maybe it's the Silicon Motion SM2263ENG controller, but whatever the true cause of the A2000's data-shuffling prowess, it's a superb performer for very little money. And since it's both faster and even more affordable than...

By Expert Reviews on December 13, 2019

At this time, Kingston's A2000 1TB is the best overall value in NVMe for mainstream users.

By TweakTown on October 02, 2019

While the Kingston A is not the fastest M. NVMe SSD on the market, it is probably one of the best value ones available and while some users and reviewers for that matter could go back and forward with speeds, this NVMe SSD is still impressive in terms...

By ImpulseGamer on September 10, 2019

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Kingston A2000 is a budget NVMe SSD to entice those to upgrade and move away from their HDD or SATA SSD, but don't let the price fool you. While its read speed may not be the fastest, its 2,000MB/s writing speed is something to be praise for.You can...

By Craving Tech on September 04, 2019

Kingston's A2000 is a real bargain. It's plenty fast enough for the average user, and what little you lose in performance you'll likely never notice.

By PCWorld on August 14, 2019

The Kingston A2000 NVMe M.2 SSD seems to be firing on all cylinders. First off, it performs at above 2GB/s read and write which is something we should elaborate on. Kingston is the first to state that this is an entry level SSD. If you are going to be...

By thessdreview.com on August 11, 2019

At the time of the writing, the Kingston A2000 NVMe PCIe 1TB SSD is sold on an eCommerce online platform for S$245.90. A quick search on the same platform for a 1TB SSD revealed that many SATA based 1TB SSD, such as the Samsung 860 EVO and HP SSD S700...

By thetechrevolutionist.com on February 28, 2020

Kingston is establishing itself as a frontrunner in the mainstream SSD segment. Following on from the SATA-based KC600, the PCIe-driven A2000 does an equally impressive job of delivering strong all-round performance at a competitive price.Employing...

By HEXUS.net on January 14, 2020

The Kingston A2000 series is impressive and appears to be ready to shake up the entry-level NVMe SSD market. Now that the MSRP is down to $0.10 per GB on NVMe drives it is going to drive more system builders and DIY users to stop using SATA III SSDs all...

By Legit Reviews on October 23, 2019

Until now, NVMe storage has been out of the reach of a lot of people because of high pricing against a sense of diminishing returns over SATA solutions. However, as we progress into higher core count CPUs, larger games with longer loading times and...

By vortez.net on October 02, 2019

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