Just bought the 500 GB Kingston A2000 NVMe M2 SSD to speed up a desktop PC - our consumer feedback
Today we are talking about PC storage and to be precise, we will discuss solid state drives on a conventional desktop computer On one of our desktop builds we were using a 240 GB ADATA SU630 Ultimate and it was doing a very good job but we felt the PC wasn't snappy enough with a mighty 8-core processor and fast 32 GB of Corsair DDR4 RAM.
That is when we decided to research if there might be some bottle-neck effect on this particular build and where we could optimize it in general. To our surprise we found out that NVMe SSDs are much faster and efficient compared to regular (SATA) SSD and can really boost your computer performance figures.
That is when we bought the 500 GB Kingston A2000 NVMe M2 SSD. Before we proceed and share our first impressions with it, lets check its product specifications:
Kingston A2000 NVMe M2 SSD specifications
Form factor
M.2 2280
Interface
NVMe™ PCIe Gen 3.0 x 4 Lanes
Capacities2
250GB, 500GB, 1TB
NAND
3D
Encrypted
XTS-AES 256-bit Encryption
Sequential Read/Write1
250GB – up to 2,000/1,100MB/s 500GB – up to 2,200/2,000MB/s 1TB – up to 2,200/2,000MB/s
Random 4K Read/Write1
250GB – up to 150,000/180,000 IOPS 500GB – up to 180,000/200,000 IOPS 1TB – up to 250,000/220,000 IOPS
Limited 5-year warranty with free technical support
A2000 is the entry-level and one of the budget oriented NVMe drives by Kingston. It has been a real best-seller since 2019.
Setting up the Kingston A2000
After using this NVMe for about a week we can confirm that there was some increase in the overall PC performance. We will not share any technical specifications and test results but rather how we found working with the same computer after just changing from SATA SSD to NVMe drive.
Just one other tweak that we did while the PC was disassembled - we added one additional fan at the front part of the PC case.
We will definitely keep monitoring how are things after longer use and once we fill this Kingston NVMe with data and share more impressions.
And if you need additional (external) storage we would recommend you to check the compact Seagate One Touch 500 GB SSD which is a very good option for under $100.
Kingston A2000 NVMe M2 SSD - video review
Meanwhile, would you please share with us what is the current PC configuration you are using - are you using regular HDD, SSD or NVMe on M2 slot?
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