New Price drop 16%
Kingston 500GB SSD PCIe NVMe M.2 2280
Capacity 500GB
Form Factor M.2 2280
Interface PCIe
Read Speed 2,100 MB/s
45 Overall Score
Price €154
Snapshot
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Strong social proof (95th percentile) 95th
Cons
- Below average feature (14th percentile)
- Below average endurance (15th percentile)
- Below average capacity (27th percentile)
The proof
Performance
Specifications
Full Specifications
Drive
| Capacity | 500 |
| Form Factor | M.2 2280 |
| Interface | PCIe |
| Protocol | NVMe |
| PCIe Generation | 3 |
| External | No |
Performance
| Sequential Read (MB/s) | 2100 |
| Sequential Write (MB/s) | 1700 |
vs Competition
| Spec | Kingston 500GB SSD | Crucial T700 | Micron T710 CT1000T710SSD5 | Samsung 990 EVO Plus | Lexar Professional NM1090 PRO LNM109P002T-RNNNU | Western Digital BLACK SN850X |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capacity | 500GB | 2TB | 1TB | 2TB | 2TB | 2TB |
| Form Factor | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 |
| Interface | PCIe | PCIe 5.0 x4 | PCIe 5.0 | PCIe 4.0 x4 | PCIe 5.0 | PCIe 4.0 x4 |
| Seq Read | 2,100 MB/s | 12,400 MB/s | 14,900 MB/s | 7,250 MB/s | 14,000 MB/s | 7,300 MB/s |
| Nand Type | - | TLC | TLC | TLC | TLC | TLC |
| Dram Cache | - | true | true | false | true | false |
| Endurance | - | 1200 TBW | 1200 TBW | 1200 TBW | 1400 TBW | 1200 TBW |
| Compare | Compare | Compare | Compare | Compare |
| Product | Speed | Random | Feature | Capacity | Endurance | Social Proof | Affordability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kingston 500GB SSD | 49.9 | 61.8 | 14.4 | 26.9 | 14.5 | 95.3 | 60.6 |
| Crucial T700 Compare | 96.7 | 97.6 | 97.5 | 78.4 | 82.9 | 77.6 | 26.7 |
| Micron T710 CT1000T710SSD5 Compare | 99.4 | 99.1 | 97.5 | 55.3 | 94.8 | 77.6 | 34.4 |
| Samsung 990 EVO Plus Compare | 85.3 | 96.3 | 77.9 | 78.4 | 85.8 | 95.3 | 24.5 |
| Lexar Professional NM1090 PRO LNM109P002T-RNNNU Compare | 98.2 | 98.6 | 97.5 | 78.4 | 90.9 | 52.5 | 27 |
| Western Digital BLACK SN850X Compare | 88.9 | 95.8 | 52.7 | 78.4 | 82.9 | 99.6 | 23.1 |
Price
Value & Pricing
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Usage Scores
- Overall45.1
- Budget78.3
- Gaming38.7
- Laptop51.8
- Console19.3
- Portable12
- Workstation38.9
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