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1TB Kingston A2000 NVMe M.2 2280 PCIe Solid State Drive

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Amazon.com has 1TB Kingston A2000 NVMe M.2 2280 PCIe Solid State Drive (SA2000M8/1000G) on sale for $79.99. Shipping is free.

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Product Features:
  • Sequential Read/Write: up to 2,200/2,000MB/s
  • Random 4K Read/Write: up to 250,000/220,000 IOPS
  • TCG Opal, AES 256-bit, eDrive Hardware Encryption
  • Ideal for Ultrabooks and small-form-factor PC

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  • Price Research: Our research indicates that 1TB Kingston A2000 NVMe M.2 2280 PCIe Solid State Drive is $27.20 less (25.37% Savings) than the next best price from a reputable merchant with prices starting from $107.19.
  • Amazon Holiday Return Policy: Eligible for returns until January 31, 2022 (more info).
  • Reviews: This Kingston SSD receives 4.8 Stars out of 5 Stars based on over 1,500 Customer Reviews.
  • Warranty: Includes 5-Year Manufacturer's Warranty for parts & labor. -slickdewmaster

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Amazon.com has 1TB Kingston A2000 NVMe M.2 2280 PCIe Solid State Drive (SA2000M8/1000G) on sale for $79.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks community member Suryasis for sharing this deal

Product Features:
  • Sequential Read/Write: up to 2,200/2,000MB/s
  • Random 4K Read/Write: up to 250,000/220,000 IOPS
  • TCG Opal, AES 256-bit, eDrive Hardware Encryption
  • Ideal for Ultrabooks and small-form-factor PC

Editor's Notes

Written by slickdewmaster | Staff
  • Price Research: Our research indicates that 1TB Kingston A2000 NVMe M.2 2280 PCIe Solid State Drive is $27.20 less (25.37% Savings) than the next best price from a reputable merchant with prices starting from $107.19.
  • Amazon Holiday Return Policy: Eligible for returns until January 31, 2022 (more info).
  • Reviews: This Kingston SSD receives 4.8 Stars out of 5 Stars based on over 1,500 Customer Reviews.
  • Warranty: Includes 5-Year Manufacturer's Warranty for parts & labor. -slickdewmaster

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And how do you know these information (which are mostly wrong anyway)? The first search about Crucial P5 review shows the Tom's Hardware review link and tons of comments about how it runs hot and has a lower than average performance. May be a basic Google search before posting comments will help you next time.
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/crucial-p5-m-2-nvme-ssd-review
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/kingston-a2000-m2-nvme-ssd
[tomshardware.com]

Go through the above review links for P5 and A2000 respectively.
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Literally my asus x570 tuf gaming plus will not boot with the p5 installed. Google it, common issue. P5 isn't better in every way
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I mean, P5 kind of has a reputation for running hot and drawing a lot of power (not ideal for laptop battery life)
Scoring higher sequential speeds on CrystalDiskMark or whatever doesn't make the drive faster, because those speeds will almost never be relevant.
https://www.techpowerup.com/revie...-nvme-ssd/
You can see here they perform pretty much identically in real world usage. A2000 even edges it out a bit overall. It only loses when doing long, intensive write workloads (again, hardly ever relevant) because of the A2000's inconsistent SLC utilization.

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Quote from sr_deal :
Probably better to spend an extra $10 and get the Crucial P5 from BestBuy 89.99
Much faster and stays cooler
And how do you know these information (which are mostly wrong anyway)? The first search about Crucial P5 review shows the Tom's Hardware review link and tons of comments about how it runs hot and has a lower than average performance. May be a basic Google search before posting comments will help you next time.
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/crucial-p5-m-2-nvme-ssd-review
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/kingston-a2000-m2-nvme-ssd
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Go through the above review links for P5 and A2000 respectively.
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And how do you know these information (which are mostly wrong anyway)? The first search about Crucial P5 review shows the Tom's Hardware review link and tons of comments about how it runs hot and has a lower than average performance. May be a basic Google search before posting comments will help you next time.
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/crucial-p5-m-2-nvme-ssd-review
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/kingston-a2000-m2-nvme-ssd
[tomshardware.com]

Go through the above review links for P5 and A2000 respectively.
Well I didn't need to read Tom's review
I have both P5 and Kingston running here and I can tell P5 is much FASTER and almost always cooler 😀
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probably they made a special version for only you.
It's within the realm of possibility that both can have varying temperature ranges, based upon complimentary hardware, and software loads that can vary from CPU/core/threading differences.
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It's within the realm of possibility that both can have varying temperature ranges, based upon complimentary hardware, and software loads that can vary from CPU/core/threading differences.
Yes, entirely true. It was just made sarcastically because the other user cannot accept it. In Similar test platform and load which are done by reviewers, Tom's Hardware in this case, A2000 performs better than Crucial P5, both in terms of performance and in terms of thermals.
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Yes, entirely true. It was just made sarcastically because the other user cannot accept it. In Similar test platform and load which are done by reviewers, Tom's Hardware in this case, A2000 performs better than Crucial P5, both in terms of performance and in terms of thermals.
What's going to be more confusing is the trend for proprietary function to even further disrupt these kinds of tests.

Consider where UEFI was adopted to counter BIOS viruses, that was then quickly turned into some manufacturers applying even further restrictive BIOS level encoding to curb competition. The Open Source markets were in an uproar over no Legacy option to easily use Linux, etc.. More recently Intel adopted Intel Rapid Stor(e) tech that placed extreme limitations on Open Source, and led the way to further proprietary, monopolistic practices like even more chip/board manufacturers are considering/applying.

And this on top of suppressive markets due to supply chain/economic/ecological swings...

This pattern will continue to cause even more 'viral' vacillations in these, and ancillary value spaces for years - if not decades to come if extreme measures are not taken to curb them.
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Yes, entirely true. It was just made sarcastically because the other user cannot accept it. In Similar test platform and load which are done by reviewers, Tom's Hardware in this case, A2000 performs better than Crucial P5, both in terms of performance and in terms of thermals.
Just to clarify sorry. This crucial p5 at 90 usd front page deal https://slickdeals.net/share/android_app/fp/674176

Is slower and hotter than the one on the thread? Thanks
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Just to clarify sorry. This crucial p5 at 90 usd front page deal https://slickdeals.net/share/android_app/fp/674176

Is slower and hotter than the one on the thread? Thanks
Yes, as per the review by Tom's hardware. The review links for both the ssds are given in the 2nd post which you can check out as well.
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P5 is better than the a2000, the P5 is dated though, still decent midrange gen 3 nvme.
A2000 has the same setup as the P5 (2 channels) and controllers in the same tier, P5's does run hotter though, I tested them a few months back. The a2000 is in between midrange and budget due to the 64l or 96l micron nand (sequential speeds on 4k r/w similar to drives with QLC nand) and 2263 controller not even close to a 2262en controller.
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P5 is better than the a2000, the P5 is dated though, still decent midrange gen 3 nvme.
A2000 has the same setup as the P5 (2 channels) and controllers in the same tier, P5's does run hotter though, I tested them a few months back. The a2000 is in between midrange and budget due to the 64l or 96l micron nand (sequential speeds on 4k r/w similar to drives with QLC nand) and 2263 controller not even close to a 2262en controller.
Yes thats exactly what I see P5 gives me 860+ speeds with my Mac Mini M1 , when i'm booting through the A2000 I can barely touch 500
Temperature wise I do not feel any difference .. I'll go for P5 anyday over this a2000​
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Literally my asus x570 tuf gaming plus will not boot with the p5 installed. Google it, common issue. P5 isn't better in every way Wink
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Well I didn't need to read Tom's review
I have both P5 and Kingston running here and I can tell P5 is much FASTER and almost always cooler 😀
I mean, P5 kind of has a reputation for running hot and drawing a lot of power (not ideal for laptop battery life)
Scoring higher sequential speeds on CrystalDiskMark or whatever doesn't make the drive faster, because those speeds will almost never be relevant.
https://www.techpowerup.com/revie...-nvme-ssd/
You can see here they perform pretty much identically in real world usage. A2000 even edges it out a bit overall. It only loses when doing long, intensive write workloads (again, hardly ever relevant) because of the A2000's inconsistent SLC utilization.
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I mean, P5 kind of has a reputation for running hot and drawing a lot of power (not ideal for laptop battery life)
Scoring higher sequential speeds on CrystalDiskMark or whatever doesn't make the drive faster, because those speeds will almost never be relevant.
https://www.techpowerup.com/revie...-nvme-ssd/
You can see here they perform pretty much identically in real world usage. A2000 even edges it out a bit overall. It only loses when doing long, intensive write workloads (again, hardly ever relevant) because of the A2000's inconsistent SLC utilization.
So for gaming laptops to be used for office works and gaming, as well as boot drive rather get A2000 since it is cheaper, cooler and relatively the same in real world usage?

P5 only if you can put heatsink? I probably wont have a heatsink for the laptop
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Quote from gh0stx :
So for gaming laptops to be used for office works and gaming, as well as boot drive rather get A2000 since it is cheaper, cooler and relatively the same in real world usage?

P5 only if you can put heatsink? I probably wont have a heatsink for the laptop
Yea, I would go with the A2000, just for better battery life if anything.
Even in workloads where the P5 should beat the A2000, it likely won't beat it by that much since it's certainly going to throttle even harder on a laptop.

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