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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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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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Suryasis

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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.

Triskite

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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

ThatsNotSlick

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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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sr_deal

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Quote from ThatsNotSlick

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/ [techpowerup.com]
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.

For my usage I have both housed in a thunderbolt 3 enclosure with thermal pads connnected to outer metal enclosure body. I always get 860+ with P5 and ~500 with A2000. And I can notice the 4k video Airdrops from my iphone taking a bit longer when I'm booted from the A2000. For temperature I haven't checked with a temp gun but I feel both are around the same ...

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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

Both of these SSDs are budget SSD and don't worth extra money for heatsink. And I think you can see the other guys post in the top where he mentioned how he is using the SSD, inside an external thunderbolt enclosure, not inside a computer or laptop.
Both has similar real world performance and A2000 runs cooler, it will be my preference irrespective of the use case. If you want better performance, spend around 100 bucks to get something better like Sabrent Rocket, SX8200, WD SN750 etc, rather than P5+heat sink.

gh0stx

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gh0stx

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Okay thank you for the replies

coffee4me

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coffee4me

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Does it work with Play Station 5?

LausDeo

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Quote from coffee4me

Does it work with Play Station 5?

Nope, you will need a pcie gen 4 nvme drive for that

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Quote from sr_deal

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

How would this be in comparison with Sandisk Ultra 1TB PCIe Gen 3x4 NVMe?

fleabus

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fleabus

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nice price, but this thing is, comparatively, s-l-o-w as molasses

iengine

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Quote from fleabus

nice price, but this thing is, comparatively, s-l-o-w as molasses

Compared to what?

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Quote from iengine

Compared to what?

To a drive that costs much more of course. That's how comparisons with no details work on SD.

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RolloP

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Quote from ValueRanger

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.

Plural of anecdote isn't data.

RaleighM

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RaleighM

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Came for the expert reviews!!!!!!!

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MajidA2284

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Amazon saying there is newer version ... look same except slightly better speed...will buy that one or the one posted here ...

https://www.amazon.com/Kingston-2...b_title_ce

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PogChampmonkaS

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Good and fast. Thx

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Quote from poohbie

To a drive that costs much more of course. That's how comparisons with no details work on SD.

While I would usually agree, the previous S50 lite deal from Adata does beat this ssd in terms of both price and speed.
https://slickdeals.net/f/15359734-1tb-adata-xpg-gammix-s50-lite-nvme-gen-4-4-ssd-amazon-70-or-less

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Quote from MajidA2284

Amazon saying there is newer version ... look same except slightly better speed...will buy that one or the one posted here ...

https://www.amazon.com/Kingston-2...b_title_ce

Thanks for the link. I need I believe a Gen3 for a 8th gen intel HP computer. So many options dropping in price now. Don't know which to buy. But 800 MB/s is SATA speeds.

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