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2TB Kingston NV2 M.2 2280 PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive
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Amazon has 2TB Kingston NV2 M.2 2280 PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive (SNV2S/2000G) on sale for $129.99. Shipping is free.
Kingston has 2TB Kingston NV2 M.2 2280 PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive (SNV2S/2000G) on sale for $129.99. Shipping is free.
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- 2TB Capacity
- 3500 MB/s Maximum Read Speed
- 2800 MB/s Maximum Write Speed
- PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe Interface
- M.2 2280 Form Factor
- Limited 3-Year Warranty
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- This deal is $30 off (18.75% savings) the listed retail price of $159.99.
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- Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars based on 14 Amazon customer reviews.
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Amazon has 2TB Kingston NV2 M.2 2280 PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive (SNV2S/2000G) on sale for $129.99. Shipping is free.
Kingston has 2TB Kingston NV2 M.2 2280 PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive (SNV2S/2000G) on sale for $129.99. Shipping is free.
Thanks to community member Teaser38 for finding this deal.
Product Details:
Thanks to community member Teaser38 for finding this deal.
Product Details:
- 2TB Capacity
- 3500 MB/s Maximum Read Speed
- 2800 MB/s Maximum Write Speed
- PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe Interface
- M.2 2280 Form Factor
- Limited 3-Year Warranty
Editor's Notes
Written by StrawMan86 | Staff- About this deal:
- This deal is $30 off (18.75% savings) the listed retail price of $159.99.
- Our research indicates that this offer is $10 lower (7.14% savings) than the next best available price from a reputable merchant with prices starting from $139.99 and higher.
- Ratings & Reviews:
- Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars based on 14 Amazon customer reviews.
- About this store:
- Don't have Amazon Prime? Students can get a free 6-Month Amazon Prime trial with free 2-day shipping, unlimited video streaming & more.
- If you're not a student, there's also a free 1-Month Amazon Prime trial available.
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The fact that it has a Gen 4 interface really doesn't contribute to anything other than possibly not being rejected by PS5.
Better than most of the crap budget ones from Team, etc.
Pretty decent review
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PCIe 4 drives run hotter when the memory is clocked and controllers have powerful enough hardware to push to PCIe 4 speeds. The interface controller is not what is creating the heat. If the NAND and controller is running at PCIe 3 speeds, then it isn't creating any more heat than PCIe drives. Better to understand why the heat is created before making such bad correlation assertions.
People have already given reason why the interface is needed for PS5 use. The interface is enforced, speeds are not.
It has a minimum hardware requirement because there are a lot of crappy Gen 3 SSDs (with high latencies and inconsisten throughput, etc) which some people are going to pop in, have missing frames or stuttering and are going to bad mouth the PS5 or worse for them try to get technical support or return the PS5.
Making a minimum of Gen 4 avoids most of that crap.
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I'd recommend just getting a PCIe 3.0 drive. PCIe 4.0 generally runs hotter than PCIe 3.0 so if you're getting the same speeds out of both... just get the 3.0 imo
EDIT: Removed the part about getting a PCIe 3.0 drive for PS5 due to possible compatibility issues
Pretty decent review
https://www.techpowerup
Solidigm is Intel QLC, 800 TBW.
To put it into perspective, I have a Samsung SSD in my machine at work, it's been powered on for a bit more than 3 hoursyears. I build a fairly big code base on average every day (sometimes less, sometimes multiple times). I'm now getting close to 21 TBW. The drive is rated at 600 TBW. At this rate I could continue to use this for another 25 years. Is that reasonable? No. And I bet it will fail well before that.
Bottom line, unless you have especially taxing disk write intensive use cases, for the vast majority of people TBW, even extremely low ones, are meaningless. Though one could argue they could be used as an indicator for quality/longevity.
EDIT: Accidentally wrote "3 hours" instead of "3 years".
To put it into perspective, I have a Samsung SSD in my machine at work, it's been powered on for a bit more than 3 hours. I build a fairly big code base on average every day (sometimes less, sometimes multiple times). I'm now getting close to 21 TBW. The drive is rated at 600 TBW. At this rate I could continue to use this for another 25 years. Is that reasonable? No. And I bet it will fail well before that.
Bottom line, unless you have especially taxing disk write intensive use cases, for the vast majority of people TBW, even extremely low ones, are meaningless. Though one could argue they could be used as an indicator for quality/longevity.
Rule of thumb, you don't buy cheap crap if you're worried about risk- if you don't care, buy cheap, they're all the same.
With that said, Kingston does a VERY good job with their controllers to maximize life expectancy of their drives. They do however put more support effort in to their premium product lines than their "budget" lines like this one.
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To put it into perspective, I have a Samsung SSD in my machine at work, it's been powered on for a bit more than 3 hours. I build a fairly big code base on average every day (sometimes less, sometimes multiple times). I'm now getting close to 21 TBW. The drive is rated at 600 TBW. At this rate I could continue to use this for another 25 years. Is that reasonable? No. And I bet it will fail well before that.
Bottom line, unless you have especially taxing disk write intensive use cases, for the vast majority of people TBW, even extremely low ones, are meaningless. Though one could argue they could be used as an indicator for quality/longevity.
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I'd recommend just getting a PCIe 3.0 drive. PCIe 4.0 generally runs hotter than PCIe 3.0 so if you're getting the same speeds out of both... just get the 3.0 imo
EDIT: Removed the part about getting a PCIe 3.0 drive for PS5 due to compatibility issues
PCIe 4 drives run hotter when the memory is clocked and controllers have powerful enough hardware to push to PCIe 4 speeds. The interface controller is not what is creating the heat. If the NAND and controller is running at PCIe 3 speeds, then it isn't creating any more heat than PCIe drives. Better to understand why the heat is created before making such bad correlation assertions.
People have already given reason why the interface is needed for PS5 use. The interface is enforced, speeds are not.
Making a minimum of Gen 4 avoids most of that crap.
More like consoles are trash, b/c very limited memory and may need high speed drive to constantly shuffle data in/out (basically slow ram). Meanwhile, on PC, a budget ssd from many years ago plays new titles perfectly that are marketed for muh ps5 speeeeed.
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More like consoles are trash, b/c very limited memory and may need high speed drive to constantly shuffle data in/out (basically slow ram). Meanwhile, on PC, a budget ssd from many years ago plays new titles perfectly that are marketed for muh ps5 speeeeed.
PS5 has a 16GB/256byte GDDR6 which is plenty fast with high throughput for a single task machine (it uses a smaller separate memory for background tasks). Its built in SSD storage is also a custom high throughput storage with 12 channels. Most retail SSDs have 4 or less channels.
The expansion storage is for keeping games and persistent game data larger than the built in SSD can store. Their speed affects game loading and saving (it isn't constant rate media streaming) as well as game switching.
The minimum interface specs are for making sure people don't use crappy versions of older SSDs which have problems with sustained or consistent throughput for reads and writes even if the full Gen 4 throughput is not required. PS5 does not support HMB like PC operating systems might so dramless SSDs crap out in speed and latency if a minimum standard isn't maintained.
Above the minimum standards (not just peak numbers), it may not make much difference but that is a far cry from saying any SSD will work equally well because there are a lot of crappy Gen 3 SSDs that will behave badly.
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