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expiredSuryasis posted Aug 10, 2025 7:36 AM

4TB KingSpec XG 7000 M.2 2280 PCIe 4.0x4 NVMe SSD w/ Heatsink + $10 Newegg eGC

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KingSpec Official Store via Newegg has 4TB KingSpec XG 7000 M.2 2280 PCIe 4.0x4 NVMe Solid State Drive w/ Heatsink + $10 Newegg Promotional eGift Card (Email Delivery) on sale for $188.99. Shipping is free.

Note: The eGift Card is added to the cart automatically. Per the site: "Your Promotional Gift Card will be emailed 4 days after invoice. The gift card will expire in 365 days after issue."

Thanks to Community Member Suryasis for finding this deal.

About this Item:
  • Features a graphene-based thermal solution with an integrated heat spreader.
  • PCIe Gen4 x 4 interface.
  • 80.0mm (L) x 22.0mm (W) x 2.1mm (H)
  • Specs:
    • Max Sequential Read: Up to 7400 MBps
    • Max Sequential Write: Up to 6600 MBps
    • 4KB Random Read: Up to 700,000 IOPS
    • 4KB Random Write: Up to 600,000 IOPS
    • MTBF: 1,000,000 hours

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Written by Corwin | Staff
  • About this Deal:
    • This deal is valid for a limited time. While supplies last.
    • Please see the original post for additional details and give the WIKI and forum comments a read for helpful discussion.
  • About this Product:
    • Rated 4.2 out of 5 from customer reviews.
    • Includes a 3-year warranty.

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KingSpec Official Store via Newegg has 4TB KingSpec XG 7000 M.2 2280 PCIe 4.0x4 NVMe Solid State Drive w/ Heatsink + $10 Newegg Promotional eGift Card (Email Delivery) on sale for $188.99. Shipping is free.

Note: The eGift Card is added to the cart automatically. Per the site: "Your Promotional Gift Card will be emailed 4 days after invoice. The gift card will expire in 365 days after issue."

Thanks to Community Member Suryasis for finding this deal.

About this Item:
  • Features a graphene-based thermal solution with an integrated heat spreader.
  • PCIe Gen4 x 4 interface.
  • 80.0mm (L) x 22.0mm (W) x 2.1mm (H)
  • Specs:
    • Max Sequential Read: Up to 7400 MBps
    • Max Sequential Write: Up to 6600 MBps
    • 4KB Random Read: Up to 700,000 IOPS
    • 4KB Random Write: Up to 600,000 IOPS
    • MTBF: 1,000,000 hours

Editor's Notes

Written by Corwin | Staff
  • About this Deal:
    • This deal is valid for a limited time. While supplies last.
    • Please see the original post for additional details and give the WIKI and forum comments a read for helpful discussion.
  • About this Product:
    • Rated 4.2 out of 5 from customer reviews.
    • Includes a 3-year warranty.

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Aug 11, 2025 3:58 AM
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xtpAug 11, 2025 3:58 AM
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This is actually a really bad drive.

Don't buy.
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Aug 11, 2025 6:39 AM
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MWinkAug 11, 2025 6:39 AM
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It sounds like these may be coming with the infamous Innogrit controller, which makes the deal even less appealing.

Quote from kaolan :
Cheap? Yes. Expecting great performance and durability? No. Trust it with your data? Don't.

I have heard, not sure if it's true: Many big-name brands, to cut the cost, "recycle" their products that have minor defects and thus not meeting the standards - sell to small manufacturers who then rebrand them with cheaper price. Kingspec is just one of them.

There is a reason these cheap low-quality SSD still sells. Not all computers are used for keeping valuable data. You get what you pay for.
Binning pretty much always happens with NAND flash. Almost any SSD you buy (even high end ones) will come with some bad blocks from the factory. Low end brands (like KingSpec) likely use some of the lower binned NAND (such as "media grade" which is usually intended for USB flash drives). There is some scarily bad NAND out there.
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Aug 11, 2025 7:19 AM
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Commando102Aug 11, 2025 7:19 AM
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lol the comments here show most people don't know what they are talking about Kingspec is highly regarded in Asia and is extremely popular in Asia but not popular in America. it ISNT a low end brand I have 3 of these. My desktop, laptop and on my legion go. These are pretty popular on the legion go community.
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Aug 11, 2025 8:32 AM
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b00gersugarAug 11, 2025 8:32 AM
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Quote from qwang925 :
interesting: if it failed the first time, why did you still have a lot of it??
because i work in an office with 300+ desktop computers, 200+ laptops and some NAS boxes. this is going to sound crazy, but it's rather difficult to use 1 SSD in 500+ computers. one might even say impossible. so i had to buy many. also, like my original post that you clearly didn't read said, these use to have intel and micron NAND. that's what i was expecting to get. now they don't.

PS: I have a drawer full of dead samsung SSDs as well. there are at least 100 of them in there. i still buy them
Quote from TenderGazelle3759 :
Why you do have lots of YMTC NAND if they keep failing?
because i did not know they changed the hardware without changing the PN.
Quote from TenderGazelle3759 :
Can you provide objective proof of your claims
i can. but i'm not going to. sorry i stopped reading after that. you don't have to listen to me. buy whatever you want
Quote from kaolan :
I have heard, not sure if it's true: Many big-name brands, to cut the cost, "recycle" their products that have minor defects and thus not meeting the standards - sell to small manufacturers who then rebrand them with cheaper price. Kingspec is just one of them.
this is true for actual manufacturers like samsung, micron, sandisk/wd, etc. it's NOT true for kingspec. kingspec doesn't actually make anything. they buy drives and put their stickers on it. that's it. that's why 1 part number from kingspec can be 3 completely different drives from different manufacturers.
Last edited by b00gersugar August 11, 2025 at 01:45 AM.
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Aug 11, 2025 1:49 PM
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hiteshsethAug 11, 2025 1:49 PM
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Given the discussion in thread, not sure if it matters but if you are planning to buy then note it is DRAM less drive which would cause inconsistent performance. Read full reviee at https://www.techpowerup.com/ssd-s...4-tb.d2223
Aug 11, 2025 1:54 PM
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cornerblitz13Aug 11, 2025 1:54 PM
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Quote from Commando102 :
lol the comments here show most people don't know what they are talking about Kingspec is highly regarded in Asia and is extremely popular in Asia but not popular in America. it ISNT a low end brand I have 3 of these. My desktop, laptop and on my legion go. These are pretty popular on the legion go community.
Has anyone called you a Chinese Nationalist yet? These guys are from the states, they don't know a whole lot.
Aug 11, 2025 5:56 PM
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WonDAug 11, 2025 5:56 PM
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I don't see promo credit in cart. Anyone?

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Aug 12, 2025 9:45 PM
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NervousLake876Aug 12, 2025 9:45 PM
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Quote from TenderGazelle3759 :
Why you do have lots of YMTC NAND if they keep failing? Can you provide objective proof of your claims, such as benchmarks on Youtube, or large-scale surveys about SSDs? With proof, do you work on servers or provide tech support for a company with hundreds of employees?The large majority of NewEgg reviews said this KingSpec SSD had superior bang for the buck in regard to price, storage size, & speed, but a small minority of reviews said the SSD was slower than expected for massive data transfers. A tiny minority of reviewers said the SSD had reliability problems. One reviewer even said SSDs from Western Digital (US company) were less reliable & more expensive than SSDs were from KingSpec (China company).My Huawei tablet from China has been working well since 2018. Huawei company still has lots of good reviews on older to newer products & growing sales around the world, even though the US has been applying global sanctions against Huawei & other China tech companies.
Huawei is a better brand name and couldn't really afford to put out an inferior product without permanently losing a ton of sales.

KingSpec is not Huawei though.

I have 2 of these drives. They work... okay. Both are used in unRAID servers as cache drives. Neither have failed and are often getting used for VMs (and MOVEer drives). That said, have I seen the transfer speed go from 300+MB/s to zero on a same drive to same drive (Windows VM to unRAID cache)? Yes, but I think it's more the SLC cache gets full or the drive gets a little warm (Although they never seem to report more than 47C).

Bought them both in December on another NewEgg deal that made them ~$179 while other 4TB drives were starting to jump back up considerably. I think it was more stockpiles were depleting / less availability than anything political etc.

Was it mistake that I bought TWO of these drives? Maybe. Perhaps. When I, very quickly, received the $40 GC rebate on the first one, I looked to see what I could use it on that I needed... and then drive #2 was bought. I do sometimes get the urge to drop money on a 4TB T500 / 970 Pro / WD Black deal just to see if replacing the one on the busier server yields better results. I'm assuming it would.
Aug 13, 2025 4:56 AM
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TenderGazelle3759Aug 13, 2025 4:56 AM
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Quote from b00gersugar :
because i work in an office with 300+ desktop computers, 200+ laptops and some NAS boxes. this is going to sound crazy, but it's rather difficult to use 1 SSD in 500+ computers. one might even say impossible. so i had to buy many. also, like my original post that you clearly didn't read said, these use to have intel and micron NAND. that's what i was expecting to get. now they don't. PS: I have a drawer full of dead samsung SSDs as well. there are at least 100 of them in there. i still buy them because i did not know they changed the hardware without changing the PN. i can. but i'm not going to. sorry i stopped reading after that. you don't have to listen to me. buy whatever you wantthis is true for actual manufacturers like samsung, micron, sandisk/wd, etc. it's NOT true for kingspec. kingspec doesn't actually make anything. they buy drives and put their stickers on it. that's it. that's why 1 part number from kingspec can be 3 completely different drives from different manufacturers.
You said you "work in an office with 300+ desktop computers, 200+ laptops and some NAS boxes." Then provide proof of this company & its failure rate for various electronic & computer parts. You do realize there are companies that have released data about their servers' storage drives' failure rates. For example, on average for many types of hard disk drives for various purposes, Western Digital makes more reliable HDDs than Seagate does, but Seagate's most reliable HDDs are multiple times more reliable than Western Digital's least reliable HDDs.

Amazon & NewEgg have lots of reviews about SSDs & other products from KingSpec, & the reviews are generally very good. However, KingSpec makes lower tier to upper tier products, thus you cannot confuse these categories, such as assuming a lower tier product represents an upper tier product, & vice versa. According to KingSpec, they actually manufacture certain parts & work with other companies to manufacture other parts. That is typical for many companies worldwide.

Before you wrote lousy reviews for KingSpec & "made in China" in general, I had no idea KingSpec was a China company. Your lousy reviews for KingSpec persuaded me to do my own research about KingSpec company. According to what I've read, KingSpec is actually a good company overall (but no company is perfect, & some companies are generally better than other companies). On the other hand, Oracle is an extremely mediocre company that's way too popular in the USA & in other countries, because Oracle has ties to the CIA, Israel, both the Democrat Party & Republican Party, America's socially connected companies, etc.
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Aug 14, 2025 4:04 PM
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megablankAug 14, 2025 4:04 PM
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Quote from b00gersugar :
This drive could have intel, micron, or YMTC NAND. Controller will be different depending on the NAND. You're rolling the dice and what hardware you will get. I personally hate YMTC NAND because I had a lot of it fail.

YMTC is a Chinese manufacturer. They make chips on older lithography (due to sanctions and lagging domestic tech) using, let's say "borrowed", memory technology.

Given the bottom of the barrel pricing, I would be good money this is YMTC hardware.
I don't think nand uses cutting edge lithography anyways, that's reserved for gpu/cpus
Aug 15, 2025 1:41 AM
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MWinkAug 15, 2025 1:41 AM
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Quote from megablank :
I don't think nand uses cutting edge lithography anyways, that's reserved for gpu/cpus
That's a good point. I could be wrong but I believe I read that one of the big benefits of 3D NAND was that it allowed them to go back to a larger node, which made the cells more robust. The smaller node size they had to use in the early 2D/planar TLC days contributed to its awful endurance and rapid degradation.
Aug 15, 2025 2:44 PM
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megablankAug 15, 2025 2:44 PM
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Quote from MWink :
That's a good point. I could be wrong but I believe I read that one of the big benefits of 3D NAND was that it allowed them to go back to a larger node, which made the cells more robust. The smaller node size they had to use in the early 2D/planar TLC days contributed to its awful endurance and rapid degradation.
Yep the original immortal slc intel x25 extreme drives were 50nm.
Aug 16, 2025 7:22 PM
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fgg1991Aug 16, 2025 7:22 PM
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Quote from cornerblitz13 :
Everything Chinese is bad according to us Americans. But if they are not bad, we'll still say they're bad and if you don't agree, we'll call you a Chinese nationalist! Yelp, sometimes the discussion is not even about the product anymore. Most of us have never left America but we're experts and don't offend us because we read a lot things on the Internet
Sometimes I really feel sorry for some American consumers. Just because they have incorrect perceptions and biases towards Chinese - made products. Identical items that sell for $10 in China might cost $50 or even more in the US. All it takes is to hide the Chinese origin, and they think it's a good deal. If you point this out, they'll come up with all sorts of reasons to convince you, more likely to convince themselves.
Aug 16, 2025 11:37 PM
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AwesomeblsckdudeAug 16, 2025 11:37 PM
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Quote from waveofdestiny :
Do run a SMART long test on that drive (if you didn't). SMART details are fakable, the long test is as well but seems to be less likely to be faked than the short test results (maybe requires more expertise to fake those). A couple refurbished HDD's I've bought showed great results on short SMART tests but on the long test revealed they had been used for thousands of hours EEK!
What about CrystalDiskInfo Aoi Edition app?

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Aug 18, 2025 8:49 PM
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SeriousFog3159Aug 18, 2025 8:49 PM
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I have a Pci-e 3.0 Kingspec SSD. It's fine

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