Kingston NV2 SNV2S/500G 500 GB

One of the most popular M.2 SSDs of recent years

The Kingston NV2 SNV2S/500G is one of the most popular entry-level M.2 SSDs that are equally purchased for entry-level gaming PCs, low-end workstations or home multimedia PCs. The success of the drive is based on three pillars - high operational speed, serious workmanship and low cost.

High passport speed up to 3500 MB/s

NV2 SNV2S is perhaps the most affordable solid-state device on the market that can work with the PCI-E 4.0 data exchange interface. Thanks to this, the manufacturer managed to increase the linear and random read / write speeds to a very serious level (3500 MB / s and 2100 MB / s, respectively). At the same time, the cost of the drive is literally a few dollars higher than the average price tag of most low-cost SATA3 SSDs. Competing 512GB M.2 options tend to be more expensive, although this is often justified by a larger controller.

Work on mistakes

As for the quality, there is also a complete order. In the second generation of NV, the company's engineers replaced the control controller, so that the average temperature of the drive during intensive work rarely exceeds 65 ° C. This decision made it possible to abandon the installation of a separate radiator, thereby saving a little more. The only negative is that in the same NV2 model, the manufacturer may use different combinations of controllers and flash memory, so the actual characteristics may differ slightly from model to model.