Starting with a dirty drive, the write speed sits at a consistent 748MB/s. Then, it is stuck at about 260MB/s until the drive is filled, averaging 935MB/s across the whole drive. Then, it falls to an intermediate 750MB/s write speed until about 710GB. When the drive is dirty, the read speed falls to 2429.5MB/s, making it only slightly faster than the cheap Fanxiang S501 SSD.įrom a fresh state, writes are at a high speed approaching 2400MB/s for the first 190GB or so. With a clean drive, sequential reads reach 2763.7MB/s which seems to be less than what the PCIe 3.0 connection is capable of. The above is a screenshot post-test – the drive shows wear of 1% through its combined test and usage in the external case. However, as the controller on this drive is a relatively low-end product, it is unlikely to benefit significantly from PCIe 4.0 connectivity. Unfortunately, I have no devices at present that support PCIe 4.0, thus the maximum performance of the drive is not going to be achieved. This configuration is only capable of PCIe 3.0. Testing was performed on my main desktop, based on an AMD Ryon an Asus X370 PRIME-PRO motherboard with 64GB DDR4 2666MHz RAM. The drive is single-sided, the rear of the board only having a few test points, but otherwise completely covered by a blue soldermask. This is not ideal – I hope there won’t be any solder-joint fractures or PCB microcracks in the future. The board falls out of the packaging, but has a surprising amount of warp to the PCB. The colour-changing Kingston “head” logo is present to authenticate the drive. Inside the cardboard is the drive inside a plastic bubble. It is covered by a three-year warranty, is Made in Taiwan and Packed in China. Nevertheless, the NV2 is an interesting drive – it’s not a speed demon as such with speeds resembling PCIe 3.0-based drives, but it does support PCIe 4.0 connectivity. But this was definitely a good buy (at the time) at AU$82 for the drive itself. You know SSDs are getting cheap when the packaging resembles microSD cards and USB flash drives. This frees up a SATA port, which makes up for the destroyed SATA port due to corrosion.Īs part of commissioning this into my daily-use machine, I decided to test it in its new configuration to ensure that it’s working just fine. This SSD was originally reviewed with the Orico PWM2-G2/PWDM2-G2 USB3.2 Gen2 M.2 NVMe/NVMe+SATA Enclosure, but seeing as I now have an M.2 to PCIe adapter, I might as well install it into my main desktop as a tertiary SSD in addition to the Fanxiang S501 which serves as a secondary.
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