Kingston 2048G KC3000 PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD

It has a great write and read speed. Very recommended.

Probably fastest ssd as of today

Installed and checked out correctly. My computer, ROG Strix G15, has a spacer in the middle of the SSD2 slot which induces some flex, but as long as its not fatiguing from motion, I cant imagine its a problem.

It works no issues so far

Bought brand new. Installed Windows. Two days later and would not boot. Motherboard couldnt detect it. It died. Ive had many many brands of ssds and this one is the only one that has ever died on me.

I purchased this in Feb of 2022. As a longtime Samsung user, I was taking a big risk by changing brands in order to gain what ostensibly was equivalent lifespan and better performance. I was nervous because a family member had previously purchased a Kingston SSD and had it fail. My build was plagued with random pauses from the get-go, but I didnt use it frequently enough to diagnose it. In hindsight that was obviously an SSD issue. 13 months after purchase, windows crashed. After a hard reboot, the SMART data that the BIOS is seeing is telling me the drive is toast. It wont boot at all now. Lesson learned: stick to Samsung. This drive is a steaming pile waiting to die after you put important data on it.

Its not the fastest SSD on the market but the performance/price ratio is superb. Im getting 7000MB/s+ read on a single drive and doubled to 14000MB/s on RAID0 setup. Q1T1 is decent as well. Benched from 12700K Z690/DDR5 system.

The read speeds on crystal disk mark are right on for the first pass... On the first pass for write speeds their no better than a Samsung EVO 870 ... Seriously, very, very disappointing.

installed in a workstation and very pleased thus far