This channel is really a gem of tech TH-cam. From the data to the writing and presentation, not only do you provide incredibly useful information but also explain it in a way that anyone watching will understand what each section means in practice. Truly impressive quality.
I recently discovered your channel while searching for external SSD reviews, and I was impressed by how clearly and effectively you present the information in your reviews. Your comparisons of SSDs are easy to understand and extremely helpful. Thank you!
I wish you had also mentioned the drive endurance numbers, the Kingston 1TB NV3 has 320TBW, while the Western Digital 1TB SN770 & SN580 drives have almost double, 600TBW. I'd personally justify paying that extra $10 or $20 for a much longer lasting drive! But other than that the review is excellent as usual!
It's really hard to say how much that TBW number really impacts reliability. Generally speaking people will run out of years of warranty way before they hit the TBW, if they ever hit that at all. Goes for WD as well.
@@TechTesters True! But you can extrapolate if you use that as a Main Drive (Not ScratchDisk with High Usage) for hosting an Operating System + a couple games and see if that Drive is expected to fail in .... 10 years? Or 20 years? As someone who has been using PC's since 1992 (a 286 Machine), having Storage that can be kept and passed on to the next build is something nice.
As a Hardware Consultant from Kolkata, India I can vouch that SN770 is much much superior and one of the best NVMe currently available. One can compare it only with Samsung 970 Evo Pro (Not the 980).
Those WDs without DRAM cache are getting rekt by latest Windows 11 update though. I would be careful recommending those drives, especially to non-technical people who wouldn't know how to stop Windows Updates or Roll Back
I've used an NV2 both as a system drive in a mid-level gaming build and a mass drive in higher-end builds. No issues. For most users in most applications, a drive such as the NV3 will serve very well.
NV2 2TB was accidently worst drive i ever owned, pure scam ! happy for you, wish they stick to one config, not to lottery when you dont know what you buying
yay for the review... but main issues with NV2 wasnt speed, but it used different config every time, my drive got very slow very quickly, had to be replaced tldr: dont buy NV2, you buying lottery ticket, high chance it will die on you, small chance it will have speed it says it should have
Very concise review, straight to the point. Was considering the nq710 (slightly cut down nm710) but then the nv3 recently showed up in my local store and looks like its better for the price (they have the same price where Im from).
Thank you for the review. I am always checking your videos when I am doing research about ssds. I am really looking forward to see the Crucial P310 SSD 1TB M.2 2280 PCIe Gen4 NVMe Thanks 😊
I just got a 2TB Orico O7000, that i'll be using as a secondary drive for games. It came with a slim heatsink that luckily fit into my gaming laptop, would be nice hearing an opinion from you.
It’s great to see decently priced NVME drives on the market. I personally have many NVME drives in my multiple pc setups 😇💪👍🥳. I do have an NV2 1tb and 2TB drive in my htpc setups for gaming purposes and watching recordings etc and they’re perfectly fine for my needs. I’ll definitely look upgrading to the NV3 drives in some of my builds as their read and write speeds looking quite impressive imo💪🥰👍🥳
You always manage to make these vids just the right length and filled with the right info. Thank you for another great review. I'd love to see a comparison vid of all the 4TB drives, just to see if there's a difference between those you manage to test and a 4GB version. Unfortunately that's likely to cost too much to do.
Thanks! I always try to keep the videos just long enough, glad it's appreciated! 4TB I'm working on, but it's hard to get sometimes and/or very expensive to cover a lot of them.
I am a HUGE fan of your consistency test, it's not something that every reviewer includes and while it doesn't "make sense" for some its an important pointer to worst case scenarios with these cheap drives.. THANKS!
I was fascinated with searching a budget deal on Kingston NV2 based on your video and good arguments about it over other budget drives but then got an amazing deal on 990 pro, and remembered your review and it being top of the graph at that time :) thanks Nada
Do you think it could be good drive for data stroge (photos, 3d files etc.) in raid 1? Performance should be enough for me and I think 2 cheaper drives should be more reliable than 1 more expensive.
I went for the KingSpec Gen4 XG7000 4tb NVME m.2 at £199.99 from amazon Uk instead of a Kingston Gen4 NV2 at £203.99.They also have SiliconPower 4tb gen4 at £218,WD blue SN500 gen4at £242,of which i have only a 1tb running my current system windows 11.This new KingSpec will be for more games
Thank you so much for posting this excellent video. You present so well and give quite a lot of information about this SSD's performance. I appreciate the performance rankings that you develop. The videography is outstanding.
Yes, since that Intel was a first generation qlc drive with a very low write speed, below Sata even, at certain capacity.. I replaced my 660p when 3 gen came out
Not sure where you got those sequential readings for NV2, mine was at sata speeds all the time except for the first few seconds of transfers, be it read or write. Worst drive I ever had.
Not mentioning QLC/TLC is not a very good look for me when it comes to durability, even for a budget SSD, I still want to know how much headroom I have to swap it when it's about to die
Its nice to see improvements in the budget segment, but the prices of older premium components are also going down. I think paying 20e more justifies the performance difference (dram) between NV3 and Kingston Fury Renegade which also comes with 2 years of extra warranty.
Yeah the Fury Renegade at a same price is pretty appealing. But I do expect this one to drop further, when it's 100 vs 130 eur for 2TB, the NV3 is pretty appealing.
From this review it seems okay, but the problem is that these benchmark results might be quite different from how some of its variants will perform. Maybe for a storage drive it is okay, though if you move large files from and to this drive, that would also slow it down. Unless you really are strapped for cash, I definitely skip it.
Thanks for the review. At the moment the price for the 4TB version is not very attractive (at least here in Germany). It costs 250€. The much better Crucial T500 you can get for 310€. But if the price of the Kingston goes more in the direction of 200€, it will become very attractive.
I a lot of long data writes so your consistency test is nice to see. I have a silicon power A55 4TB ssd that is absolutely unusable to me for long writes as it will fall all the way down to 20MB/s after just 5 minutes of writing. I bough it to fill a gap in my server and regretted it after trying to move some data to it.
@@TechTesters Of course. I live at the bottom of the world and it's not easy to get some drives. I had ordered 8 4TB MX500s, but only 7 were available. I ordered the crappy SP drive out of desperation. Since then, I did finally got the final Crucial drive and all is well in my world (for now). Right now, just trying to get a decent U.2 pool going. Have 4 8TBs P4510s, need 4 more and then I'll retire or retask the 4TB SSD pool. U.2 can be a bit expensive and I'm intimately familiar with the test you do (and I love). Please keep doing it as I learn from your testing what consumer drives to completely avoid other than the QLC crap.
V300 still in my memory from when they changed the NAND to a slower one after they had sent out the review samples. Not sure I could ever trust Kingston again.
V300 wasn't great, but at least now there are a lot of eyes on Kingston to make sure any updates make the NV3 better, not worse. I'll definitely keep an eye out on newer ones anyway, I usually need a few budget drives for various buids throughout the year. We'll see :)
I want to see how it perform against their own older A2000 (which actually has DRAM), I have never find a reason to go for any of Kingston newer NV series when the old A2000 is even cheaper and perform better when it counts.
I don't have the A2000 anymore, but that was already outperformed by budget drives from a few years ago. The NV3 will perform better in almost every realistic use case.
The problem with the changing components is that it makes your review less reliable. You need to re-purchase it and re-review it once per year until the end of it's lifespan.
@@BOZ_11 I dunno but my 1TB version performs way better in sequential performance(and possible other tests as well) than her 2TB test shows only 6400 and my test shows 7100 and the NV3 is still slower in gaming test, and I was talking about the 1TB version she is showing the 2TB version in this video
I really hate when they change components and use the same name. Honestly it should be ilegal. I makes it impossible to know hat you are buying. Also reviews of products that does this makes no sense. cause the user cannot be sure to get what is in tested in the review. I think they should give them a version number. It is fair to have NV3 V1, V2 and V3 that tries to have the same performance and price just with small changes. Best case the make an update that makes the drive faster, use less power etc, better in every way. They someone test that and show it is super good value. Now the users might go out and try to buy it. But an SSD can be in the stor for months, so now the user risks to get the old version and there is no way they could know. Worst case the make a slower model after a few months... you get the idea. I honestly think it is a waste of time to reviews products that does this. You can test if what they say on the box is correct. But that is about all a review can do for products like this.
It's definitely complicated. But after they had a bit of a disaster years ago (Was it the A400? I'm not 100% sure anymore), more recently they did well. Kingston does have their own factories, so realistically newer NV3's might even get better. All we can do is just keep testing and see how it goes, I think that ignoring the product completely isn't a great solution either.
@@TechTesters You are right. We should probably not ignore it. I guess the best we can do is to call them out and not buy the product. (I have had several good kingston products over the years and have recommended them to friends and family so I honestly feel very disappointed.)
NV2 was probably worst drive i ever owned, even HDD were better than that.. hell my samsung HDD from 2009 still works somehow NV2 was getting progressively slower as time went, after year of use it wasnt usable at all, i rma and got new one and that one still works, but you never know when it gonna die on you
This channel is really a gem of tech TH-cam. From the data to the writing and presentation, not only do you provide incredibly useful information but also explain it in a way that anyone watching will understand what each section means in practice. Truly impressive quality.
Thank you for such thorough reviews, and also showing so many use case benchmarks! ❤
I recently discovered your channel while searching for external SSD reviews, and I was impressed by how clearly and effectively you present the information in your reviews. Your comparisons of SSDs are easy to understand and extremely helpful. Thank you!
Glad you like them! Thank you!
I wish you had also mentioned the drive endurance numbers, the Kingston 1TB NV3 has 320TBW, while the Western Digital 1TB SN770 & SN580 drives have almost double, 600TBW. I'd personally justify paying that extra $10 or $20 for a much longer lasting drive! But other than that the review is excellent as usual!
It's really hard to say how much that TBW number really impacts reliability. Generally speaking people will run out of years of warranty way before they hit the TBW, if they ever hit that at all. Goes for WD as well.
@@TechTesters
True!
But you can extrapolate if you use that as a Main Drive (Not ScratchDisk with High Usage) for hosting an Operating System + a couple games and see if that Drive is expected to fail in .... 10 years? Or 20 years?
As someone who has been using PC's since 1992 (a 286 Machine), having Storage that can be kept and passed on to the next build is something nice.
Uh
As a Hardware Consultant from Kolkata, India I can vouch that SN770 is much much superior and one of the best NVMe currently available. One can compare it
only with Samsung 970 Evo Pro (Not the 980).
Those WDs without DRAM cache are getting rekt by latest Windows 11 update though. I would be careful recommending those drives, especially to non-technical people who wouldn't know how to stop Windows Updates or Roll Back
Kingston NV3 : -
Controller - SMI SM2268XT
Capacities - 500GB - 4TB
DRAM - No
HMB - Yes
NAND brand - Kioxia
NAND type - QLC
Layers - 162
Categories - Entry level NVME. Use it as a secondary drive.
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haha, yoinked straight off the ssd google sheets. i wish they'd turn it into a tier list
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Bedankt Tech Mama voor de Kingston NV3 Gen4 NVMe review
Thank you for the great review, Nada! 😃
I've used an NV2 both as a system drive in a mid-level gaming build and a mass drive in higher-end builds. No issues. For most users in most applications, a drive such as the NV3 will serve very well.
Absolutely.
back with the ssd videos, justified ✅✅
Thanks for the review..was missing these SSD reviews
More coming :)
I got the NV2 2TB for PS5 and it's great. No heatsink needed 😊
NV2 2TB was accidently worst drive i ever owned, pure scam ! happy for you, wish they stick to one config, not to lottery when you dont know what you buying
yay for the review... but main issues with NV2 wasnt speed, but it used different config every time, my drive got very slow very quickly, had to be replaced
tldr: dont buy NV2, you buying lottery ticket, high chance it will die on you, small chance it will have speed it says it should have
That's sad to hear. They are dirt cheap though. Might be worth to gamble.
Thank you for your super good, informative and critical reviews!
The one that was extra good and I immediately ordered a 2TB for my laptop.
Glad I could help!
Very concise review, straight to the point. Was considering the nq710 (slightly cut down nm710) but then the nv3 recently showed up in my local store and looks like its better for the price (they have the same price where Im from).
Thank you for the review. I am always checking your videos when I am doing research about ssds. I am really looking forward to see the Crucial P310 SSD 1TB M.2 2280 PCIe Gen4 NVMe
Thanks 😊
I just ordered one yesterday for my PS5 slim and I'll do some testing but should be fine also love how in depth you go
It should be completely fine :)
I just got a 2TB Orico O7000, that i'll be using as a secondary drive for games. It came with a slim heatsink that luckily fit into my gaming laptop, would be nice hearing an opinion from you.
I'll see if I can pick one up :)
I’ve been eyeing the orico o7000 since you can pick up a 2tb model for like $120
It’s great to see decently priced NVME drives on the market. I personally have many NVME drives in my multiple pc setups 😇💪👍🥳. I do have an NV2 1tb and 2TB drive in my htpc setups for gaming purposes and watching recordings etc and they’re perfectly fine for my needs. I’ll definitely look upgrading to the NV3 drives in some of my builds as their read and write speeds looking quite impressive imo💪🥰👍🥳
Super nice benchmarks! Thank you Nada!
Glad you liked it!
You always manage to make these vids just the right length and filled with the right info. Thank you for another great review.
I'd love to see a comparison vid of all the 4TB drives, just to see if there's a difference between those you manage to test and a 4GB version. Unfortunately that's likely to cost too much to do.
Thanks! I always try to keep the videos just long enough, glad it's appreciated!
4TB I'm working on, but it's hard to get sometimes and/or very expensive to cover a lot of them.
just in time, i was looking for a game storage nvme when i heard about this NV3, good thing she review it early lol
Hope it helped :)
Neat.I was thinking to use this in my partner's build!
I am a HUGE fan of your consistency test, it's not something that every reviewer includes and while it doesn't "make sense" for some its an important pointer to worst case scenarios with these cheap drives..
THANKS!
Thank you!
Do T705 next please!
I was fascinated with searching a budget deal on Kingston NV2 based on your video and good arguments about it over other budget drives
but then got an amazing deal on 990 pro, and remembered your review and it being top of the graph at that time :) thanks Nada
Nice choice, enjoy! :)
Thanks, excellent review as always. As FYI one additional point would find usefu is the power draw to see which is most suitable for laptops
Thank you! And I am working on that too!
Thank you for the hard work as always.
My pleasure!
Great review as usual, thank you so much 😊
My pleasure!
Thanks a lot, it was really helpfull
Do you think it could be good drive for data stroge (photos, 3d files etc.) in raid 1? Performance should be enough for me and I think 2 cheaper drives should be more reliable than 1 more expensive.
Awesome!! Another great video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I went for the KingSpec Gen4 XG7000 4tb NVME m.2 at £199.99 from amazon Uk instead of a Kingston Gen4 NV2 at £203.99.They also have SiliconPower 4tb gen4 at £218,WD blue SN500 gen4at £242,of which i have only a 1tb running my current system windows 11.This new KingSpec will be for more games
Thank you so much for posting this excellent video. You present so well and give quite a lot of information about this SSD's performance. I appreciate the performance rankings that you develop. The videography is outstanding.
Thank you as always!
Think we can discount getting this as you don't really know what this is when buying.
Hello would the 4tb version of this drive be a good upgrade over a 2tb intel 660p?
Yes, since that Intel was a first generation qlc drive with a very low write speed, below Sata even, at certain capacity.. I replaced my 660p when 3 gen came out
Yeah that's a pretty big step up :P
@@TechTesters thank you both!
@TechTesters, there's 4TB Crucial T500 released. Can you check it up, against benchmarks, please?
I'll try to grab one, thanks!
Not sure where you got those sequential readings for NV2, mine was at sata speeds all the time except for the first few seconds of transfers, be it read or write. Worst drive I ever had.
Not mentioning QLC/TLC is not a very good look for me when it comes to durability, even for a budget SSD, I still want to know how much headroom I have to swap it when it's about to die
yay new video !
Its nice to see improvements in the budget segment, but the prices of older premium components are also going down. I think paying 20e more justifies the performance difference (dram) between NV3 and Kingston Fury Renegade which also comes with 2 years of extra warranty.
Yeah the Fury Renegade at a same price is pretty appealing. But I do expect this one to drop further, when it's 100 vs 130 eur for 2TB, the NV3 is pretty appealing.
I like Kingston but I don’t know about the reliability. We’ll see. I have their M.2 non-NVME in my laptop as my OS. Not sure how long it will last
That's always a question for the long term. Either way, anything can break, you'll still need backups.
From this review it seems okay, but the problem is that these benchmark results might be quite different from how some of its variants will perform. Maybe for a storage drive it is okay, though if you move large files from and to this drive, that would also slow it down. Unless you really are strapped for cash, I definitely skip it.
games are so big now. i wish decent 4tb nvme was more common and affordable
That should be happening soon enough :)
Thoughts on the nv4?
Ask me in a year or two? :D
tnanks nadia
This what i looking for. Nice information for PC Builder like me 😁👍
what's the cheapest tlc SSD?
Great vid!
Thanks!
Thanks for the review. At the moment the price for the 4TB version is not very attractive (at least here in Germany). It costs 250€. The much better Crucial T500 you can get for 310€. But if the price of the Kingston goes more in the direction of 200€, it will become very attractive.
Welcome! And I definitely expect this to become one of the cheapest options eventually. It just takes time. And we'll see.
GPU mommy!
Down Bad!!!!!
SSD mom atm :D
I a lot of long data writes so your consistency test is nice to see. I have a silicon power A55 4TB ssd that is absolutely unusable to me for long writes as it will fall all the way down to 20MB/s after just 5 minutes of writing. I bough it to fill a gap in my server and regretted it after trying to move some data to it.
This won't hold up well in servers either, for that you really want a higher end drive.
@@TechTesters Of course. I live at the bottom of the world and it's not easy to get some drives. I had ordered 8 4TB MX500s, but only 7 were available. I ordered the crappy SP drive out of desperation. Since then, I did finally got the final Crucial drive and all is well in my world (for now). Right now, just trying to get a decent U.2 pool going. Have 4 8TBs P4510s, need 4 more and then I'll retire or retask the 4TB SSD pool. U.2 can be a bit expensive and I'm intimately familiar with the test you do (and I love). Please keep doing it as I learn from your testing what consumer drives to completely avoid other than the QLC crap.
V300 still in my memory from when they changed the NAND to a slower one after they had sent out the review samples. Not sure I could ever trust Kingston again.
V300 wasn't great, but at least now there are a lot of eyes on Kingston to make sure any updates make the NV3 better, not worse. I'll definitely keep an eye out on newer ones anyway, I usually need a few budget drives for various buids throughout the year.
We'll see :)
I want to see how it perform against their own older A2000 (which actually has DRAM), I have never find a reason to go for any of Kingston newer NV series when the old A2000 is even cheaper and perform better when it counts.
I don't have the A2000 anymore, but that was already outperformed by budget drives from a few years ago. The NV3 will perform better in almost every realistic use case.
Vault Boy Bobblehead, yay! 😊
You hash tagged NV2 instead of NV3
Fixed, ty!
The problem with the changing components is that it makes your review less reliable. You need to re-purchase it and re-review it once per year until the end of it's lifespan.
Oh I will. Should make for popular content if Kingston decides to do a bait and switch. We'll see :)
Almost scary how much you get for so little money these days ssd wise
Good content
Thanks!
It's the same speed as my old KC3000
except under heavy load
KC3000 has Dram cache right?
KC 3000 has 7000 read and 6000 write on 1TB version this has only 6000 and 4000 on 1TB version and has no DRAM cache so no it's not at all.
@@jozadagames6818 i was looking at the charts, bud. Don't get lost in features when performance metrics do all the talking
@@BOZ_11 I dunno but my 1TB version performs way better in sequential performance(and possible other tests as well) than her 2TB test shows only 6400 and my test shows 7100 and the NV3 is still slower in gaming test, and I was talking about the 1TB version she is showing the 2TB version in this video
Uh oh! You voided your warranty by removing the sticker!!
Oh no :P
@@TechTesters ;D
Maby I should get this
You can use this as secondary drive to store games and less valuable data.
She has the nicest sweaters.
Very nice video
Thank you!
I really hate when they change components and use the same name. Honestly it should be ilegal.
I makes it impossible to know hat you are buying.
Also reviews of products that does this makes no sense. cause the user cannot be sure to get what is in tested in the review.
I think they should give them a version number. It is fair to have NV3 V1, V2 and V3 that tries to have the same performance and price just with small changes.
Best case the make an update that makes the drive faster, use less power etc, better in every way. They someone test that and show it is super good value.
Now the users might go out and try to buy it. But an SSD can be in the stor for months, so now the user risks to get the old version and there is no way they could know.
Worst case the make a slower model after a few months... you get the idea.
I honestly think it is a waste of time to reviews products that does this. You can test if what they say on the box is correct. But that is about all a review can do for products like this.
It's definitely complicated. But after they had a bit of a disaster years ago (Was it the A400? I'm not 100% sure anymore), more recently they did well. Kingston does have their own factories, so realistically newer NV3's might even get better. All we can do is just keep testing and see how it goes, I think that ignoring the product completely isn't a great solution either.
@@TechTesters You are right. We should probably not ignore it. I guess the best we can do is to call them out and not buy the product.
(I have had several good kingston products over the years and have recommended them to friends and family so I honestly feel very disappointed.)
NV2 was probably worst drive i ever owned, even HDD were better than that.. hell my samsung HDD from 2009 still works somehow
NV2 was getting progressively slower as time went, after year of use it wasnt usable at all, i rma and got new one and that one still works, but you never know when it gonna die on you
I don’t think I would ever skimp on a drive. Your local data could be at risk.
Even with more expensive SSDs, you always need a backup.
@@TechTesters absolutely correct but even if the difference is $100 I would still rather spend on high quality drives.
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SN580 is better choice, I think so
I'd say it's very similar.
Clearly SN770 SN 580 OUTPERFORMS 😂
You forgot M.2 in the title ?
BUY 4TB CRUCIAL T705
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QLC and just 3 year warranty - it's shit, don't buy it, it's not even cheaper than some other PCI-E 4 drives with TLC and 5 year warranty.
The reason why this channel is not growing is because of the name. Name is boring rename it to something more stylish.
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Well done :D
Another great review from Techtesters 😁
Another bottom of the barrel SSD from Kingston 🥱
Thank you! :D