The Kingston NV1 is a solid-state drive in the M.2 2280 form factor, launched on May 6th, 2021. It is only available in the 1 TB capacity listed on this page. With the rest of the system, the Kingston NV1 interfaces using a PCI-Express 3.0 x4 connection. The SSD controller is the SM2263XT from Silicon Motion, a DRAM cache is not available. Kingston has installed 112-layer TLC NAND flash on the NV1, the flash chips are made by Toshiba. Please note that this SSD is sold in multiple variants with different NAND flash or controller, which could affect performance, the "Notes" section at the end of this page has more info. To improve write speeds, a pseudo-SLC cache is used, so bursts of incoming writes are processed more quickly. The cache is sized at 370 GB. Copying data out of the SLC cache (folding) completes at 120 MB/s. The NV1 is rated for sequential read speeds of up to 2,100 MB/s and 1,700 MB/s write.
At its launch, the SSD was priced at 85 USD. The warranty length is set to five years, which is an excellent warranty period. Kingston guarantees an endurance rating of 240 TBW, a relatively low value compared to other SSDs.