The Kingston A1000 was a solid-state drive in the M.2 2280 form factor, launched on April 6th, 2018, that is no longer in production. It was available in capacities ranging from 240 GB to 960 GB. This page reports specifications for the 480 GB variant. With the rest of the system, the Kingston A1000 interfaces using a PCI-Express 3.0 x2 connection. The SSD controller is the PS5008-E8-10 from Phison, a DRAM cache chip is available. Kingston has installed 64-layer TLC NAND flash on the A1000, the flash chips are made by Toshiba. To improve write speeds, a pseudo-SLC cache is used, so bursts of incoming writes are soaked up more quickly. The cache is sized at 4 GB. The A1000 is rated for sequential read speeds of up to 1,500 MB/s and 900 MB/s write; random IOPS reach up to 100K for reads and 90K for writes.
At its launch, the SSD was priced at 151 USD. The warranty length is set to five years, which is an excellent warranty period. Kingston guarantees an endurance rating of 300 TBW, a typical value for consumer SSDs.