Sunday, August 4th 2024
Kingston Quietly Adds the NV3 to its SSD Lineup
Kingston's NV2 NVMe SSD has been a popular budget choice that has offered some of the best price/performance ratio in its segment of the market. Now, Kingston has quietly added its replacement, the NV3 to its website and that entails a wide range of upgrades over the NV2. The Kingston NV2 came in a range of different variations with multiple different controllers and NAND types and so far the company hasn't revealed which controller or what NAND the NV3 will feature. However, the company lists 3D NAND with a sequential read speeds of 6,000 MB/s for the 1 TB and up SKUs which is a huge improvement over the NV2 which topped out at 3,500 MB/s. Write speeds top out at 5,000 MB/s, but this is limited to the 2 and 4 TB SKUs, but it's nearly twice that of the 2 TB NV2 SKU. The 1 TB SKU is also seeing almost a doubling in terms of write speeds over the NV2. The 500 GB SKU is seeing more modest performance improvements, but it's still getting a decent performance uplift.
Initially, Kingston will launch 500 GB, 1 TB and 2 TB SKUs, with the 4 TB SKU following in Q4 this year. Endurance remains the same as for the NV2, with the NV3 starting out at 160 TBW for the 500 GB SKU, which then doubles for each increase in size and tops out at 1280 TBW for the 4 TB SKU. Kingston has as yet to officially announce the drive, but some online retailers claim to be able to ship the NV3 in four to five days time, suggesting that the launch is imminent. Pricing appears to start at US$50 for the 500 GB SKU, which increases to US$70 for the 1 TB SKU, with the 2 TB SKU jumping to US$139 from the same retailer. This places the NV3 slightly higher than the current retail price of the NV2, which is hardly a surprise, considering it delivers better performance. All SKUs come with a three year warranty.
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Initially, Kingston will launch 500 GB, 1 TB and 2 TB SKUs, with the 4 TB SKU following in Q4 this year. Endurance remains the same as for the NV2, with the NV3 starting out at 160 TBW for the 500 GB SKU, which then doubles for each increase in size and tops out at 1280 TBW for the 4 TB SKU. Kingston has as yet to officially announce the drive, but some online retailers claim to be able to ship the NV3 in four to five days time, suggesting that the launch is imminent. Pricing appears to start at US$50 for the 500 GB SKU, which increases to US$70 for the 1 TB SKU, with the 2 TB SKU jumping to US$139 from the same retailer. This places the NV3 slightly higher than the current retail price of the NV2, which is hardly a surprise, considering it delivers better performance. All SKUs come with a three year warranty.
29 Comments on Kingston Quietly Adds the NV3 to its SSD Lineup
Never buying a Kingston SSD again.
Not going to say that Kingston has a great solution now, but it's all Windows based.
Compared to Solidigm it's a joke.
Endurance remains the same as for the NV2, with the NV3 starting out at 160 TBW for the 500 GB SKU, which then doubles for each increase in size and tops out at 1280 TBW for the 4 TB SKU........................not so great
if it comes with a 5-year warranty and the price is right.................
Edit:
"It was based on the original advertising campaign of Kingston, which was launched in 1989. That was an image of half of the head open where the additional memory devices were being installed, and it was saying “Improve your memory”."
The 4TB version still is TLC only according to TPU's database (which might be incomplete though).Edit: no, it isn't.I'm not that happy with the firmware updater tool of my Corsair MP600 PRO NVME. Windows only - outdated User interface - did not found any updates. I prefer a 700 MB Linux Live ISO instead that works.
I prefer a bootable ISO instead of a Windows only solution. I have Windows only installed for gaming. The computer is used for other more important stuff also.
www.techpowerup.com/ssd-specs/kingston-nv2-1-tb.d2112
www.techpowerup.com/ssd-specs/kingston-nv2-1-tb.d1284
www.techpowerup.com/ssd-specs/kingston-nv2-1-tb.d2097
www.techpowerup.com/ssd-specs/kingston-nv2-1-tb.d2095Three year warranty, last line in the news post.The NV2 has something like 12 different variant...The NV2 has something like 12 different variants...
Hopefully they just call it QLC from the start this time, rather than sending out half-decent TLC samples and then immediately switching to QLC after the review cycle has finished.
The KC3500 will probably be announced soon, we'll see what corners will Kingston be cutting.
For me it's either first party - that is WD, Samsung, Kioxia, SKhynix, Crucial - or nothing.
I'm not aware of any manufacturer degrading the specifications after the launch. Have there been any?