Kingston Quietly Adds the NV3 to its SSD Lineup

[Wirko]

The NV2 has something like 12 different variants...

Wow. It has surpassed the super-famous SX8200 Pro with 15 against 11. Should be the first choice if you're looking for a surprise SSD.

Yeah this can go rot in a garbage pile. Competition in the market is necessary and very desirable but we don't need 20 companies repackaging the same chips with unreliable specs sheets.

For me it's either first party - that is WD, Samsung, Kioxia, SKhynix, Crucial - or nothing.

So you go looking for reliable spec sheets and 600 TBW per terabyte minimum. Then you can also include some of the (many) Corsair MP600 models (TLC and TBW in specs), MSI M480 Pro (E18 and TBW in specs), Kingston KC3000 and Fury Renegade (E18, TLC and TBW in specs).

I'm not aware of any manufacturer degrading the specifications after the launch. Have there been any?

 

[bonehead123]

Yeah this can go rot in a garbage pile. Competition in the market is necessary and very desirable but we don't need 20 companies repackaging the same chips with unreliable specs sheets.

For me it's either first party - that is WD, Samsung, Kioxia, SKhynix, Crucial - or nothing.

#WD4Me4EVA#

'nuff said

 

[jpvalverde85]

If i have to guess, it'll be slower than the previous ones! NV1 was unimpressive, NV2 is garbage (i can sense the difference just using the OS between an OEM SSD and this piece of crap), so NV3 probably will be dog slow with penta cell flash!

 

[trsttte]

I'm not aware of any manufacturer degrading the specifications after the launch. Have there been any?

I should have simply said specs instead of spec sheets because in reality all spec sheets are super vague to the point they can change the entire BOM and the spec sheet still being valid. But yeah, it's pretty frequent for this type of manufacturers to release an initial version of the drive for reviews and then changing everything about it without any notice or model change, Adata and Kingston being recurring offenders.

For me it just doesn't make sense to save 10$ on a Kingston NV2 with random components over a WD SN580 or a Crucial P3 that will keep the components consistent over the product lifetime and have better warranties. This NV3 is no different, at 70$ for the 1TB version you can buy a WD SN770 for the same price, or even the SN850X for 85$, just 15$ more - less than having dinner at a restaurant in most big cities.

 

[Wirko]

I should have simply said specs instead of spec sheets because in reality all spec sheets are super vague to the point they can change the entire BOM and the spec sheet still being valid. But yeah, it's pretty frequent for this type of manufacturers to release an initial version of the drive for reviews and then changing everything about it without any notice or model change, Adata and Kingston being recurring offenders.

For me it just doesn't make sense to save 10$ on a Kingston NV2 with random components over a WD SN580 or a Crucial P3 that will keep the components consistent over the product lifetime and have better warranties. This NV3 is no different, at 70$ for the 1TB version you can buy a WD SN770 for the same price, or even the SN850X for 85$, just 15$ more - less than having dinner at a restaurant in most big cities.

All are super vague? Please pay more attention to specific models, such as those that I listed above. I bought a KC3000 (2TB) last month, it was 130 € on amazon.de on prime day, couldn't pass it. These SSDs have a known controller, 1600 TBW, and TLC declared in the specs (but QLC never comes close to that TBW anyway). NAND was from Micron at launch, later from Kioxia too (supposedly inferior but it's the same type as in the SN850X). I got Micron but wouldn't mind either brand.

On the other hand, the P3 Plus is QLC with vague specs, an extremely poor TBW rating, but occasionally the manufacturer runs out of QLC chips (nevermind they're made by same company) and has to make a batch with TLC chips - it's in the TPU database.