Testseek.co.uk have collected 98 expert reviews of the Kingston M.2 A1000 NVMe PCIe and the average rating is 78%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Kingston M.2 A1000 NVMe PCIe.
May 2018
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The editors liked
Better than SATA performance
Compatibility through single-sided M.2 2280 module
Cloning software included
Low price for an NVMe solution
Overall performance
5-year warranty
The editors didn't like
Not as fast as PCIe x4 NVMe solutions
“Budget doesn’t mean that you have to be slow. Kingston’s A1000 shows how to make a wallet-friendly NVMe drive. A great SATA alternative!”
Kingston A1000 480GB NVMe SSD Review
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Kingston's A1000 might their first Entry Level PCIe NVMe, put it comes along as a nail in the coffin of SATA SSD's. At around $135 street price for half a terabyte of snappy storage, you know the SATA market is starting to sweat. Throw in the fact that yo...
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Published: 2018-07-05, Author: Tom , review by: modders-inc.com
Abstract: If you want speed, NVMe* is where it's at. NVMe provides significantly faster data transfer than SATA flash-based drives and, in some cases as much as 3 to 4x what SATA III can provide. Flash bases storage has been king in the desktop/laptop markets and h...
Published: 2018-07-02, Author: Billy , review by: anandtech.com
The Kingston A1000 is a low-end NVMe SSD, putting it in a growing market segment but one that's still struggling to prove its relevance. Drives like the A1000 feature controllers that make sometimes substantial engineering tradeoffs to bring their costs d...
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Published: 2018-06-19, Author: Ryan , review by: pocnetwork.net
These make for a great stepping stone into NVMe, while providing most consumers more than enough speed in comparison to SATA–while only spending a few dollars more. The two smaller models come so close to the price of SATA, while the 960GB option is still...
Affordable, Faster than the fastest SATA drives, Good read performance, No thermal throttling, 5-year warranty, Acronis True Image included
Small SLC write cache of only 4 GB, Not as fast as higher-end NVMe drives, PCIe x2 interface limits read speeds slightly
The Kingston A1000 480 GB SSD is currently available online for $152. Affordable Faster than the fastest SATA drives Good read performance No thermal throttling 5-year warranty Acronis True Image included Small SLC write cache of only 4 GB Not as fast as...
Affordable upgrade from SATA, Five-year warranty and high TBW rating
Only PCIe x2 and a slow performer for NVMe, The same price as much faster competition at the time of this review
You'll get a nice boost in storage performance over SATA from this M.2 NVMe drive, but you can get about the twice the boost from similarly priced drives...
Inexpensive, Good performance for a PCIe x2 drive, Works great on various chipsets and doesn't need additional drivers, Runs cool
Random performance could be higher,
Kingston A1000 480GB NVMe SSD is clearly worth recommendation. It performs well, provides perfect stability and is compatible with various motherboards and chipsets. If we add also 5-year limited warranty and quite low price then it makes the A1000 really...
The SSD is of a magnitude faster than the mechanical hard drive in almost every way, Kingston's 480 GB A1000 SSD is much faster than any SATA-based SSD, NVMe does make a difference in saving time for gamers, 5-year warranty stand it out from the generic
Too expensive. The 480 GB A1000 is only $25 cheaper – or about 10% less expensive – than Kingston's top NVMe drive which is significantly faster, This has been quite an enjoyable exploration comparing our other six drives with the Kingston A1000 480 GB SS
We are giving the Kingston A1000 480 GB NVMe SSD our BTR “Editor's Choice” Award as it is significantly faster than SATA based SSDs in every single metric that we tested, and it even saves time in loading games. It is also tiny, easily installed, and it...
Published: 2018-04-03, Author: Les , review by: thessdreview.com
Kingston' sole purpose in marketing the A1000 NVMe PCIe 3.0 X2 SSD was to provide an entry-level low-cost solution which could provide significantly higher performance, while at the same time having equal if not better pricing than SATA 3 SSDs and HDDs in...
The Kingston A1000 PCIe NVMe 960GB drive is an entry-level PCIe NVMe solution. It doesn't sit on top the benchmark charts or have the best sustained write speeds that we have ever seen, but the performance numbers are on par with the very best SATA III SS...
