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Review on Kingston 1TB A2000 M.2 2280 NVMe Internal SSD PCIe with Full Security Suite - Boost Speeds Up to 2000MB/S [SA2000M8/1000G] by Alex Winnick

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Fast and reliable brand for the price of a SATA SSD

I have this as a Windows 10 boot drive with ASRock B450M Pro4 motherboard, Ryzen 5 3400G processor and 2 x 8GB Team T-FORCE 3200 DDR4 Storage. Everything works normally, without overclocking. I set the "Ultra M.2" SSD as the primary boot device in the BIOS, rebooted to the Windows 10 setup files on a USB stick, and installed Win 10 on that drive with no problems. It works great as a fast boot drive. If you're used to standard hard drive boot times, this SSD will be lightning fast. After loading the BIOS, it takes about 8 seconds to enter Windows 10. If you switch from a SATA SSD as the boot device (like my old system), it's still faster, but the difference isn't night and day. Aside from the speed, I also like it because it doesn't take up valuable SATA drive slot in my mini-ATX tower case. If the last part sounds like gibberish to you, don't worry, you can skip it. This drive is rated at 350TBW, which isn't outstanding for something like video editing, but certainly good enough for an OS drive. Windows 10 understands SSDs pretty well, and SSDs have come a long way from "be careful not to write too much to them because you might damage your drive" in the early days. Nowadays everything else on your system is more likely to die before your SSD, even if you have something like a paging file on the SSD. I have 16GB of RAM on this system so don't expect me to have to write a lot to my swap to start with, so I just let Windows set things up the way it wanted.

Pros
  • This is great
Cons
  • Some errors