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Kingston A2000 NVMe SSD: Fast
and cheap, at 10 cents per GB
A new low for price per gigabyte, without sacrificing much performance. BY JON L. JACOBI
s our headline trumpets, the big (currently $60 on Amazon [go.pcworld.com/
news here is a new low in NVMe k500]) and 1TB (currently $100 on Amazon
SSD prices, at 10 cents per [go.pcworld.com/k1tb]) capacities. I must
A gigabyte. The drop comes admit I did a double-take when I saw those
courtesy of Kingston’s new A2000, which prices, as they’re considerably lower than
also offers surprisingly good performance those of the Addlink S70 (go.pcworld.com/
the vast majority of the time. ad70), which itself set a price record not long
ago. Commodity items at last! Mostly: 1TB
DESIGN AND FEATURES seems to be the sweet spot in price per
The A2000 is a 2280 (22mm wide, 80mm gigabyte these days. At the time of this writing,
long) M.2, PCIe 3.0 x4, NVMe SSD, that’s larger capacity 2TB/4TB SSDs, SATA or NVMe,
available in 250GB (currently $40), 500GB were still in the 20-cent-per-gigabyte range.
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