Thanks to this combination the A2000 1TB variant here with us today can achieve sequential read and write numbers of up to 2200-2000 MB/s and random read and write IOPS of up to 250k-220K. Through its global network of subsidiaries and affiliates, Kingston has manufacturing facilities in California, Taiwan, China and sales representatives in the United States, Europe, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Australia, India, Taiwan, China, and Latin America.įor the brand new A2000 M.2 NVMe model (currently available in 250GB/500GB/1TB capacities) Kingston decided to pair the SM2263EN (SM2263ENG) quad channel high-performance PCIe Gen3 x4 controller (NVMe v1.3 protocol) by Silicon Motion along with Micron's latest 96-layer 3D TLC NAND and a single 1GB LPDDR3 RAM cache module by Kingston. Kingston designs, manufactures and distributes memory products for desktops, laptops, servers, printers, and Flash memory products for PDAs, mobile phones, digital cameras, and MP3 players. is the world’s largest independent manufacturer of memory products. One month ago, Kingston released the A2000 M.2 NVMe model and although it did take a while for a sample to arrive at our doorstep it has and so today, we'll be testing the 1TB variant. Last year Kingston launched their very first affordable M.2 NVMe model called the A1000 which due to extreme competition at around the same price point didn't quite live up to their expectations. As mentioned in our previous reviews even though up until somewhat recently the word "affordable" was used to describe 2.5" and M.2 SATA based SSDs (up to 500-550MB/s read & write performance) now it also applies for some entry level M.2 PCIexpress (NVMe) models (with up to 1500-2500MB/s performance). With NAND flash prices at an all-time low SSD manufacturers are rushing to release affordable yet high-performance M.2 NVMe models for the masses.
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