You won’t find a more affordable PCIe 4.0 SSD than Kingston’s NV2. It’s slower than the vast majority of its peers, but, being NVMe, it’s still adequate for most users and everyday tasks.
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The NV2 is a PCIe 4.0 x4, 2280 form factor (22mm wide, 80mm long) M.2, NVMe SSD utilizing a DRAM-less (HMB or host memory buffer) design. The NAND is 144-layer Kingston-labeled QLC handled by a Silicon Motion SM2267XTV controller.
We tested the 1TB capacity of the NV2, but rated performance varies greatly by capacity: For the 250GB capacity, it’s 3GBps reading/1.3GBps writing; for the 500GB and
