Testseek.com 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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98 Reviews
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The editors liked
Inexpensive
Good performance for a PCIe x2 drive
Works great on various chipsets and doesn't need additional drivers
Runs cool
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
Lowcost upgrade
Onesided PCB
Fiveyear Warranty
Drive's temperature on load fairly reasonable
Good Overall Performance (1600MB/s Read & 1000MB/s Write)
Endurance Numbers (300TBW / 1 Million Hours MTBF)
Kingston SSD Manager Software
5 Years Warranty
Price (For Some)
The Vulcan 500GB SSD is of a magnitude faster than any mechanical hard drive or SSHD in almost every way
At 7nm
The Vulcan SSD is thin and light and fits easily in most notebooks and desktops for a simple drop-in upgrade
3-year warranty backed by Team
Performs in line with specs
Five-year warranty
Affordable upgrade from SATA
Five-year warranty and high TBW rating
Affordable
Faster than the fastest SATA drives
Good read performance
No thermal throttling
5-year warranty
Acronis True Image included
The editors didn't like
Random performance could be higher
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
Writespecific performance lower than midtohigh performance M.2 variants
Product label should be in the other side of the PCB for the desktop system's M.2 heatspreaders to have direct contact
Thermal Throttling
None
This has been quite an enjoyable exploration comparing our other three drives with the T-FORCE Vulcan 500GB SSD. The performance of this drive is very good as a stand-alone SATA-based SSD
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Limited to two PCI Express lanes
Beat in benchmarks by lower-priced competition
Feature-light software management tool
Only PCIe x2 and a slow performer for NVMe
The same price as much faster competition at the time of this review
The Vulcan 500GB SSD is of a magnitude faster than any mechanical hard drive or SSHD in almost every way, At 7nm, the Vulcan SSD is thin and light and fits easily in most notebooks and desktops for a simple drop-in upgrade, 3-year warranty backed by Team
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We are giving the $59 T-FORCE Vulcan 500GB BTR's “Recommended” Award as it is significantly faster than any HDD or SSHD, and it is faster overall than the slightly cheaper ($58) Team Group L5 3D 480GB SSD. For gamers, the T-FORCE Vulcan 500GB SSD compete...
Good Overall Performance (1600MB/s Read & 1000MB/s Write), Endurance Numbers (300TBW / 1 Million Hours MTBF), Kingston SSD Manager Software, 5 Years Warranty, Price (For Some),
Thermal Throttling,
Kingston lists the A1000 line of NVMe M.2 solid state drives as part of their entry level solutions and although they are still 2-3 times faster compared to regular SATA M.2 models in the NVMe market they are exactly that (for example their...
Published: 2018-10-18, Author: Daniel , review by: pocketables.com
Abstract: Our first look at NVME left us hungry for more even if we were hesitant of the pricepoint. Kingston saw fit to follow up on their KC1000 with a drive that offered the same capacity in a less wallet emptying form with the A1000.We detailed our new test sys...
Published: 2018-08-06, Author: The , review by: hardwarebbq.com
Lowcost upgrade, Onesided PCB, Fiveyear Warranty, Drive's temperature on load fairly reasonable
Writespecific performance lower than midtohigh performance M.2 variants, Product label should be in the other side of the PCB for the desktop system's M.2 heatspreaders to have direct contact
Kingston A1000-The cheap M.2 Upgrade Option!The Kingston A1000 M.2 NGFF kit is a low-cost upgrade option. That's fair enough considering its read performance stands out compared to SATA III SSDs, making it more suitable for the masses who wish to upgrade...
Published: 2018-07-19, Author: Chris , review by: tomshardware.com
The NVMe protocol is designed to supercharge storage and take us beyond the limits of the old SATA bus. There are many products available that do just that, but the Kingston A1000 isn't one of them.It's disappointing to have the new lean NVMe comm...
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...
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...
