Kingston NV2 M.2 NVMe SSD Review, Multiple Benchmarks and Speed Tests & VS SanDisk Ultra M.2 NVMe 3D

[MonsterMMORPG]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwkC-wgcZ5M

Greetings everyone. This is a review video of me.

In this review, I will be comparing my brand new Kingston NV2 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD to my current (old now) SanDisk Ultra M.2 1TB NVMe 3D SSD drive using several benchmarks including ATTO Disk Benchmark, CrystalDiskMark Benchmark, AS SSD Benchmark, and Anvil's Storage Utilities benchmark. The results are intriguing and worth checking out. Stay tuned for my full analysis.

0:00 Introduction
0:45 SSD Benchmarking / Speed testing Software list I am going to use for testing
1:44 How initialize newly purchased disk / hard drive / ssd from computer management
2:13 Stability test results of M2 SSD disks in bios
2:31 The testing computer specs / features
2:56 Benchmarking / speed testing SanDisk Ultra M.2 1TB NVMe 3D SSD
4:55 Test / benchmark results of ATTO Disk, CrystalDiskMark, AS SSD and Anvil's Storage Utilities for SanDisk Ultra M.2 1TB NVMe 3D SSD
5:16 How to take screenshot, cut it by using Paint .NET and save it on the disk
5:52 Cloned my SanDisk Ultra M.2 1TB NVMe 3D SSD into Kingston NV2 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD and restarted windows with the new disk
6:19 Crystal Mark diskinfo of new C drive Kingston NV2 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD
6:32 Test / benchmark results of ATTO Disk, CrystalDiskMark, AS SSD and Anvil's Storage Utilities for Kingston NV2 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD
6:41 ATTO Disk Benchmark test results of SanDisk Ultra M.2 1TB NVMe vs Kingston NV2 2TB M.2 NVMe
7:38 CrystalDiskMark Benchmark test results of SanDisk Ultra M.2 1TB NVMe vs Kingston NV2 2TB M.2 NVMe
8:08 Anvil's Storage Utilities Benchmark test results of SanDisk Ultra M.2 1TB NVMe vs Kingston NV2 2TB M.2 NVMe
8:58 AS SSD Benchmark test results of SanDisk Ultra M.2 1TB NVMe vs Kingston NV2 2TB M.2 NVMe
9:28 Ending Speech

[Ralf]

Is this the new QLC or the old TLC?

[MonsterMMORPG]

Originally posted by Ralf:

Is this the new QLC or the old TLC?

I think QLC. do you know any way to verify that?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Just look at the full specs page. It should state the type of NAND used.

[Der tüddelige Fußgänger]

Meanwhile i just got a Samsung nvme for christmas…

I think it wouldn't matter anyways. I think even a cheaper SanDisk nvme is already faster than what my Ryzen 5 3600 could handle.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

CPU doesn't have much to do with it. It's all done through the CHIPSET & PCIE bus. RAM does play a bit of a role though.

[Der tüddelige Fußgänger]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

CPU doesn't have much to do with it. It's all done through the CHIPSET & PCIE bus. RAM does play a bit of a role though.

I mean the speed of the ssd in actual scenarios like game loading screens, applications launch time etc.
Maybe they are a bit faster now. But not really that noticable.

But i also use zstd compression on that drive, so that might also slow it down a little bit. Zstd is quite modern, so it shouldn't have too much of a cpu impact.

[MonsterMMORPG]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Just look at the full specs page. It should state the type of NAND used.

this is the official specs but i don't see there : https://www.kingston.com/datasheets/snv2s_en.pdf

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by The Nintendo Guy:

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

CPU doesn't have much to do with it. It's all done through the CHIPSET & PCIE bus. RAM does play a bit of a role though.

I mean the speed of the ssd in actual scenarios like game loading screens, applications launch time etc.
Maybe they are a bit faster now. But not really that noticable.

But i also use zstd compression on that drive, so that might also slow it down a little bit. Zstd is quite modern, so it shouldn't have too much of a cpu impact.

I'll say it again. Casual Gamers DO NEED nor benefit from NVME ssds that are the fastest around. Such as PCIE 4.0 / 5.0 drives. Most games barely utilize sata speed ssds, but for demanding or open world games, at least having some kind of SSD definitely helps compared to any HDD.

M2 SSDs in general helps due to form-factor. Meaning you can more easily have less physical mounted drives to worry about as well as the cabling that goes along with that. It also has helped with Laptops that means more then 2 drives could fit internally.

The faster more expensive nvme types are more suited for work stuff where you do heavy copies or writes. Like video editing and such.

[Ralf]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Just look at the full specs page. It should state the type of NAND used.

It's a budget drive with hardware lottery just like the NV1, so they wont list the NAND used.
Here you can read that it was TLC but the changed it to QLC: https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/kingston-nv2-1-tb-m-2-nvme-ssd.298942/page-5