Kingston 4TB SSD PCIe 5.0 NVMe M.2 2280

Kingston 4TB SSD PCIe 5.0 NVMe M.2 2280

Kingston
99 Overall Score
vs
SanDisk 2TB SSD NVMe

SanDisk 2TB SSD NVMe

SanDisk
88 Overall Score

Scores

Laptop
Kingston
100
SanDisk
93
Workstation
Kingston
99
SanDisk
80
Gaming
Kingston
98
SanDisk
84
Console
Kingston
94
SanDisk
82
Budget
Kingston
81
SanDisk
93
Portable
Kingston
26
SanDisk
23

Specifications

Kingston 4TB SSDSanDisk 2TB SSD
Drive
Capacity
4,000
2,000
Form FactorM.2 2280M.2 2280
InterfacePCIe 5.0PCIe 4.0 x4
ProtocolNVMeNVMe
PCIe Generation5★4
External✗✗
Performance
Sequential Read (MB/s)
14,800
7,250
Sequential Write (MB/s)
14,000
6,900
Random Read (IOPS)
2,200,000
1,000,000
Random Write (IOPS)
2,200,000
1,400,000
Hardware
NANDTLCTLC
DRAM Cache✓★✗
ControllerSM2508WD Black SN7100
Reliability
Endurance (TBW)
4,000
1,200
MTBF (hours)No data
1,750,000
Warranty (years)55
Features
Heatsink✗✗
Hardware Encryption—✗

Pros & Cons

Kingston 4TB SSD PCIe 5.0 NVMe M.2 2280

  • Strong speed (99th percentile)99th %ile
  • Strong random (99th percentile)99th %ile
  • Strong endurance (93rd percentile)93rd %ile
  • Strong capacity (93rd percentile)93rd %ile
  • Below average affordability (7th percentile)7th %ile

SanDisk 2TB SSD NVMe

  • Strong social proof (100th percentile)100th %ile
  • Strong random (96th percentile)96th %ile
  • Strong speed (92nd percentile)92nd %ile
  • Strong endurance (88th percentile)88th %ile

Pricing

SanDisk 2TB SSD NVMe is CA$1,090 cheaper (3.7x less).

Kingston 4TB SSD PCIe 5.0 NVMe M.2 22800.066score per dollar
vs
SanDisk 2TB SSD NVMe0.214score per dollar

SanDisk 2TB SSD NVMe offers 3.2x better value for money

Kingston 4TB SSD PCIe 5.0 NVMe M.2 2280

Verdict

★ Winner: Kingston 4TB SSD

Scores 99 overall, wins 5 of 6 usage categories and 8 of 18 specs.

Kingston 4TB SSD Better at:

GamingLaptopConsolePortableWorkstation

SanDisk 2TB SSD Better at:

Budget

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