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Kingston Industrial 1TB PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe M.2 2230
Capacity 1TB
Form Factor M.2 2230
Interface PCIe 4.0 x4
Read Speed 4,540 MB/s
NAND TLC
50 Overall Score
No current retailer price
Snapshot
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Strong speed (70th percentile) 70th
Cons
- Below average endurance (15th percentile)
- Below average user sentiment (29th percentile)
What owners think
How owner sentiment changed over time
ExclusiveBased on when customers actually wrote their reviews - so you can see whether early praise held up.
Owner sentiment has cooled since launch
72/100Our AI sentiment read
Based on 10 dated customer reviews, grouped by calendar quarter. Period analysis is in English.
The proof
Performance
Specifications
Full Specifications
Drive
| Capacity | 1000 |
| Form Factor | M.2 2230 |
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x4 |
| Protocol | NVMe |
| PCIe Generation | 4 |
| External | No |
Performance
| Sequential Read (MB/s) | 4540 |
| Sequential Write (MB/s) | 4230 |
Hardware
| NAND | TLC |
vs Competition
| Spec | Kingston Industrial | Western Digital Black SN850X | Samsung 9100 PRO | Crucial T500 | SanDisk WD_BLACK SN8100 | Seagate FireCuda 530R |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capacity | 1TB | 4TB | 8TB | 2TB | 8TB | 4TB |
| Form Factor | M.2 2230 | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 |
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x4 | PCIe 4.0 x4 | PCIe 5.0 x4 | PCIe 4.0 x4 | PCIe 5.0 x4 | PCIe 4.0 x4 |
| Seq Read | 4,540 MB/s | 7,300 MB/s | 14,800 MB/s | 7,400 MB/s | 14,900 MB/s | 7,400 MB/s |
| Nand Type | TLC | TLC | TLC | TLC | TLC | TLC |
| Dram Cache | - | true | true | true | true | false |
| Endurance | - | 2400 TBW | 4800 TBW | 1200 TBW | 4800 TBW | 5050 TBW |
| Compare | Compare | Compare | Compare | Compare |
| Product | Speed | Random | Feature | Capacity | User Sentiment | Endurance | Social Proof | Affordability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kingston Industrial | 70.3 | 61.5 | 53.7 | 54.9 | 28.7 | 14.7 | 54.4 | 35.6 |
| Western Digital Black SN850X Compare | 88.5 | 95.2 | 89 | 92.5 | 94.5 | 88 | 95 | 11.5 |
| Samsung 9100 PRO Compare | 99.1 | 99.8 | 99.7 | 98.1 | 0 | 85.9 | 95 | 1.8 |
| Crucial T500 Compare | 93.8 | 96.5 | 98.9 | 78.4 | 78.8 | 82.9 | 95 | 20.1 |
| SanDisk WD_BLACK SN8100 Compare | 98.9 | 99.1 | 97.3 | 98.1 | 94.5 | 80.9 | 45.4 | 3.4 |
| Seagate FireCuda 530R Compare | 92.6 | 96.4 | 53.7 | 92.5 | 65.1 | 95.6 | 77.3 | 7 |
Usage Scores
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