Kingston SSD

Kingston SSD

Kingston
29 Overall Score
vs
SanDisk SSD

SanDisk SSD

SanDisk
89 Overall Score

Scores

Laptop
Kingston
34
SanDisk
93
Workstation
Kingston
27
SanDisk
90
Gaming
Kingston
20
SanDisk
87
Budget
Kingston
37
SanDisk
86
Console
Kingston
10
SanDisk
83
Portable
Kingston
8
SanDisk
23

Specifications

Kingston SSDSanDisk SSD
Drive
Capacity
240
1,000
Form FactorM.2 2280M.2 2280
InterfaceSATA IIIPCIe 5.0 x4
ProtocolSATANVMe
PCIe Generation—5★
External✗✗
Performance
Sequential Read (MB/s)
500
14,900
Sequential Write (MB/s)
450
11,000
Random Read (IOPS)No data
2,300,000
Random Write (IOPS)No data
2,300,000
Hardware
NANDTLCTLC
DRAM Cache—✓★
Reliability
Endurance (TBW)No data
4,800
MTBF (hours)
1,000,000
1,750,000
Warranty (years)—1★
Features
Heatsink—✗
Hardware Encryption—✗

Pros & Cons

Kingston SSD

  • Strong social proof (88th percentile)88th %ile
  • Below average capacity (10th percentile)10th %ile
  • Below average speed (15th percentile)15th %ile
  • Below average random (22nd percentile)
  • Below average endurance (29th percentile)

SanDisk SSD

  • Strong random (99th percentile)99th %ile
  • Strong endurance (99th percentile)99th %ile
  • Strong speed (98th percentile)98th %ile
  • Strong social proof (95th percentile)95th %ile

Verdict

★ Winner: SanDisk SSD

Scores 89 overall, wins 6 of 6 usage categories and 10 of 17 specs.

SanDisk SSD Better at:

BudgetGamingLaptopConsolePortableWorkstation