Kingston SSD

Kingston SSD

Kingston
41 Overall Score
vs
SanDisk SSD

SanDisk SSD

SanDisk
89 Overall Score

Scores

Laptop
Kingston
48
SanDisk
93
Workstation
Kingston
36
SanDisk
90
Gaming
Kingston
36
SanDisk
87
Budget
Kingston
48
SanDisk
86
Console
Kingston
18
SanDisk
83
Portable
Kingston
11
SanDisk
23

Specifications

Kingston SSDSanDisk SSD
Drive
Capacity
500
1,000
Form FactorM.2 2280M.2 2280
InterfacePCIePCIe 5.0 x4
ProtocolNVMeNVMe
PCIe Generation35★
External✗✗
Performance
Sequential Read (MB/s)
2,100
14,900
Sequential Write (MB/s)
1,700
11,000
Random Read (IOPS)No data
2,300,000
Random Write (IOPS)No data
2,300,000
Hardware
NAND—TLC★
DRAM Cache—✓★
Reliability
Endurance (TBW)No data
4,800
MTBF (hours)No data
1,750,000
Warranty (years)—1★
Features
Heatsink—✗
Hardware Encryption—✗

Pros & Cons

Kingston SSD

  • Strong social proof (95th percentile)95th %ile
  • Below average feature (14th percentile)14th %ile
  • Below average endurance (14th percentile)14th %ile
  • Below average capacity (26th 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

Pricing

Kingston SSD is $120 cheaper (1.9x less).

Verdict

★ Winner: SanDisk SSD

Scores 89 overall, wins 6 of 6 usage categories and 11 of 17 specs.

SanDisk SSD Better at:

BudgetGamingLaptopConsolePortableWorkstation

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