Kingston NV2 1TB M.2 2280

Brand
Kingston
Model
NV2 1TB M.2 2280

Kingston NV2 1TB is a budget DRAM‑less Gen4 M.2 SSD (3500/2100MB/s, 320 TBW) launched Oct 12, 2022; good for boot and games; now discontinued.

Storage performance rankTop 4% of storage drives
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ReleasedOct 2022
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Capacity1 TB
TypeSSD
InterfacePCIe
Read speed3500 MB/s
Write speed2100 MB/s
Form factorM.2
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Product overview

Released October 12, 2022, Kingston’s NV2 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD is part of the NV consumer line. The 1TB model is a single‑sided M.2 2280 drive rated up to 3,500 MB/s read and 2,100 MB/s write with 320 TBW endurance.

Positioned as a budget Gen4 SSD (DRAM‑less), it exists to deliver inexpensive capacity and everyday responsiveness without high‑end throughput. It’s well‑suited as a boot drive or game library in laptops and SFF desktops; its modest sustained writes and endurance make it a poor fit for heavy video‑editing scratch. Notably, NV2’s components (controller/NAND) may vary by lot. It is now discontinued and listed as replaced by the NV3 series.

LifecycleDiscontinued
Best for
  • boot drive
  • game library
  • budget upgrade

Specifications

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Capacity1 TB
Higher than 7% of storage drives
Read speed3500 MB/s
Higher than 80% of storage drives
Capacity
1 TB
Type
SSD
Read speed
3500 MB/s
Write speed
2100 MB/s
Form factor
M.2
Hardware Interface
PCIe 4.0 x4
Data Transfer Rate
16000 Mb/s
Interface
PCIe
Tdp
8 W
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