Kingston NV3 NVMe PCIe 4.0 Internal SSD 1TB M.2 2280-SNV3S/1000G

I bought this and a Fanxlang M.2 NMVe enclosure to house it in: https://amzn.eu/d/eWTd0bh It has been really reliable so far for expanding the storage of my Macbook. It does get quite hot when transferring or streaming files to or from the drive, but in a good enclosure, it dissipates it well. Performance has been stable and reliable so far. I haven't measured them, but the transfer speeds have been great too. Silent operation. Connects quickly, and reconnects on sleep/wake. It's a tiny drive. Impressive how much storage we can fit in such a small device these days!

Easy to install and posted with no issues. I bought an additional heatsink just in case but I don't think it heats up to much anyway. Good quality nvme drive with fast write speeds

Very fast 500gb drive and made a fantastic difference to the start up time of an older Windows box. Allowed me to upgrade to Windows 11 with zero concerns. Was so happy with this for a friend that I replaced one of my old SSD drives with a 1TB version. Installation was very easy. No discernible heat problems.

I thought long and hard about buying this as normally I only buy Samsung when it comes to SSD's due to failures from other brands. I needn't have worried though as this has proven to be just as durable as other quality brands. Worked perfectly in my Lenovo Legion as a second M.2 drive, although the optional software from Kingston isn't great and can't make it's mind up about anything.

Amazing value. Used to upgrade a steam deck so that I could dual boot and have more larger games Installed. Works great and exceeds the specs of the original SSD, so is a great choice for an upgrade.

Great drive, it’s just so fast. It used to take about 3 hours to back my primary drive up on SATA disks. This does the job in 12 minutes. Highly recommended. It was a bit tricky having to remove the GPU to fit it, but that was more about my MoBo and setup than the drive.

I was running low on disk space on my C: drive and rather than another house keeping exercise of deleting everything possible under the sun, I opted for an easier solution and opted for a storage upgrade, as this 1TB M.2 drive was only £45.08 at time of purchase, and cheaper than unknown storage devices from random brand manufacturers. Migration from old M.2 to this new one took only 12 minutes, cloning the drive with Rescuezilla (Clonezilla GUI), the real free cloning solution without caveats... always works, no sign-ups or limited timed feature sets involved. Running the drive on my PCIE 3.0 x4 M.2 slot yielded expected performance, maxing out the interface limitations rather than the true potential of the drive. Early days but the drive is behaving admirably, and if all is well in a few months, I'll be back for a higher capacity version if prices remain competitive. So in conclusion, grab yourself a bargain while stocks last!

Firstly, the item arrived a few hours after ordering extremely well packaged. Well done Amazon. The Kingston NV3 NVMe PCIe was easy to install in a Ugreen enclosure and plugged into a Mac Mini m4. It took around one minute for any response. Formatted the drive to Mac encrypted using Disk Utility and set it up as a Time Machine drive. The drive completed the first hourly backup but with an error message for the second. It would not eject when asked and hung the File Manager. Having initially given ten this ssd one start because of the problems I was having I now find it was the Ugreen N2nmve Enclosure Model CM578 - so not problems with this drive. I purchased a Ugreen USB-C Docking Station for th Mac mini M4 and fitted the Crucial M2 ssd which gave me 834Mb/s read and 950Mb/s write. Fitted this Kingston M2.nmve drive to see if it would work and, yes, instantly connected and got 931.66 read and 1025.39 write. Note that the speed is restricted by the USB C connection to the dock and would probably be 3500 MB/s plus if fitted internally in a Windows computer. Strange how the Ugreen enclosure worked with other nmve2 drives but failed with the Kingston when formatted for Windows or Mac - but worked in another Ugreen product without problem. So my apologies to Kingston and upgraded to 5 stars.