Kingston Rolls out Its A2000 and KC2000 Series NVMe SSDs

In the memory storage devices, many vendors are always trying their best to develop and research a range of products to meet your needs. In the SSD market, you can find various kinds of new solid-state drives.

Although the first quarter of 2019 is a traditional slack season with low market demand, the new products that use new and innovative technologies at CES 2019 have brought some vitality to the market.

And the highlight of SSD market exhibition is that Intel, Toshiba, Seagate, and other companies released new SSD products, leading the new trend of market development. Thereinto, Kingston has announced that the rollout of its two NVMe SSDs: A2000 and KC2000 series.

Let’s see some features of Kingston A2000 NVMe SSD and KC2000 SSD.

Kingston A2000 and KC2000 NVMe SSDs

Compared with their last-generation A1000 and KC1000 SSDs, each of SSD delivers increased performance and has capacity advantages.

This is caused by two factors. Both new SSDs now ultilize 64-layer 3D TLC NAND and have changed from Phison controllers to newer Silicon Motion chips. Besides, Kingston A2000 NVMe SSD has also switched its interface to PCIe 3.0 x4 from PCIe 3.0 x2, which allows the NVMe SSD to access more brandwidth so as to offer increased transfer speeds.

Kingston KC2000 NVMe SSD and A2000 SSD are both in the M.2 form factor. These two solid-state drives will offer three same modules, such as 256GB, 512GB and 1024GB. And for the higherend KC2000 SSD, it will also offer a 2048 module.

As to the transfer speed of these two new SSDs, they also improve a lot compared with their last-generation counterparts. The A2000 will offer the maximum sequential read/write speeds of 2000/1500 MB/s, whereas the KC2000 uses PCIe 3.0 x4 interface, letting it offer the maximum sequential read/write speeds of 3000/2000 MB/s.

Here is the table that shows you details about how these speficications compared to their counterparts.

From the figure, you know the maximum read/write speeds of Kingston A1000 and KC1000 are respectively 1500/1000 MB/s and 2700/1600 MB/s. This shows that the new SSDs have gained a big improvement in speed.

In addition, you can know from the table that the capacity storage of new SSDs has also made a major step. Besides, Kingston A2000 use SMI controller rather than Phison PS5008-E8 while KC2000 uses SMI controller instead of Phison Ps5007-E7.

Bottom Line

In conclusion, from the above part, you can know both new Kingston SSDs are worthy of being noted since they have higher transmission speed and capacity than the previous generation products, which can meet the growing market demand in different fields.

Currently, these two SSDs are not available on the market. But they are expected to be available in late March or early April. And pricing information and other specifications will be announced later by the Kingston company.

If you are interested in them, pay attention to the Kingston website. Once they are available, just get one and use professional hard drive cloning software to migrate your current OS to SSD without reintsallating Windows and enjoy the better performance.