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The Kingston KC3000 SSD 1TB is aimed at users seeking fast read and write speeds, as well as reliable storage for their computer.
The 1TB capacity provides ample space for storing files, programs, and games.
The KC3000 SSD uses NAND Flash technology, offering fast read and write speeds. This means users will experience quick loading times for their programs, fast access to files, and smooth operation of the operating system.
The SSD is suitable for use in laptops, desktop computers, and gaming systems, as it provides increased speed and performance.
Additionally, the reliability and durability of Kingston SSDs make them suitable for storing important data and ensuring your storage needs are met.
Supports the PCI Express 4.0 communication protocol and NVMe technology, offering high speeds that will enhance the user experience in demanding applications, provided that the motherboard of the computer also supports them.
The compact M.2 design easily fits into small form factor (SFF) systems, desktops, and laptops.
Excellent thermal dissipation keeps your drive cool with maximum performance.
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Purchased before the market increase, at 115€/2TB. I use it on pci-e 4.0 and it has the speeds it advertises. The software they give you to copy the old hard drive and make a mirror worked flawlessly. It has 2gb dram so the speeds don't drop.
Very good but the price has increased a lot, I personally bought it at around 50 to 60 euros so for the money it was purchased it was something more than money4value
Well, after 2 months of use and having tested other PCI4 GEN, I have to say one thing! YOU BUY IT WITH CLOSED EYES! Of course, I had managed to get it in December 23rd for 74 euros, 1tb!!
Personally, I consider it one of my best purchases. I bought it for 57-60! I believe it's the best value for money!!
Extremely fast, low temperatures, we will see durability over time and -1 star because it is somewhat unjustifiably (now) expensive
The greatest value for money from all the set I bought, you can't find such speed and so many GB at such a price.
The major NAND Flash manufacturers have decided to increase their prices, resulting in SSD prices reaching the stratosphere. Already the prices are outrageous and they will continue to rise. The only thing you can do is hold off on buying SSDs in order to exert some pressure and MAYBE the prices will drop.
Now, about this specific one. At the 60-65 euros that you could find it a few months ago, I had nothing but good things to say. Fast and reliable. However, the price of 105 euros that it is currently going for is at the very least ridiculous for a disk without a cooling system. Now, if you still want to buy a disk, this one is known as a very good choice. However, at 109 euros (which is also very expensive compared to previous prices), you can find Corsair SSDs with a heatsink that keeps the disk cool and allows for consistently better performance and lifespan. Get it before it reaches 130 euros.
It was purchased to replace a WD SN850 500GB that had SMART errors and was sent to WD headquarters for replacement.
The KC3000 is as fast as it promises, it is my second Kingston (I also have a Fury 4TB) and after the failures of some Samsung and now WD, I probably won't be switching from this company.
I have made a video on Youtube showing its placement on the console and the installation. You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuhYjA37rj4
I bought the Kingston KC3000 2TB for Playstation 5.
Since the drive does not have a built-in cooler, I also bought the Be Quiet Cooling For M.2 SSD MC1.
https://www.skroutz.gr/s/28521992/Be-Quiet-Cooling-For-M-2-SSD-MC1.html
The drive reaches the promised speeds and is considered one of the best for the console according to the review on Toms Hardware.
https://www.tomshardware.com/best-picks/best-ps5-ssds
At €144, the price is relatively good. It could have been more affordable since it doesn't have a cooler.
If you plan to upgrade the storage space of your Playstation 5, it's good to take a look at it.
When it transferred or read data, it would produce an error and disappear from the computer as an SSD. Replacement within one day from the website. If I had known, I would have gone for cheaper ones from the beginning.
I bought it for an operating system disk and also created a second partition for my games. Previously, I had the KC2500. The disk is very fast, it has a big difference from the previous one (which is also very good). I used my motherboard's cooler and its temperatures, under heavy load, did not exceed 60 degrees. Recommended (104€ for 2TB)
Excellent disk. It has nothing to envy from Samsung, Western Digital, or Seagate.
It was installed in an Asus Prime X570 with Ryzen 5900X.
Changed my Samsung 980 and it runs on operating system etc pcie 4.0 with x3 Crucial MX 500 2tera sataIII.
Finally found the duo I was looking for.
Games/music/FL studio/rendering/photo editing software is user-friendly and the drivers firmware are perfect so far.
No complaints about the speed, it has only dropped 2% in the past 6 months with 14/24 hours of daily use.
In recent years, Kingston had disappointed me a bit in terms of disks, speeds, etc... but with this little disk, it has earned my respect again.
Normal temperature, my motherboard had a cooler and overall, my tower has 12 + 2 fans along with the CPU cooler. The case was non-RGB except for the 2 RAM sticks.
I hope it withstands the test of time.
I recommend it
It reaches the advertised speeds, but you will also need a cooler to avoid throttling issues and, in general, it is advisable not to operate at high temperatures in order to withstand long-term use.
Before connecting it to the motherboard, I placed it in a case to transfer about 300GB of data. At around halfway, it reached 70°C and started throttling, then crashed. When I installed it on the motherboard, which has a cooler on the socket, it operates at around 25°C at idle and during file transfers, it did not exceed 35°C!
So, if your motherboard does not have a cooler on the m.2 socket, spend an additional 10€ and get a cooler. You won't regret it and it will add to the lifespan expectancy.
I have been very satisfied with this specific M.2. Very powerful speeds. Its temperature is at 50C with full PC operation (located right above the GPU). It is a beast in both video editing and gaming. At the price of 80€ that I got it, it's a no-brainer to get it with closed eyes.
Excellent value for money for NVME on PCI Express 4, from a reliable manufacturer. I look forward to seeing its performance over time. I will probably buy another one because space is never enough and it feels lonely too!
I bought it for the PS5 and it's really a rocket!!! I would buy it again with my eyes closed...
P.S. the 2 TB...
It does what it promises with write speeds for me to be around 7500.... In read speeds at 7000..... Very good.... but time will tell for its reliability....
Bought at a very good price...70€. First of all, I should mention that it's the first nvme drive I've installed, so just the fact that it doesn't take up as much space as the other drives gets it 5 stars. As for performance, it's very fast in read and write speeds, although I'm using it on a gen 3 motherboard, so my expectations are lower. However, I was expecting to see a difference in the loading time of Windows, which I didn't see at all and was a bit disappointed.
Owner for about 2 weeks now, everything is fine so far, if anything comes up I will come back.
Considered High-End NVMe in the same category as Kingston Fury and Samsung 980/990 Pro.
I was looking at the Solidigm P44 Pro but it is too expensive and unnecessary for my usage case (gaming).
Long-term will show if I did well and got it, for now everything is okay.
I bought it for the ps5 and it was priced at around 6500, so it's compatible and faster than the recommended one. The copying process went smoothly and at high speeds through the console's operating system. Games load quickly, just like with the internal disk, but the difference is that this disk is faster in writing compared to the internal one.
Very fast disk. The work I need it for requires fast reading or bulk processing of tens of thousands of small files. I had an i3-9100F CPU and a simple SSD disk, and now I have an i5-13500 CPU and a Kingston KC3000 NVMe 1TB PCIe 4.0. This dual upgrade reduced the times to 1/10. There are tasks that used to take 20 minutes with the old setup and now take about 2 minutes (of course, the CPU with 14 cores and 20 threads also plays a big role here).
I have two disks, one is boot with Win10 and the startup takes a few seconds. I didn't measure it, but it is noticeably much faster than regular SSDs.
The reason for the purchase was the positive reviews I saw, along with the price and the PCIe 4.0 capability. It is an excellent purchase. In a motherboard with PCIe 4.0 ports, the speeds are very high. The CrystalDiskMark benchmarks confirm the Read and Write Speeds of the specifications.
Because I saw in reviews that this thin metal sheet on top to lower the temperature is not so effective, I also bought a cooler for 9 euros (Be Quiet Cooling For M.2 SSD MC1) and the temperature did not exceed 38-40 degrees with very intensive, continuous use. Generally, NVMe drives should have a cooler because when they constantly raise temperatures above 60 degrees - especially in the summer - their performance drops and gradually deteriorates. So it is a cost that needs to be taken into account.
Read 3700
Write 3500
Works like a PCIe 3 due to the processor (5700g), although the mobo (Gigabyte B550 Aorus Elite) supports X4. I knew that before purchasing. Very good and at a good price.
Selected for the Z790 platform with a 13900k for use as cache in Premiere PRO. It proved to be significantly more powerful than other well-known options, as you can see in many international reviews that characterize it as "The Fastest Flash You Can Get", and you can see its result here: https://tinyurl.com/kingston2tb
If AES Encryption is not important to you and a 5-year warranty is sufficient, then there is no other option at this price point.
I've had it for a month, it has incredible speed, Windows 10 pro opens almost instantly, so fast that I haven't had time to press DEL to enter UEFI BIOS!!
On my MSI X470 with Ryzen 5700X, my computer freezes. The technician at the store where I took the PC to have it checked told me that there was an incompatibility.
Software has not yet been installed on this, but in a simple test, as a simple companion disk, it seems that the manufacturer's values are real. Excellent value for money, as for durability over time, I do not yet know.
I acquired it with a Black Friday discount for 89 euros, November 2022.
It is worth its money and more, as it has the speed of a Samsung 980 Pro but without costing 150 euros, while also offering the same 5-year warranty as Samsung, provided by Kingston! It has been installed with Windows 11 Pro and various other programs, as well as 1-2 lightweight games. The computer, from the moment I press the power button to open, reaches the desktop in 5-6 seconds with the disk capacity at 25% full at that moment.
My system is as follows:
Motherboard: Asus Rog Strix B550-F Gaming WIFI II
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
GPU: Palit RTX 2080
PSU: Corsair RM1000x
RAM: DDR4 2X8GB 2666MHz
Update (5 months of use): It has not caused any problems whatsoever. 0 blue screens and delays. The only thing left for me to see, which will be interesting to share with you, are the temperatures during the upcoming summer.
Update (7 months of use): The disk is functioning like new. With a BIOS update and a few firmware updates for the motherboard, which I also did on the X370 PRO, some times may have improved, who knows... The numbers seem to be the same or even higher than before. It was definitely worth the money and more.
Update 8/15/2023 (9 months of use): Today, the Wear Indicator of the disk dropped from 100% to 99% after 2000 hours of use.
Update 5/20/2023 (1 year and 6 months of use): Wear Indicator: 98%, after 4214 hours of use, and a steady temperature of 21-22 degrees. I now use it as a secondary disk because I upgraded to a Samsung 990 PRO 2TB.
I will provide further updates if anything new arises.
It delivers the promised speeds, excellent temperatures (better than the NVMe mama), good TBW, at a good price (in the category of 7000 MB/s speed).
 Kingston KC3000 SSD 4.1TB M.2 NVMe PCI Express 4.0 |  Samsung 990 Pro SSD 4TB M.2 NVMe PCI Express 4.0 |  Crucial T700 SSD 2TB M.2 NVMe PCI Express 5.0 |  Lexar NM790 SSD 4TB M.2 NVMe PCI Express 4.0 |  Crucial P3 SSD 4TB M.2 NVMe PCI Express 4.0 |
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| from 1.340,26 Lei | from 1.594,58 Lei | from 1.733,50 Lei | from 1.182,81 Lei | from 1.286,55 Lei |
| ManufacturerKingston | Samsung | Crucial | Lexar | Crucial |
| Available through Skroutz | Available through Skroutz | Available through Skroutz | Available through Skroutz | Available through Skroutz |
| Capacity4096 GB | 4000 GB | 2048 GB | 4000 GB | 4000 GB |
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