Kingston NV2 1TB SSD Review

Kingston’s NV2 drive is packaged in a blister pack with the drive sitting in a plastic tray. On the top right of the cardboard backing is the drive's capacity and Sequential maximum speed (up to 3,500MB/s). Under the drive is a logo displaying the fact that Kingston backs the drive with a 3-year warranty. The rear of that packaging houses some multi-lingual marketing notes.

The NV2 1TB drive is built on a single-sided M.2 2280 format.

Being a DRAM-less design, the only major components on the PCB are the Silicon Motion SM2267XT controller and a pair of NAND packages (labelled Kingston FB51208UCN1-6D). By using a Flash ID utility these were identified as Intel 144-layer QLC NAND.

The SM2267XT is the DRAM-less version of Silicon's SM2267 controller. Instead of an onboard DRAM chip, it uses HMB (Host Memory Buffer) technology. Built on a 28nm process, the 4-channel SM2267XT uses 2 ARM Corex R5 CPU's supporting a NAND channel speed of 1,200MT/s,

Kingston’s SSD management utility is called SSD Manager, (version v1.5.2.5) at the time of testing the drive) It automatically detects any firmware updates as well as displaying drive status, temperatures and SMART information

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