Is Kingston A2000 SA2000M8 good?

[e22big]

I've been asking whether I should get A2000 or WD SN550 the other day, as it turn out, I don't think SN550 is even on my radar any more. A2000 is sold for just around 75 buck! Cheaper than SN550 and even cheaper than their own newer lower end DRAM-less NV1. 

 

This get me a bit concern, is it too good to be true? It's sold by Kingston themselves and has the model number SA2000M8 is anything wrong with this drive? I got the feeling that it's probably from an older batch.

[Vishera]

9 minutes ago, e22big said:

This get me a bit concern, is it too good to be true? It's sold by Kingston themselves and has the model number SA2000M8 is anything wrong with this drive? I got the feeling that it's probably from an older batch.

In general Kingston are selling sketchy SSDs so i recommend to avoid them.

I recommend the Kioxia Exceria Plus 500GB (The Plus part is important,because the non-plus models are of lower quality)

[e22big]

34 minutes ago, Vishera said:

In general Kingston are selling sketchy SSDs so i recommend to avoid them.

I recommend the Kioxia Exceria Plus 500GB (The Plus part is important,because the non-plus models are of lower quality)

I don't mind it so long as it perform as spec. I originally just been looking for DRAM SATA for game drive and A2000 sold less than even than DRAMless SATA at this point. Fast SSD would just be a waste of money anyway for this kind of workload

[Vishera]

1 hour ago, e22big said:

I don't mind it so long as it perform as spec

Kingston are changing specs of their drives all the time,you can't know what's inside there until you buy one and look.

You may read that it a has certain components inside,but the unit you buy may have completely different specs.

It's what makes Kingston sketchy.