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The Kingston NV3 is a budget M.2 2280 NVMe solid-state drive using PCIe 4.0 x4. Kingston rates it at up to 3,000 MB/s sequential read and write for the 500 GB model. That is well below premium Gen4 drives, which reach 5,000–7,000 MB/s, but far above SATA SSDs. It suits a cheap boot drive, a secondary game or media drive, or a laptop upgrade where capacity and low cost matter more than peak speed. It has no DRAM cache and no heatsink, so sustained large writes and heavy workloads are not its strength.
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Lowest price we've seen: $167.99 on Nov 12 at Newegg. Tracked across 1 store since Nov 12.
Owners of the NV3 line generally describe it as a dependable budget drive that is easy to install and noticeably faster than the SATA drive it replaced. Criticism centers on sustained write speed dropping during large transfers and on the lack of a heatsink.
The Kingston NV3 is a 500 GB M.2 solid-state drive. It uses the 2280 form factor and connects through a PCIe Gen4 x4 NVMe interface.
Sequential read and write speeds are both rated at 3000 MB/s.
