Kingston Technology Company has sold millions of SSDs over the past decade and continues to ship a ludicrous numbers of SSDs to this day. In the first half of 2019 they shipped over 13.3 million SSDS alone. Near the end of Summer, Kingston released a new M.2 NVMe drive aimed at the entry-level market, the A2000 series. Kingston is planning on selling millions of these drives down the road and we have nothing to argue with that statement. The Kingston A2000 series is mighty impressive on paper with 250GB ($39.99), 500GB ($59.99) and 1TB ($99.99) capacities available at rock bottom pricing. The best back for the buck would be the 1TB model as it is priced at just $0.10 per GB.

With pricing like that the performance on the A2000 series has to be down in the dumpster, right? Not at the very slightest! Performance depends on what capacity you get, but on the 1TB and 500GB models you are looking at sequential performance of up to 2,200 MB/s read and 2,000 MB/s write! If you opt for the smallest 250GB capacity drive you are looking at 2000 MB/s read and 1,100 MB/s write speeds. Random 4K IOPS are also solid for an entry-level drive as the 1TB drive is rated up to 250K/220K, the 500GB drive is at up to 180K/200K and the 250GB drive is 150K/180K.