Kingston's KC1000 is the company's premier NVMe M.2 SSD solution. It it built using a Phison controller, paired with Toshiba MLC flash, which is great for all those TLC haters out there. We take the 240 GB version for a spin, through synthetic and real-life benchmarks.

The Kingston KC1000 SSD uses the M.2 form factor with a PCI-Express x4 3.0 interface for maximum transfer speeds. As the controller, a Phison PS5007 is used, which is paired with MLC flash from Toshiba. Inside the package you receive not only the M.2 SSD, but a PCI-Express card, which enables use of this drive with older systems that lack physical M.2 slots.