A $100 2 TB SSD would be a steal, even if it's the lowest low end DRAMless SATA QLC drive. That said, agreed that $225 is way too much, I can get a SX8200 Pro or EX950 for that.
There is no way Kingston could make this drive $100 and have a profit. They have zero vertical integration and rely on sourced components. They buy wafers and bin RAM\NAND, controllers, and PCB's to their specifications (usually a reference design) along with other necessary components to make DRAM and SSD products, and assemble them at one of their facilities (they have quite a few around the world.) So they rely on vendors and market conditions for pricing and quality, thus their customers rely on their vendors and market conditions for pricing and quality. It's overall a bad deal for the end-user and frankly I think Kingston, at this point, relies on their brand recognition to sell anything. Didn't they recently sell HyperX to AMD?
They sold HyperX to HP I think. Which ironically the HP EX950 pretty much would be my recommendation over anything in this NV1 line, being both less expensive, more performant, and critically consistent.
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YB1064 - Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - link
$225 for uncertainty in components, low end NAND and a crippled controller?? GTFO. The 2Tb is worth about 75-100 bucks tops.drexnx - Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - link
yeah, what? who would buy this?The Inland 2tb Professional TLC E12S drives are the same price and that's a DRAM+TLC+8ch drive
0ldman79 - Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - link
Pretty sure his main complaint is the "quality" of the components.There is no guaranteed quality.
If you're getting QLC and know you're getting QLC it's one thing, without listing parts properly it could be anything in there.
I get why Kingston went that route but they should have lower prices reflecting the Russian Roulette being played here.
Oxford Guy - Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - link
I recommend the TLC Inland Professional drives to people (in SATA and NVME). Seem to have the best bang for the buck.One of them (an NVME) replaced a faulty Samsung QLC SATA drive that came back faulty after the RMA. The Inland is working flawlessly.
MenhirMike - Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - link
A $100 2 TB SSD would be a steal, even if it's the lowest low end DRAMless SATA QLC drive. That said, agreed that $225 is way too much, I can get a SX8200 Pro or EX950 for that.Oxford Guy - Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - link
The only thing stolen by a dramless QLC drive is a person's time, or possibly data.Samus - Friday, April 2, 2021 - link
There is no way Kingston could make this drive $100 and have a profit. They have zero vertical integration and rely on sourced components. They buy wafers and bin RAM\NAND, controllers, and PCB's to their specifications (usually a reference design) along with other necessary components to make DRAM and SSD products, and assemble them at one of their facilities (they have quite a few around the world.) So they rely on vendors and market conditions for pricing and quality, thus their customers rely on their vendors and market conditions for pricing and quality. It's overall a bad deal for the end-user and frankly I think Kingston, at this point, relies on their brand recognition to sell anything. Didn't they recently sell HyperX to AMD?xrror - Monday, April 5, 2021 - link
They sold HyperX to HP I think. Which ironically the HP EX950 pretty much would be my recommendation over anything in this NV1 line, being both less expensive, more performant, and critically consistent.Lakados - Thursday, April 1, 2021 - link
I don't know what the market for this is, but I have a feeling it's for ultra-cheap laptops.damianrobertjones - Wednesday, April 7, 2021 - link
Low end = excuse to raise the price of high end.Standard Marketing.