Kingston 512GB Portable SSD USB

Kingston 512GB Portable SSD USB

Kingston
31 Overall Score
vs
Team Group 4TB SSD PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe M.2 2280

Team Group 4TB SSD PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe M.2 2280

Team Group
90 Overall Score

Scores

Laptop
Kingston
16
Team Group
92
Gaming
Kingston
17
Team Group
88
Console
Kingston
11
Team Group
87
Budget
Kingston
69
Team Group
82
Workstation
Kingston
26
Team Group
81
Portable
Kingston
52
Team Group
24

Specifications

Kingston 512GB Portable SSDTeam Group 4TB SSD
Drive
Capacity
512
4,000
Form FactorExternalM.2 2280
InterfaceUSBPCIe 4.0 x4
Protocol—NVMe
PCIe Generation—4★
External✓✗
Performance
Sequential Read (MB/s)
1,050
7,400
Sequential Write (MB/s)
950
6,900
Random Read (IOPS)No data
650,000
Random Write (IOPS)No data
660,000
Hardware
NAND—SLC★
DRAM Cache—✗
Controller—Maxio
Reliability
Endurance (TBW)No data
2,000
MTBF (hours)No data
1,600,000
Warranty (years)—3★
Features
Heatsink—✗

Pros & Cons

Kingston 512GB Portable SSD USB

  • Below average random (4th percentile)4th %ile
  • Below average endurance (15th percentile)15th %ile
  • Below average feature (15th percentile)15th %ile
  • Below average capacity (35th percentile)

Team Group 4TB SSD PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe M.2 2280

  • Strong speed (94th percentile)94th %ile
  • Strong capacity (93rd percentile)93rd %ile
  • Strong random (89th percentile)89th %ile
  • Strong social proof (87th percentile)87th %ile
  • Below average affordability (16th percentile)16th %ile

Pricing

Kingston 512GB Portable SSD USB is CA$469 cheaper (3.0x less).

Kingston 512GB Portable SSD USB

Team Group 4TB SSD PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe M.2 2280

Verdict

★ Winner: Team Group 4TB SSD

Scores 90 overall, wins 5 of 6 usage categories and 10 of 17 specs.

Kingston 512GB Portable SSD Better at:

Portable

Team Group 4TB SSD Better at:

BudgetGamingLaptopConsoleWorkstation

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