The Kingston NV2 is a solid-state drive in the M.2 2280 form factor, launched on September 7th, 2022. It is available in capacities ranging from 1 TB to 2 TB. This page reports specifications for the 2 TB variant. With the rest of the system, the Kingston NV2 interfaces using a PCI-Express 4.0 x4 connection. The SSD controller is the SM2267XT from Silicon Motion, a DRAM cache is not available. Kingston has installed 144-layer QLC NAND flash on the NV2, the flash chips are made by Intel. Please note that this SSD is sold in multiple variants with different NAND flash or controller, which could affect performance, the "Notes" section at the end of this page has more info. To improve write speeds, a pseudo-SLC cache is used, so bursts of incoming writes are handled more quickly. The cache is sized at 561 GB. Copying data out of the SLC cache (folding) completes at 240 MB/s. Thanks to support for the fast PCI-Express 4.0 interface, performance is excellent. The NV2 is rated for sequential read speeds of up to 3,500 MB/s and 2,800 MB/s write; random IO reaches 300K IOPS for read and 480K for writes.
At its launch, the SSD was priced at 160 USD. The warranty length is set to three years, which is above average, but shorter than the five years offered by many other vendors. Kingston guarantees an endurance rating of 640 TBW, a relatively low value compared to other SSDs.