Kingston NV3 500GB
The Kingston NV3 500GB costs $149.99 right now, or $0.300/GB. The 4TB is cheaper per gigabyte at $0.129/GB. Stepping up to the 1TB costs $72.95 more. It is rated for 160 TBW, about 88 GB of writes a day for 5 years.
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Where to buy the Kingston NV3 500GB
Every in-stock offer we track, cheapest first.
- Amazon$149.99
Price history
Lowest in the last 30 days: $148.07. Lowest in 60 days: $148.07.
Not enough price history yet for the Kingston NV3 500GB. We record prices daily, so a chart appears once there are a few days to show.
Specifications
Speed (rated)
- Sequential read
- 5,000 MB/s
- Sequential write
- 3,000 MB/s
- Interface
- PCIe 4.0 x4
Endurance
- Rated writes
- 160 TBW
- Warranty
- 5 years
That is about 88 GB of writes a day for 5 years. A typical gaming PC writes a small fraction of that.
Drive
- Capacity
- 500GB
- Form factor
- M.2 2230
- NAND type
- TLC
- Cache
- DRAM-less (HMB)
Identity
- Part number
- SNV3SM3/500G
- Spec source
- Maker's datasheet
Specifications from the maker’s own datasheet. A dash or a missing row means the maker does not publish that figure for this capacity.
Does it fit a PS5?
No. It misses one of Sony's requirements: PCIe Gen4 or faster on four lanes, M.2, at least 5,500 MB/s, and no taller than 11.25 mm with a heatsink. Every drive that fits.
Quality score
How we score →Scored for a gaming PC from what the maker publishes: read speed against the level games are built around, capacity (under 1TB loses points), cache type, endurance per terabyte and warranty. Speed above the floor adds almost nothing.
Value weighs the score against the price, compared with other 500GB NVMe SSDs: this drive costs $299.98/TB against a typical $224.15/TB. At a typical price, value equals the score. Cheaper raises it and dearer lowers it, but price counts for less than quality.
A factor we hold no value for scores zero rather than being skipped, so a drive we know little about never outranks a fully documented one. A low score with low confidence means undocumented, not bad. This is a specification index, not a benchmark, and it only compares NVMe SSDs with each other.
See every capacity of the Kingston NV3 on one page, or compare it with every other drive on the NVMe SSDs table.
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