KingSpec 128GB M.2 SATA 2242 SSD NOT for NVMe Slots, Upgrade for Laptop/Desktop, SATA III 6Gb/s, B+M Key, Up to 550MB/s

I needed a good drive to replace the drive inside an old Sophos XG firewall. This was the right size and type, and works beautifully for the purpose. It's been chugging along for a while now, so I'm pleased with it. Good price.

I needed a somewhat large capacity NGFF drive for a upgrade limited Dell 3050 miniPC. There are not many 2242 NGFF M.2 SSD SATA drives out there to choose from and even fewer at 512GB capacity. This was half the cost of others I found and performance is excellent at this price point. I'm not sure the little Intel Celeron processor in the Dell 3050 miniPC would even take advantage of much faster. I highly recommend this and would definitely buy another if they are still available when/if needed.Update April 2019:I have purchase another one of these KingSpec 2242 NGFF 512GB M.2 SATA SSD drives as the first one works so well and performance is on par with other name brands I have purchased for a lot more money.I have two of these 512GB M.2 2242 SSD drives in an external M.2 sata raid enclosure and am amazed at the performance. KingSpec has definitely got me sold on their SSD products. If you are looking for a NGFF M.2 SATA drive as an upgrade or replacing a old SSD that is no longer functioning, you have got to give KingSpec a try. I am glad I found this product and anticipate purchasing more in the near future.Update June 5, 2020:Have purchased a few more of these since my April 2019 review update. I have to say that 2 of these SSD drives, in a internal dual M.2 sata drive enclosure running raid 0, on a older Gen3 i5 laptop has made me put off buying a new laptop for a couple more years. This is a laptop for working in a Win10, Office365, Internet, non-gaming environment. It keeps up with with my 8th Gen i5 Intel NUC mini PC where I really don’t see any difference! These are quality SSD drives with excellent performance. The first KingSpec 2242 NGFF 512GB SSDs I purchased still have a plenty of life in them and they are in a Dell E6430 laptop that runs 24/7. I have worked in IT for over 25 years and have gone through a lot of hardware in my days. I highly recommend these KingSpec SSD drives. Not a single issue with any of them yet while I have had SanDisk, Samsung, and G.Skill SSD drives wear out or flake out due to heat. I could not be happier, unless KingSpec wants to put these on sale for less! 😉

Works as advertised in my mini-computer.

I received the drive a day later than originally expected, but given all the weather event, pandemic, and o on, it wasn't a terrible hardship. The drive was easy to install but the notches in the part where you plug it into the computer were a little misleading. My laptop only has one notch in the socket but the drive has two. I'm not sure what is gong on there, but it seems to be fine. One thing did cause some minor frustration with this purchase. When you install the card, you have to use a small screw to hold it down against the computer's circuit board. However, the drive doesn't come with the screw an there wasn't one on the existing board. I was able to get a screw that works from my grandson but he had to take it from an old computer that he had in his closet. This could have been easily solved by including a screw in the package.The other thing that might be of interest to potential buyers is that when I first added the drive to my computer it didn't show up in the File Explorer window or device manager at all. I was able to do a Google search that explained that you have to initialize the drive first, using the Disk Manager that comes with Windows. I suppose you could argue that I should "just know how to do it", but a simple paragraph would have saved some poking around.Neither of these things was a deal-killer. once I initialized the drive I found that it's as fast as you would expect an SSD to be, which is to say it's really fast. If either of the above items had been addressed I would have given this item a 5 star rating instead of 4 stars. Now that you have read this review you can give it a 5 star rating since you know the two things about it that I didn't!

When I purchased my Geekom mini pc, I decided to upgrade every upgradable Part which was basically memory and storage. Memory was easy going from already great 32GB to 64GB. My XT12Pro came with 2 M.2 Hard drives, 1-1TB NVMe with Windows 11Pro which I cloned to a 2TB NVMe and That's where the trouble started. I went through 3 So-called M.2 SATA 1TB drives, none of which worked and would not even boot to Windows, Was about to give up when I found KingSpecs M.2 SATA on Amazon. Plugged it in, a litle blue light came on to let me know it was working and BAM! Windows read and installed it immediately. A totally outstanding product. Thank you KingSpec & thank you Amazon for making this produt available.

I got this to expand the space on a small NUC system I wanted to use for a major task, but that had very little emmc space for it's primary drive (32G). This quadrupled my space and let me get things going and allowed me to re-use a system that otherwise would have simply been e-waste had I not been able to get it going.

Catastrophic failure after 6 months.

I replaced my GMKtec’s 128 GB drive with the KingSpec NT Series 2 TB M.2 2242 SATA SSD and the performance jump is immediate. The drive fits the SATA‑only slot (no NVMe confusion), runs the full 6 Gb/s speed, stays cool under load, and gives plenty of space for games, media, and projects. A reliable, plug‑and‑play upgrade that makes the system feel brand‑new.

This was easy to install in my Geekom mini computer and was easy to initialise and format for use by Windows 11 . It seems fast enough for my requirements.

Bought this for my iPod Video (A1136). Works great and fast!"Sintech M.2 (NGFF) SATA SSD to 40Pin ZIF CE Adapter Card"

Ich habe diese Speicherkarte in meinen Mini PC Geekom IT15 eingebaut. Sie wurde sofort erkannt, habe eine neue Volume erstellt, formatiert und fertig. Sie funktioniert einwandfrei.

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