The new Kingston NV3 PCIe 4.0 NVMe 2230 is a single-sided M.2 2230 (22x30mm) form-factor SSD that will be available in 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB capacities, reaching sequential read and write speeds of up to 6,000MB/s and 5,000MB/s. The Kingston NV3 is also available in the standard M.2 2280 form-factor.

Look, I’ll be the first to admit that this is a not-even-glorified press-release rewrite.

That out of the way, it’s pretty amazing that 2230 has become viable at large capacities while still hitting PCIe 4 speeds. Sure, it’s not the latest gen in the wild, but my guess is you’d need active cooling for PCIe 5 in this form factor.

My first NVMe drive was shockingly tiny – like, I know millimetres and all, but I’m old enough that our first (20MB) hard drive was full-height 5¼". Being able to get this kind of throughput in such a small space makes a 2280 look like an SD card adapter for a 2230 microSD.

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