STORAGE
WITHOUT
THE MARKUP.
KingSpec has manufactured flash storage in Shenzhen since 2007. The catalogue runs from the VP14000 PCIe 5.0 flagship down to 2.5-inch SATA drives, memory cards and USB sticks - the value tier of the NVMe market rather than the halo tier.
MB/s Quoted Read (VP14000)
14,782
TBW Rated Endurance
1,200
Largest NVMe Capacity
8 TB
Manufacturing Since
2007
SHOP THE LINEUP
Store More. Move Faster.
NVMe SSDs
VP14000 on PCIe 5.0, XG7000 on Gen4 at a quoted 7,400/6,600 MB/s, and NX-series Gen3 drives. M.2 2280 throughout.
SATA SSDs
2.5-inch drives for machines with no M.2 socket at all - the only upgrade path left on a lot of pre-2016 laptops and office desktops.
Portable SSDs
Type-C external drives. The enclosure's USB generation sets the ceiling, so read whether a listing quotes 5 Gbps or 10 Gbps.
MicroSD Cards
Cards for cameras, drones, handhelds and phones. The A-class rating covers random access for apps; the V-class covers sustained video write.
USB Flash Drives
Sticks for transfers, install media and offline copies. Small-file writing is where cheap controllers show themselves, not headline read speed.
Enterprise SSDs
KingSpec's industrial side trades under the YANSEN name - DOM modules, CF and CFast cards for embedded and always-on equipment.
WHY KINGSPEC
Read The
Second Number.
Peak sequential read is a burst figure measured into an empty cache. The numbers that decide how a drive behaves after the first thirty seconds are sustained write, endurance and thermals - so those are the ones set out below.
For Gamers
Know which spec your platform asks for.
DirectStorage is a Windows API that hands asset decompression to the GPU and expects an NVMe drive underneath. The PS5 is a separate case with its own rules: Sony asks for an M.2 drive around 5,500 MB/s sequential read plus a heatsink that clears the console's bay.
PS5 READ GUIDANCE5,500 MB/s
For Creators
Sustained write is the real ceiling.
A drive writes into a fast SLC-mode cache first, then drops to the native TLC rate once that cache fills. Ingesting an hour of 4K rushes will outlast the cache; a 2 GB export never will. Size the drive so the cache stays generous.
GEN5 QUOTED WRITE12,914 MB/s
For Professionals
Endurance is the warranty in disguise.
Terabytes-written is the figure that ends a warranty early, not hours of use. The Gen5 flagship carries a 1,200 TBW rating; divide that by what your workload writes in a week and the number is either irrelevant or the deciding factor.
FLAGSHIP RATING1,200 TBW
For Upgraders
An old machine may not take NVMe.
Some laptops have an M.2 slot keyed for SATA signalling only, and an NVMe drive will not be seen in it. Where there is no M.2 socket at all, a 2.5-inch SATA SSD still lifts a mechanical-drive machine off its worst bottleneck.
SATA III CEILING~600 MB/s
BEFORE · SATA III 2.5-INCH
The Interface Is The Limit.
BUS CEILING~600 MB/s
QUOTED SEQUENTIAL READup to 560 MB/s
FITS2.5-inch drive bay
CABLINGSATA data + power
AFTER · KINGSPEC PCIE 5.0 NVME
The Drive Is The Limit.
BUS CEILING~14,000 MB/s
QUOTED SEQUENTIAL READup to 14,782 MB/s
FITSM.2 2280 socket
CABLINGnone - one screw