DO NOT buy these NVMEs. Chinese SSD test

Do you want to save money and buy an inexpensive capacious NVMe with Ali? Do thousands of orders and five-star reviews with screenshots of high speeds inspire confidence? We checked the 4 most popular Chinese SSDs from Kingspec, Goldenfire, Klissre and Netac, compared them with brands and tell you what you can get for that kind of money, and whether you can take fast SSDs from China.

00:00 - Introduction
01:26 - Test of M adapters.2 on PCIE
02:51 - Heating and radiators test
04:57 - Controllers and memory
07:40 - Speed tests
10:21 - A little theory
13:36 - Tests in real work
16:40 - Conclusions

#mycomputer #ssd #nvme

[GraceMcClain]

I have multiple Netac and KingSpec NVMe and SATA M.2 drives in 3 of my machines, with not a single issue coming from any of them. Heck, my download storage drive is a 1TB Netac M.2 drive I bought 5 years ago that has out lasted 3 Samsung drives, 2 Crucial drives, and a WD drive. All M.2 drives. I would happily recommend both Kingspec and Netac, and have been doing so for many years already.

[Potato-qhxl]

The video is great and helps everyone avoid inferior products, but as a Chinese, I think it needs to be emphasized that not all SSDs from China are inferior. Almost all of the ssds
in this video are trash. If you want to purchase SSDs from Chinese brands, the following are the brands that can be purchased: ZHITAI, Acer, aigo, fanxiang. Nowadays, the price of SSD has significantly decreased. If you are willing to investigate, you will find that a large part of this is attributed to Yangtze Memory (the parent company of Zhitai), which has developed an advanced xtacking architecture and won a reputation for its high-speed and high-quality performance.

[lewislane]

You just demonstrated we should buy these drives. For the price, it did very well.

[Ray-ucij]

With this stuff you get what you pay for. They definitely have their use cases for a lot of people who are not writing gigabytes of data all at once. The MSI drive certainly seemed reasonable even with the dropped speeds. If you really wanted to test the quality you should have written to them until the drives died and record the MTBF. You should never trust any drive with your data no matter how expensive it is. Backup is key to at least one other drive, but ideally you want to back up to two other secondary drives in case the primary drive fails.

[figadodeporco]

I use kingspec ssds, (nvme for 3 years and m2 pcie for 5 years) and never had a problem. they work great and it's price is very affordable.

[filipbunalti]

I use a 2TB "Fanxiang" drive I picked for 55 USD for games. While the write speed is impacted when the drive is full, the read speed and responsiveness is still extremely good. And as you said, the 100 MB/s limitation doesn't matter even when downloading games on a fast connection. And also, games aren't very precious because I can just re-download them from steam. In conclusion, I think these are good drives for games, bad for data or actual productivity work that requires a lot of write operations.

[kid_]

im using chinese NVme's since 2018 and its still working all of them.🙃

[JohnnyOrgan]

As a guy who has built a good few PCs over the past 8 years for friends and family....I've found that Patriot, PNY, Kingston and Crucial are very reliable budget drives with good durability, real time speeds and compatibilty for multiple mobos (estimated builds @100 and mostly AMD CPUs admittedly from my experience). I usually go with whatever is on sale/best price at the time and have no hesitations recommending them. Great bang for buck. Especially if upgrading a laptop or older PC from a HDD. (I've had laptops with M.2s sitting empty).
Believe it or not, Western Digital and Seagate drives have been less reliable/warranty breakers at times. Personally, I've had a 1TB WD and a 2TB HDD in my systems for 13 years with zero issues and still looking "Good" with CrystalMark.
This has been very informative about other cheap SSDs and pretty much what I expected. Apart from that fake Kingspin drive. Waow. What a minger.
I'm vouching for Patriot drives lasting at least 3 years with no issues reported back.
As I said, good bang for buck real life performance and no reliability issues compared to the others...
MSI looks a good option too
My 2 cents.

[Jandejongjong]

I got the KingSpec and use it to game on as external drive. Works perfectly!
Usb 3.0 500mB/s

[masfuti]

How i've never heard about this channel? This review is so complete that i don't have any ideia of what he's talking about. I mean, until now SSD for me are all the same thing!
Nice work man, already own a new sub.

[adsuper]

You introduced some brands or models in some brands that Chinese people will not buy, Tiplus7100 2t $114. Predator GM7 2t $70. Kingston Kc3000 2t $112. aigo p7000z 2t $79. They are all pcie4.0. These are the better products sold in China's 618 shopping festival this year.

[belnels]

From 2021 to 2023 on my personal computer I have a 256 GB Nvme Netac NV2000 and to date it has 8 TB Written and 95% Life Remaining.
On the other hand, from January 2023 to date, 7 months on my mother's computer has a Nvme Adata Legend 700, it has 5 TB Written and 92% remaining life
I recommend NETAC 1001%👍👍👍

[arcaderacer]

Day to day users will not notice any performance loss
With cheaper ssd’s typically. The only people it will matter to are benchmarkers for the most part.

[shodan]

Mikhail, this is a great video. Thank you for making it in English. Much important information is exposed here. Well done.

[DavidCoutinhoCG]

I do use Netac M.2 SSDs and Netac DDR4 RAM Sticks, never had a problem with it.

[pham]

patroit is from phison, quite well known ssd controller maker

[hazinessbyebye]

seems like you purchased craps priced below 50usd. and that products are craps of the craps as the prices tells you. btw, chinese netac ssd named encompassing ymtc 128layer nand is not cheap and performs great.

[marcg]

Great review. So much technical background info and explanations of performance !!! Thank you.

[eranddroory]

Awesome work guys. Thanks - staying clear of these cheap brands..

[godfreybay]

I had no issue using Kingspec NVme2 1 TB.