We bought a cheap SSD from Ali Express..

We found a manufacturer called Kingspec on Ali Express, and decided to give one of their SSD's a shot. Here's what happened.

Intro Screen Music Credit:
Title: Laszlo - Supernova

[MasterZiomekPL]

They will cut out the part where he says he recommends them and put it on their web page.

[VoVilliaCorp]

Kingspec: Here is a 1TB SSD that holds 2TB!
Everyone with a brain: wait, what!?

[ProtoMario]

The biggest trick SSD creators employ is the write speeds vs read speeds.

Sometimes one will be double the other in order to save a few bucks, real crappy...

[WingStudio]

I'm a Chinese, we only buy these off brand SSD when you are really really really have no budget, and have no important data. Some（alot) of these manufacturer use unqualified chips even recycled chips and print a fake logo by themselves.

[YuJay]

I remember when SSDs first came out, china was selling SSDs with USB memory sticks glued inside them and some bolts for some weight. xD

[VoodooChiller]

This brand maybe is not reliable, but my experience with it so far is very good. The Asus ultrabook I bought 4 years ago came only with an HDD and it have a mSATA half mini size for optional SSD. I didn't wanted to buy a 32GB SSD and use IRST, so the ONLY OPTION I found that time was a 128GB Kingspec, there was no other brand with a large SSD in this form factor (and 128GB was the larger one, they released 256GB in this form factor later), so "why not?", I bought it, installed Windows on it, and for almost 4 years I'm running this laptop flawlessly, zero issues so far, and even with some weak points that I also saw on benchmarking, all the time, for everything I need to do (except gaming, I have a gaming desktop so I bought a laptop for university only), it behaves great, it's fast 100% of the time, and I never lost any data. It probably is one of the worse drives when comparing with other SSDs, but in the other hand, in performance, literally any SSD is better than a hard drive, and this little guy doesn't disappoint.

[Selbiecookie]

2:50 - 4:41 litteraly taught me how an ssd works xD

[MadIIMike]

Intel be like... "let's order them for our AMD Benchmarking"

[ariqnabil]

wait, you said you recommend it for somene i dont like?

what if?




i hate myself

[csabakertesz]

I use Kingspec drives for years and I never had any problems with them and their performance were always really good.

[cm_]

That whole lecture on how SSDs work reminded me of my Operating Systems course, and I felt proud that I understood most of it.

[elmotlk]

Buy a Rtx 2090 42 GB DDR6 from Ali-Express with RGB

[thHour]

Linus just found a way to promote ANY product. "I recommend this as a gift for someone you don't like." Genius.

[MMaheshThakur]

I bought KingSpec 64GB drive for $25 in Nov 2017 and still running fine. I was cheapest SSD at that time for me. Other brand were too much expensive. I used it as windows C drive partition. I m using daily 12 hours my laptop and it still running fine. 5TB data written done. Its performance is also great.
I would recommend if u have old system ans u just wanna upgrade it.

Edit : this jan 2021 and I'm using it with intensity and still going great. 10 tb data written.

[systemBuilder]

These have been around 5+ years, from the dawn of SATA-1 Specification. So not exactly a fly-by night company.

[victorpapaavp]

But, you didn't show us the autopsy???

[ZeroFXAirborne]

So I guess my mother in law is getting one for her garden pictures

[NC_]

"a cheap person pays if that is so, then i am still spending less.

[HudsonWislerYT]

Imagine receiving this drive as a gift from a friend only to come to YouTube and see 7:25 LUL

[maclokal]

Linus wants to playing dirty still put that King Spec link in the description, you get the affiliate money, we gift that SSD to someone we hate it, now I hate you Linus 😂