Seems you're talking about the backdoor usb sticks. All companies especially the expensive ones (samsung, kingston and sandisk) does that. Q. What? A. Not destroy defective products but push it through the backdoor for selling at immensely low prices.
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.
Agree. For most of the people in China, they just bought it for store games. Since you could easily download those games again from steam or other platforms if your drive dead. （话说居然在这里看到了翼王）
Interesting i always bought all my memorycards from china, and i didnt have any problem with them. To be fair i only buying from sellers/items with lot of positive reviews if more expensive with some euro that is ok for me, better safe than sorry. Or maybe i was just lucky
翼王 agree with your comments but not agree with this guy from video. Personally i used K brand brfore. So far so good. Think this guy might be paid to do this review. Its a bit rude to do this to be honest
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...
yep, thats what, mainly A brands (or so they're named) do. drop the quality on writing speed. then they commercialise with the reading speeds, so people, like Linus, will think it's great in performance.
actually these ssds are great if you are on a budget. no ssd can ever be slower than an hdd, or sshd. full solid state is always and i say ALWAYS better than non full ss,even if the first has not memory controller. anyway, on aliexpress 240gb ssds can be found in goldenfir's store for 20 eu and they are actually cheap mx500s.
@@Salvo78106 720gb ssds are selling for 50 eu and 1tb ones for 70. pretty good deal if you ask me, since i don't have a lot of brands to have access to
@@francescovolpini you know that if those have 1mb read/write speeds on 4kb, will have like SAME boot speed time of a mechanich hard drive, don't you? you'll surely transfer big file immediately, but boot will be slow af (and many processes oj windows could cause slow down of the pc. Sure, if you don't care about boot times or slow downs, theyre a big deal
Im currently using a PC from aliexpress, Mobo hifi H77s, intel I5 2500k, 8gb ddr3 ram, 60gb boot ssd, 2 HDD's, all from aliexpress..works great, but the MSI 1050Ti GPU is from my local shop, and the 500wat PSU, is also from the shop.. and I must say, the PC works great
@@planarian1772 Some big brand PSU from China is trustble, like greatwall, they are the OEM factory for Crosshair. Their mid and high end model are well built. Some of their model ars almost exact same as the one they built for Crosshair, just differsnt tag.
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.
High quality SSD's are so cheap right now that there's absolutely no point to buy a knock-off or any Aliexpress brand. Even if you save on the purchase price by buying from China, you'll have to wait weeks or months for delivery and the low build quality will greatly offset any savings.
rakuten has adata 960gb for $110 when you use the 15% code. thats only slightly more than double 1TB hdd prices. prices are going drop more for nand next year according to analysts. (smartphone flagship demand is falling), ddr4 prices might even finally start to fall.
512gb king spec for 91.57 according to this video. the 480gb adata goes for under $50 right now, patriot 480gb burst goes for $60 ish, he went out of his way to choose a bad competitor to that corsair drive it seems.
If you want unreliable trash that's failure-prone without going to ali-express, buy Silicon Power drives from any major US vendor. I've had 15 of 19 fail so far in the first year.
I had kingspec SSDs for more than 2 years now. I had a issue with one that died in ~20 months. The thing is that I already knew it was unreliable and I didnt leave important data unbacked on that drive. It was a really nice value for me, mainly because the competitors of the big brands are ~100% more expensive in my country. So it served me well for almost 2 years, now I bought another chinese SSD to put in its place, now from Netac. No regrets at all.
@@zica800 Os m.2 da kingspec também são muito bons, tenho um já que tá funcionando a mais de 1 ano, comprei outro agora que vou trocar de computador pra ficar com dois
Yeah, Linus is getting increasingly sloppy as the money keeps rolling in bigger numbers and he probably allows himself to not give a fk about things because he's popular.
Could also work as freebies at trade shows where handed out be plain clothes reps of other brands,.... :D "I got one free, it was shit, buy (insert name brand) instead,.."
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.
I also bought a low-capacity KingSpec that was cheaper - and lower capacity - than any branded drive, and i already figured out what kind of controller it would have beforehand, and was satisfied with the expected performance tradeoff. I didn't care about reliability, write performance, warranty or capacity, i just needed a special purpose SATA boot key with lower power and noise and better performance than an old piece of junk hard disk, and wasn't willing to spend any real money on it, i think i paid something ridiculous like $12 for something like 32GB. And i think it's still more reliable than a really crusty old hard disk. I forgot where i put it, but i think i put rather minimal Linux on it and could have gotten away with super little capacity, even way less. If a reputable brand offered a drive that cost up to 40% or $5 more, i would have likely taken that, but since they apparently don't want my business if it's that small, well serves them right. And i mean it's also still a lot faster than an SD-Card or a USB2 key, a LOT.
I'm better off with ANY Chinese TLC SSDs than any QLCs. Samsung QVOs and Intel 660ps are QLCs. Would be no brainier to simply get TLCs at similar prices to those QLCs?
@Justin Beaird yeah, I have it and it leaves the my old HDD it replaced in the dust, much faster start time. Although if you're building a new PC I would suggest getting a more known brand
That isn't what that phrase means. It means you buy a cheap thing, realize it's garbage, then buy a better one, when you could have just bought a better one the first time. I'm a mechanic, and cheap people pay a lot more. If I quote you $400 to fix your car, then you take it to someone charging $200, then they do it wrong. They come back to me to do it right, and now I have to spend more time fixing the cheap shitty mechanic's fuckups, so now it's not $400, it's $550. So they could have just paid me $400 and got it done right, but they spent $200 plus $550 instead. That's an actual real life scenario that happens a lot.
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 😂
I've bought CPUs and odd SSDs with IDE connectors for retro builds (this is what Ali is really good for). It's good for buying small parts mostly. Bulk buying fans, screws or random things like north/south bridge fan coolers. Whatever.
Here in Brazil, these KingSpecs, and other SSDs from another brands ate really popular on the cheap gaming pc community. Brazilian tech youtubers recommended it, mostly because of the price. A US$10 diference from a Samsung SSD is much bigger in BRL. I know it is crap, but it kind of holds some value for terrible markets like Brazil.
Precisamos de legendas em português, esse vídeo (e outros que falam desses hardwares de baixíssima qualidade) são necessários no Brasil. Principalmente porque quase todo reviewer BR não é sério e faz "review" falando bem apenas pra vender pelo link comissionado na descrição do vídeo!
@@WaffleKing_ They make the camera Linus shoots with (or did, not sure if he still does). They only work with ssd storage they sell. And its VERY overpriced and the speeds suck compared to an average SSD. Linus made a video about it a few years ago. 480GB SSD's for 1400 dollars when he made the video.
I bought a 512gb from another brand for 70€ as a 2nd ssd inside my Mac Mini, 2 month later speeds for read/write were 30/60 so i bought a EVO 500gb for 110€. 70€ went to trash 😕
If you open the casing it's a pretty cool secret spot to put something really small in, just make sure not to short anything if what you choose to hide is conductive
Zaber Ansary Why would they? Chinese People almost always head to the tech Markets and they have every Brand of Tech from Vacuums to SSDs and Laptops there AliExpress is only designed to get Chinese Products in to the West Online
AlinaDoesStuff really？ I'm live in China.its seems not as you said so.actually.digi market always has many fraud problems. We prefer purchase digital devices on taobao(local version aliexpress) or JD.
I purchased few of these Kingspec SSD 2 years ago, and they still work fast after many rewrite cycles in a NAS home storage. I am always skeptical on how good any piece of hardware might be, both from a big or an unknown brand.
I learned that the hard way. Lost a S20+ and a HyperX Cloud Flight S both in 2 years. I decided minimally reputable cheaper products hold the best cost-benefit relationship.
I bought two 64GB MLC Kingspec SSDs about three years ago for £16 each. Three years later they are still going strong. Nothing special but I use them for quick test builds. Still better than any spinning rust.
You had such a good opportunity to buy an actual good Aliexpress SSD like the Goldenfir. It has been confirmed by other channels to use decent controllers manufactured by Kingston, and they have DRAM. In one test I saw, it outperformed a Samsung Evo 850.
I've seen those tests also and am curious personally but I would never use it for myself and I cant argue why saving $10-20 over an SSD with warranty makes sense. Samsung and crucial have great warranties on their SSDs, free replacement essentially. I've got a 500gb 840 evo thats 7 years old and had 17TB written to it and I trust it completely.
Have you ever played the RMA an SSD game? You spend countless HOURS doing the tech hokey kokey of 'try this, now try this, what happens if you do this, have you tried this'. And the nail in the coffin is the 'if we receive the SSD, test it, and it's fine, then we'll charge you for our time and the shipping to send it back' part of the game. In the UK, consumers (not businesses, just consumers) have the option of sending a faulty product back to the retailer to arrange a fix/replacement, and that works well... but businesses are clobbered with nonsensical and unethical practices, from all SSD vendors. Samsung are the worst, outsourcing everything to NL including tech support.
One whole test you saw it outperform it and you're sold ? Come here i got a car to sell you. Performs great. No problem to start it since it has no motor in it. In free fall it out performs other cars.
I already gifted SSDs like this one to someone that I don't like and it's my old, (and underpowered) desktops and laptops. To be honest they're doing well. Now QLC SSDs from Intel and Samsung are around, I definitely can give any Chinese TLC SSDs another look!
I've had 2 SSDs in my computer one was a SanDisk SSD that died less than a year after I bought it, decided I would run on an HDD until I could buy an Samsung 850 Evo, however at a local bargain store that sells surplus or returned items from online stores for $5 (a place called gimme a 5) I came across this SSD, it did not have a box, and it had a huge dent on it (metal enclosure) I figured it's only $5 not a big loss of it doesn't work or does quickly. Bought it, installed it, found it worked and was a 512GB model, installed Windows and waited for it to die so I could get my 850 Evo, that was back in March of 2016, and it is still my main drive for my pc, it's running z97, 4790k and a GTX 970 to give you an idea how long ago this was, it was, when I bought my SanDisk SSD it was a 120 GB model that I payed $60 or $80 for died less than 9 months after I bought it brand new, with only Windows and league of legends installed on it, everything else was stored to one of my 5 HDD so for me it was easily the greatest $5 I've ever spent
My first SSD was a Sandisk and it died in short order (months). I sent it in under warranty but needed to get my PC running so I bought a 225 GB Samsung EVO. It's been great as a system disk for over 4 years now. In time the replacement arrived from Samsung so I keep it as a spare still in the packaging. For my second PC I again chose a 225 GB EVO. That system will be 4 years old next month. I love the silent boots to the home screen in approx. 10 seconds, maybe a little more for the ancient Win 7 Gateway quad core daily user.
I recently bought a budget 2.5" Sata III SSD i wanted it for my pi400, it's called Core by a company called Ortial. When it arrived it felt light as a feather, like an empty shell, but it's great, really really great. It's the first SSD I've bought, I've bought lots of Destern digital, Seagate and Toshiba HDDs but this is the first SSD. I looked at reviews after it had arrived and the reviews were great too. I will definitely buy from this company again. Also it's a UK manufacturer and it's UK stock so delivery was quick.
@Jamie Geezer Nice that's an incredible deal, I'm gonna have to have a look on AliExpress for another SSD. I've purchased a few gaming accessories and parts to customize controllers from AliExpress etc and all have been awesome. Since the SSD I have purchased a Western Digital 2tb it has a blue case, it was refurbished but on sale for £30 (normally around £80) but was sold directly on the Western Digital site and had a warranty. I was dubious about purchasing a refurbished unit, but I've had no problems and use it for PS4 games on my PS5. I usually get Toshiba externals, but this was cheaper than it's Toshiba equivalent.
I bought at least 20 of those in the past 5 years. 16gb,32gb and 64gb. They are not as fast as drives that are 4X more expensive but they are pretty fast compared to regular hard drives. You can drop them from 6+ feets high and they won't break or show any errors when you test them.
@@LetsplayAori 1 of them is in my laptop and I use it mostly to play games and I have 2 in my wow/cod PC, it's a little bit faster to load instances with those drives compared to regular hard drives. The others are small drives on mining rigs but they barely have room for windows 10 + mining software. I bought them a while back and I can't even install WoW on them anymore, I think WoW alone takes like 40+ Gigs. Even on mining PC that run 24/7, I never had any issues. If you want the fastest HDDs, maybe they are not the best but for the price, they are tough and faster than all the 7200rpm drives I have here.
@@LetsplayAori The date on them says they were built in 2013 and I bought them in 2014 or 2015 and they have been running 24/7 ever since so I guess I would not get good speeds if I Benchmarked them. Newer drives that have not been abused will most likely give you much better stats...
@@israelwolstein9351 thanks Idk yet if I buy them or pay 30 to 40€ more for a brand one. What would you do? Also do you know a review site for chinese tech? Would be interested since I bought some really good chinese tech and I'm looking for more.
I’ve learned that big companies don’t sell their products expensive just because of the brand but also because of quality. A Xiaomi router is half the price a TP Link and has the same speed. But having both I realized how worth the TP Link price was, it was more stable (Xiaomi Mi Router randomly stopped working), more range and its App interface is clearer and easier to understand. I know it’s not related to SSDs but it’s about buying from Ali Express
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From my point of view, they are not as bad... I've been using KingSpec's SSDs for a couple of years in budget Gaming PCs and they are all still working flawlessly. I find the 60-90-120GB very useful its these cases. And I prefer the 120GB Kingston that is 20€ now, but when i used KingSpec, they were as much as 50% cheaper.
they are cheap because. 1. they are factory rejects, c grade or factory seconds. 2. they are decent quality but the name is removed to avoid markups due to the name. if denuvo is still around you may want to try running a denuvo protected game on the ssd to see if it kills the ssd.
Try Goldenfir SSD I saw it in a review and it worked great! They even opened it and they were surprised to see that the cheap SSD used the same insides as a Crucial SSD but cheaper! I am using Goldenfir SSD and there is no problems :-)
Why do you use it Hans? Just price or curiosity? I know they are not bad but is there really money to be saved after you wait for long delivery time and have no warranty? I am honestly interested to hear from someone who bought it with their own money and uses it, no insult intended!
Goldenfir was the only cheapo ssd that I've had any issues with. For some reason it didn't work as a game drive but the seller suggested that i used it as a boot drive and it's been working fine since then. Not sure if it was related to the sata controller or the ssd itself. Got some pretty funky errors in PUBG when the ssd stopped responding :D
I tried a few (Kingspec, KingDian, Goldenfir, Netac etc.), but I bought them at least 1/3rd of the cost of a similar sized brand name ssd. Only one I had slight issues with was the Goldenfir 240gb. For some reason it went MIA as a game drive but worked fine as a boot drive. The main thing that I've seen on all chinesium ssd:s is the lack of wear-level indidcation. Programs such as SSDLife can't show the life expectancy at all.
I think it's probably quite dumb to invest in a 512GB non-brand SSD. However, you can get a KingSpec 64GB drive for $20, which is a pretty good value if you want to upgrade a (really) old laptop/netbook. PS. Not everyone is a millionaire like you Linus.
@@maxx6282 I can run a windows 7 pc with even a 30GB SSD. I've trimmed it down so that the OS only takes 12GB. It depends on what you would use the pc for.
85$ for 500 GB 860 EVO (465 GB actually) at the amazon. should you be millionaire for this kind of price? My first ssd 850 evo 120 GB survived 6+ TB written (over 2,5 years), and will survive a lot more...
If you head over to eBay, you can find some dirt cheap 16GB SATA III SanDisk SSDs that were originally intended for Chromebooks. I buy these in bulk for around $12 each, used of course, and they are very reliable from my testing! I use them primarily for Linux boxes, and they are great for student computers, (running Ubuntu MATE) or even minimal Windows installations. My Latitude E5430 runs Windows 7 Professional with Firefox, Discord, Steam, and Spotify, and I still have 3.8GB free space.
Kingspec is one of the only manufacturer I found selling IDE SSD on the internet. I put one in my old Win 98 laptop, the thing is having a second youth, such a feeling :)
Had a kingspec ssd for almost a year, set it as my boot drive, performs fine, only it slows down if you use most of the storage capacity, although this happens with most if not all storage devices, for the price it's pretty good, would recommend if you're on a budget.
A clueless person pays even more. Everything you own are already made in china. Nothing I bought from aliexpress, car parts, washing machine parts, computer parts, and many other things over past few years have failed. The piece of junk OCZ ARC100 I had died on me recently, and I had to buy a chinese replacement. My SanDisk Ultra 2 960GB is at times the speed of a floppy drive. Even the crappiest chinese SSD will be faster.
Only cheap people who don't do their research or heed the results if they do research. I use non-premium brands almost exclusively and never any significant problems. I am enjoying the semi-retired life because I didn't pay bloated prices for name brand products, including and especially cars and such. You'd be surprised at the money you can put away over the years by using non premium brands.
I believe the biggest question here is... If you, as a company, choose to create what seems to be a knockoff SSD (any product, really) why would you choose Kingston??? Wouldn't Sumsang or Crewshell be a better name?
You have to understand that a Chinese person is not a western person. While we, in the west, know Samsung to be good value and a good brand name.. that isn't necessarily true for a Chinese person. It might be as simple as 'oh, it has KING in the name.. and people like kings right? So that's a good name' Don't overthink it... the Chinese sure don't.
keep assuming the drive is bad but stats and your tests seems not too bad, if you claim that if it will slow down when drive is full then fill it up then test it again then instead of talking long with loud voice, just show the data
See I when I did my first budget £500-600 build last Feb, using only Amazon prime...I purchased a Gloway 2 x 8gb 2400mhz ram and 2 x 240gb Gloway SSDs for stupidly cheaper prices than the other known brands, they all still work well and run brilliantly
Linus! Can you review the AFTERSHOCK brand laptops? They are quite affordable based on specs and they do custom laptops and personalisations. I'm interested in buying one but i want a reliable review before buying. Thanks Linus!
I'm sorry but if you think they're affordable for their specs then you're an idiot, I can build a ryzen 5 2600, gtx 1060 6gb pc with 250gb ssd and 1tb 7200rpm hdd in a nzxt h500 for 680$ and they're charging 1100$ for no ssd, ryzen 5 2600, rx 580 and worse case
Well, use it like a giant thumb drive... it doesn't need to host an OS. If you need shock resistance, then it's a better alternative than rotating media.
That what I was wondering... if they would be good for long-term data storage since they are more shock and temperature tolerant than a standard HDD. But if the price break is really only $10 better than a name brand competitor, why risk it.
Linus, you need to follow up on this video as there are rumors of cheap Chinese no-name branded SSDs being made using "remarked" low grade NAND chips, and at times, even scavenged chips from broken SSDs. Sounds crazy, but until confirmed safe, I'll just stick to the big names that actually manufacture NAND chips themselves, like Intel, Micron and Samsung.
No, SpecTek have been delivering chips for a long time and are still doing so. They are a division of Micron; they test and grade chips manufactured by Micron. Some of the "rejected" chips will be binned and sold off at a discount as extra low-grade chips (search "SpecTek NAND Flash Part Numbering System" for details) or "risk product" chips. Googling "3 bar deface SpecTek" shows a good example of "risk product" chips. The problem is that Chinese knock-off companies will buy those low grade chips and "remark" them as normal, good Micron/SpecTek chips. In my opinion it's just not worth the risk. Go WD, Seagate, Samsung, Toshiba, Intel, Micron, Crucial, SanDisk, whatever you prefer, just not those cheap no-name AliExpress brands.
I bought P3-512gb version for about 80$ (branded same capacity ssd price's were from 140$ in my local stores back then) and it increased my laptop boot times from 5 mins to 20-30secs. had it for 1 year and had no problems with it. Today its not worth getting an unbranded drive and risk your data, but back then it was worth trying since it was 2x cheaper.
@@raljv4707 I've never had any issues with them. The oldest is 4 years I think.. could be 5? I use them for loads of things, game cache, scratch disks, short term storage and transfer, video storage for editing etc. I've never lost a file or reached max cycles yet and I often use files that are 50gb+
I remember everyone saying the same thing about Acer and Lenovo laptops in the early 2000s: don't buy it, buy a Toshiba or a Compaq laptop instead, they're much better built. And while that was for the most part true, Compaq is no longer and both Acer and Lenovo sell and offer more laptop models than Toshiba! We may laugh and avoid Kingspec SSDs now, but I wouldn't be surprised if they're still around a decade from now while other reputable SSD brands go out of business or offer inferior products!!...
" Compaq is no longer and both Acer and Lenovo sell and offer more laptop models than Toshiba!" 1) You compare two companies together with another. This is on so many levels wrong and makes your comparison silly and wrong. 2) Producing more Laptops does not give the benefit of having higher quality than other companies. It only increases potential consumer group targeting as over the years people become more and more aware of what they want. Like just a Laptop for business, private uses, gaming, streaming, and so more. More products also mean different designs, and I know a lot of strange people who put their decision for a new Laptop on its design. 3) Acer and Lenovo Laptops were at the early stages not the best, yes. But the thing is you compare two serious companies who sold their products on the shelf in your city, while Kingspec sells cheap-ass SSDs that are not even 5% cheaper than other SSDs on a dubious online shop...
A lot of SSDs made by BIG BRANDS got bad feedback. Did someone heard about Goodram? NO. Its a polish producent of SSDs and they are good. I dont like it when someone says that something is bad without proving it.
I don't know about newer versions of Windows, but Linux actually optimizes output for SSDs. There is a small detection switch (that can be overridden if it detects wrong) that registers if a device is a conventional hard drive or an NVRAM based drive. If you use the defaults on filesystem formatting it will format both EXT4 and BTFS differently for SSDs, and the cache behavior is substantially different. There is also F2FS available which is good almost all SSDs, even ones that use LBA access mode (although ones with direct addressing do even better because it has integrated write-leveling.)
4:42 *This is when not having a DRAM cache can hurt you.* What happen if there is a blackout while the data is still in the cache and not yet in the flash media? Would the computer recognize the operation was not successful?
It really depends on the drive. Some higher end/enterprise drives use capacitors to retain power for long enough to flush the cashe to nand. Other use firmware level Power Loss Protection, whereby you may lose a small amount of data, but the flash mapping tables should still be consistent - the drive shouldnt get bricked, nor should it be massively corrupted. This is where the quality of the firmware code comes in to play - because it actually doesnt matter if has a cache or not, it's still possible for the power to go out part way through an update. Whether its between updating user blocks and mapping blocks or because updating the mapping table itself requires multiple changes, or even while a block is being erased or written - if the power goes out the drive needs to be able recover at next power on - albeit probably with a small amount of data loss. Not all drives do, and it would appear to be one of the more common ways SSD's fail - but I can't prove that.
can you make a full aliexpress build?
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OMG, yes, lol!
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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
This is what I was expecting them to say when they dismantled it.
Yu Jay say what you want but that’s smart
Het Speelkwartiertje Slaat Terug it's called a scam😂
@Keller Torrey I think he means Smart Cheap Amazing Marketing 😂
Happened with me in Guangzhou 😂😅
They will cut out the part where he says he recommends them and put it on their web page.
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they would. then linus would make a video about the video they clipped lol. that would spell huge trouble
dont give them any ideas!!
Kingspec: Here is a 1TB SSD that holds 2TB!
Everyone with a brain: wait, what!?
It's like Intel's hyperthreading technology, they managed to make one bit of storage count as double...
How about 2TB SSD that holds 1TB!
Seems you're talking about the backdoor usb sticks.
All companies especially the expensive ones (samsung, kingston and sandisk) does that.
Q. What?
A. Not destroy defective products but push it through the backdoor for selling at immensely low prices.
Full of talking shit only read 60 second already know thus guy all talk shit no point at all what a dumb fuck
@@wkfcheng you're shit at talking though. So win win
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.
Agree. For most of the people in China, they just bought it for store games. Since you could easily download those games again from steam or other platforms if your drive dead. （话说居然在这里看到了翼王）
Interesting i always bought all my memorycards from china, and i didnt have any problem with them.
To be fair i only buying from sellers/items with lot of positive reviews if more expensive with some euro that is ok for me, better safe than sorry.
Or maybe i was just lucky
翼王 agree with your comments but not agree with this guy from video. Personally i used K brand brfore. So far so good. Think this guy might be paid to do this review. Its a bit rude to do this to be honest
I only store important data in HDD.SSD is just for system and games.
hey ! quick question... How r u getting into youtube from china...... doesnt winne the pooh denies youtube on china??
wait, you said you recommend it for somene i dont like?
what if?
i hate myself
Then, it just depends on how much of an idiot you are. If you are a Grade A, professional imbecile, buy this drive. Of not, then don't.
@@ShroudedWolf51 im no longer grade A or S ,but im already a Grade X they call me a Veteran Imbecile
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+Sky Nation Let other people give you gifts then, or do everybody hates you? lol
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Buy a Rtx 2090 42 GB DDR6 from Ali-Express with RGB
@Isaah E. ruining a joke..
@Isaah E. GDDR8*
just buy it
You forgot the ti
Now comes with free VGA port!
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...
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Lol didn't expect to see you here, love your stuff, hi man
What the heck is wrong with your channel photo????
yep, thats what, mainly A brands (or so they're named) do.
drop the quality on writing speed. then they commercialise with the reading speeds, so people, like Linus, will think it's great in performance.
@@DJProPlusMax hes protomario, his pfp is protomario?
Intel be like... "let's order them for our AMD Benchmarking"
ahahhaa
actually these ssds are great if you are on a budget. no ssd can ever be slower than an hdd, or sshd. full solid state is always and i say ALWAYS better than non full ss,even if the first has not memory controller. anyway, on aliexpress 240gb ssds can be found in goldenfir's store for 20 eu and they are actually cheap mx500s.
@@francescovolpini entirely depend on how much cheaper. if the difference is 10-20€, honestly,its dumb to buy one
@@Salvo78106 720gb ssds are selling for 50 eu and 1tb ones for 70. pretty good deal if you ask me, since i don't have a lot of brands to have access to
@@francescovolpini you know that if those have 1mb read/write speeds on 4kb, will have like SAME boot speed time of a mechanich hard drive, don't you? you'll surely transfer big file immediately, but boot will be slow af (and many processes oj windows could cause slow down of the pc. Sure, if you don't care about boot times or slow downs, theyre a big deal
All ALIEXPRESS build. Do it...
+1
Im currently using a PC from aliexpress, Mobo hifi H77s, intel I5 2500k, 8gb ddr3 ram, 60gb boot ssd, 2 HDD's, all from aliexpress..works great, but the MSI 1050Ti GPU is from my local shop, and the 500wat PSU, is also from the shop.. and I must say, the PC works great
@@konopla4 yeah, mine's not from ali-express but i won't trust Chinese PSU's
@@planarian1772 Some big brand PSU from China is trustble, like greatwall, they are the OEM factory for Crosshair. Their mid and high end model are well built. Some of their model ars almost exact same as the one they built for Crosshair, just differsnt tag.
Ali is not Chinas name .
Just don't buy it, okay
Too late?
Yes too late
qed
Just buy it
Can't resist!.... Need to see for myself!!
P.s. Ordered :) Will update when delivered!.... excited face ^_^
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.
okay. ill think about it.
Get a job and buy a real ssd
Agree. For some tasks it's fine. Or cheap upgrade of old laptop.
Upgrading old i5 3rd gen laptop
128gb for 30$ in jan 2018 was fantastic in my country least expensive ssd was 70$ and it was a normal Kingston one
@@bootlegscarce0844 ya ik
Even tho linus said in video 10$ to get the evo
After search evo cheapest was 88$
And kingspec one is 51$
High quality SSD's are so cheap right now that there's absolutely no point to buy a knock-off or any Aliexpress brand. Even if you save on the purchase price by buying from China, you'll have to wait weeks or months for delivery and the low build quality will greatly offset any savings.
true...now ssd is cheap..i buy last year 30 usd pricey than now
rakuten has adata 960gb for $110 when you use the 15% code. thats only slightly more than double 1TB hdd prices. prices are going drop more for nand next year according to analysts. (smartphone flagship demand is falling), ddr4 prices might even finally start to fall.
pretty much any reasonable market.. Amazon, Newegg... You know.. sometimes eBay...
512gb king spec for 91.57 according to this video. the 480gb adata goes for under $50 right now, patriot 480gb burst goes for $60 ish, he went out of his way to choose a bad competitor to that corsair drive it seems.
Samsung evo 860 is ~$100 you could find for $85 and its 500 gb
If you want unreliable trash that's failure-prone without going to ali-express, buy Silicon Power drives from any major US vendor. I've had 15 of 19 fail so far in the first year.
I've had 1 for about a year and a half and it's still chugging strong
I've had one in a laptop running fine for 8+ months, it's been doing just fine.
Then why would keep buying. Makes no sense after the 3rd failure,one would think you''d stop.
If the first couple of drives fail and you get another one, WHY BUY FROM THE SAME COMPANY AGAIN?
@@Biskut Maybe he bought 19 at once and 15 have failed. Its called a large purchase.
2:50 - 4:41 litteraly taught me how an ssd works xD
I use Kingspec drives for years and I never had any problems with them and their performance were always really good.
still working today??
I had kingspec SSDs for more than 2 years now. I had a issue with one that died in ~20 months.
The thing is that I already knew it was unreliable and I didnt leave important data unbacked on that drive.
It was a really nice value for me, mainly because the competitors of the big brands are ~100% more expensive in my country. So it served me well for almost 2 years, now I bought another chinese SSD to put in its place, now from Netac. No regrets at all.
Thanks for this comment,I am also thinking of buying 512GB King Spec
@@zica800 Os m.2 da kingspec também são muito bons, tenho um já que tá funcionando a mais de 1 ano, comprei outro agora que vou trocar de computador pra ficar com dois
@@MateusMartins-rd1di sim, mas acho que Netac é melhor ainda e um tempo atrás quando comprei tava quase o mesmo preço
But, you didn't show us the autopsy???
This! i was sitting there waiting for him to open it up so we could see what it actually was.. wtf linus?
Gotta milk that content for multiple parts...
I was really wanting to see the internals of this thing.
Yeah, Linus is getting increasingly sloppy as the money keeps rolling in bigger numbers and he probably allows himself to not give a fk about things because he's popular.
ruclips.net/video/Q1xKXX6Bo0U/видео.html
Linus just found a way to promote ANY product. "I recommend this as a gift for someone you don't like." Genius.
19thHour i
Could also work as freebies at trade shows where handed out be plain clothes reps of other brands,.... :D
"I got one free, it was shit, buy (insert name brand) instead,.."
It's worse than you think. Now they can legit put 'as recommended by Linus Tech Tips' on their ads.
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.
I also bought a low-capacity KingSpec that was cheaper - and lower capacity - than any branded drive, and i already figured out what kind of controller it would have beforehand, and was satisfied with the expected performance tradeoff. I didn't care about reliability, write performance, warranty or capacity, i just needed a special purpose SATA boot key with lower power and noise and better performance than an old piece of junk hard disk, and wasn't willing to spend any real money on it, i think i paid something ridiculous like $12 for something like 32GB. And i think it's still more reliable than a really crusty old hard disk. I forgot where i put it, but i think i put rather minimal Linux on it and could have gotten away with super little capacity, even way less.
If a reputable brand offered a drive that cost up to 40% or $5 more, i would have likely taken that, but since they apparently don't want my business if it's that small, well serves them right. And i mean it's also still a lot faster than an SD-Card or a USB2 key, a LOT.
I'm better off with ANY Chinese TLC SSDs than any QLCs. Samsung QVOs and Intel 660ps are QLCs. Would be no brainier to simply get TLCs at similar prices to those QLCs?
@Justin Beaird yeah, I have it and it leaves the my old HDD it replaced in the dust, much faster start time. Although if you're building a new PC I would suggest getting a more known brand
@@t8polestarcyan22 I agree
@Sol de Mayo I didn't know about this. But my ssd is still working great.
"a cheap person pays twice"............ if that is so, then i am still spending less.
PAYING TWICE DOESN'T MEAN U R SPENDING MORE
BTW SORRY FOR CAPS LOL KEYBOARD IS FUCKED UP
dead man, dead keyboard
That isn't what that phrase means. It means you buy a cheap thing, realize it's garbage, then buy a better one, when you could have just bought a better one the first time.
I'm a mechanic, and cheap people pay a lot more. If I quote you $400 to fix your car, then you take it to someone charging $200, then they do it wrong. They come back to me to do it right, and now I have to spend more time fixing the cheap shitty mechanic's fuckups, so now it's not $400, it's $550. So they could have just paid me $400 and got it done right, but they spent $200 plus $550 instead. That's an actual real life scenario that happens a lot.
@@sulaiman9766 who cares if you wrote all caps is that a problem ??
@@mr.a761 who cares when you trash talk someone who spends their valuable time explaining
5:18 Close your eyes and listen
The noises Linus makes when his boyfriend has a 2 inch dong but he doesn't wanna hurt his feelings
That is fucking hilarious. Hahahhaha.
thats not a dong. thats a shlurt.
Fuck 😆😆🤣
SilverHelmet
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 😂
Smh it’s a RUclips comment not a fucking draft
@@mrhi thank you teacher, now I got loved by Linus 😁😭❤️
I miss a important phone call while reading everbody comments. 📞📱😳 I do wonder why Linus is calling me so late in the evening.
I'm the 6th reply
Just saying
Gift it to Linus xD
Ali Express is great, you just have to have your wits about you. It's like the wild west of internet markets.
I've bought CPUs and odd SSDs with IDE connectors for retro builds (this is what Ali is really good for). It's good for buying small parts mostly. Bulk buying fans, screws or random things like north/south bridge fan coolers. Whatever.
Yeah, aliexpress market its like chess, you must buy, CAREFULLY.
Here in Brazil, these KingSpecs, and other SSDs from another brands ate really popular on the cheap gaming pc community. Brazilian tech youtubers recommended it, mostly because of the price. A US$10 diference from a Samsung SSD is much bigger in BRL. I know it is crap, but it kind of holds some value for terrible markets like Brazil.
Precisamos de legendas em português, esse vídeo (e outros que falam desses hardwares de baixíssima qualidade) são necessários no Brasil.
Principalmente porque quase todo reviewer BR não é sério e faz "review" falando bem apenas pra vender pelo link comissionado na descrição do vídeo!
Nobody:
Red: Can I buy them in bulk?
Who's red?
@@WaffleKing_ They make the camera Linus shoots with (or did, not sure if he still does). They only work with ssd storage they sell. And its VERY overpriced and the speeds suck compared to an average SSD. Linus made a video about it a few years ago. 480GB SSD's for 1400 dollars when he made the video.
@@fukkitful Thanks a lot!
@@WaffleKing_ No problem. I prefer to educate people, instead of like most people who just calling someone dumb for just being ignorant.
If I were gifted a kingpsec SSD, I would totally use it
as a coaster.
i wouldn't mind one to take apart and do some art projects with.
I bought a 512gb from another brand for 70€ as a 2nd ssd inside my Mac Mini, 2 month later speeds for read/write were 30/60 so i bought a EVO 500gb for 110€.
70€ went to trash 😕
Not bad for backup porn library tho :v
@@PauloParreira still faster than a wd intellipower, even with windows 8.1 it feels like one of those old MFM drives
If you open the casing it's a pretty cool secret spot to put something really small in, just make sure not to short anything if what you choose to hide is conductive
Kingston has official store on AliExpress tho
Zaber Ansary Why would they? Chinese People almost always head to the tech Markets and they have every Brand of Tech from Vacuums to SSDs and Laptops there AliExpress is only designed to get Chinese Products in to the West Online
Zaber Ansary I'm sure kingston does, but that's not kingspec is it!
AlinaDoesStuff really？ I'm live in China.its seems not as you said so.actually.digi market always has many fraud problems.
We prefer purchase digital devices on taobao(local version aliexpress) or JD.
@@maxjason7361 read what they said again.. this time slowly!
@@veemyu AliExpress is not for Chinese People bro, China is not even in the shipping country list.
These have been around 5+ years, from the dawn of SATA-1 Specification. So not exactly a fly-by night company.
Cheap is not the same thing as Good Value, well said
Like watching this video. It's cheap, but more ads than content.
Imagine receiving this drive as a gift from a friend only to come to RUclips and see 7:25 LUL
7:21
Thank you Jarrad for your contribution
You forgot to open it up.
Oh, yeah. Good point! I waited to see that and then I forgot all about it!
Yeah wtf
He forgot to drop it too
Open to prove what's the point in showing 01 moving along the chips if you can't open it.....kingspec
@@feliksbus7713 goddamnit you beat me to it
I purchased few of these Kingspec SSD 2 years ago, and they still work fast after many rewrite cycles in a NAS home storage. I am always skeptical on how good any piece of hardware might be, both from a big or an unknown brand.
and now still going fine
I learned that the hard way. Lost a S20+ and a HyperX Cloud Flight S both in 2 years. I decided minimally reputable cheaper products hold the best cost-benefit relationship.
Performance review start at 5:15. You're welcome.
I bought two 64GB MLC Kingspec SSDs about three years ago for £16 each. Three years later they are still going strong. Nothing special but I use them for quick test builds. Still better than any spinning rust.
"You plug it in and it make the a loading faster" Linus 2018
No, "You plug it Le in and it make the loading Le faster" This is probably a play on the Rage Computer Comics
Hahahah
So I guess my mother in law is getting one for her garden pictures
You had such a good opportunity to buy an actual good Aliexpress SSD like the Goldenfir. It has been confirmed by other channels to use decent controllers manufactured by Kingston, and they have DRAM. In one test I saw, it outperformed a Samsung Evo 850.
I've seen those tests also and am curious personally but I would never use it for myself and I cant argue why saving $10-20 over an SSD with warranty makes sense.
Samsung and crucial have great warranties on their SSDs, free replacement essentially. I've got a 500gb 840 evo thats 7 years old and had 17TB written to it and I trust it completely.
Have you ever played the RMA an SSD game? You spend countless HOURS doing the tech hokey kokey of 'try this, now try this, what happens if you do this, have you tried this'. And the nail in the coffin is the 'if we receive the SSD, test it, and it's fine, then we'll charge you for our time and the shipping to send it back' part of the game. In the UK, consumers (not businesses, just consumers) have the option of sending a faulty product back to the retailer to arrange a fix/replacement, and that works well... but businesses are clobbered with nonsensical and unethical practices, from all SSD vendors. Samsung are the worst, outsourcing everything to NL including tech support.
Have you ever used aliexpress??? you don't even have to give any proof 99% of the time, they just refund you.
@@PJemus this is true. And when data or drive has died. Last thing that matters is $69.99. For the new drive haha. Just backup! Backup. Backup.
One whole test you saw it outperform it and you're sold ? Come here i got a car to sell you. Performs great. No problem to start it since it has no motor in it. In free fall it out performs other cars.
*We bought a cheap SSD from **_THE DARK WEB_*
its cursed!
You WON'T believe what we found!! (COPS CALLED, GONE WRONG) (18+ ADULT ONLY!!!)
**Scary**
@@Tigerscar12 can't forget the red arrows and the anonymous picture
Was it cursed?
The irony is that even this SSD will still outperform a conventional hard drive in the vast majority of circumstances.
@enrique amaya Well, if you can promise me Jesus can buy me an SSD... then sure.
@enriqueamaya3883 Jesus apparently need copy paste trolls or spam bots just like bitcoin scams do :p no wonder religion is dying.
That whole lecture on how SSDs work reminded me of my Operating Systems course, and I felt proud that I understood most of it.
I have an old KingSpec 32GB SSD from 2010, it still works just fine.
And it's probably slow as fuck compared to a similar ssd from a reputable manufacturer.
And you probably give it zero stress use so it's going to last forever.
The salty little bitch ass soyboy replies lmao
@@dannyd4339 it's the truth dumbass
Danny D Soi Boi*
Well, I bought a kingdian 120gb ssd for 12 bucks on aliexpress and it does it's job.
yeah I have no clue what this man is saying... 120 gb for 12 bucks... I paid mine 60 bucks and it died...
@@TeacherFlash Hey! It still works and read and write is fast.
@@echofunandgames7874 I understand... I referred to Linus saying that you should not buy it. He is wrong...
60 bucks 500 gb 3d nand wd blue. Looks like a better deal
Even better it's a TLC SSD NOT QLC! I don't think I need to worry about KingDian's to wear out anywhere soon, not as soon as any QLCs at least!
Linus: "I strongly recommend it, as a gift for someone you don't like"
My mind is full of twist
I already gifted SSDs like this one to someone that I don't like and it's my old, (and underpowered) desktops and laptops. To be honest they're doing well. Now QLC SSDs from Intel and Samsung are around, I definitely can give any Chinese TLC SSDs another look!
I've had 2 SSDs in my computer one was a SanDisk SSD that died less than a year after I bought it, decided I would run on an HDD until I could buy an Samsung 850 Evo, however at a local bargain store that sells surplus or returned items from online stores for $5 (a place called gimme a 5) I came across this SSD, it did not have a box, and it had a huge dent on it (metal enclosure) I figured it's only $5 not a big loss of it doesn't work or does quickly. Bought it, installed it, found it worked and was a 512GB model, installed Windows and waited for it to die so I could get my 850 Evo, that was back in March of 2016, and it is still my main drive for my pc, it's running z97, 4790k and a GTX 970 to give you an idea how long ago this was, it was, when I bought my SanDisk SSD it was a 120 GB model that I payed $60 or $80 for died less than 9 months after I bought it brand new, with only Windows and league of legends installed on it, everything else was stored to one of my 5 HDD so for me it was easily the greatest $5 I've ever spent
you are so damn lucky!
My first SSD was a Sandisk and it died in short order (months). I sent it in under warranty but needed to get my PC running so I bought a 225 GB Samsung EVO. It's been great as a system disk for over 4 years now. In time the replacement arrived from Samsung so I keep it as a spare still in the packaging. For my second PC I again chose a 225 GB EVO. That system will be 4 years old next month. I love the silent boots to the home screen in approx. 10 seconds, maybe a little more for the ancient Win 7 Gateway quad core daily user.
I recently bought a budget 2.5" Sata III SSD i wanted it for my pi400, it's called Core by a company called Ortial. When it arrived it felt light as a feather, like an empty shell, but it's great, really really great. It's the first SSD I've bought, I've bought lots of Destern digital, Seagate and Toshiba HDDs but this is the first SSD. I looked at reviews after it had arrived and the reviews were great too. I will definitely buy from this company again. Also it's a UK manufacturer and it's UK stock so delivery was quick.
@Jamie Geezer Nice that's an incredible deal, I'm gonna have to have a look on AliExpress for another SSD. I've purchased a few gaming accessories and parts to customize controllers from AliExpress etc and all have been awesome.
Since the SSD I have purchased a Western Digital 2tb it has a blue case, it was refurbished but on sale for £30 (normally around £80) but was sold directly on the Western Digital site and had a warranty. I was dubious about purchasing a refurbished unit, but I've had no problems and use it for PS4 games on my PS5. I usually get Toshiba externals, but this was cheaper than it's Toshiba equivalent.
I bought at least 20 of those in the past 5 years. 16gb,32gb and 64gb. They are not as fast as drives that are 4X more expensive but they are pretty fast compared to regular hard drives. You can drop them from 6+ feets high and they won't break or show any errors when you test them.
@Grishaz 4 They all still work after years of 24/7 use but i don't know how fast they are now compared to 3 years ago
@@israelwolstein9351 are they still work? Can you show the SMART values? Also for what do you use them?
@@LetsplayAori 1 of them is in my laptop and I use it mostly to play games and I have 2 in my wow/cod PC, it's a little bit faster to load instances with those drives compared to regular hard drives. The others are small drives on mining rigs but they barely have room for windows 10 + mining software. I bought them a while back and I can't even install WoW on them anymore, I think WoW alone takes like 40+ Gigs. Even on mining PC that run 24/7, I never had any issues. If you want the fastest HDDs, maybe they are not the best but for the price, they are tough and faster than all the 7200rpm drives I have here.
@@LetsplayAori The date on them says they were built in 2013 and I bought them in 2014 or 2015 and they have been running 24/7 ever since so I guess I would not get good speeds if I Benchmarked them. Newer drives that have not been abused will most likely give you much better stats...
@@israelwolstein9351 thanks Idk yet if I buy them or pay 30 to 40€ more for a brand one. What would you do? Also do you know a review site for chinese tech? Would be interested since I bought some really good chinese tech and I'm looking for more.
I’ve learned that big companies don’t sell their products expensive just because of the brand but also because of quality. A Xiaomi router is half the price a TP Link and has the same speed. But having both I realized how worth the TP Link price was, it was more stable (Xiaomi Mi Router randomly stopped working), more range and its App interface is clearer and easier to understand. I know it’s not related to SSDs but it’s about buying from Ali Express
The funny part being of course Toilet Paper Link is also trash.
The ending left me speechless. You made me realize how much I actually hate myself :/
got this as a secondary drive and still no issues.
Next video: "We wanted to benchmark our new paper shredder by seeing how fast it can shred through this stack of money."
Well, if it's any consolation, it's the only SSD I know of with a sergal on the front.
😂😂😂
TafFox how do you have that LTT thing on your RUclips name
0:54 Yeah, you need GlassWire for Windows 8.
Found my new gift idea for the naughty list this year! Thanks.
From my point of view, they are not as bad... I've been using KingSpec's SSDs for a couple of years in budget Gaming PCs and they are all still working flawlessly. I find the 60-90-120GB very useful its these cases.
And I prefer the 120GB Kingston that is 20€ now, but when i used KingSpec, they were as much as 50% cheaper.
CUSTOMER: "HELLO MISTER ALIEXPRESS, DOES YOUR SSD CARD HOLDS 4TB or 67TB?"
ALIEXPRESS SELLER OF DUBIOUS ORIGIN: "YES"
they are cheap because.
1. they are factory rejects, c grade or factory seconds.
2. they are decent quality but the name is removed to avoid markups due to the name.
if denuvo is still around you may want to try running a denuvo protected game on the ssd to see if it kills the ssd.
*laughs nervously in cheap SSD*
ill stick with Micron 1100
and at the next blue screen or programm crash you be like damn i need to backup my data
Try Goldenfir SSD
I saw it in a review and it worked great!
They even opened it and they were surprised to see that the cheap SSD used the same insides as a Crucial SSD but cheaper!
I am using Goldenfir SSD and there is no problems :-)
I knew I recently saw a video about AliExpress SSDs!
Why do you use it Hans? Just price or curiosity? I know they are not bad but is there really money to be saved after you wait for long delivery time and have no warranty? I am honestly interested to hear from someone who bought it with their own money and uses it, no insult intended!
Goldenfir was the only cheapo ssd that I've had any issues with. For some reason it didn't work as a game drive but the seller suggested that i used it as a boot drive and it's been working fine since then. Not sure if it was related to the sata controller or the ssd itself. Got some pretty funky errors in PUBG when the ssd stopped responding :D
I tried a few (Kingspec, KingDian, Goldenfir, Netac etc.), but I bought them at least 1/3rd of the cost of a similar sized brand name ssd. Only one I had slight issues with was the Goldenfir 240gb. For some reason it went MIA as a game drive but worked fine as a boot drive. The main thing that I've seen on all chinesium ssd:s is the lack of wear-level indidcation. Programs such as SSDLife can't show the life expectancy at all.
I bought an orange kingspec SSD a few years ago, still works today
I think it's probably quite dumb to invest in a 512GB non-brand SSD. However, you can get a KingSpec 64GB drive for $20, which is a pretty good value if you want to upgrade a (really) old laptop/netbook. PS. Not everyone is a millionaire like you Linus.
64gb is not good value. That is terrible and can only run windows
@@maxx6282 Now you can get a 120GB drive for under $20... A 240GB drive for under $30.
@@maxx6282 I can run a windows 7 pc with even a 30GB SSD. I've trimmed it down so that the OS only takes 12GB. It depends on what you would use the pc for.
You can get 500 Gb SSDs for around $50 these days
85$ for 500 GB 860 EVO (465 GB actually) at the amazon. should you be millionaire for this kind of price?
My first ssd 850 evo 120 GB survived 6+ TB written (over 2,5 years), and will survive a lot more...
"Speaking of trusting relatively unknown players! ....Glasswire!"
If you head over to eBay, you can find some dirt cheap 16GB SATA III SanDisk SSDs that were originally intended for Chromebooks. I buy these in bulk for around $12 each, used of course, and they are very reliable from my testing! I use them primarily for Linux boxes, and they are great for student computers, (running Ubuntu MATE) or even minimal Windows installations. My Latitude E5430 runs Windows 7 Professional with Firefox, Discord, Steam, and Spotify, and I still have 3.8GB free space.
Sam Jackson you could hook them all up to a few controllers and have a sick raid 10 setup.
steam, but no games.
_and i still have 3.8GB free space_
@@dan_loeb I have another hard drive installed in the machine for games and Autodesk.
TBF those are a rip off at $12. You can get much much bigger SSDs for a few bucks more. The $/gb is what you should be looking at.
I have a KingSpec ssd just to load up my windows. Had it for a while and it loads up from bios in 4-5 secs. I highly recommend them.
Thx for your recommendetion :-)
@Chumstick that's pretty bad price , considering I bought Kingston a400 240gb for 40$
@Chumstick $25 for 64GB? Not a good price.
You can get a 120GB Crucial BX500 for US$20.
Or 240GB Crucial BX500 for US$29.
0:47
"Have you heard of the highelves"
OBLIVION
RGB SSD PLEASE!
Don't you dare
there is one
There are already a lot of RGB SSDs on the Market - one for example is from Team Group (T-Force Delta RGB)
The New hyper X ssds are rgb if i remember correctly
RGB soundcard!
RGB CPU pins?
My PC has a 750GB NoTac SSD that I bought for 50 bucks and it is still rockin.
i just got the kingston 480gb ssd
and my pc boots in 3-4 sec into windows
Kingspec is one of the only manufacturer I found selling IDE SSD on the internet. I put one in my old Win 98 laptop, the thing is having a second youth, such a feeling :)
cheap always equals trouble
omg hi i love ur vids
Had a kingspec ssd for almost a year, set it as my boot drive, performs fine, only it slows down if you use most of the storage capacity, although this happens with most if not all storage devices, for the price it's pretty good, would recommend if you're on a budget.
Sold hundreds of them in cheap builds and never had a single one coming back for RMA.
You make and sell cheap pc builds?
"A cheap person pays twice."
That sentance stunned me. It's so true.
A clueless person pays even more. Everything you own are already made in china. Nothing I bought from aliexpress, car parts, washing machine parts, computer parts, and many other things over past few years have failed. The piece of junk OCZ ARC100 I had died on me recently, and I had to buy a chinese replacement. My SanDisk Ultra 2 960GB is at times the speed of a floppy drive. Even the crappiest chinese SSD will be faster.
Only cheap people who don't do their research or heed the results if they do research. I use non-premium brands almost exclusively and never any significant problems. I am enjoying the semi-retired life because I didn't pay bloated prices for name brand products, including and especially cars and such. You'd be surprised at the money you can put away over the years by using non premium brands.
I believe the biggest question here is... If you, as a company, choose to create what seems to be a knockoff SSD (any product, really) why would you choose Kingston??? Wouldn't Sumsang or Crewshell be a better name?
You have to understand that a Chinese person is not a western person. While we, in the west, know Samsung to be good value and a good brand name.. that isn't necessarily true for a Chinese person. It might be as simple as 'oh, it has KING in the name.. and people like kings right? So that's a good name'
Don't overthink it... the Chinese sure don't.
You believe or not, when talk about storage (memory stick, ssd, usb, etc.) in China, Kingston is much famous than Samsung XD.
And there are also Samsung knockoff SSDs in China.
In a parallel universe, linus is kingspec's spokesperson
Lmao that’s so funny!
keep assuming the drive is bad but stats and your tests seems not too bad, if you claim that if it will slow down when drive is full then fill it up then test it again then instead of talking long with loud voice, just show the data
See I when I did my first budget £500-600 build last Feb, using only Amazon prime...I purchased a Gloway 2 x 8gb 2400mhz ram and 2 x 240gb Gloway SSDs for stupidly cheaper prices than the other known brands, they all still work well and run brilliantly
Linus! Can you review the AFTERSHOCK brand laptops? They are quite affordable based on specs and they do custom laptops and personalisations. I'm interested in buying one but i want a reliable review before buying. Thanks Linus!
I'm sorry but if you think they're affordable for their specs then you're an idiot, I can build a ryzen 5 2600, gtx 1060 6gb pc with 250gb ssd and 1tb 7200rpm hdd in a nzxt h500 for 680$ and they're charging 1100$ for no ssd, ryzen 5 2600, rx 580 and worse case
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He’s talking about a laptop though, there’s always a premium for portability.
And then you also have to buy a decent monitor decent keyboard
@@corvusclem1116 their laptops were still expensive, I was just showing howuch they overcharge on products
Well, use it like a giant thumb drive... it doesn't need to host an OS. If you need shock resistance, then it's a better alternative than rotating media.
That what I was wondering... if they would be good for long-term data storage since they are more shock and temperature tolerant than a standard HDD.
But if the price break is really only $10 better than a name brand competitor, why risk it.
where a 5 year warranty costs 10% of the products' value, you'd be prettt stupid not to pay for it...
thom1218 he forgot to mention it's better than mechanical hard drive not every one is rich.
Linus, you need to follow up on this video as there are rumors of cheap Chinese no-name branded SSDs being made using "remarked" low grade NAND chips, and at times, even scavenged chips from broken SSDs. Sounds crazy, but until confirmed safe, I'll just stick to the big names that actually manufacture NAND chips themselves, like Intel, Micron and Samsung.
Intel nand? Lol
You're right. Some Chinese SSDs using remarked NAND,or SpecTek's very low grade one.
DON'T BUY THEM.
SpecTek hasn't been relevant for like an entire decade so wtf does that have to do with anything
Is WD good?
No, SpecTek have been delivering chips for a long time and are still doing so. They are a division of Micron; they test and grade chips manufactured by Micron. Some of the "rejected" chips will be binned and sold off at a discount as extra low-grade chips (search "SpecTek NAND Flash Part Numbering System" for details) or "risk product" chips. Googling "3 bar deface SpecTek" shows a good example of "risk product" chips. The problem is that Chinese knock-off companies will buy those low grade chips and "remark" them as normal, good Micron/SpecTek chips. In my opinion it's just not worth the risk. Go WD, Seagate, Samsung, Toshiba, Intel, Micron, Crucial, SanDisk, whatever you prefer, just not those cheap no-name AliExpress brands.
I bought P3-512gb version for about 80$ (branded same capacity ssd price's were from 140$ in my local stores back then) and it increased my laptop boot times from 5 mins to 20-30secs. had it for 1 year and had no problems with it. Today its not worth getting an unbranded drive and risk your data, but back then it was worth trying since it was 2x cheaper.
decreased
They must have improved because I have several and they all outlasted my WD SSD drive
Is it good? Cause I'm planning to buy one.
@@raljv4707 I've never had any issues with them. The oldest is 4 years I think.. could be 5? I use them for loads of things, game cache, scratch disks, short term storage and transfer, video storage for editing etc. I've never lost a file or reached max cycles yet and I often use files that are 50gb+
I remember everyone saying the same thing about Acer and Lenovo laptops in the early 2000s: don't buy it, buy a Toshiba or a Compaq laptop instead, they're much better built.
And while that was for the most part true, Compaq is no longer and both Acer and Lenovo sell and offer more laptop models than Toshiba!
We may laugh and avoid Kingspec SSDs now, but I wouldn't be surprised if they're still around a decade from now while other reputable SSD brands go out of business or offer inferior products!!...
Maybe
I agree with you
This is retarded wtf they build dogshit stuff on purpose. They are a RIP off of Kingston and are on ail Express
Lenovo has been a well regarded manufacturer for at least 15 years
" Compaq is no longer and both Acer and Lenovo sell and offer more laptop models than Toshiba!"
1) You compare two companies together with another. This is on so many levels wrong and makes your comparison silly and wrong.
2) Producing more Laptops does not give the benefit of having higher quality than other companies. It only increases potential consumer group targeting as over the years people become more and more aware of what they want. Like just a Laptop for business, private uses, gaming, streaming, and so more. More products also mean different designs, and I know a lot of strange people who put their decision for a new Laptop on its design.
3) Acer and Lenovo Laptops were at the early stages not the best, yes. But the thing is you compare two serious companies who sold their products on the shelf in your city, while Kingspec sells cheap-ass SSDs that are not even 5% cheaper than other SSDs on a dubious online shop...
Druaga1 uses KingSpec pretty often from what I remember lol
Yeah, he does. I have a 32GB KingSpec SSD from 2010 and it still works just fine, Druaga1 used a SSD just like that in some of his older videos.
Makes total sense. It doesn't take much to beat an old hard disk performance wise, and these are faster than an sd-card.
i have both a 512 gb m.2 with a case and a 1 tb 2.5" and it works fine. been using it for a year and no issues.
Old video but still in 2019 that " I recommend it.....I strong recommend it for someone you don't like"...remains savage AF....X"D
I bought Londisk 400GB SSD. Working great so far.
A lot of SSDs made by BIG BRANDS got bad feedback. Did someone heard about Goodram? NO. Its a polish producent of SSDs and they are good. I dont like it when someone says that something is bad without proving it.
They kinda proved it with the results though?
this dude looks like someone that never made a boy band in the early 2000s but stayed in character
I want to see you build a computer while blindfolded
he can't even handle stuff without dropping it while he can see, he wouldn't come far blinded lol
my friend bought one of these and we all took the piss, was pretty funny tbh
so you just bought the ssd and took a fat piss for no reason? pretty cool
Jonas Benjamin Skov your dad gay
mate im not stupid of course it was a joke lol
Cheap SSD beats any regular hard drive Linus...
still it's cheap and terrible regardless you might as well spend a bit more on known brand product than risking buying a noname product
I don't know about newer versions of Windows, but Linux actually optimizes output for SSDs. There is a small detection switch (that can be overridden if it detects wrong) that registers if a device is a conventional hard drive or an NVRAM based drive. If you use the defaults on filesystem formatting it will format both EXT4 and BTFS differently for SSDs, and the cache behavior is substantially different. There is also F2FS available which is good almost all SSDs, even ones that use LBA access mode (although ones with direct addressing do even better because it has integrated write-leveling.)
The last bit when Linus recommends the SSD, I just started cracking up, hilarious!
@JaguarSzn You're not any better. You're also not great at grammar.
time for a re test?
Scrapyard Wars Ali Express Edition! Only build PC with completely off brand or knockoff parts!
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except in some places that kingspec ssd is half the price of the samsung and comes with a 3 year warranty
4:42 *This is when not having a DRAM cache can hurt you.*
What happen if there is a blackout while the data is still in the cache and not yet in the flash media? Would the computer recognize the operation was not successful?
It really depends on the drive. Some higher end/enterprise drives use capacitors to retain power for long enough to flush the cashe to nand. Other use firmware level Power Loss Protection, whereby you may lose a small amount of data, but the flash mapping tables should still be consistent - the drive shouldnt get bricked, nor should it be massively corrupted.
This is where the quality of the firmware code comes in to play - because it actually doesnt matter if has a cache or not, it's still possible for the power to go out part way through an update. Whether its between updating user blocks and mapping blocks or because updating the mapping table itself requires multiple changes, or even while a block is being erased or written - if the power goes out the drive needs to be able recover at next power on - albeit probably with a small amount of data loss.
Not all drives do, and it would appear to be one of the more common ways SSD's fail - but I can't prove that.
These videos are so clickbait. But I always know they are going to be entertaining, so they are great.
This Ssd is the best, i have these in my rig, all 6 in raid 0
This is sarcasm at max level, gave me a chuckle
i bought a cheap nvme ssd from aliexpress, and its actually good, 2000mb read 1600mb write, 512gb for 45 bucks, not bad at all.