Kingston A1000 SSD review: Being budget isn’t easy. A nice upgrade from SATA, but at this point, not much cheaper than much faster drives By Jon L. Jacobi. May 16, 2018 3:00 am PDT.

Like many of its predecessors in Kingston’s enterprise SSD line-up, the new DC1500M series leverages a hot-pluggable U.2 (2.5”, 15mm) form factor, that’s compatible with common U.2 backplanes.

Kingston has upped their game with its newest SSD, the KC2500. Kingston's KC2500 is built on the success of their KC2000 NVMe SSD, and in fact, both use basically the same hardware.