The Kingston A1000 was a solid-state drive in the M.2 2280 form factor, launched on April 6th, 2018, that is no longer in production. It was available in capacities ranging from 240 GB to 960 GB. This page reports specifications for the 240 GB variant. With the rest of the system, the Kingston A1000 interfaces using a PCI-Express 3.0 x2 connection. The SSD controller is the PS5008-E8-10 from Phison, a DRAM cache chip is available. Kingston has installed 64-layer TLC NAND flash on the A1000, the flash chips are made by Toshiba. To improve write speeds, a pseudo-SLC cache is used, so bursts of incoming writes are absorbed more quickly. The A1000 is rated for sequential read speeds of up to 1,500 MB/s and 800 MB/s write; random IO reaches 100K IOPS for read and 80K for writes.
At its launch, the SSD was priced at 87 USD. The warranty length is set to five years, which is an excellent warranty period. Kingston guarantees an endurance rating of 150 TBW, a typical value for consumer SSDs.