The Kingston A2000 is a solid-state drive in the M.2 2280 form factor, launched on August 5th, 2019. It is available in capacities ranging from 250 GB to 1 TB. This page reports specifications for the 500 GB variant. With the rest of the system, the Kingston A2000 interfaces using a PCI-Express 3.0 x4 connection. The SSD controller is the SM2263EN from Silicon Motion, a DRAM cache chip is available. Kingston has installed 96-layer TLC NAND flash on the A2000, the flash chips are made by Micron. To improve write speeds, a pseudo-SLC cache is used, so bursts of incoming writes are absorbed more quickly. The A2000 is rated for sequential read speeds of up to 2,200 MB/s and 2,000 MB/s write; random IO reaches 180K IOPS for read and 200K for writes.
At its launch, the SSD was priced at 60 USD. The warranty length is set to five years, which is an excellent warranty period. Kingston guarantees an endurance rating of 350 TBW, a typical value for consumer SSDs.