We bought a cheap SSD from Ali Express..

Подписаться 16 млн

Просмотров 3,4 млн

50% 1

Check out the Massdrop x Sennheiser HD 6XX Headphones at dro.ps/linus-hd6xx-1
GlassWire Firewall: Use code LINUS and get 25% off GlassWire at geni.us/GlassWire
We found a manufacturer called Kingspec on Ali Express, and decided to give one of their SSD's a shot. Here's what happened.
Buy KingSpec 512GB on Amazon: geni.us/1uTmhU
Buy Samsung 860 EVO 500GB On Amazon: geni.us/ZBHnC6
Discuss on the forum: linustechtips.com/main/topic/...
Our Affiliates, Referral Programs, and Sponsors: linustechtips.com/main/topic/...
Get Private Internet Access today at geni.us/7lLuafK
Linus Tech Tips merchandise at www.designbyhumans.com/shop/Li...
Linus Tech Tips posters at crowdmade.com/linustechtips
Our Test Benches on Amazon: www.amazon.com/shop/linustech...
Our production gear: geni.us/cvOS
Twitter - / linustech
Facebook - / linustech
Instagram - / linustech
Twitch - / linustech
Intro Screen Music Credit:
Title: Laszlo - Supernova
Video Link: • [Electro] - Laszlo - S...
iTunes Download Link: itunes.apple.com/us/album/sup...
Artist Link: / laszlomusic
Outro Screen Music Credit: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High / approachingnirvana
Sound effects provided by www.freesfx.co.uk/sfx/

Наука

Опубликовано:

14 окт 2018

Ссылка:

Скачать:

Готовим ссылку...

Добавить в:

Мой плейлист

Посмотреть позже

Комментарии : 4,1 тыс.

@WingStudio666 5 лет назад

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.

@ichthyosaur223 5 лет назад

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）

@Tofu3435 5 лет назад

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

@kakaka5385 5 лет назад

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

@youhzhao8702 5 лет назад

I only store important data in HDD.SSD is just for system and games.

@ArefinDipto 5 лет назад

hey ! quick question... How r u getting into youtube from china...... doesnt winne the pooh denies youtube on china??

@omchickennuggets 5 лет назад

can you make a full aliexpress build?

@salahad-dinyusufibnayyub4810 5 лет назад

@popcorner7587 5 лет назад

@mudkipman1 5 лет назад

+20 cause im different

@JorgePille 5 лет назад

OMG, yes, lol!

@ossamenta 5 лет назад

Mb and gpu colorful, ssd kingdian, ram kllisre, case-psu-fans aigo,

@VoVilliaCorp 5 лет назад

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

@dominicrobichaud4111 4 года назад

It's like Intel's hyperthreading technology, they managed to make one bit of storage count as double...

@Nulley0 4 года назад

How about 2TB SSD that holds 1TB!

@grandaelusgrandaea758 4 года назад

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.

@wkfcheng 4 года назад

Full of talking shit only read 60 second already know thus guy all talk shit no point at all what a dumb fuck

@sentientprogram660 4 года назад

@@wkfcheng you're shit at talking though. So win win

@ProtoMario 5 лет назад

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...

@getrektboy 3 года назад

@platypusyt6766 2 года назад

Lol didn't expect to see you here, love your stuff, hi man

@djispro4272 2 года назад

What the heck is wrong with your channel photo????

@grandaelusgrandaea758 Год назад

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.

@PHPLITHIUM 6 месяцев назад

@@djispro4272 hes protomario, his pfp is protomario?

@MasterZiomekPL 5 лет назад

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

@vama7832 5 лет назад

Omegalul Twitch chat forsen1 I C U

@papanoob2631 5 лет назад

Lmao

@yaisetan 5 лет назад

Pepega

@krazybum123 5 лет назад

they would. then linus would make a video about the video they clipped lol. that would spell huge trouble

@wegawinarso3471 5 лет назад

dont give them any ideas!!

@ariqnabil8063 5 лет назад

wait, you said you recommend it for somene i dont like? what if? i hate myself

@ShroudedWolf51 5 лет назад

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.

@ariqnabil8063 5 лет назад

@@ShroudedWolf51 im no longer grade A or S ,but im already a Grade X they call me a Veteran Imbecile

@unwantedgen 5 лет назад

SroudedWolf51 /r/woosh

@komkwam 5 лет назад

+Sky Nation Let other people give you gifts then, or do everybody hates you? lol

@FarmYardGaming 5 лет назад

PLOT TWIST: THE HATE IS A PAID ACTOR

@VoodooChiller 5 лет назад

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.

@RobertSanz1 5 лет назад

okay. ill think about it.

@joshpoe3301 5 лет назад

Get a job and buy a real ssd

@folkote 5 лет назад

Agree. For some tasks it's fine. Or cheap upgrade of old laptop.

@firasrabaia 5 лет назад

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

@firasrabaia 5 лет назад

@@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$

@Selbiecookie 5 лет назад

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

@YuJay 5 лет назад

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

@DizConnected 4 года назад

This is what I was expecting them to say when they dismantled it.

@hetspeelkwartiertjeslaatte2624 3 года назад

Yu Jay say what you want but that’s smart

@blxckjxck47 3 года назад

Het Speelkwartiertje Slaat Terug it's called a scam😂

@stupidsuff012 3 года назад

@Keller Torrey I think he means Smart Cheap Amazing Marketing 😂

@BilalAhmed-gx5zl 3 года назад

Happened with me in Guangzhou 😂😅

@DesolatorMagic 5 лет назад

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.

@samuelmatheson9655 5 лет назад

I've had 1 for about a year and a half and it's still chugging strong

@slip9278 5 лет назад

I've had one in a laptop running fine for 8+ months, it's been doing just fine.

@GATERISTIC 5 лет назад

Then why would keep buying. Makes no sense after the 3rd failure,one would think you''d stop.

@Biskut 5 лет назад

If the first couple of drives fail and you get another one, WHY BUY FROM THE SAME COMPANY AGAIN?

@INF1NI73 5 лет назад

@@Biskut Maybe he bought 19 at once and 15 have failed. Its called a large purchase.

@MMaheshThakur 5 лет назад

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.

@SianaGearz 4 года назад

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.

@t8polestarcyan22 4 года назад

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?

@edward3709 4 года назад

@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

@MMaheshThakur 3 года назад

@@t8polestarcyan22 I agree

@MMaheshThakur 3 года назад

@Sol de Mayo I didn't know about this. But my ssd is still working great.

@csabakertesz6475 5 лет назад

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

@bobodalasousupreme3812 2 года назад

still working today??

@zica800 Год назад

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.

@itsgillani427 Год назад

Thanks for this comment,I am also thinking of buying 512GB King Spec

@MateusMartins-rd1di Год назад

@@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

@zica800 Год назад

@@MateusMartins-rd1di sim, mas acho que Netac é melhor ainda e um tempo atrás quando comprei tava quase o mesmo preço

@AtomsLab 5 лет назад

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.

@zeddybuddy8619 5 лет назад

true...now ssd is cheap..i buy last year 30 usd pricey than now

@dan_loeb 5 лет назад

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.

@noaln1697 5 лет назад

pretty much any reasonable market.. Amazon, Newegg... You know.. sometimes eBay...

@dan_loeb 5 лет назад

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.

@RubLox_Live 5 лет назад

Samsung evo 860 is ~$100 you could find for $85 and its 500 gb

@MadIIMike 5 лет назад

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

@fausta8026 3 года назад

ahahhaa

@francescovolpini 3 года назад

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 3 года назад

@@francescovolpini entirely depend on how much cheaper. if the difference is 10-20€, honestly,its dumb to buy one

@francescovolpini 3 года назад

@@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

@Salvo78106 3 года назад

@@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

@cm_0011 5 лет назад

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

@pedrofish2099 2 года назад

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.

@MarcusFilho-iq2mt 5 месяцев назад

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!

@elmotlk 5 лет назад

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

@elmotlk 5 лет назад

@Isaah E. ruining a joke..

@Skelath 5 лет назад

@Isaah E. GDDR8*

@jukahri 5 лет назад

just buy it

@angelgames9351 5 лет назад

You forgot the ti

@dxutube 5 лет назад

Now comes with free VGA port!

@19thHour 5 лет назад

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

@rockchintu206 5 лет назад

19thHour i

@PiDsPagePrototypes 5 лет назад

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,.."

@kevinchappell7966 5 лет назад

It's worse than you think. Now they can legit put 'as recommended by Linus Tech Tips' on their ads.

@systemBuilder 5 лет назад

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

@ZeroFXAirborne 5 лет назад

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

@victorpapaavp 5 лет назад

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

@niina83 5 лет назад

This! i was sitting there waiting for him to open it up so we could see what it actually was.. wtf linus?

@kvltovfreki6020 5 лет назад

Gotta milk that content for multiple parts...

@redneckswag616inhd6 5 лет назад

I was really wanting to see the internals of this thing.

@groenendiek 5 лет назад

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.

@parishna4882 5 лет назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Q1xKXX6Bo0U.html

@Taikamuna 5 лет назад

Just don't buy it, okay

@exquisitedark 5 лет назад

Too late?

@exquisitedark 5 лет назад

Yes too late

@paulmanly1990 5 лет назад

qed

@Raja-ev1ly 5 лет назад

Just buy it

@jakedevries1455 5 лет назад

Can't resist!.... Need to see for myself!! P.s. Ordered :) Will update when delivered!.... excited face ^_^

@NC700_68 4 года назад

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

@sulaiman9766 4 года назад

PAYING TWICE DOESN'T MEAN U R SPENDING MORE BTW SORRY FOR CAPS LOL KEYBOARD IS FUCKED UP

@notmenotme614 4 года назад

dead man, dead keyboard

@coletrickle1775 4 года назад

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.

@mr.a761 3 года назад

@@sulaiman9766 who cares if you wrote all caps is that a problem ??

@MrShocker 3 года назад

@@mr.a761 who cares when you trash talk someone who spends their valuable time explaining

@dgmr22 2 года назад

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.

@dgmr22 Год назад

@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.

@IamDefiantx 5 лет назад

All ALIEXPRESS build. Do it...

@salahad-dinyusufibnayyub4810 5 лет назад

@konopla4 5 лет назад

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 5 лет назад

@@konopla4 yeah, mine's not from ali-express but i won't trust Chinese PSU's

@qiyuxuan9437 5 лет назад

@@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.

@zbigniewpawlak9375 5 лет назад

Ali is not Chinas name .

@HudsonWislerYT 5 лет назад

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

@jarradonearm8267 5 лет назад

7:21

@HudsonWislerYT 5 лет назад

Thank you Jarrad for your contribution

@3120s 5 лет назад

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.

@teste-yh5df Год назад

and now still going fine

@_lucas.antunes_ Год назад

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.

@Sasha-zh6tp 5 лет назад

I was thinking to buy a Kingspec M.2 recently, thanks for the heads up.

@McShave 5 лет назад

Ali Express is great, you just have to have your wits about you. It's like the wild west of internet markets.

@McShave 5 лет назад

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.

@kanuh 3 года назад

Yeah, aliexpress market its like chess, you must buy, CAREFULLY.

@rei_2645 5 лет назад

5:18 Close your eyes and listen

@dirtybongwater5751 5 лет назад

The noises Linus makes when his boyfriend has a 2 inch dong but he doesn't wanna hurt his feelings

@nothin1456 5 лет назад

That is fucking hilarious. Hahahhaha.

@sorenkair 5 лет назад

thats not a dong. thats a shlurt.

@nitin-code-comedy 5 лет назад

Fuck 😆😆🤣

@HasibulSk-tg8lh 5 лет назад

SilverHelmet

@chaos.corner 5 лет назад

SSDs are great but they tend to "just die" where spinning media drives tend to give you some notice, especially if you are SMART monitoring. Keeping a good backup routine is even more essential and on my main PC, I apportion data carefully.

@ruediix 5 лет назад

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.)

@OldMan_PJ 5 лет назад

You forgot to open it up.

@olorinhenderson 5 лет назад

Oh, yeah. Good point! I waited to see that and then I forgot all about it!

@rkan2 5 лет назад

Yeah wtf

@feliksbus7713 5 лет назад

He forgot to drop it too

@mypokemon 5 лет назад

Open to prove what's the point in showing 01 moving along the chips if you can't open it.....kingspec

@faridwakim 5 лет назад

@@feliksbus7713 goddamnit you beat me to it

@maclokal 5 лет назад

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 😂

@alexa9835 5 лет назад

Smh it’s a RU-vid comment not a fucking draft

@maclokal 5 лет назад

@@mrhi thank you teacher, now I got loved by Linus 😁😭❤️

@AwesomeBlackDude 5 лет назад

I miss a important phone call while reading everbody comments. 📞📱😳 I do wonder why Linus is calling me so late in the evening.

@thelastcube. 5 лет назад

I'm the 6th reply Just saying

@labeebferdous 5 лет назад

Gift it to Linus xD

@kecknmj 5 лет назад

Nobody: Red: Can I buy them in bulk?

@WaffleKing_ 2 года назад

Who's red?

@fukkitful 2 года назад

@@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.

@WaffleKing_ 2 года назад

@@fukkitful Thanks a lot!

@fukkitful 2 года назад

@@WaffleKing_ No problem. I prefer to educate people, instead of like most people who just calling someone dumb for just being ignorant.

@kristiantodorov5080 5 лет назад

0:54 Yeah, you need GlassWire for Windows 8.

@PJemus 5 лет назад

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.

@samoksner 5 лет назад

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.

@olorinhenderson 5 лет назад

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.

@PJemus 5 лет назад

Have you ever used aliexpress??? you don't even have to give any proof 99% of the time, they just refund you.

@nothin1456 5 лет назад

@@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.

@Kazeshini11 5 лет назад

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.

@sealance 5 лет назад

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.

@timkasansky2528 Год назад

got this as a secondary drive and still no issues.

@rawux1228 5 лет назад

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.

@Zangetsu_X2 8 месяцев назад

decreased

@ZaberAnsaryOfficial 5 лет назад

Kingston has official store on AliExpress tho

@veemyu 5 лет назад

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

@noel8313 5 лет назад

Zaber Ansary I'm sure kingston does, but that's not kingspec is it!

@maxjason7361 5 лет назад

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.

@noel8313 5 лет назад

@@maxjason7361 read what they said again.. this time slowly!

@ZaberAnsaryOfficial 5 лет назад

@@veemyu AliExpress is not for Chinese People bro, China is not even in the shipping country list.

@Cfomodz 5 лет назад

"You plug it in and it make the a loading faster" Linus 2018

@DCookStaVideo 5 лет назад

No, "You plug it Le in and it make the loading Le faster" This is probably a play on the Rage Computer Comics

@dylanringproductions160 5 лет назад

Hahahah

@ataxela5208 5 лет назад

Linus: "I strongly recommend it, as a gift for someone you don't like" My mind is full of twist

@t8polestarcyan22 4 года назад

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!

@augustogalindo8687 4 года назад

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_10th_Man 11 месяцев назад

The funny part being of course Toilet Paper Link is also trash.

@jabezhane 5 лет назад

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.

@troyfire8 5 лет назад

Performance review start at 5:15. You're welcome.

@dsalodki 5 лет назад

Thank you for GlassWire. I had problem with phone in store.

@ejonesss 2 года назад

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.

@JTaffy 5 лет назад

Next video: "We wanted to benchmark our new paper shredder by seeing how fast it can shred through this stack of money."

@Maddin1313 5 лет назад

If I were gifted a kingpsec SSD, I would totally use it as a coaster.

@BenjiSun 5 лет назад

i wouldn't mind one to take apart and do some art projects with.

@PauloParreira 5 лет назад

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 😕

@voldemort062308 5 лет назад

Not bad for backup porn library tho :v

@jm036 5 лет назад

@@PauloParreira still faster than a wd intellipower, even with windows 8.1 it feels like one of those old MFM drives

@DeeSnow97 5 лет назад

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

@michaellagamon 4 года назад

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.

@beedslolkuntus2070 4 года назад

The ending left me speechless. You made me realize how much I actually hate myself :/

@Pandhermonium 5 лет назад

Found my new gift idea for the naughty list this year! Thanks.

@JohnGeorgeBauerBuis 5 лет назад

The irony is that even this SSD will still outperform a conventional hard drive in the vast majority of circumstances.

@Jason_N7 Год назад

@enrique amaya Well, if you can promise me Jesus can buy me an SSD... then sure.

@mugogrog Год назад

@enriqueamaya3883 Jesus apparently need copy paste trolls or spam bots just like bitcoin scams do :p no wonder religion is dying.

@jamgooandyou 5 лет назад

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

@rodrigorebollos 5 лет назад

"Speaking of trusting relatively unknown players! ....Glasswire!"

@user-hm9mj1hc3j 5 лет назад

Cheap is not the same thing as Good Value, well said

@FeinesFabi 5 лет назад

Like watching this video. It's cheap, but more ads than content.

@robynhighart2026 5 лет назад

*laughs nervously in cheap SSD*

@eliezerortizlevante1122 5 лет назад

ill stick with Micron 1100

@in5aneguy597 5 лет назад

and at the next blue screen or programm crash you be like damn i need to backup my data

@Andrew-pm7kj 5 лет назад

0:47 "Have you heard of the highelves"

@gettriggered_ian3269 4 года назад

OBLIVION

@arietrouwborst7023 5 лет назад

Try the Aliexpress Goldenfir SSD. It performs equal to the Samsung EVO 850.

5 лет назад

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.

@gamergustav2632 5 лет назад

*We bought a cheap SSD from **_THE DARK WEB_*

@AR-dr1sb 5 лет назад

its cursed!

@Tigerscar12 5 лет назад

You WON'T believe what we found!! (COPS CALLED, GONE WRONG) (18+ ADULT ONLY!!!)

@jeevajp2574 5 лет назад

**Scary**

@devinjames7434 5 лет назад

@@Tigerscar12 can't forget the red arrows and the anonymous picture

@HazmanFTW 5 лет назад

Was it cursed?

@brandonmccoy9078 5 лет назад

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

@monara97 5 лет назад

you are so damn lucky!

@charlieross-BRM 3 года назад

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.

@lesrogers7310 5 лет назад

I've had a Kingspec PATA (IDE) SSD in my RNS 510 VW head unit since I installed it 2 years ago. It actually works fine but the RNS is still deadly slow in operation.

@amirul473 5 лет назад

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!

@skaterbi922 5 лет назад

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

@corvusclem1116 5 лет назад

şķąţęŕ Bøi he said he wanted a laptop jackass

@zeemonkeyman1 5 лет назад

şķąţęŕ Bøi He’s talking about a laptop though, there’s always a premium for portability.

@justabitofgaming9309 5 лет назад

And then you also have to buy a decent monitor decent keyboard

@skaterbi922 5 лет назад

@@corvusclem1116 their laptops were still expensive, I was just showing howuch they overcharge on products

@LuideMulumba 5 лет назад

512GB SSD's nowadays can be had from major manufacturers like Samsung and Crucial for $85 or less, so it no longer makes sense to cheap out on something so critical.

@filds1 5 лет назад

not really in bosnia 512gb cost 150-220

@Skelath 5 лет назад

Mobo that supports M.2 + 1 TB M.2 SSD can be had for cheaper than a 1 TB Sata SSD.

@ltsjoke5443 5 лет назад

this would be neat for others having a decent hard drive already in the system, but you just want a decent boot drive.

@cmdrnachoman5864 5 лет назад

I paid $170 for my last 500GB Samsung EVO.

@eagle3676 5 лет назад

Where from? I bought a 1tb hdd cause I couldn't find a cheap SSD internal option. My laptop has just 128gb so I got an external 1tb

@KooYu 5 лет назад

I bought a Kingfast (aka. Kingspec) ssd 5 years ago, when branded ones were still expensive. It's still going, read speeds are ok but writes are abysmal.

@ShqTth 5 лет назад

Long time ago I was looking for an SSD for my laptop that used IDE. Kingspec had both SLC and MLC versions at 16/32/64GB size ranging from $60-$200. Obviously the SLC version was either 2x more expensive or half as much in size. At the time I read that initial SSD's had studer issues, so I never bought one. anyways this was back in 2007/2008 i think.

@KingEurope1 5 лет назад

5000 dollars later: "KingSpec Showcase (YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE HOW GOOD THESE ARE!!)"

@lufycz. 5 лет назад

Sad but true

@nosferatu5 5 лет назад

Its only true in your brain box world.

@lufycz. 5 лет назад

@@nosferatu5 aight m8

@axelgomez2127 5 лет назад

they're called sponsors dude, ofc hes gonna say that because he has to

@cacholulu6749 5 лет назад

Fax bro

@jessragan6714 4 года назад

Well, if it's any consolation, it's the only SSD I know of with a sergal on the front.

@taffox3566 4 года назад

😂😂😂

@beedslolkuntus2070 4 года назад

TafFox how do you have that LTT thing on your RU-vid name

@manenwan 3 года назад

7:08 except in some places that kingspec ssd is half the price of the samsung and comes with a 3 year warranty

@lazysaviour 3 года назад

I bought an orange kingspec SSD a few years ago, still works today

@Pasi123 5 лет назад

I have an old KingSpec 32GB SSD from 2010, it still works just fine.

@UlrichLeland 5 лет назад

And it's probably slow as fuck compared to a similar ssd from a reputable manufacturer.

@necromax13 5 лет назад

And you probably give it zero stress use so it's going to last forever.

@dannyd4339 5 лет назад

The salty little bitch ass soyboy replies lmao

@Pulkz 5 лет назад

@@dannyd4339 it's the truth dumbass

@UlrichLeland 5 лет назад

Danny D Soi Boi*

@israelwolstein9351 5 лет назад

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.

@israelwolstein9351 5 лет назад

@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

@LetsplayAori 4 года назад

@@israelwolstein9351 are they still work? Can you show the SMART values? Also for what do you use them?

@israelwolstein9351 4 года назад

@@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.

@israelwolstein9351 4 года назад

@@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...

@LetsplayAori 4 года назад

@@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.

@7Francoois7 5 лет назад

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 :)

@thicc800ty 5 лет назад

Surprisingly Kingspec ssd is more expensive than a kingston in my country 😂

@jk-gn2fu 4 года назад

Your profile image explains it.

@Happy-or4wt 4 года назад

@@glamrani American companies steal just as much data.

@helloitsme8884 4 года назад

@@Happy-or4wt He means sensitive data as in data you don't want to lose (when your ssd fails).

@grandaelusgrandaea758 4 года назад

@ss kk, your name explains your comment

@schwarzesherz2649 4 года назад

Si sad

@YADENBLADEN 5 лет назад

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.

@jamesp7987 5 лет назад

The last bit when Linus recommends the SSD, I just started cracking up, hilarious!

@mehmeh1999 4 года назад

@JaguarSzn You're not any better. You're also not great at grammar.

@megamind8359 5 лет назад

He got me when he said i recommend this then...😂😂😂

@BKLevi 5 лет назад

That makes a lot of sense! Thanks!

@alywiika9859 5 лет назад

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

@sharkuel 5 лет назад

My PC has a 750GB NoTac SSD that I bought for 50 bucks and it is still rockin.

@yes____ 4 года назад

i just got the kingston 480gb ssd and my pc boots in 3-4 sec into windows

@youradvertisehere 5 лет назад

I don't really agree with the pricing. Like half a year ago I bought an 480G "KingDian" which I assume is more or less the same player. It were like 55% the price of the cheapest I could get from my western sellers (SanDisk). I run it as secondary drive and it performs great on storing applications and cache Stream/Recording data.

@diovi_rae 5 лет назад

I've been using a kingspec 120gb sdd for 2 yrs now to boot my windows, haven't had issues, boots in seconds, ive had a good experience in fairness to them.

@pauldoesartstuff7960 11 месяцев назад

They must have improved because I have several and they all outlasted my WD SSD drive

@raljv4707 10 месяцев назад

Is it good? Cause I'm planning to buy one.

@pauldoesartstuff7960 10 месяцев назад

@@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+

@echofunandgames7874 5 лет назад

Well, I bought a kingdian 120gb ssd for 12 bucks on aliexpress and it does it's job.

@TeacherFlash 5 лет назад

yeah I have no clue what this man is saying... 120 gb for 12 bucks... I paid mine 60 bucks and it died...

@echofunandgames7874 5 лет назад

@@TeacherFlash Hey! It still works and read and write is fast.

@TeacherFlash 5 лет назад

@@echofunandgames7874 I understand... I referred to Linus saying that you should not buy it. He is wrong...

@AhmetOmerOzgen 4 года назад

60 bucks 500 gb 3d nand wd blue. Looks like a better deal

@t8polestarcyan22 4 года назад

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!

@bland9876 5 лет назад

I had one of those in my computer until I got a new one and it was pretty good I don't know if it's this exact version but it was that brand also don't keep anything valuable on the SSD and just use it for installations of programs and stuff

@edricgonzales2128 5 лет назад

Using a kingspec 128gb zif SSD on one of my old MBA a1237. Still running for 6yrs now. Well worth it😎

@rogernevez5187 4 года назад

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?

@teejaybee63 4 года назад

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.

@samjackson7701 5 лет назад

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.

@markm0000 5 лет назад

Sam Jackson you could hook them all up to a few controllers and have a sick raid 10 setup.

@dan_loeb 5 лет назад

steam, but no games.

@AmatuerHourCoding 5 лет назад

_and i still have 3.8GB free space_

@samjackson7701 5 лет назад

@@dan_loeb I have another hard drive installed in the machine for games and Autodesk.

@markm0000 5 лет назад

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.

@paradonym 5 лет назад

Now I'm pretty much trained in instinctively clicking the right spot on the timeline after the advertorial...

@craftyfish0 4 года назад

0:22 That looks exactly like my Kingston ssd but with a different image.

@HansCCT_OG 5 лет назад

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 :-)

@Arcaxon 5 лет назад

I knew I recently saw a video about AliExpress SSDs!

@samoksner 5 лет назад

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!

@sealance 5 лет назад

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

@cyrilthefish 5 лет назад

I brought a batch of five of these (just the 120GB version) for use in extended family PCs as windows boot drives. For that usage, they seem fine and all 5 are still happily working fine a year and a half later. They still knock the socks off any HDD for windows on basic family PCs. So i consider that really good value considering how cheap they were. That said, i'd never buy the high capacity versions for as Linus mentioned, the extra cost to get a decent brand drive is not really much.