Kingston's blazing-fast KC3000 1TB NVMe SSD is down to £94 at CCL Rock Paper Shotgun Support us Join our newsletter Visit our store Sign in / Create account If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Kingston's blazing-fast KC3000 1TB NVMe SSD is down to £94 at CCL £75 off its UK RRP for one of the fastest PCIe 4.0 drives. Deals by Will Judd Contributor Published on Sept. 28, 2022 Kingston are one of the few companies that make their own SSDs rather than rebadging someone else's, and their latest content-creation focused drive is the KC3000. This PCIe 4.0 SSD offers sequential reads up to 7000MB/s and sequential writes up to 6000MB/s, making it one of the very fastest drives available, and today it's also one of the cheapest. That's because CCL have discounted the drive to £94.27, some £75 below its UK RRP and a terrific deal for a drive with these high-end specs. Get the Kingston KC3000 1TB SSD for £ 94 27 was £ 169 49 I use this drive in the Digital Foundry CPU/GPU test rig, and it's proven extremely potent. Obviously the high sequential speeds make it ideal for working with large files, like 4K video files, but its random I/O performance is also impressive. It's rated for up to one million IOPS for both reads and writes, the same as the best gaming SSDs, and therefore offers extremely rapid performance in a wide range of scenarios - perfect for eliminating storage-related in-game stutters and minimising load times. The KC3000 also comes with a five year warranty and a high rated lifetime of 800TBW (terabytes written) - definitely on the upper end for a 1TB SSD; the WD SN850 has only 600TBW for context. This makes sense for a drive geared towards creators, and helps to make the drive a strong long-term investment. To take full advantage of the speeds on offer, you'll need to have a system capable of PCIe 4.0 or higher, which requires a recent motherboard and processor. On the motherboard side, you'll want one ofAMD's 500-series boards (B550, X570) and Intel's 500-series boards (Z590, H570, B560), or later. (Some Intel X490 boards also have PCIe 4.0 support with the correct CPU installed, but this may require a beta BIOS.) You'll also need a CPU that supports PCIe 5.0, so Ryzen 3000 and beyond or Intel 11th-gen and beyond. If you're not sure where your system lies, just Google the name of the processor/motherboard and "PCIe 4.0" and you should get some useful results! So: £94 is an awesome price for one of the fastest SSDs on the planet, so do pick one up while they're still available. Thanks for joining me and we'll see you again next time for more dealz! More Deals This 1TB NVMe SSD is just £56.99, surely a new low-water mark for this spec The Integral M-Series isn't the best known, but it's rare to see a TLC drive so cheap. Will Judd 18 hours ago Get a massive 4TB Crucial NVMe SSD for £299.99 after a £90 discount That's just 7.5p per gigabyte, a great value for a drive of this size. Will Judd 19 hours ago £90 is a good deal for EVGA's 850W G6 80+ Gold power supply A nifty £30 reduction on a PSU that can handle RTX 4090. Will Judd 1 day ago 3 The Ryzen 7 5800X CPU is down to $230 in the wake of Ryzen 7000's release That's $220 below its US MSRP, and a fine deal on a high-end bit of kit. Will Judd 1 day ago 1 Latest Articles What are we all playing this weekend? Well? Alice O'Connor an hour ago 21 Past Wordle answers Here's an archive of previous Wordle words Ollie Toms 2 hours ago 1 Wordle answer today (Saturday 15 October) Hints and the answer to today's Wordle word Rebecca Jones 9 hours ago Overwatch 2 hero tier list Which are the best heroes in Overwatch 2? Ollie Toms 16 hours ago Supporters Only You're probably better than me at One Many Nobody You go on without… uh, you? Sin Vega 17 hours ago Supporter podcast - The Nate Files episode 13: dry bones Bad science is also FUN science! Alice Bell 18 hours ago Japanese dating show Love Wagon has surprising parallels with Yakuza and Persona My new obsession Ed Thorn 2 days ago If you're hankering after Bayonetta 3, Valkyrie Elysium might be a good substitute It's not out on PC until next month, but the console demo has been a surprise charmer Katharine Castle 1 week ago 4 We've been talking, and we think that you should wear clothes Total coincidence, but we sell some clothes Buy RPS stuff here