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Ordered the KingsSpec 512Gb SATAIII and the Transcend 512GB SATAIII from Amazon the other day.

Both have the exact same specs.
 
The Kingston was $65 and the Transcend was $264. No brainer on price. Ordered both anyways. Still waiting to receive them.

Seen all kinds of opinions and posts about overheating on some of these drives and looking to get some advice on the best SSD to replace the 128GB SSD in my recently purchased GPD WIN2.

Really wanted a 1TB SSD drive, but none out there.

Thoughts?

Thanks.

I have the Transcend 512GB . Works perfectly. The Phawx mention that the other Brands heat up like no other. So my suggestion is to Clone your current SSD onto the 512 Transcend, use that, then when you have everything Installed that you want, Clone it to the Kingston and just have it as a Backup.

Never even heard of that name. Went looking, but could not find the 1TB/960GB . One I saw only had 8 Reviews, which is not good enough to me. Stick with Brands that are Known for now. Then later, if they get more Ratings that are Positive, maybe.

You can get the new Transcend (MTS430S), 512GB for about $90 and works great although hot (have one).
The Chinese DRAMless no-names have appalling performance.

I have a Dogfish 1TB 2242 in one of my laptops.
It works fine with no problems for me. Have been using it for about a year now.

  Could you run Crystal disk mark on it?

Hmm, nope. That program seems to be Windows only and I couldn't get it to run under WINE. I'm not sure that the result from my current situation would be all that helpful anyways - It's EXT4 encrypted, 66% full, I think the link's SATAII, and the CPU is an old little 15W ULV thing. So I don't expect the numbers are too great in its current configuration.

 If you were looking to compare with other items running Crystal Disk Mark, the right way would be to pull the drive, format the whole thing to FAT32, and put it in a SATA3 slot on some Windows machine with an i7. But I'm not willing to do that.

I could try running "iozone3" if you're interested, but I'm not sure how to get results that are comparable to the numbers crystal disk mark puts out.

 I did do a test when I first installed it with gnome-disks, but I didn't save it. IIRC it was something like ~300 MiB/s read, ~150 MiB/s write, 0.1 - 0.01 ms access time, but that's going by memory. I do remember it looked like the speeds were bottlenecked by the laptop side, not the drive. All I really care about is write access time (~= 4k write performance), and it must have been good enough.

As for the brand, yeah I was a bit uneasy too, but it was the only 1 TB drive I could find on any website in the 2242 form factor at the time. I think I paid about $200 for it. If I was buying now (and feeling lucky), it looks like there are some cheaper KingSpec ones on ebay these days: https://www.ebay.com/itm/163662813633

BTW were you able to rotate Grub boot screen to right orientation, i tried now Linux Mint 19.2 Live and and Grub boot screen is rotated by 90 and same as whole OS, but whole OS is fixable but im not sure bout Grub.
   Also what about touch?

I changed stock 128gb ssd to 2tb ssd and make video about this. Hope it helps: https://youtu.be/cdlXPpMnbbc
Kind regards.

My current setup does not boot to GRUB, it just goes straight to Manjaro. I have only Manjaro installed on the device, I am not dual booting.

     Device still need some bootloader as far i know there is way around it, i would be really suprised if some present Linux distro would use anything else that Grub.
  Even if you dont see any Grub menu - because you probably have only 1 options, so its hidden.. (but its still to good know how to use it, because of safe mode.. or use of other kernel file).

  I just tried Mint USB, it booted with work screen rotation, but through preferences-Display-Clockwise i was able to fix it, but screen some from time to time strangely blinking and no touch, but i have similar problem and with Windows and Android x86, so my touch screen could be half dead.