The Kingston NV2 is the 1TB model and it is sold here at about 70USD. The Samsung 980 is the 500GB model and it is being sold here at about 90USD.
I plan to use the external drive mainly for storing large number of photos. My idea would be to buy an external case for it as both my slots in my laptop are already occupied. I also plan to write and read photos directly into the drive such as when I am editing. Which do you think is better choice for my use case? Do you think it is an overkill to get an NVMe drive for this purpose and should I just settle with equal capacity SATA SSD as I will not be playing games or watching 4K videos from the external drive.
I really just have no idea on how NV2 holds up and I find it kind of sus that they sell it that cheap when compared to Samsung. I currently have the 980 in my laptop as my second drive and I am satisfied by the performance which is also why I am leaning towards 980.