Kingston DC450R 3.84TB SSD Review

1. Introduction2. Kingston DC450R 3.84TB3. Testing Methodology4. CrystalDiskMark5. ATTO Disk Benchmark6. AS SSD7. Sustained Sequential Read/Write Performance8. 4KB Random Read/Write Performance9. 4K Random 70/30 Mix Read/Write10. 8KB Random Read/Write Performance11. 8K Random 70/30 Mix Read/Write12. Throughput13. Performance Stability14. Workload Scenarios15. PCMark 10 Full System Drive Benchmark16. Real Life File Testing17. Closing Thoughts18. View All Pages

The PCMark 10 Full System Drive Benchmark uses a wide-ranging set of real-world traces from popular applications and common tasks to fully test the performance of the fastest modern drives. The benchmark is designed to measure the performance of fast system drives using the SATA bus at the low end and devices connected via PCI Express at the high end.

The goal of the benchmark is to show meaningful real-world performance differences between fast storage technologies such as SATA, NVMe, and Intel’s Optane. The Full System Drive Benchmark uses 23 traces, running 3 passes with each trace. It typically takes an hour to run.

Traces used:

• Booting Windows 10.
• Adobe Acrobat – starting the application until usable.
• Adobe Illustrator – starting the application until usable Adobe Premiere Pro – starting the application until usable.
• Adobe Photoshop – starting the application until usable.
• Battlefield V – starting the game until the main menu.
• Call of Duty Black Ops 4 – starting the game until the main menu.
• Overwatch – starting the game until the main menu.
• Using Adobe After Effects.
• Using Microsoft Excel.
• Using Adobe Illustrator.
• Using Adobe InDesign.
• Using Microsoft PowerPoint.
• Using Adobe Photoshop (heavy use).
• Using Adobe Photoshop (light use).
• cp1 Copying 4 ISO image files, 20 GB in total, from a secondary drive to the target drive (write test).
• cp2 Making a copy of the ISO files (read-write test).
• cp3 Copying the ISO to a secondary drive (read test).
• cps1Copying 339 JPEG files, 2.37 GB in total, to the target drive (write test).
• cps2 Making a copy of the JPEG files (read-write test).
• cps3 Copying the JPEG files to another drive (read test).

The best performance in the creative group of tests was the 261MB/s from the Adobe Photoshop heavy use test trace. The DC450R also produced pretty strong bandwidth figures in the cp1 write test (486MB/s), cp3 read test (478MB/s) and 468MB/s for the cp2 read-write test.

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