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Kingston DC500M 3.84TB SSD Review

We also tested the drive in a number of workload scenarios that it might face in real life. The IOMeter settings we used to test with are listed below:-

Database 8K 8Threads QD64
Transfer Size: 8K Reads: 67% Writes: 33% Random: 100%
Boundary: 4K Outstanding IO: 64 Threads/Workers: 8

Decision Support DB
Transfer Size: 1MB Reads: 100% Writes: 0% Random: 100%
Boundary: 4K Outstanding IO: 64 Threads/Workers: 8

Digital Video Surveillance
Transfer Size: 512K Reads: 90% Writes: 10% Sequential: 100%
Boundary: 512K Outstanding IO: 64 Threads/Workers:8

Exchange Server 2007
Transfer Size: 8K Reads: 67% Writes: 33% Random: 100%
Boundary: 8K Outstanding IO: 60 Threads/Workers: 1

Mail Server
Transfer Size: 32K Reads: 58% Writes: 42% Random: 95%
Boundary: 4K Outstanding IO: 64 Threads/Workers: 8

Microsoft VM
Transfer Size: 4K Reads: 100% Writes: 0% Random: 80%
Boundary: 2K Outstanding IO: 64 Threads/Workers: 1

OS Paging
Transfer Size: 64K Reads: 90% Writes: 10% Sequential: 100%
Boundary: 4K Outstanding IO: 64 Threads/Workers:1

Video On Demand
Transfer Size: 128K Reads: 100% Writes: 0% Random: 100%
Boundary: 4K Outstanding IO: 512 Threads/Workers: 8

Web File Server 64KB
Transfer Size: 64K Reads: 95% Writes: 5% Random: 75%
Boundary: 4K Outstanding IO: 64 Threads/Workers: 8

Web File Server 8KB
Transfer Size: 8K Reads: 95% Writes: 5% Random: 75%
Boundary: 4K Outstanding IO: 64 Threads/Workers: 8

Web File Server 4KB
Transfer Size: 4K Reads: 95% Writes: 5% Random: 75%
Boundary: 4K Outstanding IO: 64 Threads/Workers: 8

Workstation
Transfer Size: 8K Reads: 80% Writes: 20% Random: 80%
Boundary: 8K Outstanding IO: 64 Threads/Workers: 4

VDI Light
Transfer Size:10K Reads: 15% Writes: 85% Random: 100%
Boundary: 2K Outstanding IO: 4 Threads/Workers: 1

VDI Medium
Transfer Size:10K Reads: 15% Writes: 85% Random: 100%
Boundary: 2K Outstanding IO: 8 Threads/Workers: 1

VDI Heavy
Transfer Size:10K Reads: 15% Writes: 85% Random: 100%
Boundary: 2K Outstanding IO:12 Threads/Workers: 1


The DC500M handled our workload scenarios without any problems. The fastest performance came from the Decision Support DB test at 561.12MB/s.

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