Kingston KC2000 1TB SSD Review

1. Introduction2. Kingston KC2000 1TB3. Testing Methodology4. CrystalDiskMark5. ATTO Disk Benchmark6. AS SSD7. IOMETER8. 128KB Sequential Performance9. 4K Random Read v QD Performance10. 4K Random Write v QD Performance11. 4K 70/30 Mixed Performance12. Throughput13. PCMark 8 - Storage Consistency14. PCMark 8 - Individual Test Suites15. PCMark 8 Storage Test - Individual Test Suites16. Performance Stability17. Real Life File Testing18. Closing Thoughts19. View All Pages

PCMark 8’s Consistency test provides a huge amount of performance data, so here we’ve looked a little closer at how the KC2000 performs in each of the benchmarks test suites.

Adobe Creative Cloud

Kingston's KC2000 drive suffers during the Degradation phases for both Adobe Photoshop tests and the Steady State and Recovery phases for the Adobe Photoshop Heavy test. On the other hand the performance during the Steady State test runs for the Adobe Photoshop Light is very good although it blots its copy book with the dramatic drop in bandwidth during the fourth Recovery run.

Microsoft Office

You won't see a results chart looking like this for the Microsoft Office parts of the test run very often. More often than not, the Microsoft Word test trace plays havoc with the drives bandwidth performance. In the case of Kingston's KC2000 it takes the test in its stride. Very impressive.

Casual Gaming

The drive really struggles with the World Of Warcraft test trace during the Casual Gaming part of the benchmark run. It delivers very low bandwidth for the Degradation and Steady State phases although the drives recovery is very, very impressive. The Battlefield 3 trace doesn't cause as many problems for the drive during the test runs, but the recovery is equally as impressive.

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