Kingston KC2500 NVMe SSD 1TB Review

1. Introduction2. Kingston KC2500 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 Test - Individual Test Suites14. Performance Stability15. Real Life File Testing16. Closing Thoughts17. View All Pages

CrystalDiskMark is a useful benchmark to measure theoretical performance levels of hard drives and SSD’s. We are using v6.0 and v7.

At a deep queue depth of 32, Kingston’s KC2500 sees improvements in performance for both reads and writes over the previous KC2000 drive. Looking at the two CrystalDiskMark result screens it appears that the controller doesn't have a preference for the type of data it's being asked to work with.

At a shallower QD of 1, the KC2500 sees a very small improvement in read performance over the previous KC2000 drive, however, the improvement in write performance is much more impressive.

 

 

 

The latest version of CrystalDiskMark, version 7, includes a couple of profiles that can be used for testing – Peak Performance and Real World. The result screens for these two profiles not only display MB/s results but also IOPS and latency.

Looking at the Peak Performance results for Sequential read/write performance we could confirm the official Sequential read/write figures of up to 3,500MB/s and 2,900MB/s respectively with the review drive showing reads at 3,527MB/s and 3,009MB/s for writes under testing.

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