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

In our own Sequential read/write tests we could confirm the official up to 3,500MB/s and 2,900MB/s for read and writes respectively with a read score of 3,534MB/s and 3,034MB/s for writes.

128KB Sequential Read Performance Compared

The KC2500 performs very strongly throughout the tested queue depths, at QD2 it's the fastest 1TB class M.2 consumer drive we've tested to date.

128KB Sequential Write Performance Compared

The Sequential write performance isn't as strong as the read in comparison to the other tested drives. The best performance comes at QD1, after which it slips back down the charts. Indeed at QD2 it's slower than the KC2000 but it recovers to outperform the previous drive at QDs 4 and 32

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