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Kingston KC600 1TB SSD Review



The KC600 is available as a standalone drive or as part of desktop/notebook upgrade kit. Our 1TB drive was one of the standalone versions which comes in a blister pack. Above the drive is the capacity label and above that is a box explaining how much faster than an HDD drive the KC600 is.

The back of the blister pack has multilingual marketing and warranty notes on it.

The KC600 is built on a standard 2.5in, 7mm format in a metal chassis. The two halves of the enclosure are held together by four Torx security screws one of which is hidden under the warranty sticker, so by accessing the internals of the drive you can kiss your warranty goodbye.


However once inside the drive, you can see how small the PCB is in the 1TB model.


One side of the PCB has two packages of Micron 96-layer 3D TLC NAND and the 1GB DDR3L cache IC. The other side of the PCB houses two more NAND packages and the Silicon Motion SM2259 controller.


Kingston’s SSD management software utility is simply called SSD Manager. With it, you can monitor the health of the drive and how it’s being used, check the drive’s SMART data and update the firmware as well as securely erasing the drive. You can also manage the security aspects of the drive.

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