Kingston NV2 1TB SSD Review

The PCMark 10 Full System Drive Benchmark uses a wide-ranging set of real-world traces from popular applications and common tasks to fully test the performance of the fastest modern drives. The benchmark is designed to measure the performance of fast system drives using the SATA bus at the low end and devices connected via PCI Express at the high end.

The goal of the benchmark is to show meaningful real-world performance differences between fast storage technologies such as SATA, NVMe, and Intel’s Optane. The Full System Drive Benchmark uses 23 traces, running 3 passes with each trace. It typically takes an hour to run.

Traces used:
Booting Windows 10.
Adobe Acrobat – starting the application until usable.
Adobe Illustrator – starting the application until usable Adobe Premiere Pro – starting the application until usable.
Adobe Photoshop – starting the application until usable.
Battlefield V – starting the game until the main menu.
Call of Duty Black Ops 4 – starting the game until the main menu.
Overwatch – starting the game until the main menu.
Using Adobe After Effects.
Using Microsoft Excel.
Using Adobe Illustrator.
Using Adobe InDesign.
Using Microsoft PowerPoint.
Using Adobe Photoshop (heavy use).
Using Adobe Photoshop (light use).
cp1 Copying 4 ISO image files, 20 GB in total, from a secondary drive to the target drive (write test).
cp2 Making a copy of the ISO files (read-write test).
cp3 Copying the ISO to a secondary drive (read test).
cps1Copying 339 JPEG files, 2.37 GB in total, to the target drive (write test).
cps2 Making a copy of the JPEG files (read-write test).
cps3 Copying the JPEG files to another drive (read test).

The NV2 handled the rigours of the PCMark 10 Full System Drive Benchmark reasonably well. The fastest individual trace result came from the Adobe Photoshop heavy usage trace at 828MB/s with the drive averaging 294.5MB/s for the other four usage traces. The six Adobe startup traces averaged 210MB/s with the fastest being Premiere Pro at 251MB/s and the slowest, Lightroom at 146MB/s.

The drive averaged 591MB/s for the three gaming traces with the fastest being the Battlefield V trace at 741MB/s. When it came to the file transfers, the fastest was the cp1 Write test at 2,350MB/s.

The overall bandwidth figure of 400.68 MB/s sees the drive sitting in the bottom half of the results chart.

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