Kingston NV2 1TB SSD Review

1. Introduction2. Kingston NV2 1TB3. Testing Methodology4. CrystalDiskMark5. ATTO Disk Benchmark6. AS SSD7. 128KB Sequential Performance8. 4K Random Read v QD Performance9. 4K Random Write v QD Performance10. 4K 70/30 Mixed Performance11. 4K Random Performance QD1-QD812. Throughput13. PCMark 10 Full System Drive Benchmark14. 3DMark Storage Benchmark 15. Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker Official Benchmark16. Temperatures17. Real Life File Testing18. Closing Thoughts19. View All Pages

We used CrystalDiskMark 8‘s custom settings to test the 4K random read performance of the drive through a range of queue depths. The setup for the tests is listed below.

Transfer Request Size: 4KB, Outstanding I/O: 1-32.

Kingston doesn't provide any random performance figures on the specification sheet for the NV2. Using our 4-threaded tests, the best performance figure we saw for random reads was 201,266 IOPS (824.385MB/s) at QD32.

Random 4K  Read performance v QD compared.

The NV2 sits in the bottom half of the results chart at QDs 1 and 2 but by the time it gets to QD4 and beyond it's sitting firmly at the base of the charts.

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