Kingston XS1000 External SSD Review

The drive came pre-formatted as exFAT, so to run some of our benchmarks we re-formatted to drive to NTFS.

CrystalDiskMark is a useful benchmark to measure the theoretical performance levels of hard drives and SSDs. We are using V7.

The ATTO Disk Benchmark performance measurement tool is compatible with Microsoft Windows. Measure your storage systems performance with various transfer sizes and test lengths for reads and writes. Several options are available to customize your performance measurement including queue depth, overlapped I/O and even a comparison mode with the option to run continuously. Use ATTO Disk Benchmark to test any manufacturer's RAID controllers, storage controllers, host adapters, hard drives and SSD drives and notice that ATTO products will consistently provide the highest level of performance to your storage.

AS SSD is a great free tool designed just for benching Solid State Drives. It performs an array of sequential read-and-write tests, as well as random read-and-write tests with sequential access times over a portion of the drive. AS SSD includes a sub suite of benchmarks with various file pattern algorithms but this is difficult in trying to judge accurate performance figures.

Kingston rates the XS1000 at up to 1,050MB/s and up to 1,000MB/s for Sequential reads and writes respectively. Using the CrystalDiskMark 8 benchmark we could confirm the read figure with a test result of 1,030MB/s (using the default test and Peak Performance profile test, both using QD8 T1 settings). The best write result we saw of 932MB/s (default-test) is a bit further back from the official maximum of 1,000MB/s.

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