Kingston IronKey Keypad 200 64GB Review

Out of the box, the drive is factory formatted as exFAT. For running some of our benchmarks we reformatted the drive as NTFS.

CrystalDiskMark is a useful benchmark to measure the theoretical performance levels of hard drives and SSDs. We are using V8.

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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 officially rates the read/write performance of the IronKey Keypad 200 as up to 145MB/s and 115MB/s respectively. When benchmarked the drive produced figures that not only confirmed the official ratings but were even faster. The fastest read figure we saw was 170MB/s from the Peak Performance profile of CrystalDiskMark 8 while the fastest write performance of 144MB/s came from the default CrystalDiskMark test. As for 4K random performance, the drive averaged 16.18MB/s for reads and 16.08MB/s for writes.

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